LIFE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES: Biology Watches the Cloud

Biology: Science for Life

Cloud Technologies for Microsoft Computational Biology Tools

Executing large number of self-regulating tasks or tasks that execute minimal inter-task communication in analogous is a common requirement in many domains. In this paper, we present our knowledge in applying two new Microsoft technologies Dryad and Azure to three bioinformatics applications. We also contrast with traditional MPI and Apache Hadoop MapReduce completion in one example. The applic...

Life Science Technologies Cell Analysis

The shape we’re in Since its inception, cell biology has been a fundamentally visual science. Fibroblasts are elongated; neurons are dendritic. Mitotic cells have spindles; apoptotic cells have blebs. The field’s clinical cousins—pathology and hematology—also rely heavily on cell shape. Pathologists classify tumors by how far their cells deviate from their normal forms, while hematologists iden...

Biology by Numbers—Introducing Quantitation into Life Science Education

January 2005 | Volume 3 | Issue 1 | e1 Driven by the massive datasets that are generated by “omics” research, the molecular life sciences are entering a new phase. This phase is characterised by a shift in focus from individual genes and their products to networks and whole systems [1,2,3]. For a thorough analysis of the behaviour of networks and their underlying principles, quantitative tools ...

It's Elementary: Science Buddies Bring Biology to Life

As a developmental biologist with a passion for teaching, I enjoy explaining my work on cell rearrangements in the yolk sacs of killifish embryos to audiences ranging from first-year undergraduates to professional colleagues. Becoming a parent offered new opportunities. When my daughter entered our local elementary school, I wanted to find a way to share my professional life with her teachers. ...