The XXIIIrd Phage/Virus Assembly Meeting

Meeting the Challenge of Diabetes in China

China’s estimated 114 million people with diabetes pose a massive challenge for China’s health policy-makers who have significantly extended health insurance coverage over the past decade. What China is doing now, what it has achieved, and what remains to be done should be of interest to health policy-makers, worldwide. We identify the challenges posed by China’s two pr...

The Secretary of the First Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Slum Upgrading Working Group

Abstracts, The 13th Annual General Meeting of ARCCNM, Osaka, Japan

Meeting the Challenges of Non-Referenced Genome Assembly from Short-Read Sequence Data

Massively parallel sequencing technologies (MPST) offer unprecedented opportunities for novel sequencing projects. MPST, while offering tremendous sequencing capacity, are typically most effective in resequencing projects (as opposed to the sequencing of novel genomes) due to the fact that sequence is returned in relatively short reads. Nonetheless, there is great interest in applying MPST to g...

G-ruption: the third international meeting on G-quadruplex and G-assembly.

A three and a half day conference focusing on nucleic acid structures called G-quadruplexes (G4s) and other guanine-based assemblies was held in Sorrento, Italy (June 28-July 1, 2011) and featured 35 invited talks and over 89 posters. The G-quadruplex field continues to expand at an explosive rate with the emergence of new connections to biology, chemistry, physics, and nanotechnology. Followin...