Making Sense of Next-Generation Sequencing Data
The annual international conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) announced the list of accepted papers that will be presented at this year’s ISMB to be held at Berlin, Germany during July 19-23. ISMB is one of the biggest bioinformatics/computational biology conferences and it is organized by International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). The 21st ISMB [...]
Understanding how the naturally occurring genetic variations affect gene expression levels has been a promising first step to understand the genetics of complex traits at molecular level. The expression Quantitative Trait Loci studies (eQTL) attempt map all the genomic regions affecting/associated with gene expression levels, by genotyping and measuring genome wide expression levels on the [...]
The Biology of Genomes 2013 (BOG13), one of the biggest conferences in genomics, starts today at CSHL, NY. The 26th annual meeting on all things genome begins this evening at 7:30 pm and goes through Saturday noon (Tuesday, May 7, 2013 – Saturday May 11, 2013). This year’s Biology of the Genomes has 48 talks and over [...]
Qiagen announced that it has acquired the Ingenuity Systems for $105 Million. The California based Ingenuity Systems the early Bioinformatics software company was co-founded by Ramon Felciano in 1998 when he was a PhD student at Stanford. Ingenuity has a variety of web based bioinformatics products based on its manually curated Knowledge Base of biological [...]
Thermo Fisher announced today that it is acquiring the Life Technologies for $13.6 billion. Life Technologies had been looking to be acquired since the beginning of the year. And the acquisition news initially came out yesterday from a WSJ report. Confirming the report, Thermo Fisher announced the acquisition news early this morning. In a press [...]
It looks like the California based Life Technologies is about to be acquired by the Massachussets based Thermo Fisher. According to the report on Wall Street Journal tonight, Life Technologies and Thermo Fisher are in advanced stages of the acquisition talk and it is expected that the companies can announce the acquisition as early as [...]
Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) announced that it is launching its next version of PacBio sequencer, PacBio RS II. The new PacBio RS II can produce 5,000 bp read lengths on an average and the longest reads are above 20,000 bp in length. In addition, in the new PacBio RS II, PacBio has doubled the number of simultaneously [...]
Alignment and calling variants are probably the two most common tasks in Next Gen Sequencing analysis. Both are challenging as we typically work with short sequence reads and complex genomes like human. Thats why there are over 60 short read aligners and numerous pipelines for calling variants like SNPs and indels. Although there are [...]
The 2013 Biology of Genomes, one of the biggest genomics conferences to be held in May 2013 at CSHL has announced the list of accepted talks and posters. The four day long conference begins on 7th May and ends on 11th May and the 2013 meeting will address DNA sequence variation and its role in [...]
