Bio Saga Blog - A Chronicle of Life Sciences & Informatics

NTU Singapore International PhD Program in Computational Biology/ Bioinformatics The scientific landscape of bioinformatics/computational biology continues to change as the field is still evolving. It is anticipated that new scientific insights in computational biology and bioinformatics will impact the continued growth in biomedical science and biotechnology and will have considerable socio-economic impact. Nevertheless, the number of personnel with major specialization in bioinformatics/computational biology hired by academia and industry remains small; yet, the professional requirements remain high and include a thorough education in (i) mathematics and exact natural sciences (physics/chemistry), (ii) computer science including programming and (iii) life sciences (especially molecular level life sciences). Since bioinformatics applications in the real world occur at the cutting edge of the field, professionals in this field need to have strong own research experience. This is exa...

BioSLAX is a new live CD/DVD suite of bioinformatics tools that has been released by the resource team of the BioInformatics Center (BIC), National University of Singapore (NUS). Bootable from any PC, this CD/DVD runs the compressed SLACKWARE flavour of the LINUX operating system also known as SLAX . SLAX is becoming the live CD/DVD of choice because of its ability to modularize almost any application and plug it into the system on the fly. The system can also be installed to USB thumb drives or directly to the PC as a regular Linux using the BioSLAX installer provided. It consists of commonly used Bioinformatics Applications, Software and Algorithms. For Download, http://www.bioslax.com/downloads.shtml