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• Master of Sports Anastasia Murzina: “Orienteering Helps Better Understand Multidimensional Space”

  It is quite common that a favorite hobby or sports activity helps one solve research tasks. Einstein, for instance, often played music while contemplating his ideas. ITMO Master’s student Anastasia Murzina focuses on chemoinformatics and works for the Computer Technologies international laboratory. In her free time, she’s already travelled all over Russia and became a Master of Sports in orienteering. We spoke to Anastasia about how orienteering helps her solve research tasks, what kinds of knowledge are most relevant for a programmer, and why sport and science have a lot more in common than one would think.

  18.09.2018

• Phylogenetic Trees and Targeted Cancer Research: Bioinformatics Summer School

  Cancer is one of the most common diseases of our time, and trailblazing bioinformatics research is looking for answers. This rapidly developing scientific field has already come up with effective methods that not only allow to quickly track down genome changes conducive to cancer development, but also pinpoint the factors that catalyze or inhibit this process. These questions were at the center of this year’s Bioinformatics summer school held at the end of July in the green purlieus of St. Petersburg. Participants of this largest national Bioinformatics event conducted high-profile research breaking down medical data of breast cancer patients, analyzing the differential expression of long non-coding RNA in kidney renal cell carcinoma, and building phylogenetic trees that contribute to better understanding of the disease. ITMO.NEWS met the young scientists to talk about their summer school projects and the latest of cancer-focused bioinformatics research. 

  30.08.2018

• Associate Professor Vladimir Ulyantsev on Computer Science in Russia

  How can advanced knowledge of Computer Science be of use to common programmers? What are its applications, and how does one start a career in this field? Vladimir Ulyantsev, head of ITMO's Computer Technologies International Laboratory, expanded on these topics in an interview for the Campus popular science festival “Night of Science”. ITMO.NEWS recorded the main ideas

  04.07.2018

• BioHack-2018: 48 Hours to Make a Difference

  The 48-hour hackathon BioHack-2018 has taken place in St. Petersburg. Teams of biologists and programmers from all around Russia worked on bioinformatics cases. The event brought together both university students and young scientists. Software and IT developer EPAM and the Institute of Bioinformatics sponsored the project.

  07.03.2018

• ITMO Scientists Develop Gene Analysis Software to Combat Superbug Viruses

  Researchers from ITMO University and the Center of Physical and Chemical Medicine have developed an algorithm capable of tracking the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in gut microbiota DNA and revealed additional evidence of resistance gene transfer between different bacterial species. The method can not only contribute to the development of effective therapy schemes, but also curb the spread of superbugs. The results of the research were published in Bioinformatics journal.

  13.11.2017

• "Genome Tetris" and Analyzing Fly Behavior: BioHack — the First Hackathon on Bioinformatics

  Last weekend, ITMO hosted St. Petersburg's first hackathon on bioinformatics — BioHack. For 48 hours, 24 teams analyzed thousands of science articles, modeled evolutionary processes, developed bioinformatics games and software which analyzes movement of flies, sequenced cheetah's genome and solved other similar tasks. Read about the event in detail in our article.

  09.03.2017

• Bioinformatic Contest 2017: The Results

  St. Petersburg's first contest in bionformatics took place in the end of February, 2017. The contest was organized by the Bioinformatics Institute, and all the tasks were prepared by ITMO's students and graduates. During the two-week preliminaries, which lasted for two weeks, three thousand programmers and specialists in bioinformatics tried to get into the final round, where in just 24 hours they had to reconstruct a metagenome, define an unknown part of a modified DNA strand, and solve many other tasks. Vinaliy Aksenov, ITMO's PhD student and one of the contests coordinators, shared on its tasks and results.

  07.03.2017

• Affairs of the Heart: How to Fight Cardio Diseases by Medicine and IT

  Today, as the world celebrates the World Heart Day, we would like to talk about a unique collaboration between the medical experts from Federal Almazov North-West Medical Research Center and programmers from ITMO University — they use interdisciplinary approaches to research heart disease causes by analyzing large quantities of genetic data.

  29.09.2016