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Last week we wrote about the new WormToolbox automated imaging software, used to capture single images of the C. elegans roundworm. See the news story .

While it’s one thing to describe the technology, we thought we’d share several images from real Ó³»­´«Ã½ experiments using the WormToolbox program.

 

Melanoma – the deadliest and most aggressive form of skin cancer – has long been linked to time spent in the sun. Now a team led by scientists from the Ó³»­´«Ã½ and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has sequenced the whole genomes of 25 metastatic melanoma tumors, confirming the role of chronic sun exposure and revealing new genetic changes important in tumor formation.

Scientists hoping to unlock cancer’s secrets face a formidable challenge. Sophisticated research tools have allowed them to peer into the genomes of cancer cells and identify many DNA alterations that may underlie malignancy, yet quantifying those changes is no simple task.

Researchers from the Ó³»­´«Ã½ of MIT and Harvard have announced that GenomeSpace, a software environment that seamlessly connects genomic analysis tools, is now available to the scientific community. During her keynote address at Bio-IT World Conference and Expo on Tuesday, Jill Mesirov, director of computational biology and bioinformatics at the Ó³»­´«Ã½, invited biomedical researchers and tool developers to explore this beta release of the new resource and to use it in their work.