Database searching is an essential element of large-scale proteomics. Because these methods are widely used, it is important to understand the rationale of the algorithms. Most algorithms are based on ...

Newly released documents indicate that a U.S. genetic database had received the sequence of the coronavirus two weeks before it was made public by others. By Benjamin Mueller In late December 2019, ...

A new combination of some of the molecules essential for human life has been detected in a sample of an extremely rare blood type at a hospital in eastern China, according to a Chinese news report.

It was the world’s earliest public database of DNA and RNA sequences and remains Europe’s primary nucleotide sequence resource. The database is maintained by EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute ...

In the middle of 1981, Greg Hamm was a 30-year-old software programmer newly hired by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory to head up its DNA data library-a database that did not yet exist. So he ...