October 23, 2013
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Environmental application of the “omic” study of marine organisms

Posted by | Chromatin, Histones, Molecular biology, Omics, Research | No Comments

Our latest work entitled “Bivalve omics: state of the art and potential applications for the biomonitoring of harmful marine compounds” has been published last week in the journal “Marine Drugs”. This work is part of Victoria Suarez-Ulloa’s Ph.D. project, and aims to provide a timely perspective on the available resources and on the current and prospective applications for the biomonitoring of harmful marine compounds.

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July 06, 2013
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Computational methods for studying gene expression in molluscs

Posted by | Bioinformatics, Molecular biology, Omics, Technology | No Comments

Our collaboration with the RNASA-IMEDIR Research Group at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies in the University of A Coruna (Spain) has produced a new paper recently published in the Journal Lecture Notes in Computer Science (7902:453-462). In this work, the performance of different clustering techniques is evaluated for the analysis of gene expression patterns in the mussel Mytilus

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May 20, 2013
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About Evolution

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The book “About Evolution: keys to understand how our genetic material evolves” (Spanish, ISBN 978-84-9749-547-9) is now available! This work constitutes an outreach effort in which Dr. Jose Eirin-Lopez addresses the structure of our genetic material and some of the mechanisms shaping its evolutionary change. The book has been published by the University of A Coruna Press and is now available at http://www.une.es/ as well as from other sources across internet.

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March 12, 2013
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Introducing the CHROMEVALOA Database

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It is with great excitement and pride that we introduce a new resource for the study of marine pollution using molluscs as sentinel organisms, the CHROMEVALOA database (chromevaloa.com). This database gathers the chromatin-associated transcriptome of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis, providing a framework for the study of the genotoxic effect of the biotoxin Okadaic Acid, one of the main responsibles for diarrhetic shellfish poisoning syndrome. The work describing CHROMEVALOAdb has been published today in the journal Marine Drugs.

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