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CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More New Resources on CREx Interested in imaging large scale biological samples?  Volume electron microscopy allows for 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...

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...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More NIH Cores on CREx NIBIB BEPS Micro Analytical Immunochemistry Unit The Micro Analytical Immunochemistry Unit employs a variety Read More...

CCR VOLUME Electron Microscopy Core (CVEMC),  formerly known as volume Electron Microscopy (vEM), aims to develop new techniques in volume electron microscopy (vEM) and, in collaboration with CCR Investigators, apply these techniques to research cell Read More...

The Mouse Imaging Facility (MIF) is a shared, trans-NIH intramural resource for animal imaging studies. MIF provides access to state-of-the-art radiological imaging methods optimized for mice, rats, other animals, and tissue samples. MIF provides intellectual, Read More...

Large STARS can be used to request supplemental funding exceeding $8,000 to offset experimental costs (e.g., core or vendor services or specialized reagents).  Applications require detailed scientific and budgetary justification and must be proposed in 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...

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...

CREx News & Updates September 2021 Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx) News Site Spotlight FACILITY HIGLIGHTS Learn more about services from the CCR Read More...

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...

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...

The Chemistry and Synthesis Center (CSC) of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) provides IRP scientists with targeted imaging probes and chemical tools that help accelerate cell-based assays, in vivo imaging studies, and Read More...

Once we have submitted our gene list for analysis, DAVID takes us to the Annotation Summary Results page. This page confirms the name of our gene list (hbr_uhr_deg_chr22_up) and the background Read More...

Step 1 : Login to DNAnexus Step 2 : Once you login, you should see the Projects page. If you have used DNAnexus previously, you may see more than one project listed. If this is your first time using Read More...

The Integrative Genome Viewer (IGV) is an open-source genome browser created and maintained by the Broad Institute. We will be using this to visualize genomic data. To obtain IGV, please submit a ticket through service. Read More...

Instructions for installing IGV The Integrative Genome Viewer (IGV) is an open-source genome browser created and maintained by the Broad Institute. We will be using this to visualize genomic data. To obtain IGV, please submit Read More...

Step 1 : Login to DNAnexus Step 2 : Once you login, you should see the Projects page. If you have used DNAnexus previously, you may see more than one project listed. If this is your first time using Read More...

11/13/2024 - This webinar will provide an overview of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) services across three major cloud service providers (CSPs) and the steps to follow for setting up AI chatbots in cloud environments with Read More...

10/16/2024 - The CRDC will celebrate its 10th anniversary with this one-and-a-half-day event highlighting its accomplishments and looking ahead to exciting initiatives. We are planning many informative sessions and report-outs on new work, including our AI Read More...

As mentioned previously, QIIME 2 is installed on Biowulf. To see available versions use module avail qiime Also, check out the QIIME2 Biowulf help page . The default version on Biowulf is qiime2-2021.4, and the latest Read More...

There are also versions of qiime2 available as modules on Biowulf, NIH’s high performance computing system. To see available versions use module avail qiime The default version on Biowulf is qiime2-2021.4, and the Read More...

This page uses some content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert.

All Unix commands have a man or "manual" page that describes how to use them. If you need help remembering how to use the command ls , you would type: man ls There are Read More...

If you have not already created a free DNAnexus account, please do so here . Once you have obtained your free account, you will need to email us your username at ncibtep@nih.gov to obtain Read More...

If you have not already created a free DNAnexus account, please do so here . Once you have obtained your free account, you will need to email us your username at ncibtep@nih.gov to obtain Read More...

The URL for the Biostar handbook is https://www.biostarhandbook.com . Once you sign into this handbook, you will find that it is composed of several different books including one for RNA sequencing. Scroll to Read More...

on the front page is the NIH Bioinformatics Calendar (search by topic, or organizer, info on current, future and past events) Licenses are available to online learning platforms (Dataquest and Coursera), where you can learn Read More...

12/13/2024 - The National Cancer Institute has been working with central cancer registries, medical and pharmacy claims processors, and healthcare providers like children's hospitals, NCI-supported Cancer Centers, and radiation oncology providers through the National Childhood 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...

09/10/2024 - This introductory course teaches the basics of deep learning and of different types of deep learning networks through a set of hands-on biological examples implemented in Keras, one example per class. This class will Read More...

05/10/2024 - Please join us for the May Data Sharing and Reuse Seminar featuring Dr. Ali Loveys and Fiona Meng from FI Consulting. They will be sharing their presentation on Laying the Foundation for AI-Ready Data. Read More...

03/06/2024 - The NCI Cancer Diagnosis Program in the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis is hosting a workshop, “Digital Pathology Imaging (DPI) in Cancer Clinical Trials and Research.” This workshop will 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...

To access the NIH Partek Flow server, go to https://partekflow.cit.nih.gov/flow and enter the user's NIH username and then password. Note User may have selected a password different than that Read More...

The NCI CCR Sequencing Facility will send researchers a link to the data, which is stored in their Data Management Environment (DME). Again, instructions for connecting DME to a Globus endpoint on Biowulf are in 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...

Accessing Partek Flow at NIH and tips for data transfer Learning objectives Instructions for accessing Partek Flow NCI researchers can find instructions for accessing Partek Flow at https://bioinformatics.ccr.cancer.gov/btep/partek-flow-bulk-and-single-cell-rna-seq-data-analysis/ . But Read More...

There are a number of Bioconductor events/conferences throughout the year including the annual BioC conference in North America and similar regional conferences throughout the world (e.g., BioC Asia, BioC Europe). Upcoming events (e. Read More...

ggplot2 will automatically assign colors to the categories in our data. Colors are assigned to the fill and color aesthetics in aes() . We can change the default colors by providing an additional layer to our Read More...

If you wish to use R on Biowulf, you can view modules available using module -r avail '^R$' . Loading the module requires an interactive session, sinteractive (unless submitting a job). Example of module load module Read More...

ggplot2 will automatically assign colors to the categories in our data. Colors are assigned to the fill and color aesthetics in aes() . We can change the default colors by providing an additional layer to our Read More...

09/21/2023 - Picture this… You have large amounts of siloed medical imaging data, but you don’t have the time or budget to manually prepare the images and datasets for annotation and analysis. Don’t you Read More...

Chart Report is an annotation term focused view which lists annotation terms and their associated genes under study. -- DAVID help documents Clicking on the Functional Annotation Chart button, we are taken to the page Read More...

This page uses information directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert (PSU). Activate the bioinformatics environment and install some software as directed. conda activate bioinfo conda update -y blast conda install -y cd-hit pip Read More...

We are going to download some bulk RNA-Seq test data and learn how to decompress it. First we will create a place to store the data. Go to the directory you've created for working Read More...

Plots condense complex and busy tabular data into a form that is easier to interpret. An expression heatmap is a common visualization used in RNA sequencing analysis. A heatmap shows numerical data on a color Read More...

Each of you will need to create an account on DNAnexus, which hosts the GOLD online learning platform. This login and password is different from the login/password you will use for the GOLD system. Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Learn: FASTQC for assaying quality of sequence reads MultiQC for combining multiple FASTQC reports into one report Trimmomatic for removing sequence data based Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Learn: FASTQC for assaying quality of sequence reads MultiQC for combining multiple FASTQC reports into one report Trimmomatic for removing sequence data based Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Start by activating the bioinfo environment. conda activate bioinfo Create a new directory for the multiqc data. mkdir multi cd multi Retrieve the Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Start by activating the bioinfo environment. conda activate bioinfo Create a new directory for the multiqc data. mkdir multi cd multi Retrieve the 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...

Let's download the data and learn how to decompress it. First, we will create a place to store the data. Go to the directory you created for working with class material. If you haven' Read More...

This page contains content taken directly from the Biostars Handbook by Istvan Albert. Remember to activate the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo Install the statistical packages we will need for the analysis, curl http://data. Read More...

Syllabus for “Bioinformatics for Beginners" Instructors: Co-Instructors: To participate in these courses, you need a computer, reliable internet connection and a web browser. All classes and help sessions will be held online. This class Read More...

Tasks to do at the Analysis Wizard : provide our input gene list (either copy paste or upload as a text file) specify gene identifier type (gene identifiers could be gene symbol, Ensembl IDs, Entrez IDs, Read More...

Objectives To explore Bioconductor, a repository for R packages related to biological data analysis. To learn about options for report generation with R: RMarkdown and Quarto. Introducing Bioconductor Bioconductor is both an open source project 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 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...

Lesson 7: Course Wrap-Up Learning Objectives Introduce the QIIME2 microbiome workflow for Biowulf Review key concepts Showcase additional plugins QIIME 2 on Biowulf As mentioned previously, QIIME 2 is installed on Biowulf. To see available versions use module Read More...

Objectives Review important data wrangling functions Put our wrangling skills to use on a realistic RNA-Seq data set Data Wrangling Review Important functions by topic Importing / Exporting Data Importing and exporting data into the R 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...

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 contains content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Always remember to activate your bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo What is a sequence pattern? A sequence pattern is a sequence of bases Read More...

To align FASTQ files for one sample, we construct the HISAT2 command with the following options. The "-x" flag prompts us to enter the base name (ie. without extension) of genome index. The Read More...

Lesson 1: Introduction to Unix and the Shell Lesson Objectives Course overview. Introduce Unix and describe how it differs from other operating systems. Introduce and get set up on DNAnexus and the GOLD system. Discuss ways 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...

Functional annotation clustering works to cluster annotations that share similar genes. If we click on Functional Annotation Clustering in the Annotation Summary Results page then we can see the functional annotation clusters that our input Read More...

This page uses material directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Always remember to activate the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo To align sequences to a genome, we need (1) genome sequence and the (2) sequence Read More...

Lesson 12: RNA sequencing review 1 Learning objectives Here, we will do a quick review of what we have learned about RNA sequencing in Lessons 8 through 11. Accessing the Biostar handbook The URL for the Biostar handbook is Read More...

Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) - an overview Lesson 17 review In the previous class, we got an overview of functional and pathway analysis, which help to put RNA sequencing results into biological Read More...

First Unix command (ls) ls You may see something like this: public reads.tar sample.fasta sample.fastq The "ls" command "lists" the contents of the directory you are in. You Read More...

First Unix command (ls) ls You may see something like this: public reads.tar sample.fasta sample.fastq The "ls" command "lists" the contents of the directory you are in. You 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...

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...

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...

First Unix command (ls) ls You may see something like this: public reads.tar sample.fasta sample.fastq The "ls" command "lists" the contents of the directory you are in. You Read More...

First Unix command (ls) ls You may see something like this: public reads.tar sample.fasta sample.fastq The "ls" command "lists" the contents of the directory you are in. You Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Always remember to start the bioinformatics environment when working on Biostar class material. conda activate bioinfo Let's start by creating a directory 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...

This page contains content taken directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Activate the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo First let's make a place to store today's work. In your biostar_class Read More...

This page contains content taken directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Always remember to start the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo We will be analyzing differential expression of genes on Chr22 from the Read More...

This page contains content taken directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Always remember to start the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo We will be analyzing differential expression of genes on Chr22 from the Read More...

Why Learn Bioinformatics? Analyze your own data Expand scientific training and skills Provide a path to a new career Have a better understanding of how other people analyze data What is Unix? an operating system, Read More...

Why Learn Bioinformatics? Analyze your own data Expand scientific training and skills Provide a path to a new career Have a better understanding of how other people analyze data What is Unix? an operating system, Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Remember to activate the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo The jellyfish program is dependent on a program called "gcc" which is Read More...

Why Learn Bioinformatics? Analyze your own data Expand scientific training and skills Provide a path to a new career Have a better understanding of how other people analyze data What is Unix? an operating system, Read More...

Why Learn Bioinformatics? Analyze your own data Expand scientific training and skills Provide a path to a new career Have a better understanding of how other people analyze data What is Unix? an operating system, Read More...

“Gene set enrichment analysis” refers to the process of discovering the common characteristics potentially present in a list of genes. When these characteristics are GO terms, the process is called “functional enrichment.” Warning Overall GO Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Review: * cd * mkdir * curl * tar * cat * grep * wc * outputting data * piping data from one command to another * cut Learn: * du * pip * csvkit * datamash Read More...

Lesson 7: Downloading the RNA-Seq Data and Dataset Overview Lesson Review pwd (print working directory) ls (list) touch (creates an empty file) nano (basic editor for creating small text files) using the rm command to remove Read More...

Lesson 2: Navigating file systems with Unix Quick review Unix is an operating system We use a unix shell (typically bash) to run many bioinformatics programs We need to learn unix to use non-GUI based tools Read More...

This page contains content directly from The Biostar Handbook . Always remember to start the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo Pseudoalignment-based methods identify locations in the genome using patterns rather than via alignment type algorithms. It Read More...

This page contains content directly from The Biostar Handbook . Always remember to start the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo Pseudoalignment-based methods identify locations in the genome using patterns rather than via alignment type algorithms. It Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Learn: using trimmomatic to remove low-quality bases from a sequence Always remember to activate the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo We will be Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Learn: using trimmomatic to remove low-quality bases from a sequence Always remember to activate the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo We will be Read More...

Retrieve R "helper" scripts developed for Biostars environment. curl -O http://data.biostarhandbook.com/rnaseq/code/deseq1.r curl -O http://data.biostarhandbook.com/rnaseq/code/deseq2.r curl -O http://data.biostarhandbook. Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostars Handbook by Istvan Albert (https://www.biostarhandbook.com). Always remember to load the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo SAM files SAM format is TAB-delimited, line-oriented, human-readable text Read More...

This page uses content directly from the Biostars Handbook by Istvan Albert (https://www.biostarhandbook.com). Always remember to load the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo SAM files SAM format is TAB-delimited, line-oriented, human-readable text Read More...

We previously stored FASTQC results for the HBR and UHR raw sequencing data in the ~/biostar_class/hbr_uhr/QC directory (recall that ~ denotes home directory). So before getting started, change into this folder. cd ~/ 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...

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...

Lesson 1: Introduction to Unix and the Shell Lesson Objectives Review the course syllabus and general structure of lessons to come. Introduce Unix and describe how it differs from other operating systems. Introduce and get set 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...

Lesson 15: Finding differentially expressed genes Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Lesson 14 review In the previous lesson, we learned to visualize RNA sequencing alignment results in the Integrative 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 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...

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...

This page uses content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Learning objectives: 1. Understand what a sequence alignment is and how different algorithms can effect alignments. 2. Learn how scoring matrices and gap penalties (gap 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...