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RNA switch — Witch

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After my vacation in Taiwan this winter, I’ve returned and found an interesting paper [1] , out of thousands of RSS feeds in my google reader. This paper comes from Christina Smolke‘s lab, and I’ve confess that sometimes I cannot help hating her, because of the outstanding researches to make the promising RNA device alive. … Read more

FX: an RNA-Seq analysis tool on the cloud

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FX is an RNA-Seq analysis tool, which runs in parallel on cloud computing infrastructure, for the estimation of gene expression levels and genomic variant calling. In the mapping of short RNA-Seq reads, FX uses a transcriptome-based reference primarily, generated from ∼160,000 mRNA sequences from RefSeq, UCSC and Ensembl databases. This approach reduces the misalignment of … Read more

Uploaded and Uploading to SynBio world

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Synthetic Biology, an emerging interdisciplinary field, is building up a bridge to get biologists and engineers collaborated widely, science and technology merged tightly, dreams and reality synchronized fully. There are countless fascinating projects and ideas in SynBio world which are supposed to have great implication to our real world and of course, one cannot depict … Read more

Hello world_v2!

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Welcome to Science Blog Sites. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! — Hello world_v2 from puriney.scienceblog.com Biofilm by Aaron Chevalier (UT Austin), Jeff Tabor (UCSF) Synthetic bacteria can work as machines