Tag Archives: genomics

3rd Annual Big Data in Biology Summer School

Posted on March 9, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by UT Austin graduate student Rayna Harris The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at The University of Texas at Austin is proud to host the 3rd Annual Big Data in Biology Summer School May 23–26, 2016. The 2016 … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Omics beyond model organisms, part II

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Gaurav Moghe. Almost two and half years ago, when I was a graduate student, I wrote a blog post in this very series titled “Omics beyond model organisms”, … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: EDAMAME!

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU faculty member Ashley Shade. We received overwhelmingly positive feedback from our Explorations in Data Analysis for Metagenomic Advances in Microbial Ecology (EDAMAME) workshop last year, which was partially supported … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Bases vs Bytes- Bioinformaticians to the Rescue

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin Research Scientist Dhivya Arasappan. Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field in which computer algorithms and statistical methods are applied to answer biological questions. It is a … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Providing computational methods for biological research

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin research scientist Dennis Wylie. I’ve always been intrigued by the combination of seemingly incongruous things. As a child I loved stories about strange chimerical creatures … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Tools for mapping rare mutations

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin postdoc Daniel Deatherage. My doctoral work focused on epigenetic changes in ovarian cancer in the lab of Dr. Tim Huang at The Ohio State University. … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Same behavior, same genes?

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin research associate Rebecca Young. From an early age I spent my time outside – chasing lizards, riding horses, and begging to go to a zoo. … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Seeing double? Genome duplication and the teleost fish retina

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Joshua Sukeena. The sense of vision is mediated by a specialized projection of the central nervous system located in the back of the eye, the … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Complex Traits

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Matthieu Delcourt. The evolution of complex traits is one of the major enigmas in evolutionary biology. While we know a lot about phenotypic variation within populations, … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Bioinformatics tools

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Ilya Zhbannikov. I graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University, Russia) with a Masters Degree in Information Systems in 2009. After a year … Continue reading →

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