Public sequencing data archives are growing by petabases — millions of billions of DNA letters — per year. But for typical researchers, using these data requires huge downloads and laborious re-analysis. Most researchers aren’t equipped for this, so valuable data ...
Read More »RNA Bioinformatics – New RNA-Seq Protocols from Methods in Molecular Biology
RNA Bioinformatics Edited by Ernesto Picardi ISBN: 978-1-4939-2290-1 (Print) 978-1-4939-2291-8 (Online) Analysis of High-Throughput RNA Sequencing Data Quality Control of RNA-Seq Experiments Xing Li, Asha Nair, Shengqin Wang, Liguo Wang Pages 137-146 Accurate Mapping of RNA-Seq Data Kin Fai Au ...
Read More »Students at NCTR work on the development of bioinformatics and statistical methods for RNA sequencing data
By Nysia George, Ph.D., and Tom Powers Practical, hands-on laboratory work is important for all college students who want to become scientists—but, for many of them, such experiences are out of reach.That’s one of the reasons why every summer, our ...
Read More »Worldwide Study Demonstrates Accuracy of RNA Sequencing Techniques
E. Aubrey Thompson, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic in Florida JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Physicians envision a future in which genomic data from patients is heavily used to manage care — but experts have questioned the accuracy and reliability of these analyses. Now, ...
Read More »miRPlant – an integrated tool for identification of plant miRNA from RNA sequencing data
Small RNA sequencing is commonly used to identify novel miRNAs and to determine their expression levels in plants. There are several miRNA identification tools for animals such as miRDeep, miRDeep2 and miRDeep*. miRDeep-P was developed to identify plant miRNA using ...
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