Search Results for: biological samples

Heatmap and dendrogram can reveal clusters of genes whose expression is up or down-regulated under certain biological conditions and from the visualization below, it is clear that there are panels of genes that are upregulated Read More...

Normalization of gene expression estimates obtained from the quantification step is important as this will remove technical or non-biological variants in the data such as: Differences in sequencing depth between samples (ie. not all samples Read More...

Research Mission The goal of OMAL’s research is to understand molecular mechanisms driving carcinogenesis and the reversal of this process through treatment, by utilization and advancement of optical microscopy techniques. These techniques include multiplex Read More...

Technical Replicates It’s generally accepted that they are not necessary because of the low technical variation in RNASeq experiments Biological Replicates (Always useful) Not strictly needed for the identification of novel transcripts and transcriptome Read More...

Dendrograms are used in phylogenetics to help visualize relatedness of or dissimilarities between species. In RNA sequencing, dendrogram can be combined with heatmap to show clustering of samples by gene expression or clustering of genes Read More...

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Integration is the process of aligning the same cell types across samples, treatments, data sets, batches, etc. Clustering should represent biological differences and not technical artifacts. Integration is not always necessary. You should run through Read More...

Purpose of RNA sequencing and what biological questions can RNA sequencing answer Experimental considerations Sample preparation Replicates Technical noise Read depth More depth for low expression genes More depth for low expression differences between samples Read More...

Differential Expression Differential expression involves the comparison of normalized expression counts of different samples and the application of statistical measures to identify quantitative changes in gene expression between the different samples. Normalization and Statistical Significance Read More...

Go under the Gene Ontology section in the Annotation Summary Results and expand on it. Click the chart view for GOTERM_BP_DIRECT to look at some biological processes that the upregulated genes in the Read More...

Two commercially available RNA samples. Universal Human Reference (UHR) is total RNA isolated from a diverse set of 10 cancer cell lines. Human Brain Reference (HBR) is total RNA isolated from the brains of 23 Caucasians, male Read More...

Two commercially available RNA samples. Universal Human Reference (UHR) is total RNA isolated from a diverse set of 10 cancer cell lines. Human Brain Reference (HBR) is total RNA isolated from the brains of 23 Caucasians, male Read More...

Two commercially available RNA samples. Universal Human Reference (UHR) is total RNA isolated from a diverse set of 10 cancer cell lines. Human Brain Reference (HBR) is total RNA isolated from the brains of 23 Caucasians, male 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...

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...

05/09/2023 - T he  C ancer  P roteome  A tlas (TCPA) : a major bioinformatics resource for cancer proteomics data using  reverse-phase protein arrays (RPPAs)   In contrast to the recent exploration of next-generation sequencing at both DNA Read More...

05/02/2023 - T he  C ancer  P roteome  A tlas (TCPA) : a major bioinformatics resource for cancer proteomics data using  reverse-phase protein arrays (RPPAs) In contrast to the recent exploration of next-generation sequencing at both DNA Read More...

04/30/2020 - Presenter: Dr. Christian Aguilera-Sandoval, BD Description: This webinar will provide an overview of FlowJo, an integrated environment for viewing and analyzing flow cytometry data. Attendees will see how FlowJo can be used to uniformly Read More...

Principal Components Analysis (PCA) transforms high dimensional data such as those derived from RNA sequencing so that researchers can see how study variables cluster together. The result of PCA is that the original data is 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...

Partek Genomics Suite is a comprehensive suite for advanced statistics and interactive data visualization, specifically designed to reliably extract biological signals from noisy data.Partek Genomics Suite is a comprehensive suite of advanced statistics and Read More...

06/24/2025 - Tran late gene li t into biological in ight u ing pathway enrichment tool . Thi training will provide an overview the current tatu of pathway tool , with focu on oftware available to NIH community.  Read More...

The CHTN is a unique NCI-supported resource that provides human tissues and fluids from routine procedures to investigators who utilize human biospecimens in their research. Unlike tissue banks, the CHTN works prospectively with each investigator Read More...

The Specimen Resource Locator (SRL) is a biospecimen resource database designed to help researchers locate resources that may have the samples needed for their investigational use. This publicly searchable database includes information about biospecimen banks Read More...

The National Clinical Trials Network Biospecimen Banks (NCTN) receive, store, and distribute human cancer biospecimens collected on NCTN clinical trials. NCTN Biobanks provide cancer researchers with quality, well-annotated biospecimens and associated clinical information. The NCTN 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...

Software Image Acquisition Commercial imaging systems of LRBGE Optical Microscopy Core are controlled by acquisition software specifically designed for the appropriate microscope, such as ZEN (Zeiss confocal microscopes), Nikon Elements (Nikon), Imspector (Abberior). Custom-built HILO Read More...

Look at the distribution of nCount_RNA with a Violin plot: # set colors cnames% ggplot(aes(color=orig.ident, x=nCount_RNA, fill= orig.ident)) + geom_density(alpha = 0.2) + theme_classic() + scale_x_log10() + geom_vline( Read More...

02/16/2024 - Deep sequencing has emerged as the primary tool for transcriptome profiling in cancer research. Like other high-throughput profiling technologies, sequencing is susceptible to systematic non-biological artifacts stemming from inconsistent experimental handling. A critical initial 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...

09/13/2023 - FORGEdb is a web-based tool that can rapidly integrate data for individual genetic variants, providing information on associated regulatory elements, transcription factor (TF) binding sites and target genes for over 37 million variants.   Read More...

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

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

Below, you will find questions and answers brought up in the course polls for the BTEP Bioinformatics for Beginners course series that took place from September 13th, 2022 to December 13th, 2022. Question 1 : Normalization - when to Read More...

BTEP Bioinformatics for Beginners (September 13th, 2022 - December 13th, 2022) Questions and Answers Below, you will find questions and answers brought up in the course polls for the BTEP Bioinformatics for Beginners course series that took 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...

04/26/2023 - In this month’s Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC) webinar, Dr. Tolga Can of the Colorado School of Mines will share how he and members of the Erson-Bensan Lab are using publicly available Read More...

10/21/2021 - Announcing a FREE 30 day TRIAL to Qiagen IPA's Land Explorer (an add-on to the existing NCI Qiagen IPA license). If you are interested in access to the FREE TRIAL, please register for this Read More...

06/23/2021 - Registration is required to join this event. If you have not registered, please do so now. Register Speaker: Uchenna Emechebe, Ph.D., Field Application Scientist, Partek Incorporated Partek® Flow® bioinformatics software which is available Read More...

06/16/2021 - Register/Join The genetic variation found among individuals results in patterns of polymorphisms passed down through generations. This evolutionary variation typically holds true for individuals, samples from the same population or subpopulation, and cells Read More...

05/26/2021 - Register This month’s Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC) webinar welcomes Dr. Wenming Xiao, a lead bioinformatics scientist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Xiao specializes in researching how computational, technical, and Read More...

03/11/2021 - Abstract: Targeted quantitative proteomics using multiple/parallel reaction monitoring (MRM, PRM) is already being applied by many researchers in biology, biochemistry, and clinical research laboratories. These methods allow rapid and precise quantitation of proteins Read More...

04/25/2018 - Join us for a seminar/webinar session where Partek Specialist will show you how to analyze your Single Cell RNA-Seq data in an intuitive, interactive and powerful way using Partek Flow. The solution simplifies Read More...

05/16/2017 - Statistics for Biologists A high-level overview of basic statistical tools and statistical reasoning skills used in the study of biological data will be presented in this installment. This is an introductory course, requiring very Read More...

10/23/2012 - Learn the fundamentals in genomic data analysis of CGH and SNP arrays using BioDiscovery Nexus Copy Number software.  In this hands-on training session, you will learn how to load, process, visualize, and analyze array 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...

After generating and filtering out lower expressing genes from the median ratio normalized expressions data, it is time to perform differential expression analysis to see if there are genes or transcripts (trancripts will be used Read More...

It's common practice to filter low expression genes as these may represent noise. In these exercises, the criteria below will be used to determine which genes will be removed from the expression estimates stored Read More...

In this practice session, participants will run the actually differential gene expression analysis on the HBR-UHR gene expression data. Before getting started, be sure to be connected to Biowulf and have an interactive session with 12 Read More...

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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...

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

Employing spatial biology techniques enables acquisition of transcript and protein data from intact tissue sections, and in turn, spatial distribution information and cellular interaction patterns are revealed.

DTP maintains a repository of synthetic compounds and pure natural products that are available to investigators for non-clinical research purposes. The Repository collection is a uniquely diverse set of more than 200,000 compounds that have been Read More...

In support of Intramural Research Program (IRP) scientists, DOHS provides training, consulting, and resources to ensure that workers' risk to hazards and stresses in the laboratory environment is minimized. Our services include one-on-one consultation with 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...

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...

Back Services: Biophysics Facility offers Tycho as an open-access instrument.  This instrument is very easy to use, and no formal training is required.  Core staff will help with their first experiment of new 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...

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...

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

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 Animal Diagnostic Laboratory (ADL) provides a full range of diagnostic capabilities, including microbiological cultures on various culture medium, microscopic screening for parasites such as mites and pinworms, molecular detection of pathogens, serological evaluation of 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...

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...

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...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Services (ORS) Division of Radiation Safety (DRS) Radioactive Materials Control and Analysis Branch supports radioactive materials packaging/shipping. Established Technologies In accordance with Department of Transportation ( Read More...

Employing spatial biology techniques enables acquisition of transcript and protein data from intact tissue sections, and in turn, spatial distribution information and cellular interaction patterns are revealed.

The Pan-Microbial Serology Facility (PMSF) is part of the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The PMSF focuses on determining individualized pan-microbial immune profiles associated with human diseases including immunological Read More...

OSTR provides CCR investigators with access to a variety of software licenses for genomic, proteomic, pathway analysis and data visualization tools. These software are funded by OSTR and made available at no cost to CCR Read More...

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

Employing spatial biology techniques enables acquisition of transcript and protein data from intact tissue sections, and in turn, spatial distribution information and cellular interaction patterns are revealed.

Employing spatial biology techniques enables acquisition of transcript and protein data from intact tissue sections, and in turn, spatial distribution information and cellular interaction patterns are revealed.

The Clinical Flow Cytometry Laboratory provides extensive support for NCI clinical protocols by providing diagnostic testing for leukemia and lymphoma in patients either on NCI clinical protocols or undergoing testing to determine eligibility for NCI Read More...

Training We recommend that users become familiar with the principals of fluorescence labeling and optical microscopy before arranging for training. We recommend the following sites for learning about microscopy: Introductions to Fluorescence Microscopy Fluorescence Labeling Read More...

Software Several software packages are available to users Arivis Vision 4D Arivis Vision4D is a modular software for working with multi-channel 2D, 3D and 4D images of almost unlimited size independent of Read More...

This practice lesson is associated with Lesson 3 of the Microbiome Analysis with QIIME 2. In this practice lesson, we will work on generating a feature table and representative sequences. We will continue working with the data Read More...

Practice Lesson 3 This practice lesson is associated with Lesson 3 of the Microbiome Analysis with QIIME 2. In this practice lesson, we will work on generating a feature table and representative sequences. We will continue working with Read More...

Objectives To explore Bioconductor, a repository for R packages related to biological data analysis. To better understand S4 objects as they relate to the Bioconductor core infrastructure. To learn more about a popular Bioconductor S4 Read More...

Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) - practicing what we learned Learning objectives In this practice session, we will practice using DAVID. Practicing what we learned To help us apply what we learned 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...

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...

High resolution single cell profiling assays have provided an unprecedented view of many biological systems and processes, but the spatial context in which this biology is occurring is often crucial. Spatial profiling, including spatial transcriptomic Read More...

Visualizing clusters with heatmaps Objectives Introduce the heatmap and dendrogram as tools for visualizing clusters in data. Learn to construct cluster heatmap using the package pheatmap . Learn how to save a non-ggplot2 plot. Introduce ggplotify Read More...

04/07/2021 - Register/Join Researchers continue to face major challenges when comparing diverse single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data sets, because these data often are generated by different technologies from a variety of laboratories. In this webinar, Read More...

06/19/2017 - Harvesting the Wealth of TCGA Data The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is a large-scale study that has catalogued genomic data accumulated from more than 20 different types of cancer including mutations, copy number variation, mRNA Read More...

02/21/2017 - This BTEP Workshop will cover the fundamentals and best practices of Exome-Seq analysis, including downstream interpretation of variants using a variety of in-house and NCI-licensed software solutions. There will be hands-on training on CCBR 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...

01/07/2016 - REGISTRATION IS FULL FOR THIS WORKSHOP (25 ATTENDEES; 6 WAITLIST) The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is a large-scale study that has cataloged genomic data accumulated for many different types of cancers, and includes mutations, copy number 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...

03/18/2015 - This workshop will cover basics of exome-seq analysis including downstream interpretation of variants using a variety of open-source and commercial webtools (Golden Helix, IGV, Ingenuity Variant Analysis, GeneGrid (Genomatix), MuPit/Cravat). Day 1 - AM (9:30 Read More...

03/18/2014 - The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is a large-scale study that has catalogued genomic data accumulated from more than 20 different types of cancer including mutations, copy number variation, mRNA and miRNA gene expression, and DNA Read More...

The CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource (CCBR) is a 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 expertise in Read More...

07/11/2025 - In thi pre entation, Dr. Hollander will pre ent the Health Omic Metadata Common , which erve a a free centralized hub for toring and di eminating metadata pertaining to human biological ample and omic Read More...

07/01/2025 - Learn how to vi ualize equencing and analy i re ult effectively. Thi e ion de cribe the application of the web-ba ed interactive OmicCirco in R hiny to con truct circular plot with 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...

06/20/2025 - Emerging artificial intelligence—e pecially generative model and deep learning—i tran forming biomedical and biological cience. In thi talk, Profe or Juexin Wang of Indiana Univer ity will pre ent ca e tudie Read More...

05/19/2025 - Immunotherapy has the potential to revolutionize the way we treat cancer, but a key challenge has been finding ways to tailor that therapy to the right patient at the right time. Attend this webinar, Read More...

05/16/2025 - This one-day in-person NIH AI Symposium will bring together researchers from a broad range of disciplines to share their AI-related research, with the goal of disseminating the newest AI research, providing an opportunity to Read More...

04/14/2025 - Gene set analysis (GSA) is essential in genomic research, yet traditional methods often lack transparency and produce contextually irrelevant results, making interpretation challenging. While large language models (LLMs) offer a promising solution for result Read More...

04/08/2025 - Reactome is a free, open-source, curated and peer-reviewed pathway database that includes bioinformatics tools for the visualization, interpretation and analysis of pathway knowledge. This lesson will showcase the capabilities of Reactome in garnering biological Read More...

04/03/2025 - DAVID (the Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery) provides a comprehensive set of functional annotation tools for investigators to understand the biological meaning behind large lists of genes acquired from high-throughput assays such Read More...

04/03/2025 - Open to HHS Staff Only The goal of the NCI RNA Biology Initiative is to establish a collaborative environment that promotes the swift exchange of information and expertise regarding the structure, function, and biological Read More...

04/01/2025 - Whether you are measuring mRNA expression, protein expression, DNA methylation, expressed miRNAs, protein binding to DNA or RNA, etc., you will likely end up with a list of genes or gene products from which Read More...

03/25/2025 - Dr. Ben Raphael will describe computational methods developed in his lab to analyze large-scale biological data related to cancer evolution, genetic variants, and structural variation in cancer genomes. He’ll share combinatorial and statistical Read More...

03/18/2025 - This class is not hands-on and will demonstrate to participants the use of IGV for visualizing alignment results from Next Generation Sequencing using RNA as an example. After this class, participants will be able Read More...

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

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...

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...

03/06/2025 - This class introduces participants to the first steps to differential expression analysis in bulk RNA sequencing which involves filtering out noise from (ie. genes without expression across samples) and performing QC on the gene 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...

01/08/2025 - This three hour online training will focus on getting started on using QIAGEN’s  Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) . IPA enables you to quickly identify biological relationships, mechanisms, pathways, functions and Read More...

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In support of Intramural Research Program (IRP) scientists, DOHS provides training, consulting, and resources to ensure that laboratory equipment is used and maintained properly and safely. We provide expert safety and health consulting support for Read More...

Back Services: This instrument is not user accessible.  We provide both data collection and data analysis services. Location: Building 50, room 3331 Description: An analytical ultracentrifuge is equipped with absorption and interference optical systems that monitor Read More...

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

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

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...

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

MAB provides visual communication solutions across all media to the entire NIH community. Our Medical Illustration section provides a complete range of biomedical visualization services, including manuscript/textbook figures, infographics, 3D modeling, animation, technical diagrams, 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 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...

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 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 centrally funded Statistics team within the Advanced Biomedical Computational Science group at the Frederick National Lab provides statistical consultation and data analysis support for NCI laboratories. We have broad-range expertise in biomedically relevant areas 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...

With specimens that span neurological, neuropsychiatric, and neurodevelopmental diseases and disorders, the NBB serves as a central point of access to the world-class collections of our six biorepositories. In addition, the NBB provides researchers with 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...

Services: Biophysics Facility offers CD as an open-access instrument.  First-time users must complete a short training session before gaining access to the instrument reservation calendar. Location: Building 50, room 3123 Description: CD spectroscopy measures the difference 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...

Back Services: Biophysics Facility offers CD as an open-access instrument.  First-time users must complete a short training session before gaining access to the instrument reservation calendar. Location: Building 50, room 3123 Description: CD spectroscopy measures the Read More...

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

Back Services: We offer a limited sample processing service using standard SEC-MALS and FFF protocols.  This service is intended for the occasional users of this system.  Researchers who expect to use this instrument Read More...

Back Services: We offer a limited sample processing service using standard SEC-MALS and FFF protocols.  This service is intended for the occasional users of this system.  Researchers who expect to use this instrument 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...

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

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...

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

The 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...

Back Services: Biophysics Facility offers ZetaView as an open-access instrument. First-time users must complete a short training session before using it for the first time. Training includes instrument calibration and size analysis of a standard Read More...

CREx News & Updates October 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 CPTR Read More...

Total end-to-end system for single-cell research [embed]https://youtu.be/vMzhSzg1rUw[/embed] The BD Rhapsody Single-Cell Analysis system empowers and streamlines your research with a complete system of tools, including reagents and analysis software, Read More...

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

Clinical Support Laboratory – Flow Cytometry Section is a laboratory specializing in providing immunophenotyping support of NCI intramural clinical trials, though assessments may also be performed using cells from Non-human primates and other species. The CSL 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...

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

The Center for Advanced Tissue Imaging (CAT-I) is an NIAID and NCI supported effort involving collaborative studies between experts in the Laboratory of Immune System Biology, DIR, NIAID and investigators in the DIR, NIAID and 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...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More New CREx User Survey The CREx Team is carrying out a CREx User Survey. We would greatly appreciate 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CCR VOLUME Electron Microscopy (CVEM) aims to develop new techniques in volume electron microscopy (vEM) and, in collaboration with CCR Investigators, apply these techniques to research cell biological questions well-suited for study by high-resolution 3D Read More...

The CCR Microscopy Core provides NCI investigators access to state-of-the-art imaging tools and techniques, including light sheet fluorescence, high-resolution confocal, multi-photon, and super-resolution microscopy. The mission of the CCR Microscopy Core Facility is to support Read More...

NCI established the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) to support the extramural research community to accelerate the progress of nanomedicine by providing preclinical characterization and safety testing of nanoparticles. It is a collaborative effort between NCI, 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...

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

CREx News & Updates June 2021 Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx) News Site Spotlight FACILITY HIGHLIGHTS Visit here to learn about services from 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...

Back Services: Biophysics Facility offers DSC as an open-access instrument. First-time users must complete training before gaining access to the instrument reservation calendar. Location: Building 50, room 3123 Description: The differential scanning calorimeter measures the constant pressure Read More...

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

The 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...

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

The CCR Building 41 Flow Cytometry Core is a full-service facility within the Center for Cancer Research that supports over 150 users representing 26 laboratories. The Core Facility provides instrument and software training, technical expertise, assay development, and 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 Antibody Engineering Program (AEP) is located at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, which is part of the Center for Cancer Research (CCR), an intramural program at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). AEP focuses on Read More...

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...

OMAL focuses its research and development activities to quantitatively understand the molecular basis of three-dimensional (3D) cell organization, motility, invasion, and differentiation using fixed samples and live, 3D tissue culture models (i.e., translational models). Read More...

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

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

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...

[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 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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

The 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...

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...

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...

1. Introduction and Learning Objectives This tutorial has been 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 that Read More...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

Visualizing clusters with heatmaps Objectives Introduce the heatmap and dendrogram as tools for visualizing clusters in data. Learn to construct cluster heatmap using the package pheatmap . Learn how to save a non-ggplot2 plot. Introduce ggplotify Read More...

Visualizing clusters with heatmaps Objectives Introduce the heatmap and dendrogram as tools for visualizing clusters in data. Learn how to work with the package pheatmap . Learn how to save a non-ggplot2 plot. Introduce ggplotify to Read More...

Anaconda ( https://www.anaconda.com/ ) is a package manager and distributor for a wide array of data science software. Package managers are ideal for scientists who conduct analysis on a personal computer as they eliminate Read More...

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

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...

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