Bioo Scientific was awarded a National Science Foundation Phase II grant for $750,000 to continue development efforts to improve the accuracy of small RNA expression analysis. The value for developing a method to measure the true profile of microRNAs in ...
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 ...
Read More »Bioo Scientific First to Address Small RNA-Seq Bias Concerns with Launch of New Kit
Author: BIOO/Monday, August 11, 2014 Bioo Scientific launched the patent pending NEXTflex™ Small RNA Sequencing Kit v2, which utilizes randomized adapters to significantly reduce ligation bias from library preparation, resulting in the most accurate data available, as illustrated in a ...
Read More »MAGI: a Node.js web service for fast MicroRNA-Seq Analysis in a GPU Infrastructure
MAGI is a web service for fast MicroRNA-Seq data analysis in a GPU infrastructure. Using just a browser, users have access to results as web-reports in just a few hours – over 600% end-to-end performance improvement over state-of-the-art. MAGI’s salient ...
Read More »miR-PREFeR: an accurate, fast, and easy-to-use plant miRNA prediction tool using small RNA-Seq data
Plant microRNA prediction tools that utilize small RNA sequencing data are emerging quickly. These existing tools have at least one of the following problems: high false positive rate; long running time; work only for genomes in their databases; hard to ...
Read More »Skewer – a fast and accurate adapter trimmer for next-generation sequencing paired-end reads
Adapter trimming is a prerequisite step for analyzing next-generation sequencing (NGS) data when the reads are longer than the target DNA/RNA fragments. Although typically used in small RNA sequencing, adapter trimming is also used widely in other applications, such as ...
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