In solid organ transplantation, donor-derived immune cells are assumed to decline with time after surgery. Whether donor leukocytes persist within kidney transplants or play any role in rejection is...
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Long-read DNA and RNA sequencing uncovers previously uncharted regions of complex and inherently recursive plant genomes
An international team led by the Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Centre (P2IRC) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) and researchers at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has...
Read More »Helix is the first clinical lab to receive approval for a sequencing-based test for the coronavirus
Population genomics company Helix said Monday that it has received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a COVID-19 test that’s based on next-generation sequencing. It is the first clinical lab to receive approval...
Read More »BrumiR – a toolkit for de novo discovery of microRNAs from sRNA-seq data
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that are key players in the regulation of gene expression. In the last decade, with the increasing accessibility of high-throughput sequencing technologies, different methods have been developed to identify miRNAs...
Read More »Upcoming Online Workshop – Introduction to Single Cell RNA-Seq
This workshop will cover experimental design, data generation, and analysis of single cell RNA sequencing data (primarily generated using the...
Read More »scREAD – A single-cell RNA-Seq database for Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder of the brain and the most common form of dementia among the elderly. The single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-Seq) and...
Read More »Postdoc position available – neuroscience
The Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine and Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital is seeking applicants for the Postdoctoral Associate...
Read More »XACT-Seq comprehensively defines the promoter-position and promoter-sequence determinants for initial-transcription pausing
Pausing by RNA polymerase (RNAP) during transcription elongation, in which a translocating RNAP uses a “stepping” mechanism, has been studied extensively, but pausing by RNAP during initial...
Read More »deepTS – exploring transcriptional switches from pairwise, temporal and population RNA-Seq data
Transcriptional switch (TS) is a widely observed phenomenon caused by changes in the relative expression of transcripts from the same gene, in spatial, temporal or other dimensions. TS has been associated with human diseases, plant development...
Read More »RNA-Seq Data Analysis Workshop in Leipzig, Germany (21 – 24 September 2020)
RNA-Seq Data Analysis Workshop Quality Control, Read Mapping, Visualization and Downstream Analyses Advance your research. Understand RNA-Seq analyses challenges and solve them yourself. In a nutshell Learn the essential computing skills for NGS bioinformatics Understand NGS analysis algorithms (e.g. read alignment) and ...
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