<![CDATA[BOL: April 2020]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/archive/biostar/1585717200/1588309200? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/41586/primer-blast Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:28:49 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/41586/primer-blast <![CDATA[Primer BLAST !]]> BLAST team added a new feature (Max 3' match), shown in Figure 1, to Primer-BLAST that limits the length of 3' exon matches when designing exon-exon spanning primers. This makes it less likely that primers specifically designed to amplify transcripts will also amplify genomic DNA contamination in expression assays. See the NCBI Insights post (https://go.usa.gov/xvUT4) for more details.

 

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]]> BioStar https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/41578/samhar-covid19-hackathon Fri, 17 Apr 2020 06:47:10 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/41578/samhar-covid19-hackathon <![CDATA[SAMHAR-COVID19 Hackathon]]> Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) under the aegis of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), a Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) and Department of Science & Technology (DST) initiative, in association with NVIDIA & OpenACC, announces the SAMHAR-COVID19 Hackathon.

Pandemic outbreak such as Coronavirus outbreak can create huge challenges for the Government and Public Health Officials to gather information quickly and coordinate a response. In such a situation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play a huge role in predicting, minimizing and stalling its spread of the virus.

C-DAC has embarked on a program SAMHAR-COVID19 (Supercomputing using AI, ML, Healthcare Analytics based Research for combating COVID19). This opportunity will provide researchers to find solutions for Identifying, Tracking and Forecasting outbreaks of COVID19 and Facilitating Drug Discovery as well.

  • Participants can update submissions multiple times till the Registration End date.
  • Each entry can be submitted by a Team comprising of minimum 3 and maximum 5 members (Including the Team Lead).
  • Participants will have to share the complete work activities with C-DAC. And C-DAC will have right to use the submitted application/solution for SAMHAR-COVID19 programs.
  • The Award will be given to the Selected/Winning Entry irrespective of the number of members in the Team (members may choose to distribute the amount among themselves).
  • The decision of the Eminent Jury on the I3 Award will be final and binding.
  • Award can be for the Team/Company/Institution, as submitted in the Application and cannot be changed later.
  • Submissions will be considered void if they are in whole or part ill-eligible, incomplete, damaged, altered, counterfeit, obtained through fraud or late submission.

More at https://samhar-covid19hackathon.cdac.in/

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