Introduction
Thanks for tuning in to The Data Reuse Digest! In writing this newsletter, our goal is to uncover all the different ways that published scientific data can be used to drive research forward - with an eye on translational developments (new drugs, new clinical guidelines, new technologies).
We try to keep the writing plain and simple so that the newsletter can be useful to researchers of any field (not just bioinformatics) and the general public as well.
For researchers, especially younger researchers, this newsletter will show you what publishable work in the field looks like right now. It also hopes to encourage new kinds of research projects that push the field in new directions, towards new translational goals. For non-researchers, this newsletter will pull back the curtain to show what research actually looks like and why it matters.
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Newsletter Update
From now on, instead of sending out our research snapshots (The four-section format: new algorithms, new databases, bioinformatics analysis, and commercial news) every month, we will send them out every other month. The next one is coming at the end of July.
On our off months, we will send out special editions that feature short articles - like the ones you will see below. These short articles are a deeper dive into some of the topics that we cover in this newsletter. They will focus more intensely on individual studies and explain in detail how the research is done.
Short Articles
This month, two articles on the human microbiome - the community of microorganisms that lives within the human body, and in many ways influences health and disease.
The first featured article showcases several studies that have uncovered an important property of the microbiome: its ability to disable drugs meant to treat diabetes, cancer, and other diseases.
In these studies, researchers have used a bioinformatics technique called ‘genome mining’ to pinpoint the genes in the microbiome that are contributing to drug resistance. Check out the article [link here] to learn more about this research and how scientists are developing new strategies to prevent drug resistance.
This month’s second featured article is all about the individual microorganisms that make up the microbiome - explaining how researchers can identify interactions between bacteria, and also how these interactions impact human health.
These studies tend to involve the analysis of gene expression data (a topic we have covered many times in this newsletter) to identify specific genes that are contributing to inter-species interactions. You can follow [this link] to learn more!
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