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CancerVar: A New Bioinformatics Tool Developed for Clinical Interpretation of Cancer Mutations

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On Saturday, researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have announced that they developed and launched a new bioinformatics software tool called CancerVar (cancer variant interpretation). Millions of somatic cancer variants have been identified due to precision medicine and next-generation sequencing (NGS).

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Absci and M2GEN partner to expedite cancer drug development

Pharmaceutical Technology

Absci has collaborated with bioinformatics firm M2GEN to expedite the development of new cancer medicines. Absci stated that this collaboration combines AI drug creation technology and oncology bioinformatics, thereby reducing the time and cost of cancer drug development.

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NSF backs bioinformatics approach to understanding plant RNA modifications

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Led by Boyce Thompson Institute’s Andrew Nelson, four partners will identify RNA modifications and develop resources that may lead to hardier crops Credit: Photo credit: Anna Nelson Dittrich ITHACA, NY, August 4, 2020 — RNA perform a variety of functions in cells, helping with everything from regulating genes to building proteins.

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A human interactome to prioritize drug discovery

Medical Xpress

Scientists at Open Targets, EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and GSK are revealing the shared basis of diseases using a map of interacting human proteins.

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Rensselaer team receives NIAID grant to develop antiviral drug for Covid-19

Pharmaceutical Technology

The team’s work will be based on the prior research of Structural Bioinformatics Constellation Endowed chair Dr Montelione. In the initial stage, Dr Montelione and his team discovered that a crucial hepatitis C virus protein had similarities with the coronavirus CLpro protease structure, using bioinformatics.

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Study finds new therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative disease

Drug Discovery World

AI-driven drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and the University of Cambridge have discovered an approach to identify therapeutic targets for human diseases associated with protein phase separation (PPS). Recent research has demonstrated that PPS is widely present in cells and drives a variety of important biological functions.

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How bacteria adapt their machinery for optimum growth

Scienmag

Bioinformatics: publication in Nature Communications The most important components for the functioning of a biological cell are its proteins. As a result, protein production is arguably the most important process for cell growth. The faster the bacterial growth rate, the faster protein synthesis needs to take place.