Zehra Elgundi reviews Structural Genomics on Membrane Proteins.

This is a recommended reference for research laboratories involved in the study and expression of recombinant proteins.

Roche Diagnostics has launched the second generation of its high throughput sequencing technology.

CLC bio has released the CLC Bioinformatics Cell, which enables users to transform their ordinary Intel- or AMD-based workstation computers to super-computing units.

Crunching the numbers from multivariate statistics sounds a rather dry topic to wet lab specialists, but a group of CSIRO researchers has taken a rather philosophical approach to managing the data mountain.

The successful projects under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) have been announced, including the establishment of a national mouse phenomics network, a plant phenomics network and a national medical imaging facility.

Bradley Smith, executive director of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS), has kindly provided us with a breakdown of the individual projects receiving money through NCRIS.

Gene silencing by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) has emerged as an extremely useful technology for discovery biology, but off-target activity has proved a stumbling block. Detailed mechanistic insights and chemical modification of siRNAs can now improve the robustness of RNAi experiments, as Kate McDonald reports.

Professor Jenny Graves is internationally renowned for her research into mammalian genetics and chromosomal evolution. To explain her research to a lay audience, she talks about topics we all take a perverse interest in: sex and weird animals.

The big names in the world of rice genomics will gather in Adelaide this August for the International Society of Plant Molecular Biology (ISPMB) congress. Kate McDonald spoke to CSIRO Plant Industry's Dr Narayana Upadhyaya about progress in his field, rice functional genomics.

Sequencing of the cattle genome is nearly complete and will herald a revolution in breed improvement.