Amber Biology rolls out its new antibody analysis service

A unique service that will be an invaluable resource to any team that is developing clinical antibodies

Gordon WebsterJanuary 27, 2021

Your neanderthal DNA could put you at greater risk from Covid-19.

Fascinating new research reveals a link between the current pandemic and our biological past.

Gordon WebsterDecember 7, 2020

A potential route to antiviral therapy for coronavirus.

Deeper knowledge of the mechanisms of coronavirus replication and assembly has been obtained from structural biology.

Registration Now Open! - Intensive 2-day online Python course

Python For Life Scientists, is now available as an intensive, 2-day course that students take over the web.

Gordon WebsterMarch 16, 2020

Amber Biology remains open for business during the coronavirus pandemic

Amber Biology would like to update its clients in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

Gordon WebsterMarch 13, 2020

Amber Biology Celebrates 7 Years

Founded in February 2013, this month marks the start of Amber Biology’s 8th year in business. We hope that the next 7 years will be as fun and exciting as the last 7 have been.

Gordon WebsterFebruary 20, 2020

Python for the Life Sciences is a featured book at the MIT Coop bookstore!

Python for the Life Sciences is on the shelves and now a featured book at the MIT Coop Bookstore in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA!

Python, BioinformaticsAlex LancasterFebruary 14, 2020python, Python for the Life Sciences, book

Python For Life Scientists: 8-week course starts Jan. 28th

Starting January 28th 2020, we will be teaching our course “Python For Life Scientists” at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Gordon WebsterJanuary 17, 2020

Happy Holidays!

We’re very grateful to all of our clients, collaborators and friends, for helping us have a wonderful 2019.

Gordon WebsterDecember 19, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving!

A very happy Thanksgiving to all of our clients, collaborators, and friends.

Gordon WebsterNovember 26, 2019

Python for the Life Sciences is Amazon’s #1 new release in bioinformatics

… and it’s now available with free 2-day delivery on Amazon Prime!

Gordon WebsterOctober 8, 2019

Python for the Life Sciences published by Apress!

Our book Python for the Life Sciences is now available on Amazon in both eBook and softcover formats.

TESS Exoplanet Discovery Mission Exceeds Expectations

Now entering the second year of its exoplanet discovery survey, the TESS mission has exceeded all expectations in the year since since its launch.

Gordon WebsterAugust 31, 2019

Amber Biology principal is co-author on paper on the evolution of transcriptional networks

Alex Lancaster is a co-author on a paper in Nature Communications on the evolution of transcriptional networks through stochastic computational modeling.

Rock, Paper, Scissors: nature's playful strategy

Simulations explore the role of the “Rock, Paper, Scissors” game in evolution and the maintenance of biodiversity

Gordon WebsterMay 23, 2019

Tutorial: Using formal grammars in computational biology

If we wish to “do” biology on computers, we face the same kind of challenges that the designers of programming languages have had to grapple with for decades.

Gordon WebsterApril 17, 2019

Modeling robustness and randomness in cellular systems: seminar for Ronin Institute

Ronin Institute seminar on cellular modeling from Amber Biology’s Alex Lancaster is now up on the Institute’s YouTube channel

Python for Life Scientists course expanding

Amber Biology’s unique Python for Life Scientists course expanding to 10-12 weeks.

Python, Systems BiologyAlex LancasterMarch 24, 2019programming, python, training

An agent-based, stochastic modeling seminar for the Ronin Institute

In October of last year, Gordon gave a seminar on agent-based, stochastic modeling for The Ronin Institute.

Gordon WebsterJanuary 3, 2019

A Population Dynamics Model In 5 Lines Of Python

Here’s a simple but illuminating population dynamics model, the central algorithm for which can be implemented in only 5 lines of Python.