Nebion has recently launched their special COVID-19 support campaign. Academic researchers working from home are supported with online training and free access to the Professional Edition of GENEVESTIGATOR® for one month. GENEVESTIGATOR® enables analysis of deeply curated transcriptomic data from ...
Read More »Big Data Portal – BioTuring offering free access to the largest single-cell database during lockdown
BioTuring has recently launched their Big Data Portal. This enables scientists worldwide to connect to their server and analyze in real time the largest collections of single-cell datasets. With a lot of engineering effort (100X in speed improvement of gene ...
Read More »Featured RNA-Seq Job – Quantitative Biologist/Bioinformatics
We invite applications from highly motivated candidates for a Quantitative Biologist/Bioinformatics position working within the Genomics group to design impactful studies and analyze single cell RNA-seq data across many therapeutic areas...
Read More »SeQuiLa-cov – A fast and scalable library for depth of coverage calculations
Depth of coverage calculation is an important and computationally intensive preprocessing step in a variety of next-generation sequencing pipelines, including the analysis of RNA-sequencing data, detection of copy number variants, or quality control...
Read More »HSRA – a Hadoop-based spliced read aligner for RNA sequencing data
The analysis of transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) data has become the standard method for quantifying the levels of gene expression. In RNA-seq experiments, the mapping of short reads to a reference genome or transcriptome is considered a crucial...
Read More »How does normalization impact RNA-seq disease diagnosis?
With the surge of next generation high-throughput technologies, RNA-seq data is playing an increasingly important role in disease diagnosis, in which normalization is assumed as an essential...
Read More »Upcoming Workshop – Biomedical Big Data Resources and Analysis Tools
Workshop Description This two-day, in-person hands-on workshop for faculty at any level in public and private academic institutions, will cover major concepts, methods and tools of translational bioinformatics and hands-on computer based exercises utilizing web-based bioinformatics resources – such as ...
Read More »TEtools – facilitates big data expression analysis of transposable elements
Over recent decades, substantial efforts have been made to understand the interactions between host genomes and transposable elements (TEs). The impact of TEs on the regulation of host genes is well known, with TEs acting as platforms of regulatory sequences. ...
Read More »Quark – semi-reference-based compression of RNA-seq data
The past decade has seen an exponential increase in biological sequencing capacity, and there has been a simultaneous effort to help organize and archive some of the vast quantities of sequencing data that are being generated. While these developments are ...
Read More »Falco – A quick and flexible single-cell RNA-seq processing framework on the cloud
Single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) is increasingly used in a range of biomedical studies. Nonetheless, current RNA-seq analysis tools are not specifically designed to efficiently process scRNA-seq data due to their limited scalability. Here researchers from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute ...
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