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NIGMS-funded computer scientists have discovered a way to scan the genome for regions involved in gene regulation without prior knowledge of transcription factors.

A team of NIGMS-supported bioengineers has taken some of the guesswork out of genome annotation with a new four-step method.

An NIGMS-funded study sheds light on the processes that lead to insertion and deletion mutations, which cause many inherited diseases.

NIGMS-funded biologists used temporal network analysis to explore the factors that promote or reduce scientific productivity.

NIGMS-funded researchers have created a method for comparing entire genomes that are vastly different from each other.

NIGMS-supported researchers have developed a computational method that predicts how bacterial proteins fold and interact.

NIGMS-funded bioengineers are developing models for how cell populations order themselves.

An NIGMS-funded team has found that metabolic networks are evolved to handle potentially harmful changes like gene deletions and mutations.

NIGMS-funded computational biologists have developed a publicly available tool that integrates diverse data about the genome.

An NIGMS-funded mathematician is helping integrate engineering concepts like artificial intelligence into computational descriptions of cells.

A half century after the structure of myoglobin was solved, NIGMS-funded researchers discovered exactly how oxygen moves in the protein.

A computer-based method of analyzing cell activity is able to predict antitumor activity of naturally occurring metabolites, report NIGMS-funded researchers.

Karin Remington joins NIGMS as director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

By combining experimental methods from physics and molecular biology, NIGMS-funded researchers have developed sophisticated ways to study fruit fly development and other biological puzzles.

Early childhood exposure to siblings, especially older ones, increases the risk for developing stomach cancer decades later, report NIGMS-funded researchers, who speculate that early infection with genetically adapted H. pylori may set the stage for future disease.