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07/18/2024 - Long read sequencing holds an advantage over short read sequencing in areas such as structural variant and transcript isoform discovery. This class will demonstrate long read analysis using Qiagen’s CLC Genomics Workbench, a Read More...
Frederick, Maryland
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CLIA-Certified Technologies Offered: Fragment Analysis for Micro-satellite Instability Detection, Pharmacoscan Array for Pharmacogenomics, Mutation Detection for PCR and Sanger Sequencing, DNA extraction from whole blood, saliva, FFPE tissues, buccal swabs, nails, hair, PBMCs, buffy coats, Read More...
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This page uses material directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Always remember to activate the bioinformatics environment. conda activate bioinfo To align sequences to a genome, we need (1) genome sequence and the (2) sequence Read More...
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The bowtie2-build indexer builds a Bowtie index from a set of DNA sequences ([ref]. "bowtie2-build" builds a Bowtie index from a set of DNA sequences. "bowtie2-build" outputs a Read More...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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While we can always download reference genomes and reference transcriptomes from repositories such as NCBI or Ensembl, we will use gffread to create one from the chromosome 22 genome (22.fa) that we have used when analyzing Read More...
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The majority of mRNA derived from eukaryotes is the result of splicing together discontinuous exons, and this creates specific challenges for the alignment of RNASEQ data.
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For blastn, the tasks available are: blastn - finds more divergent sequences megablast - finds less divergent sequences (this is the default) blastn-short - short queries We will look at how the different BLAST tasks Read More...
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Output folder (specified by --od parameter) will contain files for each type of splicing event (marked as RI for "retained intron", SE for "skipped exon", A3SE for "alternative 3' splice Read More...
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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...
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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...
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Long read sequencing was recently named 2022’s method of the year by Nature Methods . Long read sequencing technologies, those that generate sequence reads with lengths of 10s of kilobases or longer have several advantages over Read More...
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05/28/2024 - NCI is launching the virtual Cancer AI Conversations series featuring multiple perspectives on timely topics and themes in artificial intelligence for cancer research! Each event features short talks from 2-4 subject matter Read More...
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03/26/2024 - NCI is launching the virtual Cancer AI Conversations series featuring multiple perspectives on timely topics and themes in artificial intelligence for cancer research! Each event features short talks from 2-4 subject matter Read More...
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01/23/2024 - NCI is launching the virtual Cancer AI Conversations series featuring multiple perspectives on timely topics and themes in artificial intelligence for cancer research! Each event features short talks from 2-4 subject matter Read More...
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Recall that the Golden Snidget data resides in ~/biostar_class/snidget folder. Can you change into the folder and find where the sequencing reads are (ie. in which folder they are located)? {{Sdet}} Solution{{Esum}} Read More...
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Short course overview. Review BTEP and course resources. Learn how to login and access the Biostars module. Discuss upcoming BTEP courses Q & A
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Long read platforms by PacBio and Oxford Nanopore are beconing more popular and offer significant advantages over short read technologies in certain circumstances.
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One of the challenges in analyzing high throughput sequencing is to reconstruct the genome of the unknown by using a knonw (ie. reference). The next step in analysis is to align our sequencing data to Read More...
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Lesson 10 Practice Objectives In this lesson, we introduced the structure of the FASTQ file and learned to assess quality of raw sequencing data using FASTQC. Here, we will practice what we learned using the Golden Read More...
Bethesda, MD
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Repositories
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...
Bethesda, MD
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Trans NIH Facility
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...
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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...
ROCKVILLE, MD
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Trans NIH Facility
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...
Bethesda, MD
Collaborative
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...
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The CLIA Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) provides an array of services for groups at the NIH Clinical Center, Fort Detrick, and Hood College, among others. They support cancer- and disease-related research by making Read More...
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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...
Frederick, MD
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Molecular Cytogenetics Core Facility facilitates the assessment of structural and numerical genomic changes in pre-cancer and cancer research models. This core provides comprehensive support for the cytogenetic analysis of cells from human and research animal Read More...
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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.
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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.
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For RNA sequencing studies, we need to use a splice aware aligner to account for reads that map across exons. Bowtie2 is a commonly used aligner for DNA sequencing and is not splice aware. Let' Read More...
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Now that we have downloaded the HBR and UHR dataset and know where analysis tools are, let's start learning about RNA sequencing, by first learning about our reference genome and annotation files. Let's Read More...
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Now that we have downloaded the HBR and UHR dataset and know where analysis tools are, let's start learning about RNA sequencing, by first learning about our reference genome and annotation files. Let's Read More...
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For RNA sequencing studies, we need to use a splice aware aligner to account for reads that map across exons. Bowtie2 is a commonly used aligner for DNA sequencing and is not splice aware. Let' Read More...
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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...
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01/08/2025 - Helen Shearman, Ph.D., Senior Field Application Scientist, will be presenting a one-hour overview demonstration on SnapGene. SnapGene offers a fast and easy way to plan, visualize, and document your everyday cloning Read More...
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09/25/2024 - Please join us on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, where Gina Kuffel, B.S., and Steph Singleton, M.S., will demo the newly launched Clinical and Translational Data Commons (CTDC). As the newest addition to NCI's Read More...
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Single cell RNASeq is a remarkably powerful tool for analyzing populations of cells that can be recovered from various experiments. Clustering and cell type annotation can be used to distinguish different populations with a level Read More...
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01/24/2024 - Dear Colleague, Helen Shearman, Ph.D., Senior Field Application Scientist, will be presenting a one-hour overview demonstration on SnapGene. SnapGene offers a fast and easy way to plan, visualize, and document your Read More...
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01/22/2024 - Dear Colleagues, Optical Genome Maps (OGM) provide scaffolding information for large DNA molecules. In this talk, we describe the use of this technology for detecting structural variants and chaining them Read More...
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The SummarizedExperiment class and the inherited class RangedSummarizedExperiment are available in the R package SummarizedExperiment . SummarizedExperiment is a matrix-like container where rows represent features of interest (e.g. genes, transcripts, exons, etc.) and columns represent Read More...
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A function in R (or any computing language) is a short program that takes some input and returns some output. An R function has three key properties: Functions have a name (e.g. dir, getwd); Read More...
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DEICODE compositional beta diversity with biplots performs a Robust Aitchison PCA q2-clawback can improve taxonomic classifications uses taxonomic weights based on environment q2-picrust2 functional prediction from 16S rRNA data q2-sidle a new Read More...
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As you continue to work in R, at some point you will need to incorporate regular expressions into your code. We used a regular expression escape above \\. to denote that we wanted to match a Read More...
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https://www.zymoresearch.com/blogs/blog/microbiome-informatics-otu-vs-asv www.drive5.com Elbrecht V, Vamos EE, Steinke D, Leese F. 2018. Estimating intraspecific genetic diversity from community DNA metabarcoding data. PeerJ 6:e4644 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4644
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A powerful, extensible, and decentralized microbiome analysis package with a focus on data and analysis transparency. QIIME 2 enables researchers to start an analysis with raw DNA sequence data and finish with publication-quality figures and statistical Read More...
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12/06/2023 - This presentation will provide a one-hour overview demonstration on Geneious Prime, a software platform for molecular biology and sequence analysis. It is built to be highly visual, easy to use, and collaborative. & Read More...
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Genomic variations are typically categorized into different classes and are often denoted with a shortened acronym: SNP, a single nucleotide polymorphism - A change of a single base. INDEL, an insertion or a deletion - Read More...
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By far the most popular platforms for RNASEQ experiments are the Illumina family of sequencers. All are Sequencing by Synthesis (SbS) and produce Short read lengths (50 to 300 bp). Consult with the Sequencing Core as to Read More...
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Generating the Data General Rules for Sample Preparation Ignoring these simple guidelines will greatly increase the chances that your data will be unanalysable and/or your experiment unpublishable. Prepare all samples at the same time Read More...
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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...
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We will build a database out of all features of the 2014 Ebola genome under accession number KM233118. This data will go into a new directory named "db_2014". mkdir -p db_2014 # Get the 2014 Ebola Read More...
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One of the things we will be doing quite often is to visualize genomics data using some sort of genome browser. In this course series, we will use a popular one called Integrative Genome Viewer( Read More...
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One of the things we will be doing quite often is to visualize genomics data using some sort of genome browser. In this course series, we will use a popular one called Integrative Genome Viewer( Read More...
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Why do we need a reference genome? {{Sdet}} Solution{{Esum}} The reference genome serves as a "known" that guides us in constructing the genome of the unknown from sequencing data. {{Edet}} What file Read More...
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VCF is a data representation format used to describe variations in the genome. VCF files can contain information on any number of samples (thousands). VCF is composed of two sections, a header section and record Read More...
Bethesda, MD
Core Facility
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...
Frederick, MD
Core Facility
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...
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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...
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NanoString Technology The nCounter® Analysis System is an automated, multi-application, digital detection and counting system which directly profiles up to 800 molecules simultaneously from a single sample using a novel barcoding technology. Profile hundreds of mRNAs, Read More...
Frederick, MD
Core Facility
The introduction of DNA sequencing instruments capable of producing millions of DNA sequence reads in a single run has profoundly altered the landscape of genetics and cancer biology. Complex questions can now be answered at Read More...
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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...
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What is Xenium? Xenium is a high-resolution, imaging-based in situ spatial profiling technology from 10x Genomics that allows for simultaneous expression analysis of RNA targets (currently in range of 100’s) within the same tissue section. Read More...
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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...
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CREx News & Updates April 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...
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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...
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These short videos will help users easily identify service providers, submit a request for services, communicate with with suppliers, and manage active requests. Finding Core Facilities on CREx Learn the ways in which NIH IRP Read More...
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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...
Frederick, MD
Core Facility
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Frederick, Maryland
Core Facility
The Protein Expression Laboratory produces proteins to help CCR investigators achieve their research goals with the lowest possible cost in the shortest time. PEL is operated by Leidos Biomedical Research Inc. on behalf of NCI Read More...
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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...
Frederick, MD
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The function of the SAIP is to collaborate with NCI investigators in the development of mouse models, new molecular imaging probes for early detection and therapy, monitor tumors in vivo, and perform drug efficacy studies Read More...
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Biophysics Core Facility assists NIH investigators in measuring molecular interactions and in characterizing macromolecular properties. This includes binding studies of proteins, DNA, RNA, and their ligands in buffers, cell lysate, plasma, and other media. We Read More...
Research Training Park, NC
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Trans NIH Facility
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...
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Alignment RNASeq Mapping Challenges The majority of mRNA derived from eukaryotes is the result of splicing together discontinuous exons, and this creates specific challenges for the alignment of RNASEQ data. Mapping Challenges Reads not perfect Read More...
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Lesson 9: Reference genomes and genome annotations used in RNA sequencing Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Lesson 8 Review In Lesson 8, we learned about the basics of RNA sequencing, Read More...
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Lesson 9: Reference genomes and genome annotations used in RNA sequencing Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Lesson 8 Review In Lesson 8, we learned about the basics of RNA sequencing, Read More...
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Lesson 16: RNA sequencing review and classification based analysis Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Review In the previous classes, we learned about the steps involved in RNA sequencing Read More...
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Lesson 14: Visualizing alignment results Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Lesson 13 Review Previously, we used the application HISAT2 to align the raw sequencing data from the Human Brain Read More...
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05/27/2025 - Agentic AI is a class of artificial intelligence that acts autonomously to make decisions and take actions to achieve specific goals. During this event, the participants will discuss the emerging role of AI agents Read More...
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04/15/2025 - What to bring: Laptop capable of connecting to internet via NIH wifi Are you looking to expand the reach of your sequencing to enable what long read technologies can provide?& Read More...
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The computational chemistry and protein modeling team in the Advanced Biomedical Computational Science (ABCS) group provides novel solutions in structural modeling and computational chemistry. Computational scientists in the group collaborate with NCI researchers by using Read More...
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03/21/2025 - Partek Flow is a point-and-click software for analyzing multi-omics sequencing data including DNA, bulk and single cell RNA, spatial transcriptomics, ATAC and ChIP. Input options include FASTQ, BAM, or expression tables, thus enabling scientists Read More...
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03/13/2025 - UCSC Xena showcases seminal cancer genomics datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Pan-Cancer Atlas, as well as the Genomic Data Commons, Pan-cancer Atlas of Whole Genomes, and the International Cancer Genome Read More...
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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...
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12/05/2024 - This one and a half hour online training will provide a demonstration of how to identify cell types based on statistics, visualization, and canonical markers. One Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) sample will be Read More...
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12/03/2024 - This one and a half hour online training will provide a demonstration of how to build a Bulk RNA-Seq data analysis pipeline using a fastq file. Partek Flow Read More...
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11/19/2024 - Partek Flow enables scientists to construct analysis workflows for multi-omics sequencing data including DNA, bulk and single cell RNA, spatial transcriptomics, ATAC and ChIP. It is a point-and-click software hosted on Biowulf, the NIH Read More...
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10/24/2024 - Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have revolutionized the use of hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained tumor slides for precision oncology, enabling data-driven approaches to predict molecular characteristics and therapeutic outcomes. In Read More...
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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...
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08/29/2024 - Dr. Mardis is an internationally recognized expert in cancer genomics, with ongoing interests in the integrated characterization of cancer genomes, defining DNA-based somatic and germline interactions and RNA-based pathways, and immune microenvironments that lead Read More...
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08/14/2024 - In this introduction session, Dr. Yana Stackpole will discuss biologist-friendly ways to import and analyze RNAseq data in Qlucore, followed by integrated GSEA for biological interpretation. She will pick a public cancer-related Read More...
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08/08/2024 - The Elemento lab combines Big Data analytics with experimentation to develop entirely new ways to help prevent, diagnose, understand, treat and ultimately cure disease. Our research involves routine use of ultrafast DNA sequencing, proteomics, Read More...
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07/24/2024 - Partek Flow enables scientists to construct analysis workflows for multi-omics sequencing data including DNA, bulk and single cell RNA, spatial transcriptomics, ATAC and ChIP. It is hosted on Biowulf, the NIH high performance computing Read More...
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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...
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Some tools have been described in the previous session (see here ). Today, we will be focusing on the SingleR tool, which also requires the celldex package . In short, SingleR operates by comparing your current dataset Read More...
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05/17/2024 - The NIH Artificial Intelligence (AI) Symposium will take place on Friday, May 17th, 2024, in Masur Auditorium in Building 10 on the Bethesda NIH campus. This event is open to all NIH members - registration and Read More...
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05/14/2024 - Participants will learn how to develop artificial intelligence (AI) applications using MATLAB, even if they do not have a formal background in machine and deep learning. The goal of this course is to introduce Read More...
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03/13/2024 - Dear Colleagues, UCSC Xena is a web-based visual integration and exploration tool for multi-omic data and associated clinical and phenotypic annotations. Xena showcases seminal cancer genomics datasets from Read More...
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03/05/2024 - This in-person workshop will show participants how to identify cell types based on statistics, visualization, and canonical markers. One Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) sample will be used to illustrate a basic Single Cell Read More...
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A function in R (or any computing language) is a short program that takes some input and returns some output. An R function has three key properties: Functions have a name (e.g. dir, getwd); Read More...
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Many graphs, like scatterplots, plot the raw values of your dataset. Other graphs, like bar charts, calculate new values to plot: bar charts, histograms, and frequency polygons bin your data and then plot bin counts, Read More...
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The field has moved to denoising sequences rather than OTU clustering. In a denoising approach, the exact biological sequence is inferred and noise is removed from the dataset via error correction. This is generally done Read More...
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An OTU is an operational taxonomic unit. This is derived by binning sequences at a certain threshold of similarity. This threshold is generally set at 97%, which is associated with a species level assignment. Clustering can Read More...
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There are several functions that you will see repeatedly as you use R more and more. One of those is c() , which is used to combine its arguments to form a vector. Vectors are probably Read More...
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11/16/2023 - This class will provide a demonstration of how to identify cell types based on statistics, visualization, and canonical markers. One Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) sample will be used to illustrate a basic Single Read More...
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11/14/2023 - Dr. Ting Wang is a Sanford C. and Karen P. Loewentheil Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Wang’s lab Read More...
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10/24/2023 - In this session, we will provide an overview of the Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) capabilities and applications. We will present the workflows and analyses for Illumina short-read, PacBio, and Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing on Frederick Read More...
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10/04/2023 - Our series of talks continues this month with two 20-minute presentations. There will be light refreshments and we encourage attendees to stay and chat with colleagues after the presentations. & Read More...
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10/03/2023 - Multiplexed antibody-based imaging enables the detailed characterization of molecular and cellular organization in tissues. Significant advances in the field now allow high-parameter data collection (60+ targets); however, considerable expertise and capital are needed to validate Read More...
Rockville, MD
Collaborative
We are a bioinformatics team within the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology’s (CBIIT’s) Cancer Informatics Branch (CIB)—soon to be referred to as the Informatics and Data Science (IDS) Program. Headed Read More...
Frederick, MD
Collaborative
The Chemical Synthesis Group is a component of the Chemical Biology Laboratory. This facility provides synthetic chemistry resources and expertise to the NCI Intramural community. The facility’s capabilities include: Providing expertise, consultation, and experience Read More...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Protein Expression Laboratory The Protein Expression Laboratory develops, improves, and delivers protein-centric services. Our goal is to help client investigators achieve their research goals with the lowest possible cost in the shortest time. All PEL Read More...
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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...
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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...
Bethesda, MD
Collaborative
Repositories
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...
Rockville, MD
Trans NIH Facility
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Poolesville, MD
Core Facility
Trans NIH Facility
The NIA Nonhuman Primate (NHP) Core Facility maintains a colony of rhesus macaques at the National Institutes of Health Animal Center. Established in 2012, the Core's mission is to offer research services supporting multi-disciplinary translational aging Read More...
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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...
Bethesda, MD
Core Facility
The Flow Cytometry Core (LGI) offers established technologies to support studies using flow cytometry and cell sorting. Established Technologies Applications that run on FACS Caliburs include: Immunophenotyping (up to 4-color), Intracellular markers, including cytokines and Read More...
Bethesda, MD
Collaborative
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...
Frederick, MD
Core Facility
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...
Bethesda, MD
Core Facility
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...
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CREx News & Updates June 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...
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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...
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Back Services: Biophysics Facility offers MDS 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 standard molecular Read More...
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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...
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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...
Bethesda, MD
Core Facility
Repositories
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...
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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...
Bethesda, MD
Collaborative
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...
Bethesda, MD
Trans NIH Facility
The Division of Veterinary Resources’ (DVR) mission is to contribute to the advancement of NIH biomedical research programs by providing excellence in animal care, customer service, and specialized research services to support intramural research efforts. Read More...
Frederick, MD
Core Facility
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...
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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...
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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...
Bethesda, MD
Collaborative
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...
Bethesda, MD
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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...
Frederick, MD
Collaborative
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...
Bethesda, MD
Trans NIH Facility
The Division of Veterinary Resources Animal Surgery has supported large animal research and clinical care for more than 40 years. DVR surgeons provide outstanding and highly specialized large animal (rabbits, ungulates, etc.) research support in a Read More...
Bethesda, MD
Core Facility
The Biophysics Core’s mission is to provide support in the study of macromolecular interactions, dynamics, and stability by offering consultations, training, professional collaborations, and instrument access. General Services: Multi-technique molecular interaction studies, Kinetic and Read More...
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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...
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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...
Bethesda, MD
Trans NIH Facility
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...
Bethesda, Maryland
Core Facility
Repositories
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...
Bethesda, MD
Core Facility
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...
Frederick, MD
Collaborative
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...
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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...
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Lesson 13: Aligning raw sequences to reference genome Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Lesson 11 Review In Lesson 11 we learned to aggregate multiple FASTQC reports into one using MultiQC, Read More...
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Lesson 13: Aligning raw sequences to reference genome Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Lesson 11 Review In Lesson 11 we learned to aggregate multiple FASTQC reports into one using MultiQC, Read More...
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Bioinformatics
Lesson 14: Visualizing alignment results Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Lesson 13 Review Previously, we used the application HISAT2 to align the raw sequencing data from the Human Brain Read More...
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Bioinformatics
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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Please see https://bioinformatics.ccr.cancer.gov/btep/self-learning/ to sign up for a license. Contact ncibtep@nih.gov with any questions about obtaining a license. Did you know that CCR researchers have access to Read More...
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Partek Flow enables scientists to build comprehensive workflows for analyzing multi-omics high throughput sequencing data including DNA and variant calling, bulk and single cell modalities for RNA, ChIP, and ATAC, spatial transcriptomics, CITE, and immune Read More...
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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...
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Objectives Review the grammar of graphics template. Learn about the statistical transformations inherent to geoms. Learn more about fine tuning figures with labels, legends, scales, and themes. Learn how to save plots with ggsave() . Review Read More...
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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...
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As you can see from the image, there are several accessor functions to access the data from the object: assays() - access matrix-like experimental data (e.g., count data). Rows are genomic features (e.g., Read More...
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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...
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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...
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R Crash Course: A few things to know before diving into wrangling Learning the Basics Objectives 1. Learn about R objects 3. Learn how to recognize and use R functions 4. Learn about data types and accessors Console Read More...
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Lesson 7: Course Wrap-Up Learning Objectives Introduce the QIIME2 microbiome workflow for Biowulf Review key concepts Showcase additional plugins QIIME 2 on Biowulf As mentioned previously, QIIME 2 is installed on Biowulf. To see available versions use module Read More...
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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...
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Data import and reshape Objectives 1. Learn to import multiple data types 2. Data reshape with tidyr : pivot_longer() , pivot_wider() , separate() , and unite() Installing and loading packages So far we have only worked with objects that Read More...
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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...