A brief tutorial on how to install and update packages in R

GenomeSearch is the first Android application that Edwards' Lab has developed. It is a simple Bioinformatics Search which queries theSEED.org for a genome and keyword, and returns search results with links to reference material. Note that in this video, the mouse cursor simulates what a users touch would do on a real phone.

For more information about Dr. Rob Edwards' Lab and projects our team is currently working on, please visithttp://edwards.sdsu.edu/labsite/index...

The eIUS Project highlights the successful use of e-Infrastructure, in this case by researchers in Bioinformatics at the University of Manchester who, in collaboration with the myGrid Consortium, use the Taverna Workbench and the myExperiment virtual research environment to assist with the analysis and sharing of data relating to sleeping sickness (Trypanosomiasis) in African cattle. The eIUS Project is funded by the JISC and supported by the University of Oxford and University of Manchester.

There is an urgent need to translate genome-era discoveries into clinical utility, but the difficulties in making bench-to-bedside translations haven't been well described. The nascent field of translational bioinformatics may help. Dr. Butte's lab at Stanford University builds and applies tools that convert more than 300 billion points of molecular, clinical, and epidemiological data (measured by researchers and clinicians over the past decade) into diagnostics, therapeutics, and new insights into disease. Dr. Butte, a bioinformatician and pediatric endocrinologist, will highlight his lab's work on using publicly available molecular measurements to find new uses for drugs, discovering new treatable mechanisms of disease in type 2 diabetes, and evaluating patients presenting with whole genomes sequenced. 

The NIH Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series includes weekly scientific talks by some of the top researchers in the biomedical sciences worldwide. 

A brief overview of Bioinformatics career opportunities brought to you by the University of South Dakota Computer Science Department