An effort to introduce local high school students to the emerging field of bioinformatics—and hopefully inspire some to pursue studies, and eventually jobs, in the field—is moving to the next level ...

Students will identify gene regulatory sequences in insect genomes using the "SCRMshaw" software pipeline developed in my laboratory, and/or work on improvements to this pipeline. Identifying and ...

The African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP) published a position paper in the journal Nature highlighting the goals, priorities, and roadmap of the impressive Africa-led effort to sequence the genomes of ...

HOUSTON, May 20, 2005 – Researchers at the University of Houston have been awarded a homeland security grant to develop a method for identifying bacteria and viruses that could be used in bioterrorism ...