Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are newly discovered incipient non-coding RNAs with potential roles in disease progression in living organisms. Significant reports, since their inception, highlight the abundance...
Read More »A survey of software tools for microRNA discovery and characterization using RNA-seq
Since the small RNA-sequencing (sRNA-seq) technology became available, it allowed the discovery of thousands new microRNAs (miRNAs) in humans and many other species, providing new data on these small RNAs (sRNAs) of high biological and translational relevance. MiRNA discovery has ...
Read More »BioVLAB-MMIA-NGS – MicroRNA-mRNA Integrated Analysis using High Throughput Sequencing Data
It is now well established that microRNAs (miRNAs) play a critical role in regulating gene expression in a sequence specific manner and genome-wide efforts are underway to predict known and novel miRNA targets. However, the integrated miRNA-mRNA analysis remains a ...
Read More »Pegasus – a comprehensive annotation and prediction tool for detection of driver gene fusions in cancer
The extraordinary success of imatinib in the treatment of BCR-ABL1 associated cancers underscores the need to identify novel functional gene fusions in cancer. RNA sequencing offers a genome-wide view of expressed transcripts, uncovering biologically functional gene fusions. Although several bioinformatics ...
Read More »Inaugural Appistry Pipeline Challenge is Launched
The Pipeline Challenge aims to select and reward a winning proposal for an innovative next-generation sequencing analysis pipeline. Any US-based researcher is eligible to enter the competition, which runs until August 15. The winner will receive $70,000 worth of bioinformatics ...
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