With the advent of YouTube channels in bioinformatics, open platforms for problem solving in bioinformatics, active web forums in computing analyses and online resources for learning to code or use a bioinformatics tool, the more traditional continuing education bioinformatics training programs have had to adapt. Bioinformatics training programs that solely rely on traditional didactic methods ...

Computer-based resources are central to much, if not most, biological and medical research. However, while there is an ever expanding choice of bioinformatics resources to use, described within the biomedical literature, little work to date has provided an evaluation of the full range of availability or levels of usage of database and software resources. Here we use text mining to process the P...

Bioinformatics competency has become a key element in much of contemporary biology. The increasing potential that is to be realized with modern technologies, such as 'next-generation' sequencing, parallel and 'cloud' computing, and continually increasing data banks, requires a fundamental understanding of bioinformatics concepts and applications. On par with the complexity of biological inquiry...

The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (www.isb-sib.ch) provides world-class bioinformatics databases, software tools, services and training to the international life science community in academia and industry. These solutions allow life scientists to turn the exponentially growing amount of data into knowledge. Here, we provide an overview of SIB's resources and competence areas, with a str...

The Bioinformatics Links Directory is a public online resource that lists the servers published in this and all previously published Nucleic Acids Research Web Server issues together with other useful tools, databases and resources for bioinformatics and molecular biology research. This rich directory of tools and websites can be browsed and searched with all listed links freely accessible to t...

The advancement in bioinformatics and medical fields continue to enhance together with the technology of various computing. Bioinformatics is the combination of life science and computer science or biology and information technology. Bioinformatics applications and expert systems sometimes requires high performance machine in order to process multiple data simultaneously. Grid computing can be ...

1 Single-cell transcriptome analysis of fish immune cells 1 provides insight into the evolution of vertebrate immunity 2 Santiago J. Carmona, Sarah A. Teichmann, Lauren Ferreira, Iain C. 3 Macaulay, Michael J.T. Stubbington, Ana Cvejic, David Gfeller 4 5 6 Ludwig Center for Cancer Research, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 7 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), 1015 Lausanne, ...

BACKGROUND There have been a number of recent efforts (e.g. BioCatalogue, BioMoby) to systematically catalogue bioinformatics tools, services and datasets. These efforts rely on manual curation, making it difficult to cope with the huge influx of various electronic resources that have been provided by the bioinformatics community. We present a text mining approach that utilises the literature t...

MOTIVATION As a natural consequence of being a computer-based discipline, bioinformatics has a strong focus on database and software development, but the volume and variety of resources are growing at unprecedented rates. An audit of database and software usage patterns could help provide an overview of developments in bioinformatics and community common practice, and comparing the links betwee...

Correspondence to: Marc S. Halfon; Department of Biochemistry; Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics; State University of New York at Buffalo; 140 Farber Hall, 3435 Main Street; Buffalo, New York 14214-3000 USA; Tel.: 716.829.8126; Fax: 716.829.2725; Email: [email protected]/ David N. Arnosti; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Michigan State University; East Lansing, Michiga...