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Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics, Grimmond Lab

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 11:58:34 -0500

Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics

Research Area:
pancreatic cancer; ovarian cancer; prostate cancer; bowel cancer; brain cancer; endometrial cancer; breast cancer; personalised medicine; high-throughput genomics

Link @ http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/sean-grimmond

Complex Systems: From Physics to Biology October 15-16 2013 at JNU Convention Center

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:17:17 -0500

The symposium intents to focus on complex systems arising in a variety of settings in physics and biology. In particular, applications of the concepts of physics to biological sciences will be the major theme of this meeting.

Selected Topics:

Cluster Dynamics
Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Forced Systems
Hamiltonian Dynamics
Synchronization & Control
Genomics & Systems Biology
Computational Neuroscience
Econophysics

More @ http://www.jnu.ac.in/Conference/SCS2013/

Rolland-Lagan lab

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:57:57 -0500

The Rolland-Lagan lab at the University of Ottawa is specializing in computational and developmental biology. We use a combination of experimental work, microscopy, image analysis and computer simulations to explore developmental mechanisms in two and three dimensions.

Research Area

Developmental biology, Computational biology, Simulation modeling, Image data analysis

Link @ http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/arolland/index.html

JPred4: A Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Server

Poonam Mahapatra — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 16:14:28 -0600

JPred4 (http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jpred4) is the latest version of the popular JPred protein secondary structure prediction server which provides predictions by the JNet algorithm, one of the most accurate methods for secondary structure prediction.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jpred4/

GLEAN: an unsupervised learning system to integrate disparate sources of gene structure evidence

Poonam Mahapatra — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 07:38:33 -0500

GLEAN is an unsupervised learning system to integrate disparate sources of gene structure evidence (gene model predictions, EST/protein genomic sequence alignments, SAGE/peptide tags, etc) to produce a consensus gene prediction, without prior training.

Address of the bookmark: https://sourceforge.net/projects/glean-gene/

Caretta – A multiple protein structure alignment and feature extraction suite

Rahul Nayak — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 02:09:44 -0600

Caretta – a multiple protein structure alignment and feature extraction suite

Caretta, a multiple structure alignment suite meant for homologous but sequentially divergent protein families which consistently returns accurate alignments with a higher coverage than current state-of-the-art tools. Caretta is available as a GUI and command-line application and additionally outputs an aligned structure feature matrix for a given set of input structures, which can readily be used in downstream steps for supervised or unsupervised machine learning.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.bioinformatics.nl/caretta/

Learn Genetics Online

Rahul Agarwal — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:12:42 -0500

Great source to learn genetics and other relevant stuffs online.

Address of the bookmark: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/

Severus: a somatic structural variation (SV) caller for long reads

LEGE — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 02:41:27 -0500

Severus is a somatic structural variation (SV) caller for long reads (both PacBio and ONT). It is designed for matching tumor/normal analysis, supports multiple tumor samples, and produces accurate and complete somatic and germline calls. Severus takes advantage of long-read phasing and uses the breakpoint graph framework to model complex chromosomal rearrangements.

If you use Severus, please cite https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.22.24304756v1

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/KolmogorovLab/Severus

Internship program with ArrayGen Technolgies

Sun, 22 Jun 2014 23:18:31 -0500

Internship Program for Bioinformatics / Biotechnology Professionals Currently we offer positions to outstanding students interested in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis. Applications are accepted throughout the year. Accepted students will be listed on web with their schedules. Accepted students can attend our future workshops and trainings freely at the specified venue.

Interested candidates may email their resume along with a cover letter to careers@arraygen.com

Official website: http://www.arraygen.com/

The 8000 years old Tibetian gene mutation !!!

Neel — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:57:44 -0500

A new study has provided insight into how gene mutation around 8,000 years ago helped Tibetans' to survive in the thin air on the Tibetan Plateau, where an average elevation is of 14,800 feet.

A study led by University of Utah scientists is the first to find a genetic cause for the adaptation, a single DNA base pair change that dates back 8,000 years and demonstrate how it contributes to the Tibetans' ability to live in low oxygen conditions.

About 8,000 years ago, the gene EGLN1 changed by a single DNA base pair. Today, a relatively short time later on the scale of human history, 88 percent of Tibetans have the genetic variation, and it was virtually absent from closely related lowland Asians. The findings indicate the genetic variation endows its carriers with an advantage.

In those without the adaptation, low oxygen caused their blood to become thick with oxygen-carrying red blood cells, an attempt to feed starved tissues, which could cause long-term complications such as heart failure. The researchers found that the newly identified genetic variation protected Tibetans by decreasing the over-response to low oxygen.

Reference: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v512/n7513/abs/nature13408.html