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Volume 12 - Number 34 | August 22, 2008

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Investment Firm Accelerator Launches miRNA Drug Developer, Licenses Nanogen MGB Tech

Rosetta Expands Dx Pipeline, Plans to Shift Marketing Duties to New CLIA Lab

Fresh Off Merger, Tekmira Posts Drop in Q2 Losses, Says New Delivery Deals on Horizon

USPTO Publishes One Patent, Four Patent Applications Related to RNAi

Rosetta Genomics, National Institutes of Health, MDRNA, University of Michigan, RXi Pharmaceuticals

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Features
PathOlogist: An Open Source Tool For a Pathway-Centric View of Data
PathOlogist is a new quantitative pathway analysis tool developed at the National Cancer Institute. Now in beta testing, the tool is designed to allow researchers to enter data such as gene expression results and to automatically determine to which pathways a given gene set may belong.

Yale Image Finder Retrieves Images by Mining Text in Figures, Not Captions
Researchers at Yale University have added a new tool to the biological literature-mining arsenal that allows users to retrieve images from published papers by searching the text within the figures — an approach that differs from other image-retrieval methods that rely on captions or other descriptions of the image.

Expression Profile
UC Irvine’s Baldi on Calculating the Math Path to Blast Small Molecules
Pierre Baldi, a University of California, Irvine, researcher, is applying the Blast sequence-alignment approach to small molecules. His goal is to help scientists plow through databases such as PubChem or ChemDB to not only find chemically similar molecules to a query molecule but also to ascertain the statistical significance of their search results.

IP Roundup
Recent Patents in Bioinformatics, July — August, 2008


Bioinformatics Briefs
SRA, Mitrionics, Nallatech, Waters, Proteome Software


Downloads & Upgrades
Sorcerer Enterprise, ActiveStor, Phenyx, Marvin & JChem 5.1, ProteoIQ 1.1, AurScope Global Pharmacology Space, AurProfiler, Cancer Molecular Analysis Portal


People in the News
Steve Lombardi, Karl Steiner


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