A ten-day workshop taking place between 25 February - 6 March 2014 providing detailed hands-on training for population and meta-genomics analysis for researchers with little or no background in mathematics or computing.

Venue: Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon (nearest train station - Totnes)

Times: 25 February - 6th March 2014.

Arrival evening of Tuesday 25 February 2014. Departure morning of 6th March 2014. The course itself will take place 9am-12pm, 2pm-5pm and on some evenings 7pm-10pm everyday 26 February-5th March. Students are expected to attend the entire course.

Contact: research-events@exeter.ac.uk

Registration

The course itself is free of charged and is funded by a Professional Postgraduate Development Award from NERC.

A total of 30 funded places are available which cover the costs of accommodation and food, but not the cost of transportation to/from the venue.

An additional 10 places are available for participants from industry. The cost of accommodation and meals will need to be covered by the participants.

You should register your interest by 31 December 2013. Participants will be informed by 10th January 2014 as to whether they have been selected. Please note that preference will be given to researchers funded by NERC.

More at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nerc-workshop-on-population-and-metagenomics-analysis-tickets-8628888237

This workflow includes the following tools which are needed to be installed in the system.

1. fastp
2. spades assembler
3. QUAST
4. bwa
5. samtools
6. metabat2
7. CheckM

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/avishekdutta14/iMAGine

Source: Life technologies

Address of the bookmark: http://www.lifetechnologies.com/global/en/home/communities-social/blog/blogs/sequencing-solutions-to-world-health.html?cid=social_blogseries_20130829_11098264

Following are the weblink for different available browsers:

http://www.ensembl.org/index.html

http://ensemblgenomes.org/

http://genome.ucsc.edu/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/genomes/

http://flybase.org/

http://cmr.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/CmrHomePage.cgi

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/databases/

A quick, $1 syphilis test in development by researchers from UNU-BIOLAC."

Source:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130902101846.htm

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-09/tca-ssg082613.php

More information:

https://genome.ucsc.edu/ENCODE/pilot.html

Address of the bookmark: https://genome.ucsc.edu/ENCODE/

The current study, and companion articles slated to appear in PLOS One, PLOS Genetics, and PLOS Neglected Tropic Diseases, are the result of  nearly 150 researchers based in 18 countries.

Source:

http://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/international-team-sequences-tsetse-fly-genome

Webpage : https://www.scilifelab.se/about-us/
Opportunity: https://www.scilifelab.se/about-us/career/

miRNA Sequencing data analysis : http://tools.genxpro.net/omiras/

miRNApath( R based tool) :  http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/miRNApath.html

miRWalk DB : http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/zmf/mirwalk/

TargetScanHuman : http://www.targetscan.org/

RNAhybrid : http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rnahybrid/welcome.html

RNA22 predictor : http://cbcsrv.watson.ibm.com/rna22.html

miRNA predictor : http://www.microrna.org/microrna/home.do

Plant miRNA DB :http://bioinformatics.cau.edu.cn/PMRD/

miRBASE DB: http://www.mirbase.org/

Plant RNA predictor : http://plantgrn.noble.org/psRNATarget/

miRNA Interaction DB : http://starbase.sysu.edu.cn/

Sequencing based miRNA DB : http://mirgator.kobic.re.kr/

predicted A-to-I edited miRNA DB : http://microrna.osumc.edu/mireditar/

Animal, plant and virus miRNA DB : http://lemur.amu.edu.pl/share/php/mirnest/

Atlantic Salmon miRNAs DB : http://www.molgenv.com/ssa_mirnas_db_home.php

miRNA prediction on UTRs : http://genie.weizmann.ac.il/pubs/mir07/mir07_prediction.html

Idea of analysing miRNA Sequencing data :

http://www.illumina.com/applications/epigenetics/small_rna_analysis.ilmn

More:

http://www.bioconductor.org/help/search/index.html?q=miRNA+target

Note: This image/cartoon is create only for fun. It has nothing to do with any scientific findings.