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The Biomedical Engineering and Physical Science (BEPS) shared resource supports NIH’s intramural basic and clinical scientists on applications of engineering, physics, imaging, measurement, and analysis. BEPS is centrally located on the main NIH campus Read More...

The Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR)'s  mission is to support the genetics community by providing high-quality, cutting-edge genomics services and technologies in order to expand our understanding of disease and catalyze discoveries that 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...

September 8, 2022 crex.nih.gov CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More Science & Technology Seminars and Training Events Upcoming Seminars and Educational Opportunities The following 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...

The NIH Biowulf Cluster provides researchers with a world-class system to assist in solving complex biomedical problems as diverse as gene variation in worldwide human populations, deep learning to model protein structures, and PET brain Read More...

The Pathology Service, Division of Veterinary Resources (DVR), Office of Research Services (ORS), provides diagnostic gross and histopathologic evaluation of any species of laboratory animals used in the NIH Intramural Research Program due to morbidity, Read More...

The NIH Library is a biomedical research library, whose collection and services are available at no cost to NIH staff: Electronic Resources: Over 20,000 electronic journals, 190,000 eBooks, and 50 databases. , Training classes covering topics such as data 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...

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...

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The Laboratory Animal Sciences Program (LASP) of the Frederick National Laboratory operates a Gnotobiotics Facility (GF) to support research focused on the role of microbiota in cancer inflammation, pathogenesis, and treatment response. The GF can 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 News & Updates November 2021 Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More Site Spotlight FACILITY HIGLIGHTS Learn more about services from the NINDS Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Core. NINDS 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...

Back Services: Biophysics Facility offers DLS as an open-access instrument. First-time users must complete a short training session before gaining access to the instrument reservation calendar. Training includes DLS analysis of small- and large-molecular size Read More...

The Clinical Image Processing Service (CIPS) offers timely and accurate advanced image processing of diagnostic radiology images for clinical care, research, and training. CIPS’ functions include clinical services and scientific researches. Established Technologies CIPS can 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...

The OSTR offers cutting-edge technology platforms to the CCR scientific community through centralized facilities. The videos accessed through this page are designed to introduce the various scientific methodologies OSTR makes available through the cores on Read More...

10/09/2025 - This one-hour online training introduces attendees to modeling and simulation of biological systems using MATLAB’s SimBiology and BioPipeline Designer toolboxes. SimBiology is a versatile toolbox for modeling, simulating, and analyzing dynamic Read More...

06/06/2024 - This webinar introduces SimBiology as a modeling environment for mechanistic pharmacokinetic (PK), pharmacodynamic (PD), and quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) modeling and simulation. Participants will learn how to use the SimBiology Model Builder app to Read More...

08/13/2024 - This session will cover the basics of linear mixed-effects modeling as a method of regression analysis for clustered data. Special emphasis will be on the ideas behind random-intercepts and random-slopes modeling, and the discussion Read More...

06/13/2024 - The schedule for this week consists of one presentation: Lorenz Adlung, UMC Hamburg-Eppendorf, will discuss: scMod: Marrying machine learning and deterministic modelling of longitudinal single-cell data Single-cell-based methods such as flow cytometry or single-cell 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...

03/20/2025 - Please note: Registration is required to get the Meeting Link for this event. Please pre-register. BTEP and the Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Interest Group jointly present: Quantifying spatiotemporal dynamics during embryogenesis is crucial Read More...

12/04/2024 - Galaxy is a web-based computational workbench for analyzing and visualizing biomedical datasets that is used by thousands of scientists daily.   Galaxy enables accessible, reproducible, and scalable biomedical data science by any scientist Read More...

10/23/2024 - CellMinerCDB is an interactive public web application ( https://discover.nci.nih.gov/cellminercdb/ ) that simplifies access and exploration of cancer cell line pharmacogenomic data across different sources such as the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Read More...

10/16/2024 - Dear Colleagues,   Thanks to advances in single-cell genomics, researchers can construct large-scale organ atlases, giving you more accurate ways to study genetic mutations and alterations related to drug responses and disease. These Read More...

02/27/2024 - This session will cover what are containers, and why and how to use them in your Bioinformatics workflows. We will review best practices, basic commands, and useful resources. This session is geared towards beginners.& Read More...

03/11/2025 - Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning technique that groups together similar objects (samples, individuals, etc.). Determining the similarity between objects requires a distance metric. This talk provides a brief overview of distance metrics, hierarchical ( Read More...

07/19/2024 - The molecular mechanisms underlying many types of cancer involve aberrances in trans-acting factors and their binding to cis-regulatory elements to regulate gene expression. Techniques such as ChIP-seq, DNase-seq, and ATAC-seq are commonly used to Read More...

12/11/2025 - This talk will focus on analyses of the Patient Outcomes Repository for Treatment (PORT) which is a large registry of chronic pain treatment outcomes from patients seen in the pain clinics at the University Read More...

11/14/2012 -   This is a repeat class for those who couldn't make it into the class on October 9th   Learn the basics of microarray gene expression analysis using Partek Genomics Suite and Partek Pathway. As Read More...

10/09/2012 - Learn the basics of microarray gene expression analysis using Partek Genomics Suite and Partek Pathway. As we walk though hands-on analysis of a cancer dataset, you will learn the principles of experimental design, batch Read More...

Qlucore Omics Explorer (Qlucore) is a graphical user interface (GUI) based package used to generate visualizations, elucidate biological function, and classify samples as well as cells for omics data. {{Sdet}}{{Ssum}}Listing of Analysis Functions{{ Read More...

03/19/2026 - In this talk, Dr. Carey will describe how Bioconductor approaches new challenges in supporting open method development and reproducible analyses in genomic data science. He will discuss aspects of the project that bear on Read More...

07/09/2025 - From image analy i to federated learning and multimodal modeling, generative AI can be u ed to tudy ob ervational ucce ion acro cale and data type . At DCEG' Data cience and Engineering Re Read More...

R is a particularly great resource for statistical analyses, plotting, and report generating. The fact that it is widely used means that users do not need to reinvent the wheel. There is a package available Read More...

02/19/2015 - This 2-day course, which includes both lecture and hands-on components, will teach the basic concepts and practical aspects of RNA-Seq Data Analysis. Learn everything from experimental design to statistical analysis. This workshop will include Read More...

02/19/2026 - Dr. John Quackenbush, a Harvard professor and NCI grantee, will describe the conceptual framework for these network tools, demonstrate some practical applications, and explain how they can help you tackle complex biological questions about Read More...

09/17/2025 - This hour and a half online training covers how to analyze and model data using interactive tools in MATLAB. Through live demonstrations and examples, attendees will learn to solve many steps in a data Read More...

09/15/2025 - Since 2016, NCI and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have engaged in a strategic, interagency collaboration to simultaneously accelerate advances in precision oncology and scientific computing, including the use of artificial intelligence. The Read More...

07/23/2025 - The QIIME platform, including QIIME 1 and QIIME 2, has been extensively applied in microbiome research, repeatedly making analyses that were once challenging or impossible into routine tasks. While QIIME began as a marker gene (e. Read More...

04/10/2025 - TumorDecon is a computational tool at an early stage of contributing to the intersection of bioinformatics and oncology. The goal of TumorDecon is to estimate the percentages of various immune cells from gene expression Read More...

03/19/2025 - This one hour and a half online training provides an accessible introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) using MATLAB. Designed for beginners, the session covers fundamental concepts in AI and machine learning, introduces intuitive tools Read More...

03/12/2025 - Clustering is one of the fundamental unsupervised machine learning algorithms. It is often used to group quantitative proteomic or RNAseq expression data to suggest sub-types of a particular cancer. This presentation covers building a Read More...

11/26/2024 - This talk will introduce quantum chemistry and how it is useful for the modeling of therapeutic and diagnostic agents. This session is geared towards beginners. This session will be recorded, and materials will be Read More...

10/08/2024 - We will cover recently developed statistical approaches to the classification of BRCA2 variants using the functional-assay data generated by our NCI collaborators (Dr. Sharan’s lab). Our main objective is to illustrate how statistical Read More...

09/19/2024 - This hour and-half online training discusses how MATLAB enhances data analysis and visualization for technical professionals who typically use Excel. It highlights MATLAB's advantages, such as access to pre-built mathematical and analysis functions, 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...

08/08/2024 - What are common statistical analyses for binary data? What is the distribution of your binary dependent variable? What is the difference from normally distributed data? How do you model the binary outcome with multiple Read More...

07/09/2024 - In this BTEP training session, participants will learn about the R and Python programming languages including how each is used in bioinformatics research. The advantages of each language will be discussed as well as Read More...

06/27/2024 - During this presentation, you will learn about the GenePattern ecosystem, an environment for accessible, reproducible research that has been serving the needs of the cancer genomics community since 2004. GenePattern hosts hundreds of genomics analysis Read More...

06/20/2024 - What are common statistical analyses for continuous data? Can you check whether your continuous outcome is normally distributed? What are the methods when the data are not normal? How do you model the outcome Read More...

R is both a computational language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is open-source and widely used by scientists, not just bioinformaticians. Base packages of R are built into your initial installation, but Read More...

03/20/2024 - Our series of talks continues with two 20-minute presentations.  There will be light refreshments (coffee and donuts) provided, so please consider attending in person! We encourage attendees to stay and chat with Read More...

After this class, participants will Become familiar analyzing single cell RNA sequencing data using Partek Flow including Importing of data into a Partek Flow project QA/QC, filtering, and normalizing of single cell RNA data Read More...

In genomics, we work with a lot of tabular data - data organized in rows and columns. The data structure that stores this type of data is a data frame . Data frames are collections of Read More...

10/03/2016 - The maximum number of registrations (25) allowed has been reached for this workshop. You will be put on the waitlist and informed if any cancellations do occur. You are welcome to come on the morning Read More...

09/22/2015 - Learn the basics of microarray gene expression analysis using Partek Genomics Suite and Open Source Tools. As we walk though hands-on analysis of a cancer dataset, you will learn the principles of experimental design, Read More...

02/12/2026 - Knowledge of Unix command line is advantageous for scientists who are new to bioinformatics, as many tools are designed to run on Unix-like systems. High performance computing systems (e.g., NIH Biowulf) also require Read More...

02/12/2026 - Knowledge of Unix command line is advantageous for scientists who are new to bioinformatics, as many tools are designed to run on Unix-like systems. High performance computing systems (e.g., NIH Biowulf) also require Read More...

01/13/2026 - The past decade has witnessed thriving cell atlas research activities in elucidating human cell types and their organization principles. The NIH BRAIN Initiative launched a pilot 3-year BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Consortium (BICCC) in 2014, Read More...

12/02/2025 - If you are looking for computational tools for your cancer research, join us for this upcoming training session on Galaxy, an open-source and browser-based computational platform. Dr. Jeremy Goecks, an NCI grantee and Assistant Read More...

08/21/2025 - This class provides an overview of the R and Python programming languages, and how each is used in bioinformatics research. Participants will learn the advantages of each language and how to choose which is Read More...

06/26/2025 - Join u for a webinar introducing MIRA, a Python oftware package de igned for the analy i of ingle-cell RNA- eq, ATAC- eq, and multimodal data. Di cover how MIRA help decode the ci Read More...

06/03/2025 - Class Description Introduction to RNA-Seq data analysis Step-by-step live demonstration of RNA-Seq analysis using the Galaxy platform   What You’ll Learn: How to independently carry out the basic gene expression Read More...

This archive contains past and present issues of the  BTEP BioInformatics Bulletin. The BTEP Bioinformatics Bulletin features select upcoming bioinformatics events offered across NIH and is distributed monthly via email to the Center 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...

02/25/2025 - Quality assessment may reveal low quality sequences and/or contaminations such as adapters in NGS data. Therefore, it is important to perform cleanup to ensure that the input for downstream analyses tools is of Read More...

01/22/2025 - This three hour online training covers QIAGEN’s CLC Genomics Workbench enables researchers to analyze NGS data without the use of command line and is a powerful tool for determining differential expression. Read More...

01/14/2025 - This one-hour online training will cover a basic overview of the functionality of R programming language and RStudio. R is a programming language and open-source environment for statistical computing and graphics. & Read More...

01/10/2025 - NIH DIRECTORS SEMINAR SERIES In this presentation, Dr. Scholz will discuss the approach to tackling complex neurodegenerative diseases using modern genomic tools, focusing on Lewy body dementia, a major research area in her lab. Read More...

12/17/2024 - In this one-hour session we will describe resources available to NIH researchers for performing bioinformatics data analysis. These include trainings by specific groups or institutes (NCI, NIH Library, ODSS), licenses available for online learning ( Read More...

12/12/2024 - Knowledge of Unix command line is advantageous for scientists who are new to bioinformatics, as many tools are designed to run on Unix-like systems. High performance computing systems (e.g., NIH Biowulf) also require Read More...

11/04/2024 - This one-hour interactive training will cover how to use the ScHARe cloud and Terra platform focusing on how to utilize over 260 social determinants of health (SDoH) data sets and analytic notebooks containing ready-to-use code. Read More...

11/01/2024 - A hands-on workshop for analyzing metagenomes in the open-source microbiome application Nephele. Participants will first learn how to navigate Nephele and process their reads to trim and filter for quality. They will then learn Read More...

10/09/2024 - This session will give an overview of the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons and the variety of available cancer data such as RNA expression and protein abundance. These data are hosted in openly accessible Read More...

09/13/2024 - This course provides an introduction to data analysis using R, focusing on conducting various statistical tests and generating commonly used statistical regression models. Participants will learn how to perform hypothesis testing, calculate descriptive statistics, Read More...

09/12/2024 - Telomere to telomere (T2T) genome assemblies represent a paradigm shift in comparative genomics, offering insights into chromosome structure, evolution, and function at the highest resolution. Dr. O'Neill's lab has made recent Read More...

09/12/2024 - This one-hour online training will cover a basic overview of the functionality of R programming language and RStudio. R is a programming language and open-source environment for statistical computing and graphics. & Read More...

07/25/2024 - Join us for an informative webinar on the GARDE software where Dr. Del Fiol will describe how GARDE works, how GARDE has been implemented to support population-based genetic testing, the GARDE chatbot, and results Read More...

07/24/2024 - Knowledge of Unix command line is advantageous for scientists who are new to bioinformatics, as many tools are designed to run on Unix-like systems. High performance computing systems (e.g., NIH Biowulf) also require 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...

Following normalization, the next step is to find variable features. In most scRNA-seq experiments only a small proportion of the genes will be informative and biologically variable. A subset of cells with high cell to Read More...

The goal of quality control is to keep only high quality cells (i.e., remove low quality cells (dead or dying cells), cell-free RNA, or doublets). Low quality cells will impact downstream analyses. Take care Read More...

The total number of detected transcripts expressed in a cell is dependent on the amount of mRNA in a cell. Cells naturally vary in the total amount of mRNA expressed. However, the chemistry of the Read More...

The role of cell clustering is to identify cells with similar transcriptomic profiles by computing Euclidean distances across genes . However, scRNA-Seq experiments include highly dimensional data, with each cell associated with the expression of thousands Read More...

05/15/2024 - In this one-hour webinar, you'll get a demonstration of DNASTAR Lasergene Software. DNASTAR offers software solutions for molecular biology, protein analysis, and genomics. This presentation will focus on an overview of the applications Read More...

05/09/2024 - This is the first class in the NIH Library Introduction to R Series. This class provides a basic overview of the functionality of R programming language and RStudio. R is Read More...

04/26/2024 - Dear Colleagues,    In this webinar, you'll get an introduction to WebMeV. WebMeV aims to democratize bioinformatics analysis for biological sciences researchers.   The maturation of many bioinformatics processes Read More...

04/12/2024 - This session will outline the All of Us Researcher Workbench registration process for NIH researchers. Access to the Researcher Workbench is free, and all registered researchers are provided $300 initial computational credits. Some analyses in Read More...

The Advanced Biomedical Computational Science (ABCS) group focuses on applications of bioinformatics, computational and data science, and artificial intelligence to support NCI researchers. ABCS provides: • Subject matter expertise in genomics, proteomics, and imaging. • Machine learning/ 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...

Course Overview Partek Flow is a start-to-finish solution for analyzing high dimensional multi-omics sequencing data. It is a point-and-click software and is suitable for those who wish to avoid the steep learning curve associated with Read More...

Log into Partek Flow at https://partekflow.cit.nih.gov/flow . This example will use the nci_ccr_sf_example_scrna project, so click on it. Click on "Add data". Select Single cell, Read More...

02/21/2024 - https://cap-lab.bio (link is external) https:// (link is external) qiime2.org (link is external) The QIIME platform, including QIIME 1 and QIIME 2 ( https://qiime2.org (link is external) ), has been extensively applied in microbiome Read More...

R is a particularly great resource for statistical analyses, plotting, and report generating. wide use = functions and packages covering a broad range of topics. CRAN has 20,000 + packages Bioconductor (v 3.18) includes 2,266 software packages, 429 experiment data packages, 920 Read More...

Quarto helps you tell others exactly what you did and how you derived your conclusions - code, results, and conclusions wrapped up in a single document. Advantages of Quarto compared with other publishing systems: Can Read More...

Let's look a bit into our RStudio layout. Source : This pane is where you will write/view R scripts. Some outputs (such as if you view a dataset using View() ) will appear as a Read More...

Gene ontology and pathway analysis Objectives Determine potential next steps following differential expression analysis. Tour geneontology.org and understand the three main ontologies. Learn about different methods and tools related to functional enrichment and pathway Read More...

Most BTEP courses include detailed course materials including lesson content, additional resources, and lesson associated data. These course materials are listed here so that learners can easily return to and review concepts taught in class Read More...

nf-core is a community effort to generate a curated set of standardized, best-practice, reproducible, documented, NGS analysis pipelines. All these workflows are built using the versatile workflow manager, Nextflow , and have been released under the Read More...

General questions or comments about the BTEP program or classes should be addressed to: NCIBTEP@nih.gov Amy Stonelake, Ph.D . BTEP Program Manager and Bioinformatics Analyst amy.stonelake@nih.gov I am an experienced Read More...

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...

What is bioinformatics? Bioinformatics integrates biology, statistics, and computer science to develop and apply theory, methods, and tools for the collection, storage, and analysis of biological and related data. Bioinformatics plays a critical role in 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...

Cancer research is a complex and data-intensive field. Cloud computing offers a powerful solution for researchers to store, analyze, and share large datasets efficiently. In this month’s topic spotlight, we will explore cloud resources Read More...

Congratulations, your experiments have been completed and you have a large amount of data. Now, it’s time to analyze these data. But where do you begin? How can you gain the most meaning from Read More...

Following Cell Ranger and/or other pre-processing tools, you will have a gene-by-cell counts table for each sample. The three most popular frameworks for analyzing these count matrices include: R ( Seurat ). Seurat, brought to you Read More...

The Seurat Object is a data container for single cell RNA-Seq and related data. It is an S4 object, which is a type of data structure that stores complex information (e.g., scRNA-Seq count matrix, Read More...

This lesson provides an introduction to R in the context of single cell RNA-Seq analysis with Seurat. Learning Objectives Learn about options for analyzing your scRNA-Seq data. Learn about resources for learning R programming. Learn Read More...

Learning Objectives This tutorial was designed to demonstrate common secondary analysis steps in a scRNA-Seq workflow. We will start with a merged Seurat Object with multiple data layers representing multiple samples. Throughout this tutorial we Read More...

Accessing Partek Flow at NIH and tips for data transfer Learning objectives After consulting this guide, participants will Know how to access Partek Flow at NIH. Be able to transfer data from NCI CCR Sequencing Read More...

Welcome! Welcome to the R Introductory Series! Who: Novices and beginners\ What: A course series introducing R and RStudio. This course will introduce the foundational skills necessary to begin to analyze and visualize data in Read More...

Learning Objectives To understand: 1. the difference between R and RStudioIDE. 2. how to work within the RStudio environment including: creating an Rproject and Rscript navigating between directories using functions obtaining help how R can enhance data Read More...

Learning Objectives Learn about data structures including factors, lists, data frames, and matrices. Load, explore, and access data in a tabular format (data frames) Learn to write out (export) data from the R environment Data Read More...