Biomedical subjects

Tristan J Fiedler

Publications and source records attributed to Tristan J Fiedler.

5 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2006

WormBase: new content and better access.

WormBase (http://wormbase.org), a model organism database for Caenorhabditis elegans and other related nematodes, continues to evolve and expand. Over the past year WormBase has added new data on C.elegans, including data on classical genetics, cell biology and functional genomics; expanded the annotation of closely related nematodes with a new genome browser for Caenorhabditis remanei; and deployed new hardware for stronger performance. Several existing datasets including phenotype descriptions and RNAi experiments have seen a large increase in new content. New datasets such as the C.remanei draft assembly and annotations, the Vancouver Fosmid library and TEC-RED 5' end sites are now available as well. Access to and searching WormBase has become more dependable and flexible via multiple mirror sites and indexing through Google.

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PubMed2006

WormBook: the online review of Caenorhabditis elegans biology.

WormBook (www.wormbook.org) is an open-access, online collection of original, peer-reviewed chapters on the biology of Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes. Since WormBook was launched in June 2005 with 12 chapters, it has grown to over 100 chapters, covering nearly every aspect of C.elegans research, from Cell Biology and Neurobiology to Evolution and Ecology. WormBook also serves as the text companion to WormBase, the C.elegans model organism database. Objects such as genes, proteins and cells are linked to the relevant pages in WormBase, providing easily accessible background information. Additionally, WormBook chapters contain links to other relevant topics in WormBook, and the in-text citations are linked to their abstracts in PubMed and full-text references, if available. Since WormBook is online, its chapters are able to contain movies and complex images that would not be possible in a print version. WormBook is designed to keep up with the rapid pace of discovery in the field of C.elegans research and continues to grow. WormBook represents a generic publishing infrastructure that is easily adaptable to other research communities to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge in the field.

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PubMed2006

WormBase: better software, richer content.

WormBase (http://wormbase.org), the public database for genomics and biology of Caenorhabditis elegans, has been restructured for stronger performance and expanded for richer biological content. Performance was improved by accelerating the loading of central data pages such as the omnibus Gene page, by rationalizing internal data structures and software for greater portability, and by making the Genome Browser highly customizable in how it views and exports genomic subsequences. Arbitrarily complex, user-specified queries are now possible through Textpresso (for all available literature) and through WormMart (for most genomic data). Biological content was enriched by reconciling all available cDNA and expressed sequence tag data with gene predictions, clarifying single nucleotide polymorphism and RNAi sites, and summarizing known functions for most genes studied in this organism.

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PubMed2004

Purification and crystallization of Escherichia coli oligoribonuclease.

Oligoribonuclease (Orn) is an essential 3'-to-5' hydrolytic exoribonuclease which degrades short oligoribonucleotides to 5' mononucleotides. Escherichia coli Orn has been crystallized under several different conditions using ammonium sulfate, sodium citrate and sodium acetate as precipitants. Both native and selenomethionine-labeled oligoribonuclease (SeMet-Orn) can be crystallized at room temperature in 1.4-1.55 M sodium citrate. The SeMet-Orn crystals diffract to 2.2 A resolution and belong to space group P2(1)2(1)2(1), with unit-cell parameters a = 70.43, b = 72.87, c = 147.76 A, and two dimers in the asymmetric unit. When grown in the presence of manganese, a second crystal form (Mn-SeMet-Orn) was obtained containing a single dimer per asymmetric unit (P2(1)2(1)2(1); a = 63.74, b = 74.31, c = 74.19 A). Finally, a hexagonal crystal form was obtained using sodium acetate as a precipitant (a = 91.5, b = 91.5, c = 111.1 A). This crystal (Zn-ApUp-Orn) belongs to the P6(5) space group and has three oligoribonuclease molecules per asymmetric unit.

Cloning, Molecular↗

PubMed2003

Barking up the wrong tree? Industry funding of academic research. A case study with commentaries.

This case raises ethical issues involving conflicts of interest arising from industrial funding of academic research; ethical responsibilities of laboratories to funding agencies; ethical responsibilities in the management of a research lab; ethical considerations in appropriate research design; communication in a research group; communication between advisor and graduate student; responsibilities of researchers for the environment; misrepresentation or withholding of scientific results.

Chemical Industry↗