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From Genetic Engineering News Nov 15, 2013 (Vol. 33, No. 20) by Richard A. Stein, M.D., Ph.D. A graph depicting the workflow of the GeneNetworkBuilder package developed using Bioconductor framework by the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Click Image To ...

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by Richard A. Stein, M.D., Ph.D. at Genetic Engineering News While developments in DNA sequencing provided increasingly high-quality and high-confidence genetic and genomic data, the indispensability of additional layers of inquiry in characterizing biological systems emerged as an acute necessity. ...

by Tracy Vence at Genetic Engineering News.com From keeping up with the literature to sparking collaborations and finding funds, scientists are storming social media. Not many scientists have produced manuscripts as a direct result of participating in discussions on social ...

by Jeffrey M. Perkel at Biocompare For all that we can learn from the genome, it’s the other ‘omic disciplines that spell out an organism’s biology. Want to know what proteins a cell makes? Try proteomics. Metabolites? Use metabolomics. But ...

by Kelly Rae Chi – Biotechniques Five RNA-seq library preparation methods go head-to-head in terms of performance in low-quality and low quantity RNA samples. Which method came out on top?  In a side-by-side comparison of five different transciptome sequencing (RNA-seq) ...

from The Scientist by Ed Yong Transcriptome studies reveal new insights about unusual animals whose genomes have not been sequenced. The red spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) could sit in the palm of your hand, but its genome is ten times ...