Bioinformatics@Becker

Updates and Musings from the Bioinformatics team at Becker Medical Library


Entries Tagged as 'GWAS'

Genotyping Symposium

September 30th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments

The complementary technologies of next-generation sequencing and microarray-based genotyping are enabling discovery in the field of genetic research at an unprecedented rate. Massive resequencing efforts, such as The 1000 Genomes Project, are delivering an expanded catalogue of previously unknown genetic variation. This novel content can be utilized for the creation of next-generation microarrays allowing the [...]

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Tags:event, Genotyping, GWAS, St. Louis, Uncategorized, Washington University

Presentation slides available: 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics

April 21st, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments

A few days ago, I wrote about the 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics. AMIA has made the slides from the panels and paper presentations available: 2009 Summit on Translational Bioinformatics – Presentation Slides Now Available Presentation slides from the 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, held in San Francisco on March 15-17, 2009, are [...]

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Tags:AMIA, bioinformatics, course, database, e-health, event, GWAS, informatics, Information, open source, research, science, software, tool, translational, tutorial

PhenX Toolkit

April 20th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments

NIH issued a news release this morning about the PhenX Toolkit: About the Toolkit: Use the Toolkit to browse, search and select PhenX Measures for use in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) or other types of studies. The Measures were selected by PhenX Working Groups composed of domain experts. For each Measure, the Toolkit has associated protocol(s), [...]

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Tags:GWAS, phenotype, standards, tool