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Sep 7, 2018

Paper of the Month Awarded to Bioinformatics Alum

Connection between genes, response to environmental chemicals NIEHS grantees developed a new method to identify individual-level genetic variation in response to chemical exposures. The approach, which linked zebrafish studies and…

Aug 21, 2018

CINF award given to Bioinformatics PHD student

Jeremy Ash has been awarded his second CINF award during the ACS National Meeting. This is the first time ever a student has won this award two years in a…

Aug 13, 2018

Polyploidy occurrences

Polyploidy occurs when two complete genomes from each of two parents, potentially of differing species, merge to form an offspring with four total copies of that/those genome/genomes. Polyploid is common…

Jul 10, 2018

Researchers Find Vitamin D Receptor is Target for Disruption by Environmental Chemicals

New research from North Carolina State University sheds light on the ways in which environmental chemicals can affect vitamin D receptors (VDR). The work shows that compounds identified as possible…

Jul 5, 2018

Statistician Wright Named Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Professor

Congratulation to the BRC’s very own, Fred Wright, professor in the Departments of Statistics and Biological Sciences and director of the Bioinformatics Research Center, for being named as a Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Professor. The professorship was…

Jun 12, 2018

ChemMaps Lets Researchers Navigate the Chemical Universe

Researchers from North Carolina State University have created a new online service – ChemMaps – that allows users to interactively navigate the chemical space of over 8,000 drugs and 47,000…

Jan 19, 2018

Designing the Next Generation of Hair Dyes

North Carolina State University researchers have created the largest publicly available chemical database of hair dye substances as a resource for developing a new generation of hair color products that…

Dec 14, 2017

Building 3-D models of molecules with RealityConvert

Denis Fourches wants to make the search for new drugs faster and less expensive. So he uses powerful computers to help model interactions between chemical compounds and biological targets to…

Aug 24, 2017

ACS CINF awards for Bioinformatics students

Two students in Denis Fourches’ Cheminformatics lab recently received highly competitive ACS CINF awards at the American Chemical Society ACS National Meeting in Washington,DC. Phyo Phyo Kyaw Zin presented her…

Aug 15, 2017

RealityConvert: A tool for preparing 3D models of biochemical structures for augmented and virtual reality

The Fourches group has developed the RealityConvert software tool and associated website, which allow users to easily convert molecular objects to high quality 3D models directly compatible for AR and…