PRESENTATION: The National Consortium for Bioinformatics (CNBi) is a multidisciplinary center dedicated to research, development, management and technical support on questions arising from bioinformatics. It was created by a joint effort between three laboratories from São Paulo state in Brazil:…

Research, development and technological innovation (RD&I) companies promote inter- and intra-organizational interactions based on the formation of research nets. This arrangement prioritizes the use of competencies of both people and institutions, stimulating the generation of new knowledge and competencies, and…

The notorious advances in textual information storage need fast and effcient tools to organize, retrieve and browse this information and tools for knowledge extraction. A very interesting way to organize specific domain information is the topic taxonomy building. Moreover a…

The yearly genetic progress obtained by breeding for increased soybean yield has been considered acceptable worldwide. It is common sense, however, that this progress can be improved further if refined breeding techniques, developed from the knowledge of the genetic mechanisms…

2009, Resumo.

Challenges and new horizons for the strengthening of family farming; Embrapa?s studies benefit family farming and Brazilian traditional populations; Basic sanitation: a solution to improve quality of life in the fields; Technology for sustainable agricultural and livestock system; Adoption of…

http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/governance-sociotechnical-systems-knowledge-society/66970

2006, Acesso em: 28 maio 2008.

2012

Next generation sequence technologies (NGS) made possible to sequence entirely genomes in a fast way and low cost, from unicellular to complex organisms, like plants and mammals. These sequences can be assembled (i ) using a reference genome or by…