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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...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More New Resources on CREx NIH NeuroBioBank (NBB) The NBB provides researchers with access to human post-mortem brain tissue Read More...

[embed]https://youtu.be/pfZp5Vgsbw0[/embed] Menarini Silicon Biosystems has combined the ability to manipulate individual cells using DEP technology with high-quality image-based cell selection to create the DEPArray™ System. This Read More...

The Mass Cytometry Core (MCC) provides access to cutting-edge platforms and expert technical support for high-dimensional single-cell analysis and spatial proteomic profiling. A central expertise of the core is Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC), which allows Read More...

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

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...

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

The 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...

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...

The primary objective of the Protein Technology Core (PTC) is to establish an experimental screening pipeline for single-domain antibodies termed nanobodies. Nanobodies are antibody fragments consisting of a single monomeric variable antibody domain. The PTC, 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...

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...

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...

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

The 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...

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...

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...

CREx News & Updates May 2022 Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More Click below to learn how easy it is to navigate the CREx platform. These short videos will Read More...

The 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 Frederick Sequencing and Genomics Core (FSGC) was established through the integration and consolidation of the former Sequencing Facility (SF) and the Genomics Technology Laboratory (GTL). The new FSGC eliminates redundancy and provides cutting edge Read More...

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

The goals of the Bioinformatics Training and Education Program within NCI/CCR are: To make researchers aware of the bioinformatics resources available to them, To provide training and guidance on these resources regularly and at Read More...

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

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

CREx News & Updates October 2021 Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx) News Site Spotlight FACILITY HIGLIGHTS Learn more about services from the CPTR Read More...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More New CREx Program Manager The CREx Team is happy to announce Deepika Velampati as the new CREx Program Read More...

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

CREx 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...

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 NIH Biowulf Cluster provides researchers with a world-class system to assist in solving complex biomedical problems as diverse as gene variation in worldwide human populations, deep learning to model protein structures, and PET brain Read More...

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

The Biomedical Engineering and Physical Science (BEPS) shared resource supports NIH’s intramural basic and clinical scientists on applications of engineering, physics, imaging, measurement, and analysis. BEPS is centrally located on the main NIH campus Read More...

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 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...

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 Metabolic Clinical Research Unit (MCRU) opened in 2007 as a key component of the Strategic Plan for NIH Obesity Research . The NIDDK worked closely with the Clinical Center to design the Unit, which houses state-of-the-art Read More...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More NIH Cores on CREx NIBIB BEPS Micro Analytical Immunochemistry Unit The Micro Analytical Immunochemistry Unit employs a variety Read More...

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...

October 6, 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...

CREx Monthly Newsletter Learn about the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), Core Facilities, Webinars, & More NIH Research Festival The NIH Research Festival highlights the groundbreaking science and the vibrant NIH community driving our Read More...

The 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...

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

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

The Antibody Characterization Laboratory (ACL) is the laboratory responsible for the development of well-characterized monoclonal antibody reagents. The NCI’s Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research funds ACL as a resource to the entire cancer Read More...

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

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 research conducted within the Synthetic Biologics Core (SBC) Facility has a dual role: Generate chemical biology tools and drug candidates for molecular targets identified by NCI research groups, Develop novel effective methods and tools 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...

The LCBG Microscopy Core offers imaging technologies and training. The Core has established instrumentation for for 2D and 3D imaging of both fixed and living specimens.

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...

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 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...

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...

[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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

06/13/2024 - The schedule for this week consists of one presentation: Lorenz Adlung, UMC Hamburg-Eppendorf, will discuss: scMod: Marrying machine learning and deterministic modelling of longitudinal single-cell data Single-cell-based methods such as flow cytometry or single-cell Read More...

The CCR Single Cell Analysis Facility (SCAF): An Overview The Single Cell Analysis Facility (SCAF) is a CCR facility dedicated to the application of single-cell technologies in cancer research. Based on the NIH Bethesda main Read More...

The Single Cell Analysis Facility (SCAF) is a CCR facility dedicated to the application of single-cell technologies in cancer research. Based on the NIH Bethesda main campus, SCAF aims to provide the broadest range of Read More...

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...

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

10/26/2018 - Variant Analysis using Genomatix GeneGrid ** please bring laptop with Flash installed for the hands-on portion of this demo Susan M. Dombrowski, PhD and Peter Grant, Genomatix, Inc. Genomatix GeneGrid is a variant annotation and Read More...

Partek Genomics Suite (Partek) is a graphical user interface (GUI) based bioinformatics package. It hosts a range of work flows that allow for gene expression, epigenetic, and association analysis. {{Sdet}}{{Ssum}}Listing of Analysis Functions{{ Read More...

08/19/2026 - Partek Flow is a point-and-click platform for building analysis workflows for Next Generation Sequences (NGS), including DNA, bulk and single-cell RNA, spatial transcriptomics, ATAC, and ChIP, helping scientists avoid the steep learning curve of 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...

12/10/2025 - 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 suitable for those who wish Read More...

05/20/2025 - In this talk, Dr. Hwang will discuss three examples of applying single-cell and spatial oncology approaches to the study of pancreatic cancer. First, he will explain how they utilized single-nucleus RNA-sequencing to uncover an Read More...

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...

01/22/2025 - Join us for a one-hour talk investigating tumor signatures in the BRCA dataset by utilizing the CCBR Single-Cell RNA-seq Workflow on NIDAP. This talk will take you through an analysis of a publicly available Read More...

10/16/2024 - Dear Colleagues,   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...

08/21/2024 - Frederick National Laboratory Science and Technology Group: Work in Progress Seminar Series presents: "Single Cell Characterization of Antigen-Specific Responses: An Immunomics Approach" Meeting ID: 225 592 603 654  Passcode: B7sey6 

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...

06/10/2024 - Please join us for the next talk in our single cell and spatial interest group series.    Dr. Jasmine Plummer is a faculty member and the Director of St. Jude Children' Read More...

05/29/2024 - This talk will cover a scRNA-seq workflow available to NCI researchers on NIDAP. NIDAP, the NIH Integrated Data Analysis Platform, is a cloud-based and collaborative data aggregation and analysis platform that hosts user-friendly bioinformatics Read More...

Introduction to single cell RNA-Seq Single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-Seq) is becoming increasingly more common in biomedical research, but what is scRNA-Seq? How does it differ from other transcriptomic approaches (e.g., bulk RNA-Seq), and Read More...

Work on this if you choose to, at your own leisure, or if time permits. How would you confirm that there is a potential single nucleotide variant at position 50,768,105 on chromosome 22 for the hcc1395_normal_ Read More...

11/05/2025 - This talk delves into the innovative utilization of generative AI in propelling biomedical research forward. By harnessing single-cell sequencing data, we developed scGPT, a foundational model that extracts biological insights from an extensive dataset 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...

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...

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...

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...

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

RSeQC package provides a number of useful modules that can comprehensively evaluate high throughput sequence data especially RNA-seq data. “Basic modules” quickly inspect sequence quality, nucleotide composition bias, PCR bias and GC bias, while “RNA-seq Read More...

04/21/2021 - Register Description: MacVector is a sequence analysis application for macOS computers that provides users with a variety of tools and functions to simplify the analysis, manipulation, assembly, and documentation of DNA and protein sequences. Read More...

01/14/2021 - Registration: https://cbiit.webex.com/cbiit/onstage/g.php?MTID=e968a58127acdb59b961e2ef13865c7ad Description: This workshop will focus on the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data using the Read More...

08/20/2020 - Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) & Variation Suite (SVS) is an analytic tool created to empower researchers to perform complex analyses and visualizations on genomic and phenotypic data. Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) continues to be Read More...

04/25/2017 - This talk will be an introduction to Methyl-seq, where you will learn about leveraging the power of next-generation sequencing (NGS), both genome-wide and targeted approaches, that can provide insight into methylation patterns at a Read More...

For this exercise, click on the chromosome selection drop down and choose "All". Then load normal_rep1.bam and tumor_rep1.bam to the tracks. Unlike the bigWig files, which shows pre-calculated coverage Read More...

10/29/2025 - The Buenrostro lab is broadly dedicated to advancing our knowledge of gene regulation and the downstream consequences on cell fate decisions. To do this, the Buenrostro lab develops new technologies utilizing molecular biology, microscopy Read More...

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...

01/27/2025 - NCI CCR Liver Cancer Program Seminar Series Dr. Sethupathy is professor of physiological genomics and chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Cornell University. He leads a research lab focused on genome-scale and Read More...

11/06/2024 - Join by meeting number:  Meeting number (access code): 2305 301 5709  Meeting password: RTdpZCg*255  

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...

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...

Lesson 14 Practice Objectives Here, we will practice using the Integrative Genome Viewer (IGV) to visualize the hcc1395 RNA sequencing alignment results. About the data and launching IGV We were introduced to the hcc1395 RNA sequencing Read More...

Which reference genome are we using in this IGV session to view the alignment results for samples hcc1395_normal_rep1 and hcc1395_tumor_rep2? On what chromosome are the sequencing data mapping to? {{Sdet}} Solution{{ Read More...

11/09/2022 - Over the past decade the importance of Structural Variation (SV) is becoming more obvious not just for population diversity but also with clear impacts in multiple diseases (e.g. Neurological) as well as cancer.  Read More...

03/08/2016 - BTEP Workshop on Exome-Seq Data Analysis and Variant Annotation (2-day) This workshop will cover the basics and best practices of exome-seq analysis including downstream interpretation of variants using a variety of in-house, open-source and Read More...

Data collected for a specific case in TCGA may have differed according to sample quality and quantity, cancer type, or technology available at the time of analysis. --- https://www.cancer.gov/ccg/research/genome-sequencing/ Read More...

The reference genome is a completely assembled sequence (ie. the order in which the nucleotides are arranged is known). For high throughput sequencing, the known sequence help scientists find out where in the genome each 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...

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...

We previously stored FASTQC results for the HBR and UHR raw sequencing data in the ~/biostar_class/hbr_uhr/QC directory (recall that ~ denotes home directory). So before getting started, change into this folder. cd ~/ Read More...

Lesson 4: Useful Unix For this lesson, you will need to login to the GOLD environment on DNAnexus. Lesson 3 Review Biowulf is the high performance computing cluster at NIH. When you apply for a Biowulf account Read More...

{{Sdet}}{{Ssum}}Single nucleotide variants{{Esum}} CLC Genomics Workbench (sequencing based) What file types can I start my analysis with? FASTQ Geneious Prime (sequencing based) What file types can I start my analysis with? FASTQ 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...

12/02/2026 - Partek Flow is a point-and-click platform for building analysis workflows for Next Generation Sequences (NGS), including DNA, bulk and single-cell RNA, spatial transcriptomics, ATAC, and ChIP, helping scientists avoid the steep learning curve of Read More...

10/14/2026 - Partek Flow is a point-and-click platform for building analysis workflows for Next Generation Sequences (NGS), including DNA, bulk and single-cell RNA, spatial transcriptomics, ATAC, and ChIP, helping scientists avoid the steep learning curve of Read More...

06/18/2026 - Partek Flow is a point-and-click platform for building analysis workflows for Next Generation Sequences (NGS), including DNA, bulk and single-cell RNA, spatial transcriptomics, ATAC, and ChIP, helping scientists avoid the steep learning curve of Read More...

02/19/2026 - Dr. John Quackenbush, a Harvard professor and NCI grantee, will describe the conceptual framework for these network tools, demonstrate some practical applications, and explain how they can help you tackle complex biological questions about Read More...

02/18/2026 - Partek Flow is a point-and-click platform for building analysis workflows for Next Generation Sequences (NGS), including DNA, bulk and single-cell RNA, spatial transcriptomics, ATAC, and ChIP, helping scientists avoid the steep learning curve of Read More...

12/16/2025 - Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is evolving rapidly as a pivotal technology in studying the biology of tumors and their associated tumor microenvironments (TME). However, where/how it can impact research remain unclear. In this Read More...

11/06/2025 - Qlucore Omics Explorer is a point-and-click software that enables analysis of RNA sequencing (bulk and single cell), proteomics and metabolomics data. It’s machine learning capabilities allow for cell type classification. This Read More...

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

05/22/2025 - It took over $3 billion and 13 years to sequence the first human genome. Today, we can sequence a genome in a single day for less than $1,000.  That incredible technological advancement has led to the generation Read More...

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

05/14/2025 - Please note: Registration is required to get the Meeting Link for this event. Please pre-register. The Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) is a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-funded initiative to construct 3-dimensional atlases of Read More...

04/02/2025 - Please note: Registration is required to get the Meeting Link for this event. Please pre-register. The Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) is a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-funded initiative to construct 3-dimensional atlases of Read More...

03/27/2025 - Please note: Registration is required to get the Meeting Link for this event. Please pre-register. Aviv Regev is head of Genentech Research and Early Development. Formerly, Regev was Chair of the Faculty and Core Read More...

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...

03/19/2025 - The rising popularity of spatial transcriptomics (ST) has prompted the development of numerous analysis methods, each varying in robustness and user accessibility. These diverse approaches could help provide a better understanding of the tumor Read More...

12/04/2024 - Galaxy is a web-based computational workbench for analyzing and visualizing biomedical datasets that is used by thousands of scientists daily.   Galaxy enables accessible, reproducible, and scalable biomedical data science by any scientist Read More...

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

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...

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...

07/10/2024 - Qlucore Omics Explorer is a point-and-click software for analyzing various omics data including RNA sequencing (bulk and single cell), proteomics, and metabolomics. Participants will learn to perform QC, construct visualizations (ie. PCA, heatmap, volcano, Read More...

06/27/2024 - During this presentation, you will learn about the GenePattern ecosystem, an environment for accessible, reproducible research that has been serving the needs of the cancer genomics community since 2004. GenePattern hosts hundreds of genomics analysis Read More...

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

06/18/2024 - The rising popularity of spatial transcriptomics (ST) has prompted the development of numerous analysis methods, each varying in robustness and user accessibility. These diverse approaches could help provide a better understanding of the tumor Read More...

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

Lesson 6: sra-tools, e-utilities, and parallel This page uses some content directly from the Biostar Handbook by Istvan Albert. Lesson 5 Review: The majority of computational tasks on Biowulf should be submitted as jobs: sbatch or swarm Read More...

Lesson 6: Downloading data from the SRA For this lesson, you will need to login to the GOLD environment on DNAnexus. Lesson 5 Review: The majority of computational tasks on Biowulf should be submitted as jobs: sbatch Read More...

Lesson 11: Merging FASTQ quality reports and data cleanup Before getting started, remember to be signed on to the DNAnexus GOLD environment. Lesson 10 Review In the previous lesson, we learned about the structure of the FASTQ Read More...

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

02/26/2026 - 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...

01/15/2026 - Gil Kanfer, PhD, of the NCI CCR High-Throughput Imaging Facility (HiTIF), in the Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression (LRBGE) , will present the spatial biology analysis stack HiTIF is building to support Center Read More...

01/13/2026 - The past decade has witnessed thriving cell atlas research activities in elucidating human cell types and their organization principles. The NIH BRAIN Initiative launched a pilot 3-year BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Consortium (BICCC) in 2014, 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...

Most BTEP courses include detailed course materials including lesson content, additional resources, and lesson associated data. These course materials are listed here so that learners can easily return to and review concepts taught in class Read More...

This archive contains past and present issues of the  BTEP BioInformatics Bulletin. The BTEP Bioinformatics Bulletin features select upcoming bioinformatics events offered across NIH and is distributed monthly via email to the Center Read More...

  Update: Please contact your IC representative to get access to the Anaconda Business license as it has transitioned from enterprise to seat-based licensing. For questions, email anaconda@nih.gov. Anaconda ( https://www.anaconda. Read More...

nf-core is a community effort to generate a curated set of standardized, best-practice, reproducible, documented, NGS analysis pipelines. All these workflows are built using the versatile workflow manager, Nextflow , and have been released under the 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...

03/20/2025 - Please note: Registration is required to get the Meeting Link for this event. Please pre-register. BTEP and the Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Interest Group jointly present: Quantifying spatiotemporal dynamics during embryogenesis is crucial Read More...

General questions or comments about the BTEP program or classes should be addressed to: NCIBTEP@nih.gov Amy Stonelake, Ph.D . BTEP Program Manager and Bioinformatics Analyst amy.stonelake@nih.gov I am an experienced 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...

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...

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

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...

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...