Flashcard Fridays – Nobel Prizes 2013
After “covering” the IgNobel Prizes, I feel it’s my duty to write about the “real thing” as well. So let’s take a look at the scientific Nobel Prize winners of 2013!
Top HLA labs report large-scale NGS adaptation at Registries 2013 conference
Posted by Attila Berces Cyprus was an ideal site for a conference on marrow donor registries since this country has the highest proportion of its population HLA typed and registered as donors. The importance of this registry was already apparent on the flight to the conference since Cyprus Airways in-flight...
Flashcard Fridays – Seeing the invisible
October is Blindness Awareness Month. (Don’t forget that World Sight Day is coming up next week!) Also, in a way, next generation sequencing (and sequencing, in general) is all about making invisible information “perceivable”, so I thought it would be a good idea to collect some articles about what “hidden...
4 Summaries to Show You What Omixon Can Do
We decided to come up with 4 condensed summaries about the services Omixon Biocomputing can provide. You don’t have to be an expert to analyze NGS data, you just have to find the right tool for that. We hope you will find them useful! HLA Typing in Transplantation Research uses...
Workflow Wednesdays – Coverage analysis 2. and other alignment statistics
As I promised last week, I’ll show you some command line based alignment analysis tools this week. As there are basically an endless number of methods for generating alignment statistics, feel free to share additional tips and tricks in the comment section!