Latest Systems biology Stories
Munich-area study pioneers phenotyping of the human 'metabolome'The old excuse, "I am only overweight because of my genes," is suddenly gaining credibility as researchers uncover ever more evidence that the way our bodies digest and process nutrients in the food we eat is different for every person. The budding discipline of metabolomics strives to investigate these differences in a scientific manner. Nutrition scientists and food chemists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen are...
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo, Inc., a leading provider of software and databases for systems biology, today announced that the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) has licensed its pathway analysis suite MetaCore and its database searching tool Eureka. The CTSI is based on a $25 million National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) and is a partnership between Indiana University, Purdue University, and the...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, has selected Biodiagnostics as its new distributor of IPA® in Greece, Turkey and the Balkan countries. IPA is the leading software application to model, analyze, and understand the complex biological and chemical systems at the core of life science research. "Biodiagnostics is recognized as the premier distributor of life science instruments,...
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo announces the release of the first set of tools and content to come out of its industry-FDA MetaTox(TM) partnership program. The MetaTox partnership is developing a unique comprehensive systems toxicology suite designed for compound safety assessment in chemical and pharmaceutical R&D. ToxHunter will be made available as an add-on to existing licenses of GeneGo's MetaCore(TM) and/or MetaDrug(TM) systems biology and systems pharmacology...
A scientific paper that describes a file format used by scientists to represent models of biological processes has exceeded 500 citations in the ISI Web of Knowledge, an online academic database that documents the impact of scientific publications. The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) is designed to enable the exchange of quantitative models of biochemical networks between different computer software packages, allowing the models to be shared and published in a form other researchers...
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that the Medical Biochemistry group at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam will join the MetaMiner Metabolic Diseases project from GeneGo. The MetaMiner program is focused on the fundamental understanding of human diseases at the level of disease pathways and causative gene-disease associations supported by a repository of OMICs data. Ongoing MetaMiner...
A discovery by Newcastle University experts could provide the next step in fighting age related diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease.Scientists from the University's Institute for Ageing and Health have used state-of-the-art laboratory techniques and sophisticated mathematical modelling to help crack the problem of why cells age.The ageing process has its roots deep within the cells and molecules that make up our bodies and experts have identified the molecular pathway that reacts to...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingenuity® Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, today announced the addition of dynamic reports, new weekly content updates, and metabolomics workflow support in the latest release of IPA® software. Life science researchers need to keep up with increasingly complex developments in the diagnosis, treatment, and etiology of diseases. Through the new IPA reports, researchers now have a...
Cellular imaging offers a wealth of data about how cells respond to stimuli, but harnessing this technique to study biological systems is a daunting challenge. In a study published online in Genome Research, researchers have developed a novel method of interpreting data from single-cell images to identify genetic interactions within biological networks, offering a glimpse into the future of high-throughput cell imaging analysis.For years, scientists have been peering through a microscope at...
The complex chain of metabolic events in bacteria that lead to fatal diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) may be better understood using mathematical models, according to an article published in the February issue of Microbiology Today.Scientists at the University of Surrey are using this new "˜systems biology' approach to try and understand the metabolic changes that occur in the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis which allow it to survive dormant in host cells for decades. A more complete...
