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Applications are invited for a post of Research Associate (RA) or Senior Research Fellow (SRF) in the ICMR project on "Integrated Analysis of Multi-omics Data in Human Gliomas". We are looking for a motivated candidate for handling proteomic...

github.com - Simulated genomes with pre-defined and random genomic variants can be very useful for benchmarking genomic and bioinformatics analyses. Here we introduce simuG, a lightweight tool for simulating the full-spectrum of genomic variants (single...

Applications are invited from suitable candidates for filling up the purely temporary position of one Senior Research Fellow in DST’s Indo-Australian Joint project (with ICRISAT) entitled “Genomic Approach for Stress Tolerant Chickpea” under the...

Walk-In Interview for one position of Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in a SERB, Department of Science and Technology (DST) funded research project entitled “Design and evaluation of novel Beta-3 adrenoreceptor agonists for potential antidepressant...

One profile of Computational/Systems Biology and Machine Learning at Postdoc level is needed at the Laboratory of Immunobiology of Neurological Disorders led by Cinthia Farina, Institute of Experimental Neurology, Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano. The...

China’s BGI says it can sequence a genome for just $100

INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (An Autonomous Institute under Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) Paschim Boragaon, Garchuk, Guwahati-781035 Appointment Adv.No.2 Applications in plain paper are...

github.com - RefKA, a reference-based approach for long read genome assembly. This approach relies on breaking up a closely related reference genome into bins, aligning k-mers unique to each bin with PacBio reads, and then assembling each bin in parallel...

A new optogenetic protein gives neuroscientists more control over brain circuits.

github.com - Despite marked recent improvements in long-read sequencing technology, the assembly of diploid genomes remains a difficult task. A major obstacle is distinguishing between alternative contigs that represent highly heterozygous regions. If primary...