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New supercomputer to boost Australia’s scientific capability, Professor Matthew Bellgard

A new supercomputer that will boost Australia’s scientific capability will be housed at Murdoch University’s South Street campus as part of Western Australia’s $80 million Pawsey Centre. read on...


Crop Research to feed a growing planet, Professor Rudi Appels

In Western Australia the Centre for Comparative Genomics (CCG) at Murdoch University engaged in a project to share information for integrating new data leading to the mapping of the wheat genome along with environmental data to help devise strategies to increase yields on diminishing tracts of land read on...


State-of-the-art supercomputer, Professor Matthew Bellgard

Murdoch University's new half a million dollar supercomputer housed in the Centre for Comparative Genomics is revolutionising the way WA's scientific community conduct their research read on...


Harvesting wheat's tough genetic code, Professor Rudi Appels

AUSTRALIAN scientists have taken the first big step towards unraveling the genetic code of wheat. The feat -- previously considered too tough to tackle -- promises new varieties of a plant that feeds read on...

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Health sciences meet the information highway, Professor Matthew Bellgard

A NEW high-performance computer, several staff appointments including programmers, data analysts and a research fellow and 37 projects it is either leading or collaborating read on...


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Latest News

  • Prof. Alan Bittles of the Centre for Comparative Genomics was Co-Organizer and lecturer in the International Workshop on Consanguinity: health impact and future prospects of research, which took place in Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland from May 3-7, 2010.more
  • Prof. Alan Bittles and Dr Roberto Barrero of the Centre for Comparative Genomics were Faculty members of the 2nd Central and South American Workshop on Genomics and Community Genetics, held in the University of Buenos Aires from March 21-27, 2010. more
  • 2010 Endeavour Executive Awards. A successful Endeavour Fellowship will soon be based at the CCG. Dr Sujata Sinha from India was recently awarded the Fellowship to pursue her research to apply bioinformatics to community genetics using thalassemia as the paradigm genetic disorder . CCG was host to Dr Sinha on her first visit to Perth in 2009 which resulted in a joint publication in the first issue of HUGO (Human Genome Organisation). We are delighted to welcome Dr Sinha back to CCG for her Fellowship.
  • CCG's Ensembl mirror has been updated to the latest release (Release 54) and the CCG Ensembl mirror is now accessible outside Murdoch University via the Ensembl api. more...
  • The iVEC Informatics Facility located within the CCG has completed commissioning the new High Performance Computing SGI Altix XE1300 Cluster System. more...

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Latest Publications

  • Breen J, Bellgard M. Germin-like proteins (GLPs) in cereal genomes: gene clustering and dynamic roles in plant defence. Funct Integr Genomics. 2010 Aug 4.[Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20683632.more...
  • Rodriguez-Valle M, Lew-Tabor A, Gondro C, Moolhuijzen P, Vance M, Guerrero FD, Bellgard M, Jorgensen W.Comparative microarray analysis of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus expression profiles of larvae pre-attachment and feeding adult female stages on Bos indicus and Bos taurus cattle. BMC Genomics. 2010 Jul19;11(1):437. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20637126.more...
  • Wanchanthuek P, Bellgard MI, La T, Ryan K, Moolhuijzen P, Chapman B, Black M, Schibeci D, Hunter A, Barrero R, Phillips ND, Hampson DJ. The complete genome sequence of the pathogenic intestinal spirochete Brachyspira pilosicoli and comparison with other Brachyspira genomes. PLoS One. 2010 Jul 6;5(7):e11455. PubMed PMID: 20625514; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2897892.more...
  • Li Liu, Tatsuya M Ikeda, Gerard Branlard, Roberto J Pena, William J Rogers, Silvia E Lerner, Maria A Kolman Xianchun Xia, Linhai Wang, Wujun Ma, Rudi Appels, Hisashi Yoshida, Aili Wang, Yueming Yan and Zhonghu He. Comparison of low molecular weight glutenin subunits identified by SDS-PAGE, 2-DE, MALDI-TOF-MS and PCR in common wheat. BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10:124doi:10.1186/1471-2229-10-124 Published: 24 June 2010.more...
  • Fredèric Choulet, Thomas Wicker, Camille Rustenholz, Etienne Paux, Jerome Salse, Philippe Leroy, Stephane Schlub, Marie-Christine Le Paslier, Ghislaine Magdelenat, Catherine Gonthier, Arnaud Couloux, Hikmet Budak, James Breen, Michael Pumphrey, Sixin Liu, Xiuying Kong, Jizeng Jia, Marta Gut, Dominique Brunel, James A. Anderson, Bikram S. Gill, Rudi Appels, Beat Keller, and Catherine Feuilleta. Megabase Level Sequencing Reveals Contrasted Organization and Evolution Patterns of the Wheat Gene and Transposable Element Spaces. DOI: 10.1105/tpc.110.074187 published online Jun 25, 2010; PLANT CELL.more...
  • Guerrero FD, Moolhuijzen P, Peterson DG, Bidwell S, Caler E, Bellgard M, Nene VM, Djikeng A. Reassociation kinetics-based approach for partial genome sequencing of the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus. BMC Genomics. 2010 Jun 11;11:374. PubMed PMID: 20540747; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2893602. more...
  • James M Breen, Dora Li, David S Dunn, Ferenc Bekes, Xiuying Kong, Juncheng Zhang, Jizeng Jia, Thomas Wicker, Rohit Mago, Wujun Ma, Matthew Bellgard and Rudi Appels (2010).Wheat beta-expansin (EXPB11) genes: Identification of the expressed gene on chromosome 3BS carrying a pollen allergen domain. Journal: BMC Plant Biology. more...
  • Breen J, Wicker T, Kong X, Zhang J, Ma W, Paux E, Feuillet C, Appels R, Bellgard M (2010). A highly conserved gene island of three genes on chromosome 3B of hexaploid wheat: diverse gene function and genomic structure maintained in a tightly linked block. BMC Plant Biol. 2010 May 27;10:98. more...
  • Paula Moolhuijzen P, Kulski JK, Dunn DS, Schibeci D, Barrero R, Gojobori T, Bellgard M,The transcript repeat element: the human Alu sequence as a component of gene networks influencing cancer. Journal: Functional & Integrative Genomics. Journal:Functional & Integrative Genomics. April 14, 2010. more...
  • Sinha S, Black ML, Agarwal S, Colah R, Das R, Ryan K, Bellgard M, Bittles A.H (2010). Profiling β-thalassaemia mutations in India at state and regional levels: implications for genetic education, screening and counselling programmes, HUGO Journal. more...
  • Appels R, Barrerro R, Keeble G, Bellgard M. Advances in genome studies: The PAG 2010 conference. Funct Integr Genomics. 2010 Mar;10(1):1-9. PubMed PMID: 20182762. more...
  • Matthew N. Nelson, Paula M. Moolhuijzen, Jeffrey G. Boersma, Magdalena Chudy, Karolina Lesnuewska, Matthew Bellgard, Richard P. Oliver, Wojciech Świecicki, Bogdan Wolko, Wallace A. Cowling and Simon R. Ellwood (2010). Aligning a new reference genetic map of Lupinus angustifolius L. with the genome sequence of the model legume, Lotus japonicus. DNA RESEARCH pp. 1–11.more...
  • Gao L, Ma W, Chen J, Wang K, Li J, Wang S, Bekes F, Appels R, Yan Y. (2010). Characterization and comparative analysis of wheat high molecular weight glutenin subunits by SDS-PAGE, RP-HPLC, HPCE, and MALDI-TOF-MS. J Agric Food Chem. 2010 Mar 10;58(5):2777-86.more...
  • Leo P. ten Kate1, Lihadh Al-Gazali, Sonia Anand, Alan Bittles, Jean-Jacques Cassiman, Arnold Christianson, Martina C. Cornel, Hanan Hamamy, Helena Kääriäinen, Ulf Kristoffersson, David Marais, Victor B. Penchaszadeh, Proton Rahman and Jörg Schmidtke.(2010). Community genetics. Its definition 2010. Journal of Community Genetics. Mar 2010. more...
  • Lew-Tabor AE, Moolhuijzen PM, Vance ME, Kurscheid S, Valle MR, Jarrett S, Minchin CM, Jackson LA, Jonsson NN, Bellgard MI, Guerrero FD. Suppressive subtractive hybridization analysis of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus larval and adult transcript expression during attachment and feeding. Vet Parasitol. 2010 Feb 10;167(2-4):304-20. Epub 2009 Sep 20. PubMed PMID: 19836138. more...


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