Getting Genetics Done

Jeff Leek , biostats professor at Johns Hopkins and instructor of the Coursera Data Analysis course , recently posted on Simly Statistics th...

At last week's 2013 useR! conference in Albacete, Spain, Martin Morgan and Marc Carlson led a course on using R/Bioconductor for analyzi...

Two of the most common questions at the beginning of an RNA-seq experiments are "how many reads do I need?" and "how many rep...

I've said it before: Twitter makes me a lazy blogger. Lots of stuff came across my radar this week that didn't make it into a full ...

Here are links to all of this year's posts (excluding seminar/webinar announcements), with the most visited posts in bold italic . As al...

In case you missed it, a new paper was published in Nature Biotechnology on a method for detecting isoform-level differential expression wit...

There's a new kid on the block for RNA-seq alignment. Dobin, Alexander, et al. "STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner." ...

Update (Dec 18, 2012): Please see this related post I wrote about differential isoform expression analysis with Cuffdiff 2 . DESeq and e...

Recently published in Nucleic Acids Research : F. Zambelli, G. M. Prazzoli, G. Pesole, G. Pavesi, Cscan: finding common regulators of a ...

I just got this announcement from EMBL-EBI about an RNA-seq/ChIP-seq analysis hands-on course. Find the full details, schedule, and speaker ...

I found the slides below on the education page from Bioinformatics & Research Computing at the Whitehead Institute. The first set ( PDF...

James Taylor came to UVA last week and gave an excellent talk on how Galaxy enables transparent and reproducible research in genomics. I...

I just read Gregory Cooper and Jay Shendure's review "Needles in stacks of needles: finding disease-causal variants in a wealth of ...

Sequencing company Complete Genomics recently made available 69 ethnically diverse complete human genome sequences : a Yoruba trio; a Puerto...

PLINK/SEQ is an open source C/C++ library for analyzing large-scale genome sequencing data. The library can be accessed via the pseq comman...

This is a few months old but I just got around to reading this series of blog posts on next-generation sequencing (NGS) by Gabe Rudy, Golden...

I recently analyzed some next-generation sequencing data, and I first wanted to compare the frequencies in my samples to those in the 1000 G...

I'm working on a project using next-gen sequencing to fine-map a genetic association in a gene region. Now that I've sequenced the r...

Pacific Biosciences is hosting a reception and dinner, and is screening their film The New Biology at this year's ASHG meeting. Accordi...

Next week Brent Anderson with Illumina will be hosting a seminar series showcasing presentations from Vanderbilt scientists using Illumina t...