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CREx News & Updates May 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...

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...

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...

12/01/2020 - Please Register to join us for a virtual workshop focused on defining the major challenges and promising new approaches for creating, curating, integrating, and querying across ultra-large chemistry databases. This event is a Three Read More...

01/16/2024 - About this talk: In this presentation we will go through the rich variety of database types, from traditional relational to cutting-edge NoSQL, uncovering how each 'flavor' adds its unique spice to the world of 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...

Using clusterProfiler you can conduct ORA with GO, KEGG, MKEGG (KEGG modules), and WikiPathways. Using complementary packages (i.e., DOSE, ReactomePA), ORA can also be conducted with Disease Ontology (DO), Reactome, network of cancer genes, Read More...

Closed reference OTU picking uses a reference database to cluster OTUs against reads that fail to cluster with a reference sequence due to real variation or sequence error variation are dropped subject to biases or Read More...

Found in all bacteria and archaea. Also present in mtDNA and chloroplasts (See the endosymbiotic theory ). Multiple copies per genome Taxonomy based on 16S rRNA has been extremely popular, and databases are continuously growing. Classification Read More...

Discuss what this is Where can we find descriptors geneontology.org organism specific databases What is KEGG?

05/01/2020 - BioCyc.org [1] is an extensive web portal containing 17,000 microbial genomes and associated metabolic pathways. BioCyc databases are created through a process that combines computational inferences with imported and curated data from multiple sources. The 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...

01/09/2025 - Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) presents significant challenges in prevention and treatment despite decades of research advancements. Innovative AI/ML approaches enable analysis of real-world data sources, such as electronic health records (EHRs) Read More...

09/10/2024 - The training will overview the current status of pathway tools, with focus on software available to NIH community.  It will discuss the biological interoperation of mutation and expression data in the context Read More...

The Bioinformatics Training and Education Program (BTEP) was established by the Office of Science and Technology Resources (OSTR) for the purpose of providing training enabling scientists to understand and analyze their own experimental data, at Read More...

Bioconductor packages are divided into four types: software annotation data experiment data workflows. Software packages themselves can be subdivided into packages that provide infrastructure (i.e., classes) to store and access data, and packages that Read More...

09/22/2023 - The training will overview the current status of pathway tools, with focus on software available to NIH community.  It will discuss the biological interoperation of mutation and expression data in the context of pathways, Read More...

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 analysis. Get familiar with databases commonly Read More...

The chart view for some annotation databases such as OMIM will not have records. This is because there were no diseases that met the statistical threshold. However, we can still click on the gene view Read More...

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 databases" ( https://hpc. Read More...

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 databases" ( https://hpc. Read More...

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

Biowulf is the high performance computing (HPC) system at NIH. The NIH high-performance compute cluster is known as “Biowulf” It is a 95,000+ processor Linux cluster Can perform large numbers of simultaneous jobs Jobs can be Read More...

07/18/2023 - This workshop is for life scientists, including educators and research students, who would like to learn to use the command line for searching and fetching NCBI data. In this workshop, we will begin with Read More...

07/11/2023 - Attendees will learn about high performance computing (HPC) with the NIH cluster Biowulf. This resource contains hundreds of open source bioinformatics tools and biological databases. Participants will understand why it's important to be Read More...

06/29/2023 - All biology research projects involve finding relevant literature and identifying related biological information. Often high school or new undergraduate students need guidance on how to effectively search for helpful information. For almost 35 years, the Read More...

04/25/2023 - Register by April 10, 2023. This workshop is for biological researchers who would like to incorporate NCBI command-line clients into their workflows to access and process NCBI molecular data and metadata. In this workshop you will Read More...

Bioconductor packages are divided into four types: software annotation data experiment data workflows. Software packages themselves can be subdivided into packages that provide infrastructure (i.e., classes) to store and access data, and packages that Read More...

09/14/2022 - The training will overview the current status of pathway tools, with focus on software available to NIH community.  It will discuss the biological interoperation of mutation and expression data in the context of pathways, Read More...

08/12/2022 - The NIH-funded International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) consortium is a global HIV observational research network with seven geographic regions and over 350 participating HIV care and treatment clinics. The data scientists and data Read More...

09/27/2021 - The training will overview the current status of pathway tools, with focus on software available to NIH community.  It will discuss the biological interoperation of mutation and expression data in the context of pathways, Read More...

08/31/2020 - Alternative splicing (AS) and alternative back-splicing (ABS) are essential to understanding the development of cancer and may play a role as a target of personalized cancer therapeutics. However, the existing reference transcriptome annotation databases Read More...

08/28/2020 - The training will overview the current status of pathway tools, with focus on software available to NIH community. It will discuss the biological interoperation of mutation and expression data in the context of pathways, Read More...

02/27/2020 - The Annotation, Visualization and Impact Analysis (AVIA) is an application developed to guide, prioritize and summarize genomic variants. AVIA maintains and aggregates dozens of publicly available variant annotation databases and predictions from impact analysis Read More...

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02/26/2026 - Scientific discovery is increasingly limited not by data availability, but by our ability to integrate evidence, generate hypotheses, and iteratively test them at scale. Recent advances in foundation models and large language models suggest 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...

01/22/2025 - Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) presents significant challenges in prevention and treatment despite decades of research advancements. Innovative AI/ML approaches enable analysis of real-world data sources, such as electronic health records (EHRs) Read More...

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

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

Due to limits on computational resources, you may be interested in running your analysis on an HPC. Biowulf is the NIH high performance compute cluster. It has greater than 90k processors, and can easily perform Read More...

Hundreds of scientific programs, databases, and packages are maintained on the NIH HPC (Biowulf). These are mostly accessible as modules. To see a list of available software in modules use module avail module avail [appname| Read More...

How can we better automate downloads from the SRA? For example, what if we want the sequence files from the publication Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak First we need Read More...

Variant annotation means predicting the effects of genetic variants (SNPs, insertions, deletions, copy number variations (CNV) or structural variations (SV)) on the function of genes, transcripts, and protein sequence, as well as regulatory regions. The 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...

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

Module 3: Pathway Analysis Lesson #: Intro to Gene ontology and pathway analysis Discuss what this is Where can we find descriptors geneontology.org organism specific databases What is KEGG? Lesson #: More on ORA, GSEA, GSVA pros Read More...

fastq-dump and fasterq-dump can be used to download FASTQ-formatted data. Both download the data in SRA format and convert it to FASTQ format. fastq-dump SRR1553607 creates the file: SRR1553607.fastq Check the file to make Read More...

fastq-dump and fasterq-dump can be used to download FASTQ-formatted data. Both download the data in SRA format and convert it to FASTQ format. fastq-dump SRR1553607 creates the file: SRR1553607.fastq Check the file to make Read More...

Another way to run BLAST is to create your own custom database, and search against it with query sequences. Usually you will not have to create your own blast database, you can download prebuilt databases 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...

07/27/2023 - For 35 years, NCBI has collected a vast amount of sequence information including from a diverse array of organisms, including viruses, bacteria and fungi. With all of the databases and tools available& Read More...

07/27/2023 - This new webinar will be covering and discussing the host responses to vaccines with invited speakers Dr. Oliver He and Dr. Guanming Wu. During the hour long webinar, Vaccine Induced Gene Expression Analysis Tool ( Read More...

Biological datasets can be massive. Often our local computers (laptops, desktops) do not have the storage space or computational power to analyze these datasets. Biowulf is the NIH high performance compute cluster. It has greater Read More...

Bioconductor is an R package repository for free open-source software that "facilitates rigorous and reproducible analysis of data from current and emerging biological assays" . Bioconductor is released semi-annually, with two working Bioconductor releases Read More...

Introduction to Bioinformatics Resources at NCI (06/13, Instructor Amy Stonelake, PhD (BTEP)) In this lesson, attendees will be introduced to the different bioinformatics resources available to them at NCI. This includes: Bioinformatics Training Classes and Events Read More...

Course Overview Course Description A series of 6 stand-alone lessons introducing learners to various aspects of bioinformatics. Lessons will be held on Tuesdays at 1 PM in June and July 2023. You can attend any class, just one Read More...

06/21/2023 - Biowulf is the high-performance computing cluster (HPC) at NIH. In addition to its vast compute power, Biowulf has hundreds of bioinformatics tools and databases for analyzing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. This coding club Read More...

06/09/2023 - Dr. Nara Sobreira will present "PhenoDB, a phenotypic and genotypic data sharing tool" at the monthly Data Sharing and Reuse Seminar on June 9, 2023, at 12 p.m. EST. About the Seminar This seminar Read More...

05/12/2023 - Are you familiar with the bioinformatics tools and databases Enrichr, Harmonizome, BioJupies, and ARCHS4, developed by the Ma’ayan Lab? In this webinar, Dr. Avi Ma’ayan describes two new Read More...

Objectives To explore Bioconductor, a repository for R packages related to biological data analysis. To generate high quality data reports using R Markdown to make data analysis more reproducible. Reminder: Uploading files from RStudio Server Read More...

11/30/2022 - This lecture will present an overview of various open-source databases and servers available that support pharmacogenomics research and drug discovery. Specifically, this lecture will focus on integrated-omics and data-driven approaches for novel drug discovery, Read More...

BTEP is currently running on-line classes to enable CCR scientists to learn computer and bioinformatics skills remotely.  We are using two on-line resources as the basis of each class and have added bi-weekly interactive learning Read More...

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...

10/01/2021 - The NIAID-funded International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) consortium is a global HIV observational research network with seven geographic regions and over 350 participating HIV care and treatment clinics. The data scientists and data Read More...

05/19/2021 - Register Description: IPA’s Analysis Match Explorer was launched in March 2020 and this upgrade is being evaluated for purchase by NCI. NCI scientists will have no-charge access to Analysis Match Explorer for a limited Read More...

08/10/2020 - Copy Number Variation (CNV) is a type of structural variation in which sections of the genome are duplicated or deleted. Associated with being causal mutations for disease phenotypes, it is important in clinical and Read More...

07/09/2020 - The recent breakthroughs in high-throughput technologies have resulted in a vast amount of big-data resources. However, it remains a significant challenge to transfer the knowledge from the public data to a new research project Read More...

06/24/2020 - Traditional methods of epidemic modeling continue to be used fruitfully for characterizing outbreaks and predicting the spread of disease in populations. However, these methods, typically rely on what are known as “compartment models”, requiring Read More...

11/05/2018 - RNA-seq, expression microarrays, and other omics profiling platforms are powerful tools for discovery, and analytical pipelines often return large numbers of significant genes or other markers.  This presents a challenge when trying to understand Read More...

04/17/2017 - Probing DNA-Protein Interactions This 2-day workshop, which includes both lecture and hands-on components, will teach the basic concepts and practical aspects of ChIP-Seq data analysis. Topics to be covered include: experimental design; read alignment; Read More...

06/06/2016 - The 'NCBI Resources for CCR Scientists' workshop, on June 6 and June 8, 2016, will focus on teaching a wide range of resources developed within NCBI that are relevant for CCR scientists. It will include both hands-on Read More...

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

Clinicians and bench scientists (a.k.a., wet lab researchers) are at the forefront of scientific achievement. However, most, if not all contemporary projects involve robust scientific analysis, where the tools of exploration aren’t 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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 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...

Learning Objectives Understand the components of an HPC system. How does this compare to your local desktop? Learn about Biowulf, the NIH HPC cluster. Learn about the command line interface and resources for learning. What Read More...

05/22/2017 - Driven by the decreasing costs and increasing performance of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, the amount of available genomic data has grown exponentially in recent years.  While most of the analyses of these data is 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...

09/01/2016 - This 2-day workshop, including a BYOD (Bring Your Own Data) exercise, will provide an introduction and hands-on training for Cytoscape, which is an open source software platform for visualizing  networks and integrating these networks Read More...

05/16/2016 - This 2-day course, which includes both lecture and hands-on components, will teach the basic concepts and practical aspects of ChIP-Seq Data Analysis. There will also be a talk on ENCODE and a comprehensive discussion 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...

11/09/2015 - A Short Course in R for Biologists "A Short Course in R for Biologists" is a two-day course given in four three-hour sessions entitled: Introduction to R, Introduction to Bioconductor, Introduction to Read More...

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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...

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