Should you get sequenced? Not all bad genes predict disease
“What we really don’t know yet is whether the predictive aspects of the...ide misconception that having the bad gene means you’re going to get the disease. That’s only true in a...3912 days ago
What Junk DNA? It’s an Operating System
The report adds to growing experimental support for the idea that all that extra st...material in the regulation of gene expression and its potential role in human disease....3922 days ago
RNA Sequencing Helps Identify Functional Variants from GWAS
For Alzheimer’s and other complex disorders, mining the genome for disease-associated variants is no lon...out how the identified loci relate to disease. As reported last month in Na...iding new tools for understanding how disease loci influence gene expressio...3826 days ago
CoronaVIR: Computational Resources on Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19)
Aim of this web site is to facilitate the scientific community to fight against severe pandemic disease COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2...n of coronavirus, i.e. SARS-CoV-2.and its resulting disease COVID-19 from the literature...1114 days ago
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SeqMule: Automated human exome/genome variants detection
SeqMule takes single-end or paird-end FASTQ or BAM files, generates a script consis...ent callers, and downloading databases. SeqMule can be used for both Mendelian disease study and cancer genome study...2626 days ago
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Pollux: platform independent error correction of single and mixed genomes
Pollux: General-purpose error corrector that corrects errors introduced by Illumina, Ion Torrent, and Roche 454 s..., 85% of Roche 454 GS Junior errors. Introduced errors are 20 to 70 times more rare th...2553 days ago
Recovery of complete genomes from metagenomes
This project contains scripts and tutorials on how to assemble individual microbial genomes from metagenomes, as described in: Genome sequences of rare, u...2331 days ago
EWAS: epigenome-wide association study software 2.0
EWAS2.0 can analyze EWAS data and identify the association between epigenetic variations and disease/phenotype. On the basis of EW...2247 days ago