The Maine INBRE in its 22nd Year – Looking Back and Ahead
Guest post by James A. Coffman, Director, Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence
Continue ReadingCloud Computing 101
Guest blog by Joel Graber, Ph.D., Senior Staff Scientist, Director of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Core
Continue ReadingBioinformatics: The Importance of Training the Trainer
In recent years bioinformatics – using computational power to help process the massive swathes of data produced by modern experiments – has become an indispensable tool for research scientists.
Continue ReadingPart III: Meet the Computational Biology Core
(Read part one or part two of the series.) For this entry into our ongoing discussion of the MDI Biological Laboratory Computational Biology Core, I want to take a step back and, rather than talk about the specifics of the science, instead talk about who we are, what we do, and why it is so...
Continue ReadingPart I: Computational Biology is vital to modern research
But what exactly is it and why does science need it? The typical interpretation of this figure is that the arrows represent the “flow of information”: that DNA is capable of self-replication (represented by the circular arrow); that the information stored in DNA is activated by first being transcribed to RNA (resulting in an RNA...
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