RNA-Seq Viewer is a web application that enables users to visualize genome-wide expression data from NCBI’s Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases. The application prototype was created by a small team during a three-day hackathon facilitated ...
Read More »RNA-Seq SRA data reveals specific gene signature for IPF, aiding potential new therapies
Pulmonary Fibrosis News – by Pais Teresa – Researchers have identified 39 genes as critical to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), based on a computational analysis of large genomic studies. Their study, “Detecting the Molecular System Signatures of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis through Integrated Genomic ...
Read More »A curated transcriptomic dataset collection relevant to embryonic development associated with in vitro fertilization
The collection of large-scale datasets available in public repositories is rapidly growing and providing opportunities to identify and fill gaps in different fields of biomedical research. However, users of these datasets should be able to selectively browse datasets related to ...
Read More »GEOparse – a Python library to query Gene Expression Omnibus database
by Rafal Gumienny The python API for computational biology is constantly growing and slowly catches up with R. One of the common tasks that bioinformaticians often encounter is to compare their results to some publicly available data. If one wanted ...
Read More »MetaRNA-Seq – An Interactive Tool to Browse and Annotate Metadata from RNA-Seq Studies
The number of RNA-Seq studies has grown in recent years. The design of RNA-Seq studies varies from very simple (e.g., two-condition case-control) to very complicated (e.g., time series involving multiple samples at each time point with separate drug treatments). Most ...
Read More »TCGA_RNASeq_Clinical – Alternative preprocessing of RNA-Sequencing data in The Cancer Genome Atlas
The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) RNA-Sequencing data are used widely for research. TCGA provides “Le3” data, which have been processed using a pipeline specific to that resource. However, researchers from the University of Utah have found using experimentally derived data ...
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