Software is crucial for biological research, has an impact on research productivity and enables researchers to explore massive databases and knowledge-bases. The workflow in systems biology generally ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- While molecular biologists exploit state-of-the-art scientific equipment to discover the secrets of life and disease in the post-genomic era, they complain often that the software ...

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 ...

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 ...

cellPACK software can generate models of midsized structures, like this one of HIV.--Illustration courtesy of Scripps The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, has come up with some new 3-D ...

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 ...

Progress in systems biology is seriously hindered by slow production of suitable software infrastructures. Biologists need infrastructure that easily connects to work that is done in other ...

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 ...