Search Results for: preclinical small molecule drug discovery

Bruker AVANCE 400 and 500 MHz NMR instruments. Helium Cryoprobe technology on the 500 MHz machine for added sensitivity, especially for Carbon-13 spectra. Access to a second 500 MHz instrument with Prodigy Liquid Nitrogen-cooled cryoprobe. User Accounts can be 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...

The NIH Clinical Center Pharmacy Department provides pharmaceutical care to inpatients and outpatients on NIH intramural research protocols at the NIH Clinical Center. The Clinical Center facility encompasses 200 inpatient beds, 93 day-hospital stations, and 15 clinics. Clinical Read More...

The NIH Metabolomics Consortium (NIH-MC) 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 NIH-MC is 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...

The CPP is directly responsible for the pharmacokinetic (PK) analysis of numerous Phase I and II clinical trials conducted within the NCI. In addition, the CPP provides direct PK support for many studies performed elsewhere Read More...

Small STARS can be used to request supplemental funding to offset exceptional costs (e.g., core or vendor services or specialized reagents).  All requests must be approved for funding before work can commence. Provides 50% cost Read More...

Small STARS can be used to request supplemental funding to offset exceptional costs (e.g., core or vendor services or specialized reagents).  All requests must be approved for funding before work can commence. Provides 50% cost 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...

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...

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

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

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is developing a national repository of Patient-Derived Models (PDMs) comprised of patient-derived xenografts (PDXs), patient-derived organoids (PDOrg), and in vitro patient-derived tumor cell cultures (PDCs) and cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs). These Read More...

The 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...

Protein and Metabolite Characterization Core (PMCC), formerly known as the Protein Characterization Lab (PCL),  offers various technologies to CCR investigators to characterize proteins and metabolites. The core develops and applies state-of-the-art analytical technologies, primarily mass Read More...

NCI LASP Animal Research Technology Support (ARTS) provides customized technical support for basic and translational animal-based research to the scientific community. We offer a wide array of services ranging from expert colony management to the 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...

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 Pharmacogenetics Core is responsible for correlating outcome observations (toxicity, efficacy, survival, PK/PD) with genetic variants (germline or somatic) to identify key genetic determinants and biomarkers that predict response to specific treatments. We also 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...

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...

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...

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

The core provides access to several different state-of-the-art 3D microscopes as well as computers to visualize and process image data. The facility houses equipment for 2D or 3D imaging of fixed and living specimens. High Read More...

LCMB Microscopy Core offers live cell imaging technologies as well as super-resolution, fluorescence lifetime and confocal imaging systems for immunofluorescence. Our confocal instruments are a Leica SP8 laser scanning confocal microscope and a Nikon spinning 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...

OSTR offers two distinct supplemental funding mechanisms for CCR PI’s to request additional funds for technologies and research services requiring exceptional costs. Eligible expenses include services from Cores and outside vendors.  A third program ( Read More...

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...

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.

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 Molecular Pathology Unit is intended to spearhead opportunities for bridging basic and clinical research efforts by more precisely optimizing the development, characterization, and utilization of models of human disease. The initiative approach includes both 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...

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...

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 Biological Products Core provides the AIDS research community with high-quality purified preparations of various strains of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), economically prepared by leveraging the economy of scale. Materials 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 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...

CREx News & Updates January 2022 Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More Site Spotlight NCI ANTIBODY CHARACTERIZATION LABORATORY (ACL) The ACL specializes in rigorously validating antibodies for signaling and Read More...

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

The Optical Microscopy Analysis Core (OMAC), formerly known as the Optical Microscopy Analysis Lab (OMAL),  focuses its research and development activities to quantitatively understand the molecular basis of three-dimensional (3D) cell organization, motility, invasion, and 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...

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

Radiation Oncology Branch is part of CCR. Bioinformatics core is a collaborative resource to support ROB branch and provide service to ROB investigators from NCI and other Institutes access to new technologies, bioinformatics, statistical analysis Read More...

The Clinical Support Laboratory offers processing, tracking, and testing of a broad range of clinical samples. Support can begin at the early stages of clinical trial development to aid in developing a comprehensive strategy for Read More...

The Crystallization Facility provides an automated environment for setting up crystallization experiments in a high-throughput format, storing the resulting plates under controlled conditions, and monitoring the status of prepared droplets remotely. The Facility is in Read More...

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...

NCI LASP Genome Modification Core (GMC) is a CCR-dedicated facility that provides advice, training, and reagents to NCI scientists seeking to utilize CRISPR and other nucleases to generate genome modifications in primary cells, cell lines, Read More...

The Office of Collaborative Biostatistics, Office of the Clinical Director, is the statistical and data management component of CCR. The Section provides statistical leadership and data management consultation for CCR’s major clinical activities and Read More...

.contrast_primary_button{margin-bottom: 29.124px;margin-top: 0px;} Established in 2016, CREx is an NIH-exclusive online research resource marketplace designed to increase transparency around the advanced technologies and technical expertise available within the Intramural Research Program (IRP). 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...

The COP evaluates novel therapies in pet dogs with cancer to improve outcomes for human patients and established the Comparative Oncology Trial Consortium (COTC), a collaborative effort of NCI and extramural comparative oncology centers at 24 Read More...

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

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...

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 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...

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

The 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...

September 8, 2022 crex.nih.gov CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More Science & Technology Seminars and Training Events Upcoming Seminars and Educational Opportunities The following 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Proteomic Data Common (PDC) represents the NCI’s largest public repository of proteogenomic comprehensive tumor datasets, essentially a Proteogenomic Cancer Atlas. It was developed to advance our understanding of how proteins help shape the risk, 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...

The PET Department, CC, functions as a core facility that supports basic, translational, and clinical research using PET. It is a vertically integrated facility, with resources to produce positron-emitting radionuclides, manufacture PET radiopharmaceuticals in a Read More...

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

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...

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...

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 Clinical Image Processing Service (CIPS) offers timely and accurate advanced image processing of diagnostic radiology images for clinical care, research, and training. CIPS’ functions include clinical services and scientific researches. Established Technologies CIPS can Read More...

CREx News & Updates November 2021 Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More Site Spotlight FACILITY HIGLIGHTS Learn more about services from the NINDS Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Core. NINDS Read More...

Mouse models of human cancer have had a profound impact on our current understanding of the mechanisms of tumorigenesis and the pathways regulated by cancer-related genes. These models hold the promise of serving as critical 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...

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...

04/09/2025 - Game Changers in Computational Drug Discovery

12/07/2021 - NCATS was sparked by the energy of patients, communities, and researchers frustrated by the high failure rate of drug development. This event will highlight collaborative efforts and state-of-the-art technologies that are breaking down barriers Read More...

08/06/2024 - This webinar will focus on the data discovery and sharing infrastructure available for librarians and researchers. Demonstrating how technologies like repositories, data catalogs, and standards work together, this webinar will provide needed background on Read More...

10/20/2025 - AI-Driven Spatial Transcriptomics Unlocks Large-Scale Breast Cancer Biomarker Discovery from Histopathology

05/01/2025 - In this talk, Dr. Stergachis will present data on using Fiber-seq and deaminase-assisted Fiber-seq (DAF-seq) to resolve the functional impact of both germline and somatic genetic variants, as well as to identify somatic epimutations 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...

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...

09/17/2025 - The rapid advancement of large language models is enabling a new generation of domain-specific agents capable of reasoning, retrieving, and acting in complex biomedical contexts. In this talk, Dr. Lu present two representative systems: Read More...

05/07/2025 - Join Dr. Eytan Ruppin, NCI investigator in the Center for Cancer Research, as he discusses Path2Space, a new and unpublished deep learning approach that predicts spatial gene expression directly from histopathology slides. Spatial Read More...

05/01/2025 - In this webinar, the participants will learn about application of machine learning methods, specifically geared towards predicting the toxicity of target molecules. They will gain insights into various machine learning techniques, fostering a comprehensive Read More...

03/21/2024 - Context-aware AI implemented to facilitate data discovery and harmonization has significantly accelerated some of the common bottlenecks in the collaborative research process. Pilot work has shows major time and cost savings compared to current Read More...

03/12/2024 - In this webinar, the participants will learn about application of machine learning methods, specifically geared towards predicting the toxicity of target molecules. They will gain insights into various machine learning techniques, fostering a comprehensive Read More...

01/21/2026 - Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease and related dementias (ADRD) remain a major health crisis with profound social and economic burdens. Innovative strategies are needed to identify genetic risk and protective factors, model disease mechanisms, Read More...

07/23/2025 - Harne ing the Power of Tran criptomic for cientific Di covery

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

02/01/2024 - Please plan to attend this seminar on Zoom tomorrow. The meeting is sponsored by the NIH Virology Interest Group, but Dr. Parker is using some exciting tools to examine gene expression at the subcellular Read More...

01/21/2026 - This one-hour online training offers an overview of the NIH-sponsored Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) (Dataverse, Dryad, Figshare, Mendeley Data, Open Science Framework, Vivli, and Zenodo), and the role of participating in these repositories Read More...

11/20/2025 - This one-hour online training offers an overview of the NIH-sponsored Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) (Dataverse, Dryad, Figshare, Mendeley Data, Open Science Framework, Vivli, and Zenodo), and the role of participating in these repositories Read More...

03/24/2025 - AI Club is a weekly meeting that explores various topics relating to AI and deep learning in biomedical sciences, typically in a seminar, workshop, or journal club format. AI Club is intended to be Read More...

01/29/2025 - Join Dr. Douglas Flora, executive medical director of Oncology Services at St. Elizabeth Healthcare, to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing cancer care through oncology. This event will cover: key AI terminology,& Read More...

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...

05/19/2023 - Patient-derived cancer models (PDCM) have become an essential tool in both cancer research and preclinical studies. Each model type offers unique advantages and is better suited for specific research areas: cell lines are low Read More...

07/25/2025 - Dr. Lee Lancashire is a data scientist with over 20 years of experience in machine learning and statistics, currently serving as Head of Data Science at Every Cure. He earned his PhD specializing in artificial Read More...

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...

01/03/2024 - on Wednesday, January 3rd at noon in Building 41, Conference Room C507/C509 and online. In-person attendance is encouraged.&nbsp; Dr. Larson's research is focused on&nbsp;understanding gene expression in eukaryotic Read More...

01/28/2026 - Navigating Risk in Sharing Cancer Data:&nbsp;Sharing cancer data accelerates scientific discovery and promotes innovation across disciplines, which brings complex ethical, legal, and procedural challenges. This panel will share practical experiences; current Read More...

01/23/2026 - In the second class of Statistical Analysis of Research Data (SARD) hosted by NCI Center for Cancer Training, participants will learn about: Inferential statistics Two sample tests of means Small versus large sample consideration Read More...

01/23/2026 - This is the second class of the Statistical Analysis of Research Data (SARD) series offered by NCI Center for Cancer Training. In this class participants will learn about: Inferential statistics&nbsp; Two sample Read More...

07/24/2025 - QIAGEN Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) is the leading pathway analysis application among the life science research community and is cited in tens of thousands of articles for the analysis, integration and interpretation of data Read More...

07/17/2025 - NIDDK Biostats Seminar Series: From Research Study Design to Collecting, Managing, and Analyzing Data. Learning Objectives 1. The learner should know the difference between observational studies, clinical trials (drug and non-drug studies), and secondary data ( 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...

06/11/2025 - Join Dr. Dougla Flora, executive medical director of Oncology ervice at t. Elizabeth Healthcare, to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) i revolutionizing cancer care through oncology. Thi event will cover: &nb p; key 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...

04/03/2025 - 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...

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...

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...

10/23/2024 - Please send any questions and/or specific topic areas that you&rsquo;re interested in hearing about for this presentation by Friday, 10/18 to Kayla Strauss . QIAGEN Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) is the leading Read More...

10/16/2024 - Dear Colleagues, &nbsp; Thanks to advances in single-cell genomics, researchers can construct large-scale organ atlases, giving you more accurate ways to study genetic mutations and alterations related to drug responses and disease. These Read More...

10/01/2024 - Dr. Nusrat Rabbee’s book, “ Biomarker Analysis in Clinical Trials Using R ” offers practical guidance to statisticians on how to incorporate biomarker data analysis in clinical trial studies. In it, she discusses the appropriate Read More...

09/13/2024 - Reverse-phase protein arrays (RPPAs) represent a powerful functional proteomic approach to elucidate cancer-related molecular mechanisms and develop novel cancer therapies. &nbsp; To facilitate community-based investigation of the large-scale protein expression data generated by Read More...

05/29/2024 - This class provides an overview of options for customizing a ggplot graph. This class will focus on methods for creating small multiples, options for customizing a graph, and how to apply ggplot themes.& Read More...

The following sources inspired this content: https://www.sc-best-practices.org https://hbctraining.github.io/scRNA-seq_online/ https://bioconductor.org/books/3.15/OSCA.basic/ This is only a small subset of tools available to single cell RNASeq. Read More...

Following normalization, the next step is to find variable features. In most scRNA-seq experiments only a small proportion of the genes will be informative and biologically variable. A subset of cells with high cell to Read More...

05/02/2024 - The explosion of biomedical big data and information in the past decade or so has created new opportunities for discoveries to improve the treatment and prevention of human diseases. As such, the field of Read More...

04/23/2024 - Join Dr. Kai Tan of the Children&rsquo;s Hospital of Philadelphia as he discusses his cutting-edge technology, CytoCommunity, for the supervised and unsupervised discovery of tissue cellular neighborhoods. CytoCommunity offers a powerful Read More...

03/27/2024 - 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...

02/14/2024 - Explore the intricate world of pathway analysis with Reactome. Reactome is an open-source, manually-curated and peer-reviewed biological pathway knowledgebase, free and open to the public. We will provide you an overview of the contents Read More...

02/13/2024 - This class provides an overview of options for customizing a ggplot graph. This class will focus on methods for creating small multiples, options for customizing a graph, and how to apply ggplot themes.& Read More...

01/16/2024 - To register to attend, you must log in or create a free SITC Cancer Immunotherapy CONNECT account. It’s your last chance to register and learn about the cutting edge of computational immuno-oncology through Read More...

pwd (print working directory) ls (list) nano (basic editor for creating small text files) rm (remove files) mkdir (make a directory) cd (change directory) mv (rename or move files) less (view files) man (manual) cp ( Read More...

When loading tabular data with readr , the default object created will be a tibble . Tibbles are like data frames with some small but apparent modifications. For example, they can have numbers for column names, and Read More...

What if we wanted a new column that stored the mean of each row in our data frame? Let's create a small data frame, and use mutate() to get the mean() . What happens when Read More...

04/16/2026 - The ability to measure gene expression levels for individual cells (vs. pools of cells) and with spatial resolution is crucial to address many important biological and medical questions, such as the study of stem Read More...

02/12/2026 - Proteins mediate the critical processes of life and beautifully solve the challenges faced during the evolution of modern organisms. Dr. Baker&rsquo;s goal is to design a new generation of proteins that Read More...

02/12/2026 - The NLM Division of Intramural Research (DIR) is pleased to welcome Tiarn&aacute;n Keenan, MD, PhD, Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator and Director of the Medical Retina Fellowship Program at the National Eye Institute Read More...

09/09/2025 - This event will be in-person only, with no Webex/hybrid option.&nbsp; We will record the sessions and make them available in the BTEP Video Archive. There is no registration necessary.&nbsp; Read More...

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

06/13/2025 - Dr. Fuhai Li,&nb p;A ociate Profe or at the chool of Medicine and Computer cience &amp; Engineering, Wa hington Univer ity, will pre ent novel approache that combine large language Read More...

05/29/2025 - Prostate cancer exhibits significant intratumoral heterogeneity, driving a spectrum of phenotypes ranging from indolent disease to aggressive metastasis, challenging risk stratification and treatment. A key feature of this heterogeneity is clonal diversity, encompassing both Read More...

04/17/2025 - Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center Virtual Grand Rounds Interested in learning about various cancer indicators, approaches for data integration , and how to leverage data to drive scientific discovery? Then join NCI CBIIT&rsquo;s Read More...

01/21/2025 - About the Speaker: Hari completed his PhD in Cell Biology at the University of Toronto, where he used single-molecule imaging techniques to reveal how multimolecular interactions govern early signaling events in individual immune cells. Read More...

01/10/2025 - NIH DIRECTORS SEMINAR SERIES In this presentation, Dr. Scholz will discuss the approach to tackling complex neurodegenerative diseases using modern genomic tools, focusing on Lewy body dementia, a major research area in her lab. Read More...

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

12/05/2024 - This one and a half hour online training will provide a demonstration of how to identify cell types based on statistics, visualization, and canonical markers. One Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) sample will be Read More...

12/03/2024 - This one and a half hour online training &nbsp;will provide a demonstration of how to build a Bulk RNA-Seq data analysis pipeline using a fastq file. Partek&nbsp; Flow &nbsp; Read More...

11/07/2024 - In the era of renewed space exploration, understanding female health risks during spaceflight is essential. This talk focuses on leveraging NIAID's ImmPort and NASA's GeneLab data using computational and systems biology to Read More...

Cancer research is a complex and data-intensive field. Cloud computing offers a powerful solution for researchers to store, analyze, and share large datasets efficiently. In this month’s topic spotlight, we will explore cloud resources Read More...

07/19/2024 - The molecular mechanisms underlying many types of cancer involve aberrances in trans-acting factors and their binding to cis-regulatory elements to regulate gene expression. Techniques such as ChIP-seq, DNase-seq, and ATAC-seq are commonly used to Read More...

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...

07/12/2024 - We cordially invite you to attend the July Data Sharing and Reuse Seminar featuring Satra Ghosh, Ph.D. As the Director of the Open Data in Neuroscience Initiative and a Principal Research Scientist at Read More...

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

06/20/2024 - Dr. Irizarry will share findings demonstrating limitations of current workflows that are popular in single cell RNA-Seq data analysis. Specifically, he will describe challenges and solutions to dimension reduction, cell-type classification, and statistical significance Read More...

06/14/2024 - Data Sharing and Reuse Seminar Series Please join us for the June Data Sharing and Reuse Seminar where Micahel Schatz, Ph.D. will be presenting "BioDIGS: BioDiversity and Informatics for Genomics Scholars. This Read More...

06/11/2024 - Large language models (LLMs) are artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that employ deep learning and extensive data sets to create new content. LLMs offer many possible applications in the biomedical field, such as the development Read More...

There are several metrics that can be used to assess overall quality. The base workflow from Seurat suggests the following: nCount_RNA - the absolute number of RNA molecules (UMIs) per cell (i.e., count Read More...

When using SingleR, the 3 primary parameters are the experimental dataset, the reference dataset, and the labels being used. Continuing with the main labels of the MouseRNASeq dataset on the full dataset looks like this: annot = Read More...

05/15/2024 - To register to attend, you must log in to your SITC Cancer Immunotherapy CONNECT account. Don&rsquo;t have an account?&nbsp; Create a free one . Join Dr. Karchin of the Johns 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...

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

03/22/2024 - This 3-hour seminar is tailored for biologists, data analysts, and researchers who are eager to dive into the essentials of computational flow cytometry analysis using R. Flow cytometry is a crucial technique in cell Read More...

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...

The Bioinformatics Training and Education Program is pleased to announce the Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Research at NIH Seminar Series . Starting on Feb 29, these monthly events will be recorded and made available in the BTEP Read More...

Reproducibility in science means being able to generate the same experimental / analytical results with a high degree of reliability. This is necessary for research validation, scientific and public trust, innovation, and collaboration. Reproducibility is not Read More...

"Keep raw data separate from analyzed data" -- datacarpentry.org For large genomic data sets, you may want to include a project folder with two main subdirectories (i.e., raw_data and data_ Read More...

Using a small subset of data: Imported raw fastq files using qiime tools import . Data was paired-end CASAVA format. Checked for primers using qiime cutadapt trim-paired . Denoised with qiime dada2 denoise-paired and generated summaries of Read More...

The QIIME2 platform can be used for different types of -omics data. For this course, we will be focusing on targeted amplicon sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. The 16S rRNA gene (~1500 bp) codes for Read More...

To create an R object, you need a name, a value, and an assignment operator (e.g.,

We will import a small subset of fastq files to demonstrate initial sequence processing steps. The main questions we need to answer to import our raw data are: Is the data demultiplexed or multiplexed? Often Read More...

For the help sessions, we will work on processing sequences generated in Zhang Z, Feng Q, Li M, Li Z, Xu Q, Pan X, Chen W. Age-Related Cancer-Associated Microbiota Potentially Promotes Oral Squamous Cell Cancer Read More...

Frequency based filtering, contingency based filtering, metadata based filtering qiime feature-table filter-samples Filter samples based on total number of sequences (e.g., --p-min-frequency 1000 ) Filter samples with a minimal number of features (e.g., --p-min-features 10 ) Metadata 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...

The FindAllMarkers function is particularly useful in identifying the differentially expressed genes that distinguish several groups, such as seen here in the clusters. What makes this unique is that none of the identities are initially Read More...

One particular critique of differential expression in single cell RNASeq analysis is p-value "inflation," where the p-values get so small that there are far too many genes exist with p-values below 0.05, even after Read More...

Now, that we have clusters, we can use differential expression analysis to uncover markers that define our clusters. These markers can be used to assign cell types to our clusters. First, because we are working 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...

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...

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...

Learning Objectives Learn about data structures including factors, lists, data frames, and matrices. Load, explore, and access data in a tabular format (data frames) Learn to write out (export) data from the R environment Data Read More...

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