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The test data consists of two commercially available RNA samples: Universal Human Reference (UHR) and Human Brain Reference (HBR) . The UHR is total RNA isolated from a diverse set of 10 cancer cell lines. The HBR Read More...

Recall that the Golden Snidget data resides in ~/biostar_class/snidget folder. Can you change into the folder and find where the sequencing reads are (ie. in which folder they are located)? {{Sdet}} Solution{{Esum}} Read More...

Lesson 10 Practice Objectives In this lesson, we introduced the structure of the FASTQ file and learned to assess quality of raw sequencing data using FASTQC. Here, we will practice what we learned using the Golden Read More...

In Lesson 2, partipants will learn about ways to use R on Biowulf. The focus will be on interactively working with R on Biowulf. Two different ways of accessing RStudio will be demonstrated. In addition, there Read More...

NISC’s role within NHGRI, and more broadly across NIH, aims to advance genome sequencing and its many applications, with a goal not simply to produce sequence data, but to produce the infrastructure required to Read More...

The Antibody Engineering Program (AEP) is located at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, which is part of the Center for Cancer Research (CCR), an intramural program at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). AEP focuses on Read More...

The primary objective of the Protein Technology Core (PTC) is to establish an experimental screening pipeline for single-domain antibodies termed nanobodies. Nanobodies are antibody fragments consisting of a single monomeric variable antibody domain. The PTC, Read More...

NCI LASP Genome Modification Core (GMC) is a CCR-dedicated facility that provides advice, training, and reagents to NCI scientists seeking to utilize CRISPR and other nucleases to generate genome modifications in primary cells, cell lines, Read More...

The Functional Genomics Laboratory (formerly, the RNAi Screening Facility) of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) assist investigators with all stages of project planning and execution, beginning with assay development through genome-wide siRNA Read More...

The Molecular Targets Program (MTP) is an organizational entity within the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) at NCI. The MTP provides the focus and infrastructure to enable CCR tenured and tenure-track Principal Investigators to initiate Read More...

01/08/2025 - Helen Shearman, Ph.D., Senior Field Application Scientist, will be presenting a one-hour overview demonstration on SnapGene.   SnapGene offers a fast and easy way to plan, visualize, and document your everyday cloning Read More...

01/24/2024 - Dear Colleague,   Helen Shearman, Ph.D., Senior Field Application Scientist, will be presenting a one-hour overview demonstration on SnapGene. SnapGene offers a fast and easy way to plan, visualize, and document your Read More...

01/22/2024 - Dear Colleagues,    Optical Genome Maps (OGM) provide scaffolding information for large DNA molecules. In this talk, we describe the use of this technology for detecting structural variants and chaining them Read More...

To begin plotting, we need to load our ggplot2 library. Package libraries must be loaded every time you open and use R. If you haven't yet installed the ggplot2 package on your local machine, Read More...

https://www.zymoresearch.com/blogs/blog/microbiome-informatics-otu-vs-asv www.drive5.com Elbrecht V, Vamos EE, Steinke D, Leese F. 2018. Estimating intraspecific genetic diversity from community DNA metabarcoding data. PeerJ 6:e4644 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4644

A powerful, extensible, and decentralized microbiome analysis package with a focus on data and analysis transparency. QIIME 2 enables researchers to start an analysis with raw DNA sequence data and finish with publication-quality figures and statistical Read More...

12/06/2023 - This presentation will provide a one-hour overview demonstration on Geneious Prime, a software platform for molecular biology and sequence analysis. It is built to be highly visual, easy to use, and collaborative. & Read More...

10/11/2023 - This session focuses on R data types and data structures. In R, more advanced libraries (code) may require data to be a particular data type or data structure to perform a function or analysis. Read More...

Trim and/or filter sequence to remove sequencing primers/adaptor and poor quality reads. Example programs: FASTX-Toolkit is a collection of command line tools for Short-Reads FASTA/ FASTQ files preprocessing.
 SeqKit is an ultrafast comprehensive Read More...

The SRA (Sequence Read Archive) at NCBI is a large, public database of DNA sequencing data. The repository holds "short reads" generated by high-throughput next-generation sequencing, usually less than 1,000 bp. We will download Read More...

The SRA (Sequence Read Archive) at NCBI is a large, public database of DNA sequencing data. The repository holds "short reads" generated by high-throughput next-generation sequencing, usually less than 1,000 bp. We will download Read More...

Illumina Sequencing Technology Video Introduction to Illumina Sequencing Summary of Illumina DNA-seq applications and library preparation methods Summary of Illumina RNA-seq applications and library preparation methods

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The Antibody Engineering Program (AEP) is part of the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The program focuses on generating therapeutic antibodies by phage display technology, including human antibodies and Read More...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More New CREx User Survey The CREx Team is carrying out a CREx User Survey. If you haven’t Read More...

NanoString Technology The nCounter® Analysis System is an automated, multi-application, digital detection and counting system which directly profiles up to 800 molecules simultaneously from a single sample using a novel barcoding technology. Profile hundreds of mRNAs, Read More...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More NIH Research Festival The NIH Research Festival highlights the groundbreaking science and the vibrant NIH community driving our Read More...

The CCR Genomics Core is located in Building 41 on the NIH Bethesda campus. The primary goal of the Core is to provide investigators from CCR/NCI and other NIH Institutes access to genomic technologies and Read More...

The NCI High-Throughput Imaging Facility (HiTIF) works in a collaborative fashion with NCI/NIH Investigators by providing them with the necessary expertise, instrumentation, and software to develop and execute advanced High-Throughput Imaging (HTI) assays. These Read More...

Molecular Cytogenetics Core Facility facilitates the assessment of structural and numerical genomic changes in pre-cancer and cancer research models. This core provides comprehensive support for the cytogenetic analysis of cells from human and research animal Read More...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More. New Resources on CREx NIMH Human Brain Collection Core (HBCC) The HBCC obtains human brain tissue, hair, and blood Read More...

The Genomics Technology Laboratory is an integrated, high-throughput molecular biology laboratory focusing on the development of genetics and genomics technologies, data analysis, and information management tools, in support of CCR Investigators. The laboratory develops integrated Read More...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More Technology Event Biophysical Methods for Protein Interactions Monday, May 15 – Friday, May 19, 2023 This workshop will review the strategies of Read More...

DTP’s Natural Products Repository is the world’s largest storehouse of natural products. It houses close to >200,000 extracts from samples of more than 70,000 plants and >20,000 marine organisms collected from more than 29 countries, plus extracts Read More...

The CLIA Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) provides an array of services for groups at the NIH Clinical Center, Fort Detrick, and Hood College, among others. They support cancer- and disease-related research by making Read More...

Biophysics Core Facility assists NIH investigators in measuring molecular interactions and in characterizing macromolecular properties. This includes binding studies of proteins, DNA, RNA, and their ligands in buffers, cell lysate, plasma, and other media. We Read More...

2024 Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2024 Time and Location: 11 am EST, ZOOM (INVITATION BY LMIG LIST SERVER) Speaker: Dr. Diego Presman (U Buenos Aires) Title: “Insights on Glucocorticoid Receptor Activity Through Live Cell Imaging” Summary: Eucaryotic transcription factors ( Read More...

04/16/2025 - Updated Location: ATRF, Frederick MD, Main Auditorium What to bring:  Laptop capable of connecting to internet via NIH wifi For questions or to register, please contact Amy Stonelake ( amy.stonelake@nih.gov ) Read More...

The computational chemistry and protein modeling team in the Advanced Biomedical Computational Science (ABCS) group provides novel solutions in structural modeling and computational chemistry. Computational scientists in the group collaborate with NCI researchers by using Read More...

03/21/2025 - Partek Flow is a point-and-click software for analyzing multi-omics sequencing data including DNA, bulk and single cell RNA, spatial transcriptomics, ATAC and ChIP. Input options include FASTQ, BAM, or expression tables, thus enabling scientists Read More...

03/13/2025 - UCSC Xena showcases seminal cancer genomics datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Pan-Cancer Atlas, as well as the Genomic Data Commons, Pan-cancer Atlas of Whole Genomes, and the International Cancer Genome Read More...

General questions or comments about the BTEP program or classes should be addressed to: NCIBTEP@nih.gov Desiree Tillo, Ph.D . Staff Scientist desiree.tillo@nih.gov I have a broad research background in bioinformatics Read More...

Long read sequencing was recently named 2022’s method of the year by Nature Methods . Long read sequencing technologies, those that generate sequence reads with lengths of 10s of kilobases or longer have several advantages over Read More...

12/05/2024 - This one and a half hour online training will provide a demonstration of how to identify cell types based on statistics, visualization, and canonical markers. One Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) sample will be Read More...

12/03/2024 - This one and a half hour online training  will provide a demonstration of how to build a Bulk RNA-Seq data analysis pipeline using a fastq file. Partek  Flow   Read More...

11/19/2024 - Partek Flow enables scientists to construct analysis workflows for multi-omics sequencing data including DNA, bulk and single cell RNA, spatial transcriptomics, ATAC and ChIP. It is a point-and-click software hosted on Biowulf, the NIH Read More...

10/24/2024 - Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have revolutionized the use of hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained tumor slides for precision oncology, enabling data-driven approaches to predict molecular characteristics and therapeutic outcomes. In Read More...

09/13/2024 - Reverse-phase protein arrays (RPPAs) represent a powerful functional proteomic approach to elucidate cancer-related molecular mechanisms and develop novel cancer therapies.   To facilitate community-based investigation of the large-scale protein expression data generated by Read More...

08/29/2024 - Dr. Mardis is an internationally recognized expert in cancer genomics, with ongoing interests in the integrated characterization of cancer genomes, defining DNA-based somatic and germline interactions and RNA-based pathways, and immune microenvironments that lead Read More...

08/08/2024 - The Elemento lab combines Big Data analytics with experimentation to develop entirely new ways to help prevent, diagnose, understand, treat and ultimately cure disease. Our research involves routine use of ultrafast DNA sequencing, proteomics, Read More...

07/24/2024 - Partek Flow enables scientists to construct analysis workflows for multi-omics sequencing data including DNA, bulk and single cell RNA, spatial transcriptomics, ATAC and ChIP. It is hosted on Biowulf, the NIH high performance computing Read More...

06/20/2024 - Clustered heat maps are widely used for visualizing patterns in molecular profiling data. But traditional, static heat maps have significant limitations when applied to large datasets (1000s of elements per axis). Presented in this Read More...

04/21/2024 - Looking for an introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) or an opportunity to expand on what you already know? Attend this workshop hosted by the NIH-funded Bridge2AI CHoRUS network and the University of Florida Read More...

03/13/2024 - Dear Colleagues,    UCSC Xena is a web-based visual integration and exploration tool for multi-omic data and associated clinical and phenotypic annotations.   Xena showcases seminal cancer genomics datasets from Read More...

03/05/2024 - This in-person workshop will show participants how to identify cell types based on statistics, visualization, and canonical markers. One Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) sample will be used to illustrate a basic Single Cell Read More...

ggplot2 is an R graphics package from the tidyverse collection. It allows the user to create informative plots quickly by using a 'grammar of graphics' implementation, which is described as "a coherent system for Read More...

The field has moved to denoising sequences rather than OTU clustering. In a denoising approach, the exact biological sequence is inferred and noise is removed from the dataset via error correction. This is generally done Read More...

An OTU is an operational taxonomic unit. This is derived by binning sequences at a certain threshold of similarity. This threshold is generally set at 97%, which is associated with a species level assignment. Clustering can Read More...

11/16/2023 - This class will provide a demonstration of how to identify cell types based on statistics, visualization, and canonical markers. One Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) sample will be used to illustrate a basic Single Read More...

11/14/2023 - Dr. Ting Wang is a Sanford C. and Karen P. Loewentheil Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Wang’s lab Read More...

10/04/2023 - Our series of talks continues this month with two 20-minute presentations.  There will be light refreshments and we encourage attendees to stay and chat with colleagues after the presentations.   & Read More...

Now that we have downloaded the Golden Snidget reference files let's take a moment to get to know the references. First, change into the refs folder. How do we do this from the ~/biostar_ Read More...

There are a number of specific solutions that have been devised to address the issues created by attempting to map mRNA to DNA genomes. Each of these has its advantages and disadvantages. Align against the Read More...

Factor in at least 3 replicates (absolute minimum), but 4 if possible (optimum minimum). Biological replicates are recommended rather than technical replicates. Always process your RNA extractions at the same time. Extractions done at different times lead Read More...

Data Analysis Here are a pair of examples of RNASEQ complete workflows RNASEQ Pipeline from NCI CCBR https://github.com/CCBR/Pipeliner/blob/master/RNASeqDocumentation.pdf RNASEQ Nextflow Pipeline from nf-core https://nf-co.re/rnaseq Read More...

Genomic variations are typically categorized into different classes and are often denoted with a shortened acronym: SNP, a single nucleotide polymorphism - A change of a single base. INDEL, an insertion or a deletion - Read More...

Let's download the Ebola genomes. mkdir -p ebola esearch -db nuccore -query PRJNA257197 | efetch -format fasta > genomes/ebola.fa and check the number of sequences with seqkit. seqkit stat genomes/ebola.fa and Read More...

Biostar Class - Sequencing Instruments Below are a list of links and resources mentioned in the BIOSTAR Sequencing Instruments class given on 06/10/20 and 06/11/20 Sequencing Technologies - Company Web Sites Illumina PacBio Oxford Nanopore 10X Genomics Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostars Handbook by Istvan Albert. Always remember to activate the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo How to align more than two sequences? Let's download the Ebola genomes. Read More...

In lesson 9, we learned that reference genomes came in the form of FASTA files, which essentially store nucleotide sequences. In this lesson, we will learn about the FASTQ file, which is the file format that Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Always remember to activate the bioinfo environment when working on Biostar class material. conda activate bioinfo Retrieving a FASTA genome from NCBI/GenBank Read More...

For RNA sequencing studies, we need to use a splice aware aligner to account for reads that map across exons. Bowtie2 is a commonly used aligner for DNA sequencing and is not splice aware. Let' Read More...

Lesson 10: Introducing the FASTQ file and assessing sequencing data quality Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Lesson 9 Review In the previous lesson, we explored the reference genomes and Read More...

The bulk RNA-Seq test data we've been working with is in FASTQ format. We'd like to do a BLAST search on a couple of these sequences. Data must be in FASTA format to Read More...

Lesson 9 Practice Objectives In this practice session, we will apply our knowledge to learn about the reference genome and annotation file for the Golden Snidget dataset visualize the Golden Snidget genome using the Integrative Genome Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Always remember to activate the bioinfo environment when working on Biostar class materials. conda activate bioinfo The bulk RNA-Seq test data we've Read More...

For RNA sequencing studies, we need to use a splice aware aligner to account for reads that map across exons. Bowtie2 is a commonly used aligner for DNA sequencing and is not splice aware. Let' Read More...

08/03/2023 - Identification of evolutionarily related DNA or protein sequences (homologs) is a crucial step in many biology workflows. For example, homologous sequences are used to infer relationships between organisms, understand how sequence changes affect observable Read More...

Can you speed up your code with parallelization? Considerations: levels of parallelization: multiprocessing vs multithreads The most common form of parallelism in R is multiprocessing. This is usually explicitly done by you or package you Read More...

Course Overview Welcome to Toward Reproducibility with R on Biowulf This course includes a series of four lessons designed for beginner to intermediate R users interested in working with R on Biowulf. The purpose of Read More...

Once we have done this, we can activate renv within our project. But, first, let's verify the location of our renv cache. R renv::paths$cache() # Check the cache location renv::init(bioconductor = "3.16& Read More...

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We are a bioinformatics team within the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology’s (CBIIT’s) Cancer Informatics Branch (CIB)—soon to be referred to as the Informatics and Data Science (IDS) Program. Headed Read More...

The introduction of DNA sequencing instruments capable of producing millions of DNA sequence reads in a single run has profoundly altered the landscape of genetics and cancer biology. Complex questions can now be answered at Read More...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More New NIH Resource Resources Derive Greater Insights and Accelerate your Research Using Bioinformatic Tools! CREx is an NIH Read More...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More New NIH Resource Resources Advance your research with the NIH Mouse Imaging Facility (MIF) The NIH Mouse Imaging Read More...

Protein Expression Laboratory The Protein Expression Laboratory develops, improves, and delivers protein-centric services. Our goal is to help client investigators achieve their research goals with the lowest possible cost in the shortest time. All PEL Read More...

October 6, 2022 crex.nih.gov CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More Site Spotlight NIH Center For Human Immunology, Inflammation, And Autoimmunity (CHI) CHI is a Read More...

CREx News & Updates April 2022 Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More Click below to learn how easy it is to navigate the CREx platform. These short videos will Read More...

What is Visium FFPE v2 with CytAssist? Visium FFPE v2 is sequencing-based spatial profiling technology developed by 10x Genomics. This assay can take mouse or human tissue sections on normal glass slides as input and Read More...

September 8, 2022 crex.nih.gov CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More Site Spotlight Trans-NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) NISC is a multi-disciplinary genomics facility that Read More...

The NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) was established by the NCI Center for Cancer Genomics (CCG) to support the receipt, harmonization, distribution, and analysis of genomic and clinical data from cancer research programs. The GDC Read More...

CLIA-Certified Technologies Offered: Fragment Analysis for Micro-satellite Instability Detection, Pharmacoscan Array for Pharmacogenomics, Mutation Detection for PCR and Sanger Sequencing, DNA extraction from whole blood, saliva, FFPE tissues, buccal swabs, nails, hair, PBMCs, buffy coats, Read More...

The research conducted within the Synthetic Biologics Core (SBC) Facility has a dual role: Generate chemical biology tools and drug candidates for molecular targets identified by NCI research groups, Develop novel effective methods and tools Read More...

Our operational objectives are to provide state-of-the-art OMICS technologies in support of the Genetics Branch (GB) investigators and collaborators. Research Services Wet Lab Single cell isolation from fresh, frozen, and FFPE tissue, DNA/RNA extractions Read More...

Back Services: Biophysics Facility offers MP as an open-access instrument.  First-time users must complete a short training session before gaining access to the instrument training calendar.  Training includes mass distribution analysis of a Read More...

Home About the Biophysics Core Biophysics Core Services [tabby title="Instrumentation"] NHLBI Biophysics Core The Biophysics Core Facility: Overview Core Facilities provide scientific resources, cutting-edge technologies and novel approaches to support DIR scientists. Availability of Read More...

The Flow Cytometry Core (LGI) offers established technologies to support studies using flow cytometry and cell sorting. Established Technologies Applications that run on FACS Caliburs include: Immunophenotyping (up to 4-color), Intracellular markers, including cytokines and Read More...

Protein Characterization Laboratory (PCL) offers various technologies to CCR investigators to characterize proteins and metabolites. The laboratory develops and applies state-of-the-art analytical technologies, primarily mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, and Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR), to advance Read More...

The Clinical Support Laboratory offers processing, tracking, and testing of a broad range of clinical samples. Support can begin at the early stages of clinical trial development to aid in developing a comprehensive strategy for Read More...

The Blood Processing Core monitors viral load in patients with HIV and performs sequential studies using samples obtained from patients with cancer, AIDS, chronic granulomatous disease, or other diseases associated with immunologic dysfunction. The core Read More...

Protein Characterization Laboratory (PCL) offers various technologies to CCR investigators to characterize proteins and metabolites. The laboratory develops and applies state-of-the-art analytical technologies, primarily mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, and Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR), to advance Read More...

The mission of Human Brain Collection Core (HBCC) within the National Institute of Mental Health, Division of Intramural Programs (NIMH IRP) is to conduct and support research on brain and behavior, with the goal of Read More...

The Division of Veterinary Resources’ (DVR) mission is to contribute to the advancement of NIH biomedical research programs by providing excellence in animal care, customer service, and specialized research services to support intramural research efforts. Read More...

The CCR-Frederick Flow Cytometry Core Facility provides research support to the Frederick-CCR community, including cytometry analysis and sorting services, instrument maintenance, new user training, and technical consultation. Typical Assays Performed by Core Instruments Immunophenotyping of Read More...

The Genomics Laboratory (formerly Laboratory of Molecular Technology) is an integrated, high-throughput molecular biology laboratory focusing on the development of genetics and genomics technologies, together with associated laboratory automation systems, data analysis, and information management Read More...

Back Services: Biophysics Facility offers fluorometers as open-access instruments.  First-time users must complete a short training session before gaining access to the instrument reservation calendar. Location: Building 50, room 3226 Description: Some substances reemit light after Read More...

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is developing a national repository of Patient-Derived Models (PDMs) comprised of patient-derived xenografts (PDXs), patient-derived organoids (PDOrg), and in vitro patient-derived tumor cell cultures (PDCs) and cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs). These Read More...

In order to meet increasing demands from both NIH intramural and extramural communities for access to a small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) resource, the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) under the leadership of Drs. Jeffrey Read More...

The Division of Veterinary Resources Animal Surgery has supported large animal research and clinical care for more than 40 years. DVR surgeons provide outstanding and highly specialized large animal (rabbits, ungulates, etc.) research support in a Read More...

The Biophysics Core’s mission is to provide support in the study of macromolecular interactions, dynamics, and stability by offering consultations, training, professional collaborations, and instrument access. General Services: Multi-technique molecular interaction studies, Kinetic and Read More...

CREx News & Updates August 2022 Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More Site Spotlight NCATS Functional Genomics Laboratory (FGL) FGL is designed to help NIH Investigators use the latest Read More...

Back Services: Biophysics Facility offers ITC calorimeters as open-access instruments.  First-time users must complete a short training session before gaining access to the instrument reservation calendar.  Training includes performing a test experiment and Read More...

Supplemental Technology Award Review System (STARS) Overview STARS Request Form STARS System The Supplemental Technology Award Review System (STARS) is a web-based interface for submission and review of S&S supplement requests by CCR Read More...

The NIH Center for Human Immunology, Inflammation, and Autoimmunity (CHI) is a trans-NIH resource whose mission is to provide a collaborative hub of advanced translational immunology for NIH clinical and pre-clinical studies. This uniquely structured Read More...

The AgingResearchBiobank was officially launched in January 2019 with a mission to provide a state-of-the-art inventory system for the storage, maintenance, and distribution of de-identified biospecimens and associated phenotypic, clinical, and imaging data from numerous NIA-funded Read More...

Back Services: Biophysics Facility offers MST as an open-access instrument.  First-time users must complete a short training session before gaining access to the instrument reservation calendar.  Training includes the KD determination of a Read More...

The Genomics and Pharmacology Facility is part of the NCI's Center for Cancer Research (CCR), within the Developmental Therapeutics Branch. Its mission is to manage and assess molecular interaction data obtained through multiple platforms, increase Read More...

The Biopharmaceutical Development Program (BDP) provides resources for the development of investigational biological agents. The BDP supports feasibility through development and Phase I/II cGMP manufacturing plus regulatory documentation.The BDP was established in 1993. We Read More...

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Listed below are the video recordings of past BTEP events (classes, seminars, workshops). Videos are hosted on various servers and may play slightly differently. Some videos may be downloaded for local viewing. Recorded Videos of Read More...

Partek Flow enables scientists to build comprehensive workflows for analyzing multi-omics high throughput sequencing data including DNA and variant calling, bulk and single cell modalities for RNA, ChIP, and ATAC, spatial transcriptomics, CITE, and immune Read More...

Objectives Review the grammar of graphics template. Learn about the statistical transformations inherent to geoms. Learn more about fine tuning figures with labels, legends, scales, and themes. Learn how to save plots with ggsave() . Review Read More...

Data visualization with ggplot2 Objectives To learn how to create publishable figures using the ggplot2 package in R. By the end of this lesson, learners should be able to create simple, pretty, and effective figures. Read More...

Lesson 3: Creating a feature table Lesson Objectives Check for primers Generate an ASV count table and representative sequence file Understand the difference between OTU picking and denoising The two primary files that will be used Read More...

Introduction to ggplot2 Objectives Learn the ggplot2 syntax. Build a ggplot2 general template. By the end of the course, students should be able to create simple, pretty, and effective figures. Data Visualization in the tidyverse Read More...

Lesson 2: Getting Started with QIIME2 Lesson Objectives Obtain sequence data and sample metadata Import data and metadata Discuss other useful QIIME2 features including view QIIME2, provenance tracking, and the QIIME2 forum. DNAnexus DNAnexus provides a Read More...

NCI scientists have many choices available to them for bioinformatic analyses of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. While some require expertise in programming, others provide a more user-friendly, point-and-click interface. These options include programs for Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Learn * What are sequence adapters? * Do we need to trim them before alignment? * How can I trim with a new adapter sequence? Be Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Learn * What are sequence adapters? * Do we need to trim them before alignment? * How can I trim with a new adapter sequence? Be Read More...

The SRA (Sequence Read Archive) at NCBI is a large, public database of DNA sequencing data. The repository holds "short reads" generated by high-throughput next-generation sequencing, usually less than 1,000 bp. We will download Read More...

RNA-SEQ Overview What is RNASEQ ? RNA-Seq (RNA sequencing), uses next-generation sequencing (NGS) to reveal the presence and quantity of RNA in a biological sample at a given moment. (Wikipedia) Strictly speaking this could be any Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Obtain RNA-seq test data. The test data consists of two commercially available RNA samples: Universal Human Reference (UHR) and Human Brain Reference (HBR) . Read More...

Alignment RNASeq Mapping Challenges The majority of mRNA derived from eukaryotes is the result of splicing together discontinuous exons, and this creates specific challenges for the alignment of RNASEQ data. Mapping Challenges Reads not perfect Read More...

Now that we have downloaded the HBR and UHR dataset and know where analysis tools are, let's start learning about RNA sequencing, by first learning about our reference genome and annotation files. Let's Read More...

Now that we have downloaded the HBR and UHR dataset and know where analysis tools are, let's start learning about RNA sequencing, by first learning about our reference genome and annotation files. Let's Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Remember to activate the bioinfo environment. conda activate bioinfo Then create a new directory for files we will be working with today in Read More...

We will build a database out of all features of the 2014 Ebola genome under accession number KM233118. This data will go into a new directory named "db_2014". mkdir -p db_2014 # Get the 2014 Ebola Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Review: * downloading data from SRA * decompressing tar files * e-utilities * fastq-dump Learn: * sra-stat * XML format * automating SRA downloads * working with comma-separated values (csv) format * Read More...

This page uses context taken directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Remember to activate the class bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo Introduction to Genomic Variation Genomic variations are typically categorized into different classes Read More...

Lesson 6: sra-tools, e-utilities, and parallel This page uses some content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Lesson 5 Review: The majority of computational tasks on Biowulf should be submitted as jobs: sbatch or swarm Read More...

Lesson 6: Downloading data from the SRA For this lesson, you will need to login to the GOLD environment on DNAnexus. Lesson 5 Review: The majority of computational tasks on Biowulf should be submitted as jobs: sbatch Read More...

Lesson 13: Aligning raw sequences to reference genome Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Lesson 11 Review In Lesson 11 we learned to aggregate multiple FASTQC reports into one using MultiQC, Read More...

Lesson 13: Aligning raw sequences to reference genome Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Lesson 11 Review In Lesson 11 we learned to aggregate multiple FASTQC reports into one using MultiQC, Read More...

Lesson 9: Reference genomes and genome annotations used in RNA sequencing Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Lesson 8 Review In Lesson 8, we learned about the basics of RNA sequencing, Read More...

Lesson 9: Reference genomes and genome annotations used in RNA sequencing Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Lesson 8 Review In Lesson 8, we learned about the basics of RNA sequencing, Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Remember to activate the bioinformatics environment and create a directory for today's work. conda activate bioinfo mkdir blast cd blast What is Read More...

Lesson 2: Getting Started with R on Biowulf Learning objectives Understand how R can be deployed on Biowulf Understand how to access and use R modules Learn to create a custom R library on Biowulf Deploying Read More...

Lesson 4: Submitting R Scripts via command line Learning Objectives Learn how to use R with less interaction Learn how to deploy sbatch R jobs, and learn about alternatives such as swarm . Learn about R job Read More...

Lesson 3: R Project Management and renv Learning objectives Discuss the importance of reproducibility Learn ways to make R analyses more reproducible Learn how to set up and organize an R project Learn how to use Read More...