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A National Workshop on "DNA Barcoding and Phylogenetics" 09 th – 12 th August, 2017 @ Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, A.P., India

M JAGANNATH — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:37:20 -0500

DNA Barcoding is an emerging global standard for identifying species using gene sequences, and it has far reaching applications for society and the study of biodiversity on Earth. DNA Barcoding began during
recent decades with the proposal that organisms could be assigned to their correct species using a short gene sequence from a standardized position in the genome. By using genetic data rather than morphological features, barcoding can identify specimens that challenge the most expert taxonomist: larval forms, eggs, damaged or partial specimens (including gut contents and fecal matter), and derivative forms (e.g., fish filets). Since its introduction, barcoding has proven effective as an identification system for a wide range of taxonomic groups and for varied applications of importance to science and society.
The current Workshop aims to introduce about the current emerging trends and applications of Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution studies and to provide hands on training on molecular biology and bioinformatics tools in Molecular Phylogenetics research.

For registration Kindly follow the Link

http://andhrauniversity.edu.in/webnew/admin/docs/Broucher-for-National-workshop-Aug-2017-18072017.pdf

Webinar on Leukocyte immunobiology helps us predict post-operative risk using pre-operative markers on 9 Aug, 8 am PST

Yeshodari — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 08:21:50 -0500

Free Live Webinar on Leukocyte immunobiology helps us predict post-operative risk using pre-operative markers on 9 Aug, 8 am PST

Speaker:

Mario Deng MD FACC FESC
Professor of Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure/Mechanical
Support/Heart Transplant
David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Abstract:

Strand NGS supports a comprehensive and flexible RNA-Seq data analysis workflow consisting of Alignment, Quality Assessment, Filters, and a range of analysis and visualization options that help in studying a variety of samples and answering long-standing biological questions.

In this webinar, Dr. Deng will discuss the analysis of transcriptome, flow cytometry and cytokine data from pre-operative blood samples of advanced heart failure patients undergoing Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) surgery. He will discuss in detail the identification of prominent clinical variables, a set of transcriptome biomarkers, and their role in the context of systems biology. Finally, the application of Class Prediction algorithms in Strand NGS for identification of high-risk patients will be illustrated.

This immunobiology based study highlights the potential of machine learning techniques in clinical risk prediction and patient management, and from a clinician’ s perspective, the utility of biomarker discovery studies in helping patients make more informed decisions as a step towards personalized precision medicine.

Register here

GeneSpring webinar- Uncovering mechanisms of hepatotoxicity on 14 June at 8AM PST

Yeshodari — Tue, 23 May 2017 06:48:40 -0500

Uncovering Mechanisms of Hepatotoxicity for High Affinity Antisense Oligonucleotides – 3’ end RNA-seq Profiling Using GeneSpring GX

High affinity antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) containing bicylic modifications (BNA) such as locked nucleic acid (LNA) or constrained ethyl (cEt) designed to induce target RNA cleavage have been shown to have enhanced potency along with a higher propensity to cause hepatotoxicity. In order to unravel the mechanism of this hepatotoxicity, we leveraged GeneSpring GX analysis software to analyze transcriptional profiles from the livers of mice treated with a panel of highly efficacious hepatotoxic or non-hepatotoxic LNA ASOs.

Speaker:
Sebastien A. Burel, PhD
Director, Nonclinical Development, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, California

Details:
14 June 2017, 8 AM PST

Register for this Webinar

Download assemblies from NCBI

Bulbul — Mon, 15 May 2017 06:02:32 -0500

A new “Download assemblies” button is now available in the Assembly database. This makes it easy to download data for multiple genomes without having to write scripts.

For example, you can run a search in Assembly and use check boxes (see left side of screenshot below) to refine the set of genome assemblies of interest. Then, just open the “Download assemblies” menu, choose the source database (GenBank or RefSeq), choose the file type, and start the download. An archive file will be saved to your computer that can be expanded into a folder containing your selected genome data files.

More at https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2017/05/08/genome-data-download-made-easy/

Webinar on Fast and Accurate DNA Variant Calling on 26 Apr 2017

Yeshodari — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 06:14:37 -0500

Continuing our DNA-Seq webinar series, we'll present Strand NGS v3.0 best-practices: a workflow that identifies highly accurate variants from raw reads. Our best practices workflow is twice as fast as its GATK counterpart, and results in precision/recall rates of up to 99%/98% on whole exome and whole genome samples. We'll also speak briefly about some of the other features in v3.0 including one-shot pipelines, TSS plots, RNA-Seq performance improvements, and, for the first time, HGVS notations for SNP effect analysis.

BINC 2017

Jit — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:36:22 -0600

Pondicherry University,Puducherry,on behalf of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, conducted the BINC examination in 2015 and 2016. The objective of this examination is to certify bioinformatics professionals, trained formally as well as self-trained.Registration for BINC 2017 examination will open from January 29,2017 to February 28,2017.

Pondicherry University, Puducherry has been identified as a nodal agency by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India to coordinate this examination along with nine centres namely,

Pune University, Pune;

Anna University, Chennai;

Bose Institute, Kolkata;

Institute of Bioinformatics & Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore;

North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad;

University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram;

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and

Assam Agricultural University, Guwahati.

In the BINC 2015 and 2016 examination, 23 candidates and five candidates were certified respectively. DBT has agreed to fund Research fellowships for all the BINC qualified Indian nationals to pursue Ph.D. in Indian Institutes/Universities.

Note that the candidate must possess a postgraduate degree(or equivalent) & meet the criteria of the institutes/universities in order to avail research fellowship.

In addition, cash prize of Rs. 10,000/- will be awarded to the top 10 BINC qualifiers.

More at http://www.pondiuni.edu.in/exams/binc/

Bioinformatics Contest 2017!

Neel — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 14:03:37 -0600

Bioinformatics Contest 2017! Rosalind is co-organizer.
Compete with thousands of people worldwide on bioinformatics problem solving.
Everything is online. Qualification round starts on January 23, 2017. Final is on Feb 18.

You will need to solve bioinformatics problems using programming. The goal is to correctly solve as many problems as possible within 24 hours. Some of them will be approximation problems and will have partial grades. All rounds will be held online, submissions will be auto-graded in real time.

Check more at http://contest.bioinf.me/

Good luck!

SEQforum: A new discussion forum for Bioinformaticians

Arup Ghosh — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:42:29 -0500

Join SEQforum today.

http://seqforum.com/register.php

Published: GeneSCF: a real-time based functional enrichment tool with support for multiple organisms

EagleEye — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:24:17 -0500

GeneSCF is more reliable compared to other enrichment tools because of its ability to use reference functional databases in real-time to perform enrichment analysis. It is an easy-to-integrate tool with other pipelines available for downstream analysis of high-throughput data. More importantly, GeneSCF can run multiple gene lists simultaneously on different organisms thereby saving time for the users. Since the tool is designed to be ready-to-use, there is no need for any complex compilation and installation procedures.

Access article:

http://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-016-1250-z

DBT – Bioinformatics Industrial Training Programme (BIITP) 2016 – 17

Jit — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 04:09:59 -0500

BIITP is a programme of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, managed by Biotech Consortium India Limited (BCIL).The objective of BIITP is to provide an opportunity to bioinformatics students to acquire practical skills and experience by working on projects alongside industry experts as well as to provide an opportunity for the industry to identify potential employees.

DBT Invites online applications from the bioinformatics students and requisitions from biotech/bioinformatics companies.

Biotech Industry :

Biotech/Bioinformatics companies interested to provide hands on industrial training to the students of Bioinformatics under BIITP may apply online. The companies would have no obligation towards any payments to trainees. The companies would be paid bench fee to cover expenses towards training. Trainees would be provided to companies subject to availability.

Attn: Bioinformatics Students

Bioinformatics students interested in training in biotech / bioinformatics companies may apply online. Stipend of Rs. 10,000/- per month will be paid to candidates placed for training. The candidates will be selected for training through an interview.

Eligiblity :

a) B.E /B.Tech./M.Sc./M.Tech./Advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics from an Indian recognized university with minimum 55% marks or equivalent grade at highest degree/diploma completed in the year 2015 or 2016 are only eligible to apply.

b) The Advanced Post Graduate diploma should be of at least one year duration after graduation.

c) Students whose result of last semester/final year is not declared can also apply mentioning their marks upto the semester/year upto which result declared. The final result with original mark sheet(s) of all the semesters/years will have to be produced at the time of interview.

Application Procedure :

The online application form is available below :

Application Form For Students (New User)

Requisition form for companies (New User)

Already registered User Click Here

The following documents are to be sent to Mr. Manoj Gupta, Manager, Biotech Consortium India Limited, 5th floor, Anuvrat Bhawan, 210, Deen Dayal UpadhyayaMarg, New Delhi-110002.

More at http://www.bcil.nic.in/biitp2016-17/index.asp