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GigaScience, an innovative new journal handling 'big-data' from the entire spectrum of life sciences, has now been launched by BGI, the world's largest genomics institute, and BioMed Central. The journal uses a novel publication format that links articles directly to its integrated GigaDB database, which hosts all underlying datasets and analysis tools, thereby helping to overcome barriers to data sharing and reproducible research.
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The Early–bird and Abstract deadline for Genome Medicine and Genome Biology's Beyond the Genome conference is tomorrow, 19 July.
Beyond the Genome takes place at Harvard Medical School, Boston from 27–29 September 2012, and aims to discuss next–generation sequencing and other new technologies, informatic tools, and how these are being used to identify common and rare disease–causing mutations in the research laboratory and towards the clinic.
Themes will include cancer genomics from discovery sequencing to genome guided therapy, epigenomic technologies and applications, and inherited disease beyond the candidate gene approach. There will also be an informatics workshop. |
| Register to submit your abstract today |
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| Bärbel Hahn–Hägerdal retired from her role as joint Editor-in-Chief for Biotechnology for Biofuels at the end of June. Huge thanks are due to Bärbel for being a champion of the journal, throughout the first five years since launch. We are glad to see her work rewarded by the journal's remarkable growth and success, with the recent Impact Factor increase to 6.09 placing the journal at the top of its field. We are pleased to welcome James du Preez (University of the Free State, South Africa) as Bärbel's successor. James joins Mike Himmel, Debra Mohnen and Charles Wyman as joint Editor–in–Chief. |
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Animal Biotelemetry is now accepting submissions |
| Animal Biotelemetry, a new BioMed Central journal edited by Pete Klimley, is now accepting submissions. This journal aims to provide a forum for discussion of all research relating to the use of telemetric techniques to answer questions regarding movement, behaviour, physiology and ecology of a wide range of animal taxa. |
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Open source personal genomics: the Crowdfunding Genome Project |
Source Code for Biology and Medicine supports the open source movement and provides an ideal platform for such research. A project promoting such research is the newly-launched Crowdfunding Genome Project undertaken by Manuel Corpas et al., the goal of which is to raise funding to enable genomic data from the whole family to be made freely available. Read more...
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Cell Regeneration welcomes your best work |
| Cell Regeneration has published its first set of high quality research articles with BioMed Central. It welcomes novel research articles as well as in depth reviews in modern biology, especially in the field of stem cell, regenerative biology and regenerative medicine. More information about the journal can be found on the blog. |
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DREAM partnership for Open Network Biology |
| Open Network Biology, which is accepting submissions, has partnered with Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM) to publish prize–winning articles from the DREAM7 challenges. The challenges task participants to work in reverse, devising biological networks from high–throughput data. The winners will be announced at the DREAM7 conference in November. |
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Genome Medicine announces a series on pharmacogenomics |
| The Editors of Genome Medicine are now accepting manuscript submissions for a thematic series on pharmacogenomics, scheduled to begin in autumn 2012. The series is guest edited by Matthias Schwab (IKP Stuttgart) and includes commissioned Reviews and Opinions highlighting some of the key topics in this growing field. Read more... |
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 Inflammation, sickness behavior & depression
Michael Maes and colleagues review the protective role of inflammation in sickness behavior, in contrast to negative symptoms associated with depression, and suggest these shared immuno-inflammatory pathways can explain the phenomenological similarities between the two conditions. |
EEG signatures for autism diagnosis
A large scale study assessing electroencephalography (EEG) patterns in children diagnosed with autism and matched controls identifies differences between these groups, which could be used to provide an EEG signature for autism diagnosis. |
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Review
Depression and sickness behavior are Janus-faced responses to shared inflammatory pathways
Michael Maes, Michael Berk, Lisa Goehler, Cai Song, George Anderson, Piotr Galecki, Brian Leonard
BMC Medicine 2012, 10:66 |
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Research article
A stable pattern of EEG spectral coherence distinguishes children with autism from neuro-typical controls - a large case control study
Frank H Duffy, Heidelise Als
BMC Medicine 2012, 10:64 |
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How not to be a bioinformatician
Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2012, 7:3
While much has been published on the route to becoming a successful bioinformatician, Corpas et al, offer sound, and often humorous, advice on the pitfalls and vices that contribute to being a bad bioinformatician. |
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Budding plant designers share their kit
Journal of Biological Engineering 2012, 6:8
A team of Harvard undergraduates, competing in the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition, developed a successful strategy for genetic modification of plants and produced a collection of standardized, sharable, BioBrick "parts" for building synthetic gene circuits |
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BMC Genomics has published proceedings of SNP-SIG 2011: Identification and annotation of SNPs in the context of structure, function and disease.
Vienna, Austria. 15 July 2011 |
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Proteome Science has published a selection of articles from IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2011.
Atlanta, GA, USA. 12-15 November 2011 |
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BMC Public Health has published a selection of articles from Universal Coverage: Can We Guarantee Health For All?
Bandar Sunway, Malaysia. 3-4 October 2011 |
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Annals of Intensive Care, a SpringerOpen journal, has published its first supplement: a collection of articles on the diagnosis and management of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome. |
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Madison, WI
21–25 July
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Freidburg, Germany
29 July – 3 August
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Helsinki, Finland
11–17 August
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Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2012, 7:7 (30 April 2012)
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