metagraph.ethz.ch - The MetaGraph framework is designed to work with a wide range of input data sets, indexing from a few samples up to the contents of entire archives with hundreds of thousands of records. The indexing workflow always follows the same principle,...
A creature smaller than a grain of sand has discovered a surprising method of surviving damage that can break its DNA apart. It lives in the mosses and lichens, in the thin films of water that show up after rain and disappear when the area dries...
The MiND programme looking for 15 highly motivated Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), researchers with a BSc or MSc degree within the first four years (full-time equivalent) of their research career
All applications sent before 2nd of February...
A Brief Introduction to Genetics is a short documentary film that explores the history of genetics & genomics and the underlying concepts that provide the foundational knowledge that today's research is built upon. The film describes the history of...
https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu
The Genome 10K project aims to assemble a genomic zoo—a collection of DNA sequences representing the genomes of 10,000 vertebrate species, approximately one for every vertebrate genus. The trajectory of cost reduction...
analog -- A feature that appears similar in two taxa which have originated from two different ancestors.
ancestor -- Any organism, population, or species from which some other organism, population, or species is descended by...
The successful candidate will work as support staff mainly in the development, application and maintenance of pipelines for handling large omics datasets (including whole-genome sequences, high-density genotypes and mRNA sequences). These pipelines...
Infectious disease control needs to be made more “sustainable”. We need to reduce selective pressure on pathogens to evolve antibiotic resistance. We need to control infectious disease outbreaks and associated immune disorders with a better...
The completion of the first human genome drafts was just a start of the modern DNA sequencing era which resulted in further invention, improved development toward new advanced strategies of high-throughput DNA sequencing, so called the...