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Chemistry World April 25, 2007 Bea Perks	Tomatoes Once Tasted Like Cucumbers Plant geneticists have identified a gene in wild tomatoes that would have made the fruit taste of cucumbers. The gene appears to have been inactivated as the plant was domesticated, they say.
Bio-IT World April 2007 John Russell	Toward a Cancer Interactome Researchers at the Center for Cancer Systems Biology are working toward identifying the high level wiring diagram for cancer. In this instance, that means an accurate map of all cancer-associated protein-protein interactions.
Bio-IT World April 2007 Proffitt & Davies	CAMERA Database Snaps Into Action The new Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis database was developed to store and disseminate the flood of genetic data being generated by work such as J. Craig Venter's Global Ocean Sampling expedition.
Bio-IT World April 2007 Eric K. Neumann	Building Biomedical Ontologies Ontologies take time and commitment to be constructed, but their value increases dramatically when they are well structured and logically consistent, especially across multiple domains. The success of the NCBO will have a direct effect on the success of biomedical research in all areas.
Bio-IT World April 2007 Malorye Allison	Biomarkers versus Blockbusters Are companies really changing their strategies and using biomarkers to target smaller, better defined patient sets with their new drugs? Or is the vast majority of pharma biomarker studies just aimed at culling bad drugs from their pipelines?
Bio-IT World April 2007 Christopher Frenz	The Case for Security in Bioinformatics Should developers or distributors of bioinformatics applications be required to make security considerations an essential element of their development or hosting process? While there have been no reports of widespread abuse of scientific computing resources to date, the potential does exist.
Bio-IT World April 2007 Kevin Davies	Eddy Wins 2007 Franklin Award Sean Eddy, a principal scientist at the new Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Campus in Northern Virginia, has won the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award in the Life Sciences.
Bio-IT World April 2007 Ann Neuer	Through the Gateway to FDA The central concept of the Electronic Submissions Gateway is to allow for a level playing field so that all communities -- drug, device, biologics, foods, veterinary medicine, and all strata of corporate environments, small pharma, big pharma, venture capital, and academia -- can play.
Bio-IT World April 2007 Kevin Davies	The Human Metabolome Project Motivated by the absence of a metabolomic equivalent of GenBank that could provide information and possibly even samples of metabolites, researchers secured $7.5 million funding from Genome Canada in 2005 for the "Human Metabolome Project."
Bio-IT World April 2007 John Russell	Whatever Happened to the Critical Path? Science progresses at its own rate and medical science is necessarily more cautious than other branches. But it feels like the lack of money and mindshare are turning the FDA's Critical Path Initiative into just another umbrella project.
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