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Could genomics resurrect phytomedicine?
December 12th, 2011 by Will Spooner
It is only over the past 20 years that rational drug design has supplanted natural products as the primary source of candidates for drug discovery. But could recent advances in genomics technologies driven by next generation sequencing lead to a resurgence in phytomedicine?
Comparative patient, comparative biomarker?
June 3rd, 2011 by Will Spooner
I attended an interesting event on 1st June: "Comparative and Translational Medicine" organised by One Nucleus at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). What is comparative and translational medicine? According to Prof. Dominic Wells (RVC), many therapies developed against traditional small animal disease models do not transfer well into humans because a lot of 'complexities' (environment,…
Ten Steps to Successfully Outsourcing Industrial Bioinformatics
November 9th, 2010 by Richard Holland
Eagle publishes a white paper to help make bioinformatics outsourcing a success.
Bio-IT World Europe 2010 slides
October 4th, 2010 by Richard Holland
Here are the slides I just presented at the Cloud Computing Workshop at Bio-IT World Europe 2010 in Hannover, Germany. Other speakers included Dave Powers from CycleComputing, and Glenn Proctor from the EBI, both of whom presented very interesting summaries of how they had been using cloud technology to improve the services that their organisations…
Genotyping/Resequencing in clinical trials?
August 11th, 2010 by Abel Ureta-Vidal
I’ve been to a couple of seminar series in the last month that had something or partly to do with clinical trials data management. The first one was on July 13th 2010 at Granta Park, Cambridge UK. The seminar was the occasion to announce the launch of the UK Clinical Trials Cluster, an initiative by…