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$1 million prize from Department of Defense for algorithm that IDs organisms from complex jumbles of DNA

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Identify Organisms from a Stream of DNA Sequences

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This Challenge seeks innovative algorithms to analyze samples that contain mixed segments of genetic sequence from next-generation sequencing instruments and report the identities of each organism represented in the sample and characterization of all non-host organisms.  Technical details and requirements are available in the full description. 

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Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I Solicitation FY-2013 (STTR)

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If you are interested in submitting a proposal to the STTR solicitation is Accelerating Sustainability using Enabling Technologies (ASET) (NSF 13-501).
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504857, more information and the latest webinar can be found at the following link:

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Government Fellows Program - Professionals - electrical engineering and associated branches (IEEE)

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The IEEE-USA has begun soliciting applications for its 2013-2014 Government Fellows Program.  Each year, IEEE-USA sponsors government fellowships for three qualified IEEE members.  The fellows – chosen by the IEEE-USA Government Fellows Committee and confirmed by the IEEE-USA Board – spend a year in Washington serving as advisers to the U.S. Congress or to key U.S. Department of State decision-makers.

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Former Science Trust expert calls for overhaul of R&D approach

Submitted on 13 December 2012 - 2:50pm

This article is reproduced by CienciaPR with permission from the original source.

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JAIME SANTIAGO

If Puerto Rico is going to have any chance of creating a biotechnology sector that creates quality research and independent-minded scientists for the island's biotech apparatus, the approach to research being conducted at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) must be revamped. That is where a former trustee of the Science, Technology & Research Trust, Mariano García-Blanco, is saying we have to eliminate the political ebb and flow that propitiates lack of continuity and affects the quality of research at the university.

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Taller de Bioprocesos Farmaceúticos por Life Technologies en San Juan

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Symposium title:
“Contaminant and Impurity Testing for Pharmaceutical Bioprocessing: Highly Sensitive and Accurate qPCR and DNA Sequencing-Based Technologies”

Presentation topics include:
Highly accurate identification of bacteria and fungi using advanced DNA sequencing technology

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