September 6-8: Microbial Community Analysis Workshop This workshop covers amplicon-based microbial analysis and methodology using high throughput sequencing technologies, and ancillary topics, including: Differences between community analysis with amplicons versus shotgun metagenomics and metatranscriptomics Experimental design Sequencing library preparation techniques and considerations (lecture only) Sequence data quality assurance and expectations Processing of amplicon reads… Read more »
Posts By: Nik Joshi
Variant Analysis Workshop in August
August 21-25: Variant Analysis Workshop Participants will explore experimental design, cost estimation, data generation, and processing of genomic data generated on the Illumina sequencing platform to discover and analyze variants. Topics will include mapping data to a genome, variant discovery pipelines, SNP annotation, effect prediction, structural variants, copy number variants, Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS),… Read more »
December 2016 Genome Assembly and Analysis Workshop
Registration is now open for the Dec. 12 – Dec. 14 workshop: Genome Assembly and Analysis For more information and registration, go to: https://registration.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/events/Dec_2016_Bioinformatics_Assembly_Workshop/
Finding variations in canine tumors may provide insight into common pathways for human cancer
Bioinformatics Core analyst/programmer Nikhil Joshi was co-author on a paper recently published in The Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology: Chromosomal Aberrations in Canine Gliomas Define Candidate Genes and Common Pathways in Dogs and Humans Nikhil was involved with quality assurance and alignment of data, visualization and calculating statistics about the alignments, as well as… Read more »
Announcing our newest Amazon Machine Image
We are pleased to announce the release of our newest Galaxy/command-line Amazon Machine Image. The new features of this AMI include updated versions of all of the bioinformatics software, updated and fixed Galaxy tool interfaces, and a Galaxy FTP server that makes it easy to transfer large files to Galaxy. Instructions on how to launch… Read more »
Newest UCD Biocore Galaxy AMI now available!
Having just completed our week-long Bioinformatics Short Course, we are pleased to announce that we have made our custom Galaxy AMI (ID: ami-bc586cf9) available for public use in the Amazon Cloud. This new AMI contains many of the standard tools from Galaxy as well as many custom tools and interfaces, such as Sickle, Scythe, GATK2, SGA, velvet,… Read more »