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05/17/2022 - Metabolomic and multi-omic data are increasingly being collected in basic, preclinical, and clinical research studies. Interpretation of these data though remains challenging.  Common challenges include the difficulty in identifying metabolites and assigning unique identifiers, Read More...

NCBI BioProject : PRJN#### (example: PRJNA257197 ) contains the overall description of a single research initiative; a project will typically relate to multiple samples and datasets. NCBI BioSample : SAMN#### or SRS#### (example: SAMN03254300) describe biological source material; Read More...

NCBI BioProject : PRJN#### (example: PRJNA257197 ) contains the overall description of a single research initiative; a project will typically relate to multiple samples and datasets. NCBI BioSample : SAMN#### or SRS#### (example: SAMN03254300) describe biological source material; Read More...

The Biophysics Resource (BR) was established in January 2001. Our mission is to provide CCR investigators with access to both the latest instrumentation and expertise in characterizing the biophysical aspects of systems under structural investigation. The Read More...

The Mass Spectrometry Unit of the Collaborative Protein Technology Resource uses mass spectrometry for the study of proteins. We perform collaborative experiments with CCR researchers in areas such as: interactomes, quantitative global proteome analyses, and Read More...

The CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource (CCBR) is a centrally funded resource group which provides a mechanism for CCR researchers to obtain many different types of bioinformatics assistance to further their research goals. The group has Read More...

The facilities at AIM are available for use by the entire NIH intramural research community. While we welcome users with any size imaging project, AIM specializes in large, yearlong (or longer), collaborative research efforts with Read More...

The Spatial Imaging Technology Resource (formerly the Nanoscale Protein Analysis Section of the Collaborative Protein Technology Resource or CPTR) provides expertise and service in state-of-the-art protein analysis technologies to advance CCR research in basic discovery Read More...

Bioinformatics support to CCR investigators is provided by: CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource (CCBR) The CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource (CCBR) is a resource group which provides a mechanism for CCR researchers to obtain many different types Read More...

The Mid-Atlantic CHTN is one of six participating divisions of the Cooperative Human Tissue Network (CHTN) and is based in the Pathology Department at the University of Virginia. While primarily a resource for cancer researchers, Read More...

11/12/2024 - NCI staff are welcome to register for an upcoming Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) webinar: "Live Demo: National Childhood Cancer Registry (NCCR) Data Platform." Join the NCCR Technical Lead Johanna Goderre, M. Read More...

Both a computational language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Open-source and widely used by scientists, not just bioinformaticians. Extensible. Maintained by a network of collaborators - The R Core Team A resource for 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...

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Lastly, the QIIME2 forum is a fantastic resource to get help with qiime2 plugins or questions related to your workflow or research design. There is also a "best-of-the-forum" tag, which is worth a Read More...

As a reminder, when you registered for the course, you also gained a 6 month subscription to the Biostar Handbook Collection . This is a fantastic resource covering a range of bioinformatics topics, not just RNA-Seq. At Read More...

There are many databases devoted to relating genes and gene products to pathways, processes, and other phenomenon. Again, the following is not meant to be a comprehensive list. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) Read More...

The documentation you are currently reading will be accessible in the future from the BTEP website . For this course, there are additional resources worthy of note under the Additional Resource tab, including Further Readings and Read More...

sbatch is used to submit batch jobs, which are resource provisions that run applications on compute nodes and do not require supervision or interaction . To submit a batch job, a job script containing a list Read More...

R is both a computational language and environment for statitical computing and graphics. It is open-source and widely used, not just by bioinformaticians. R is a particularly great resource for statistical analysis, plotting, and report 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 News & Updates February 2022 Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More Site Spotlight ORS Division of Veterinary Resources (DVR) DVR is the central NIH lab animal support program Read More...

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NIH Intramural CryoEM Consortium (NICE) serves intramural investigators in all NIH IC’s. NICE provides access to state-of-the-art Titan Krios cryo-electron microscopes for atomic-resolution structure determination of protein, macromolecular complexes, membrane receptors, cellular organelles, and Read More...

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 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...

07/15/2025 - Single-cell technologies enable the discovery of many novel cell phenotypes, but this growing body of knowledge remains fragmented across the scientific literature. Natural language processing (NLP) offers a promising approach to extract this information Read More...

BTEP strives to maintain links to resources that should be of interest to CCR Bioinformatics Community.  Some of the resources to will be accessible through more than one of these lists, but since the lists Read More...

01/07/2025 - You’re invited to the ChIRP Launch Event! On January 7, 2025, the Office of Intramural Research (OIR) and the Clinical Research Informatics Strategic Planning Initiative (CRISPI) are hosting the virtual Launch Event for 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...

10/22/2024 - Generalist repositories offer NIH researchers a flexible, trusted resource to share data for which there is no appropriate discipline specific repository as well as to share many other research outputs valuable for reproducibility and Read More...

10/08/2024 - Mass spectrometry is a powerful tool for analyzing protein regulation and function. This workshop, divided into two parts, will explain the fundamentals of mass spectrometry experiments and how proteins are identified. We will further Read More...

09/23/2024 - Come to the Fair!  In the morning session, several different groups will speak about their training and education programs. The afternoon session will be devoted to learning about research using AI across 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...

08/23/2024 - In this webinar, Dr. Carey will provide an introduction to Bioconductor for genomic data science.   Bioconductor.org enters its third decade as an NHGRI/NCI-funded resource for many aspects of genomic data Read More...

08/09/2024 - We cordially invite you to attend the upcoming Data Sharing and Reuse Seminar featuring Dr. Robert Schuler and Dr. Jifan Feng. Dr. Schuler, a Senior Computer Scientist and Lead Scientist at the University of Read More...

08/07/2024 -  Generalist repositories are a flexible, trusted resource for sharing research data for which there is no appropriate discipline specific repository as well as many other research outputs valuable for reproducibility and open Read More...

07/11/2024 - Please join us for this special event featuring three speakers on the topic of Single-Cell Spatial Transcriptomics. George Zaki, Ph.D., Director, Applied Scientific Computing, BACS, The Frederick National Lab for Cancer Research, NCI/ 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...

Who can you contact with questions? NCI CCR Single Cell Analysis Facility (SCAF) provides single cell support to NCI-CCR Researchers. NCI CCR Bioinformatics Training and Education Program (BTEP) provides bioinformatics training support. Contact BTEP via Read More...

ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS read the documentation. Use the help pane in the lower right of RStudio or the functions, help() and help.search() or ? and ?? . Check out package vignettes ( vignette() ). Check the Github site if Read More...

Additional Resources BTEP scRNA-Seq FAQs Training modules available on Github Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis with Bioconductor Single Cell Best Practices 2023 BTEP Single Cell Annotation Seminar Series Event recordings are located in the BTEP Video Archive . Read More...

05/15/2024 - Generalist repositories offer NIH researchers a flexible, trusted resource to share data for which there is no appropriate discipline specific repository as well as to share many other research outputs valuable for reproducibility and Read More...

04/23/2024 - Dr. Stephanie Harmon obtained her Ph.D. in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and did her postgraduate training at Leidos Biomedical Research where she worked within the Molecular Imaging Read More...

03/20/2024 - Dear Colleagues,   cBioPortal is an open-access resource for interactive exploration of multidimensional cancer genomics data sets, currently providing access to data from >200,000 tumor samples collected from >400 published cancer 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...

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...

Try googling your problem or using some other search engine. rseek is an R specific search engine that searches several R related sites. If using google directly, make sure you use R to tag your 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...

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...

01/23/2024 - Looking for  data sharing  platforms to enhance your research and advance communal knowledge of childhood cancers? Join the first NCI Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) webinar of the new year! Read More...

Additional Resources The QIIME 2 docs and forum For general support throughout your microbiome data analysis, see the QIIME 2 documentation and the QIIME 2 forum . Related readings q2book Some useful slides from UCSD Linux help Introduction Read More...

Methods to reduce dimensionality in the data and visualize trends in the data. The following list includes commonly used methods and is not exhaustive. PCoA most common similar to PCA but works on distance metrics 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...

Alpha diversity is within sample diversity. When exploring alpha diversity, we are interested in the distribution of microbes within a sample or metadata category. This distribution not only includes the number of different organisms (richness) Read More...

Work through DNAnexus? Find a nice cancer data set for 16S and shotgun Divide into two workshops or courses? Course structure or workshop structure? Amplicon processing and analysis (5 week course) (4 weeks) 1. Talk by Greg Caparaso? 1. Read More...

Microbiome Course Course Outline Work through DNAnexus? Find a nice cancer data set for 16S and shotgun Divide into two workshops or courses? Course structure or workshop structure? Amplicon processing and analysis (5 week course) (4 weeks) 1. Read More...

12/14/2023 - NIDAP , the NIH Integrated Data Analysis Platform, is a cloud-based, collaborative data aggregation and analysis platform that hosts user-friendly bioinformatics workflows and other component analysis and visualization tools. The NCI CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource ( Read More...

11/06/2023 - UK Biobank is a large-scale biomedical database and research resource, containing in-depth genetic and health information from half a million UK participants. The database is regularly augmented with additional data and is globally accessible Read More...

10/25/2023 - Every week, thousands of biomedical research papers are published with a portion of them containing supporting tables with data about genes, transcripts, variants, and proteins. For example, supporting tables may contain differentially expressed genes Read More...

09/19/2023 - This workshop is part of the  2023 NIH Research Festival  schedule . Data Sharing in Generalist Repositories  Generalist repositories offer NIH researchers a flexible, trusted resource to share data for Read More...

Functional enrichment and comparison with R . ClusterProfiler, pathview, and good introductory information Article on the impact of the evolving GO Ten Years of Pathway Analysis: Current Approaches and Outstanding Challenges, PLOS Computation Biology, 2012 Pathway enrichment Read More...

For this class, we are going to work with data from and associated with two commercially available sets of RNA samples, Universal Human Reference (UHR) and Human Brain Reference (HBR). UHR - bulk RNA from 10 Read More...

Content for this course series was adapted / inspired by the following sources: The Biostar Handbook , 2nd Edition, Istvan Albert. Malachi Griffith, Jason R. Walker, Nicholas C. Spies, Benjamin J. Ainscough, Obi L. Griffith. 2015. Informatics for Read More...

References Content for this course series was adapted / inspired by the following sources: The Biostar Handbook , 2nd Edition, Istvan Albert. Malachi Griffith, Jason R. Walker, Nicholas C. Spies, Benjamin J. Ainscough, Obi L. Griffith. 2015. Informatics Read More...

Interactive nodes are suitable for routine tasks. To start an interactive node, type "sinteractive" at the command line "$" and press Enter/Return on your keyboard. $ sinteractive You will see something like Read More...

Interactive nodes are suitable for routine tasks. To start an interactive node, type "sinteractive" at the command line "$" and press Enter/Return on your keyboard. $ sinteractive You will see something like Read More...

Interactive nodes are suitable for testing/debugging cpu-intensive code, pre/post-processing of data, graphical application, and to GUI interface to application. To start an interactive node, type "sinteractive" at the command line "$& Read More...

mkdir rnaseq cd rnaseq curl -s http://data.biostarhandbook.com/rnaseq/projects/griffith/griffith-data.tar.gz | tar zxv Directories: * "reads" contains the sequencing reads * "refs" contains genome and annotation information using Read More...

mkdir rnaseq cd rnaseq curl -s http://data.biostarhandbook.com/rnaseq/projects/griffith/griffith-data.tar.gz | tar zxv Directories: * "reads" contains the sequencing reads * "refs" contains genome and annotation information using Read More...

mkdir rnaseq cd rnaseq curl -s http://data.biostarhandbook.com/rnaseq/projects/griffith/griffith-data.tar.gz | tar zxv Directories: * "reads" contains the sequencing reads * "refs" contains genome and annotation information using 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...

Now that we have renv set up with our project, let's also establish a project structure. Let's exit R and edit our .Rprofile . Note When we ran renv::init() a local .Rprofile file Read More...

R scripts can be run from the command line with command line arguments. Here is a great resource from software carpentry explaining command line arguments. To use command line arguments with an R script, we Read More...

Electron Microscopy Laboratory (EML) The EML offers investigators access to unique expertise and EM technologies that allow our partners to explore new avenues of research to enhance the knowledge of biological systems. To assist our Read More...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More NIH Intramural CryoEM (NICE) Consortium NICE provides NCI, NIAID, NIEHS, NICHD, NIDCR, NEI, and NIA investigators with Read More...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More NIH Extramural Common Fund Resources Metabolomics Workbench Developed by the NIH Metabolomics Common Fund's National Metabolomics Data Repository ( Read More...

The EML offers investigators access to unique expertise and EM technologies that allow CCR Investigators to explore new avenues of research in order to enhance the knowledge of biological systems. To assist our customers, we 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...

The Trans-NIH Metabolomics Core (TNMC) is a shared research resource that performs metabolomics analysis (and related small molecule research) for investigators at all Institutes and Centers across the NIH Intramural Research Program. The TNMC is Read More...

Our Mission The Office of Science and Technology Resources (OSTR) catalyzes the advancement of cancer research through making innovative technologies and scientific resources accessible to scientists at the Center for Cancer Research (CCR). OSTR develops Read More...

CREx is an easy-to-use platform that catalogues research resources available across the NIH. It also includes an expansive database of services offered by the biotechnology industry. All resources are organized by research areas and keywords Read More...

The Central Repository provides the research community at the NCI with various cryogenic services, including low-temperature storage from +4° C to -196° C, controlled-rate freezing, computerized inventory and distribution of samples. The Central Repository is operated Read More...

Cores & Facilities From centralized laboratories to collaborative resources and technologies available to CCR Investigators. NCI Cores Centralized laboratories providing broad access to cutting-edge technologies and specialized expertise. Browse NCI Cores Collaborative Resources are technologies and Read More...

The BRB Preclinical Biologics Repository is a central repository that supplies reagents to the broad research community. This NCI-sponsored repository is managed by NCI's Biological Resources Branch (BRB) in the Development Therapeutics Program (DTP) of Read More...

The Medicinal Chemistry Accelerator (MCA) is a collaborative CCR resource that supports investigators in developing small molecule inhibitors for anticancer drug candidates. While CCR and NCATS have infrastructure to identify initial “hits” through high-throughput screening, Read More...

The PPS encompasses all scientific analyses related to pharmacology, once the specimen has been collected and stored. There is a multi-step process to evaluate how the drug is being handled by the body after administration. Read More...

The FNLCR Molecular Histopathology Laboratory (MHL) provides comprehensive veterinary pathology support for animal health monitoring, biomarker discovery and validation, drug development, genomics, and proteomics on a cost recovered basis. The MHL is organized into multiple 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...

[tabby title="Home"] About NICE-NIH Intramural CryoEM Consortium  NIH Intramural CryoEM Consortium (NICE) serves intramural investigators in all NIH IC’s. NICE provides access to state-of-the-art Titan Krios cryo-electron microscopes for atomic-resolution structure determination of Read More...

The rapid advancement of single-cell technology has provided new powerful tools to answer many biological questions, such as identifying new or rare cell populations and characterizing the complexities of tumor heterogeneity. Realizing the great potential 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...

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...

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...

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...

CCR Office of Science and Technology Resources (OSTR) The Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Office of Science and Technology Resources (OSTR) explores and evaluates the latest technologic advancements and then makes them available to all Read More...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More New NIH Resource Spotlight The NIH Lab Managers Working Group have developed a new NIH-wide database of cold Read More...

Biomarker Discovery with Morphological Context:  Changing how tissue specimens are analyzed < https://youtu.be/mVhfZq8ppbc What is Digital Spatial Profiling? GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler is a novel platform developed by NanoString. Digital Spatial Read More...

Radiation Oncology Branch is part of CCR. Bioinformatics core is a collaborative resource to support ROB branch and provide service to ROB investigators from NCI and other Institutes access to new technologies, bioinformatics, statistical analysis 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 Antibody Characterization Laboratory (ACL) is the laboratory responsible for the development of well-characterized monoclonal antibody reagents. The NCI’s Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research funds ACL as a resource to the entire cancer 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...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More NIH Intramural Core Resources NHGRI Flow Cytometry Core The Core performs high quality single cell analysis through the Read More...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More New Resources on CREx Trans-NIH Metabolomics Core (TNMC) The TNMC is a shared research resource that provides targeted Read More...

NCI maintains a low temperature repository of implantable in vivo-derived tumors and in vitro-established tumor cell lines from various species, which are available to qualified investigators as a service to the cancer research community. The Read More...

Many established and emerging technologies are available to CCR scientists.  This technology-rich environment makes the CCR a unique place to conduct scientific research.  Through the OSTR, the CCR continues to find Read More...

The NIH MRI Research Facility (NMRF) is a shared, intramural resource for human imaging studies. The NMRF is supported by all Institutes at NIH and reports to the Shared Resources Subcommittee (SRS) of the Scientific Read More...

CREx News & Updates July 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...

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...

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...

Mass Spectrometry Section of the Collaborative Protein Technology Resource (Bldg. 37) Core Capabilities: Identification of proteins in complexes, organelles, subcellular fractions, or fluids. Global relative protein quantitation. Quantitation by isotopic labeling of cells in culture (SILAC) 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...

The NCI Cloud Resources are components of the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) that bring data and computational power together to enable cancer research and discovery. These cloud-based platforms eliminate the need for researchers Read More...

CREx News & Updates July 2021   Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx) News Site Spotlight FACILITY HIGHLIGHTS Learn more about services from the NHLBI 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...

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 Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) Initiative The STRIDES Initiative aims to help NIH and its institutes, centers, and offices (ICOs) accelerate biomedical research by reducing barriers in utilizing Read More...

CREx News & Updates December 2021 Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More Site Spotlight FACILITY HIGLIGHTS Learn more about services from the STRIDES Initiative. VIEW STRIDES INITIATIVE NIH Cores 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...

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 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 Mouse Modeling Core assists NIH investigators by generating and preserving genetically-engineered mouse strains. Services include scientific consultation, gene-targeting in mouse embryonic stem cells, micro-injection of nucleic acids, proteins, or ES cells into mouse embryos, 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 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...

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...

Register now for an upcoming seminar on January 22, 2025 , “Revealing Tumor-Promoting Signals in Breast Cancer Subtypes: A NIDAP Analysis of Single-Cell Data” . This one-hour talk will feature guest speaker and NIDAP developer, Josh Meyer, who will 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...

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...

04/01/2024 - Embark on a journey of visionary insights! Join us for the launch of the NEI Informatics &amp; Data-Driven Insights: Seminars &amp; Dialogue Opportunities for Vision Health series, hosted by the National Eye Read More...

02/21/2024 - Dear colleagues, The Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) at NIAID invites you to join us for in-person hands-on workshops that will explore biovisualization techniques. Developers of UCSF ChimeraX and Cytoscape will be on 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...

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...

01/19/2024 - Trey Ideker, Ph.D., is a professor of medicine, bioengineering, and computer science, and former chief of genetics at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Additionally, he is director or co-director of the Read More...

R is both a computational language and open-source environment for statistical computing and graphics. While R programming was ranked 20 th in popularity when compared with other programming languages in December 2023, it remains a favorite among Read More...

Lesson 6 . Learning Objectives Introduce several beta diversity metrics Discover different ordination methods Learn about statistical methods that are applicable Beta diversity Beta diversity is between sample diversity. This is useful for answering the question, how 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 5: Microbial diversity, alpha rarefaction, alpha diversity Learning Objectives Understand the difference between alpha and beta diversity Introduce several alpha diversity metrics Understand what rarefaction is and why it is important Introduce the debate regarding 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...

12/08/2023 - This presentation will discuss strategies and policies for effective sharing and reuse of large multidimensional datasets. Dr. Espinosa will discuss his experiences as a data generator, data analyst, collaborator, teacher, and mentor through the 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...

Course Wrap-up This lesson concludes the Bioinformatics for Beginners course series. Please email us any time at ncibtep@nih.gov for help with your bioinformatics questions or concerns. Lesson Objectives Short course overview. Review BTEP 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...

Getting Started with Biowulf Biowulf is the NIH high performance computing cluster. It is a linux computing cluster with greater than 105,000 processors. The NIH HPC systems also house "hundreds of scientific programs, packages and Read More...

Getting Started with Biowulf Biowulf is the NIH high performance computing cluster. It is a linux computing cluster with greater than 105,000 processors. The NIH HPC systems also house "hundreds of scientific programs, packages and Read More...

Lesson 5: Working on Biowulf Lesson 4 Review Flags and command options Wildcards ( * ) Tab complete Accessing user history with the "up" and "down" arrows cat , head , and tail Working with file content (input, 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...

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...

This page contains content taken directly from the Biostar Handbook (Istvan Albert). Always remember to activate the class bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo For this data analysis, we will be using: Two commercially available RNA Read More...

This page contains content taken directly from the Biostar Handbook (Istvan Albert). Always remember to activate the class bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo For this data analysis, we will be using: Two commercially available RNA 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...

Biowulf is the Unix/Linux-based high-performance computing (HPC) cluster at NIH. If you do not currently use Biowulf for your data analysis needs, consider the following advantages: Much more compute power as compared to a 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...

Lesson 1: Introduction to Biowulf, Unix, and R Learning Objectives Learn about why you may want to use R on Biowulf. Refresh Unix and R skills. This lesson will not be hands on. Why use R Read More...