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Researchers from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) have launched a new database to advance the international research efforts studying COVID-19. The publicly available, free-to-use resource an be used by researchers from around the world to study how different variations of the virus grow, mutate and make proteins.

As COVID-19 spreads worldwide, leaders are relying on mathematical models to make public health and economic decisions. A new model developed by Princeton and Carnegie Mellon researchers improves tracking of epidemics by accounting for mutations in diseases. Now, the researchers are working to apply their model to allow leaders to evaluate the effects of countermeasures to epidemics before they deploy them.

Unlocking the full potential of cannabis for agriculture and human health will require a co-ordinated scientific effort to assemble and map the cannabis genome, says a just-published international study led by University of Saskatchewan researchers.

April's Edition of SLAS Technology Features Cover Article, 'CURATE.AI: Optimizing Personalized Medicine with Artificial Intelligence'.

Researchers at the George Washington University published a new knowledgebase and web portal, OncoMX, which will improve the exploration and research of cancer biomarkers in the context of related evidence.

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba developed the novel and publicly available computational tool Millefy to visualize heterogeneity in RNA biology between single cells. Using mouse embryonic stem cells and cells from triple-negative breast cancer patients, they demonstrated the utility of Millefy to identify cell-to-cell variability in read coverage in scRNA-seq data. These findings could help understand disease formation and cancer biology. Millefy is publicly available to the scientific community.