Its time once again for my annual survey of molecular biology software. Since the last report, a few new packages have appeared and are peppered in the list of products below. A few more have ...

EMBOSS, the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite, has received a vital funding boost from the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) that will guarantee its ...

Synthetic biologists have created software that automates the design of DNA circuits for living cells. The aim is to help people who are not skilled biologists to quickly design working biological ...

This article was taken from the October 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...

A summer research internship for undergraduates is not only helping them learn to build new lifesaving drug molecules and create new biofuels—it's also testing the concept of a virtual research ...

Leading scientists tell us that the problem of large data and data integration, referred to as 'big data', is acute and hurting research. Recently, Snijder et al. 1 suggested a culture change in which ...

In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...