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Omics-profiling is a collection of increasingly prominent approaches that result in large-scale biological datasets, for instance capturing an organism’s behavior and response in an...
Read More »ShinyOmics – collaborative exploration of omics-data
Featured RNA-Seq Job – Bioinformatician – WormBase
The Parasite genomics team at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute are seeking a talented Bioinformatician to work on WormBase ParaSite (parasite.wormbase.org), a portal for parasitic worm genomics. Parasitic worms are responsible for more than one billion human infections globally and have a ...
Read More »Overview of methods and tools used to create and analyse co-expression networks constructed from gene expression data
Gene co-expression networks can be used to associate genes of unknown function with biological processes, to prioritize candidate disease genes or to discern transcriptional regulatory programmes. With recent advances in transcriptomics and next-generation sequencing, co-expression networks constructed from RNA sequencing ...
Read More »Researchers combine CRISPR gene editing and single cell genomic profiling
A new combined method may finally give scientists a tool fine enough to probe life’s most nuanced processes What combinations of mutations help cancer cells survive? Which cells in the brain are involved in the onset of Alzheimer’s? How do ...
Read More »Fluidic Logic Used in a Systems Approach to Enable Integrated Single-Cell Functional Analysis
The study of single cells has evolved over the past several years to include expression and genomic analysis of an increasing number of single cells. Several studies have demonstrated wide spread variation and heterogeneity within cell populations of similar phenotype. ...
Read More »GOexpress – an R/Bioconductor package for the identification and visualisation of robust gene ontology signatures through supervised learning of gene expression data
Identification of gene expression profiles that differentiate experimental groups is critical for discovery and analysis of key molecular pathways and also for selection of robust diagnostic or prognostic biomarkers. While integration of differential expression statistics has been used to refine ...
Read More »RNA-Seq Post-doc Postion Available
Postdoctoral Fellow – Functional Genomics of Immuno-Oncology Description: 2015 will be the year of the AbbVie Postdoctoral Program launch. We are looking for the incoming class to join AbbVie as the company is positioning itself for another significant year of ...
Read More »Functional Analysis of Your RNA-Seq Data
Functional Analysis of Your RNAseq Data – Fiona McCarthy, University of Arizona The broad applicability and availability of RNASeq data has accelerated the generation of functional genomics data sets across a wide range of species. However, the end point of ...
Read More »Cofactor Genomics Awarded NIH Grant to Develop a Circular RNA Enrichment Kit and Reference Profile
August 2014, Cofactor Genomics has been awarded a grant by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), an institute of the NIH, to develop a standardized enrichment kit and define the normal reference profile for circular RNAs (circRNA) in the nervous ...
Read More »SFGD: a comprehensive platform for mining functional information from soybean transcriptome data
Soybean (Glycine max L.) is one of the world’s most important leguminous crops producing high-quality protein and oil. Increasing the relative oil concentration in soybean seeds is many researchers’ goal, but a complete analysis platform of functional annotation for the ...
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