Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Scalability Project: Rosetta Genomics 10-TB Human Genome Database
White Papers We also take a brief look at the two queries used by the Rosetta Genomics application to extract human genome information. This paper discusses storage, loading, and configuration options used in a real-world application of Microsoft SQL Server...
[June 25, 2007, 3:48]
Buy The Human Genome On CD
News The public international human genome project, funded by the Wellcome Trust in the UK, provided the data to put 2.5 billion chemical "letters" of human DNA on a CD-Rom for the first time. Anything on CD will be out of date by the time it is printed...
[September 19, 2000, 13:14]
A Year Ago: British-led Scientists Map Human DNA
News The Wellcome Trust and Cambridge's Sanger Institute held its press conference Monday to announce that the Human Genome Project has completed its work identifying all human genes. This means a full 97 percent of the human genome has been mapped, 85...
[June 25, 2001, 6:07]
British-led Scientists Map Human DNA
News The Wellcome Trust and Cambridge's Sanger Institute held its press conference Monday to announce that the Human Genome Project has completed its work identifying all human genes. This means a full 97 percent of the human genome has been mapped, 85...
[June 26, 2000, 11:48]
Computer And Web Technology Crucial To Scientific Breakthrough
News Apart from identical twins, a human's genome is unique to the individual. A creature's genome -- all its DNA, including genes -- is the biological recipe for what makes it what it is. To have a better understanding of how an animal is built we can...
[December 11, 1998, 16:33]
Genome Pioneer Wins Inventor Prize
News The Lemelson Foundation said the sequencer was central to the success of the Institute for Systems Biology's Human Genome Project, which mapped out the complete set of human genes. Leroy Hood, a pioneer of the project that mapped out the complete...
[April 25, 2003, 7:54]
Life Sciences Company Uses SQL Server 2005 To Enhance Full-Text Searches
White Papers The company's PhenomicDB database provides a central repository for genetic information from the Human Genome Project and similar efforts. Metalife is helping researchers who are seeking new treatments and cures for a range of diseases.
[January 1, 2007, 0:00]
Data Mining And Bioinformatics
White Papers The areas include the Genome project, prediction of protein structures and the struggle of neurobiology to understand the human brain. This paper looks at the use of Data Mining in the domain of Bioinformatics.
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
Amersham Biosciences Uses Enterprise Project Management To Improve Resource Tracking
White Papers The discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA fifty years ago promised a new era of DNA-based medicine and led to the decoding of the human genome. The Information Management (IM) group piloted the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project...
[December 5, 2003, 23:00]
Smart Chips Get Under Our Skin Pt II
News While this may sound far-fetched, remember that scientists are well on the way to mapping the building blocks of what it is to be human via the Human Genome Project, which is due to complete in 2003. Cochrane believes smarter than-human-computers...
[January 23, 2001, 14:09]
IBM Breaks The Petaflop Barrier
News The computer will also be used for research into astronomy, energy, human genome science and climate change, IBM said in a statement. Bijan Divari, IBM vice president for next-generation computer systems technology, said on Thursday that the way...
[June 10, 2008, 11:09]
Imperial College Develops 'self Diagnosis' Chip
News There will also be implications for the genome project which is attempting to map the DNA of a human being. The Imperial project has "the potential for finding the genetic causes of diseases like cancer," said Julian Walsh, also involved in the...
[January 29, 1999, 12:24]
Do The Maths: HAL 9000 By 2018?
Blog Connectomics has a higher aim, to produce a complete map of the brain's networks akin to the sequenced information from the human genome projects. Meanwhile, other intensive data crunching is cogitating away with IBM's Blue Brain project, where the...
[July 4, 2008, 12:42]
Google Accused Of Bio-piracy
Talkback The private database businesses of Celera, Incyte and Human Genome Sciences were initially quite successful, but with the proliferation of public databases, the for-profit business model of selling access to genome databases was seriously...
[April 3, 2006, 19:07]
ST Builds Chips For Gene Detection
News Major breakthroughs, such as the human genome project, are still fairly new, and the general belief is that commercial opportunities, despite previous boom-bust cycles, will open up. STMicroelectronics has created a prototype of a chip that, if...
[November 6, 2002, 8:23]
