How do jumping genes contribute to human diversity? by Clement Goubert In recognition of Transposons Day 2021 (June 16th), let’s take a look at the importance of active mobile genomic elements (once called “junk DNA”) to human health and diseases. Illustration: ANDRZEJ KRAUZE We are hosts to genomic hitchhikers [Read more]
‘CHANGE’ through the eyes of a Business Analyst By Mary Ann Kizhakechethipuza “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” – Niccolò Machiavelli The [Read more]
McGill researchers awarded Azrieli Science Grant for RNA and the brain Dr. Wayne Sossin, Professor at The Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, has been awarded a grant through the Azrieli Science Grants Program as principal investigator for a research project titled “Determining how stalled polysomes are generated for [Read more]
Astronaut gut microbiome alterations induced by long-duration confinement Throughout long-duration spaceflight, maintaining astronaut health is crucial to the feasibility of a manned mission to Mars. In the longest controlled human confinement study conducted to date, the ground-based Mars500 experiment investigated long-duration health by isolating six astronauts for 520 days. [Read more]
The Biobanque Québécoise The Biobanque Québécoise de la COVID-19 (BQC19) is a province-wide biobank which mission is to provide high-quality data and samples to the scientific and medical community in order to better understand, combat and limit the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This initiative is led [Read more]
Genetics & Genomics Analysis Platform: version 2 We are pleased to announce that the new version of GenAP is now available here. This release offers a completely re engineered platform that leverages Cloud resources at Compute Canada, and will eventually be deployed as well on other HPC resources. It [Read more]
ForCasT: a fully integrated and open source pipeline to design CRISPR mutagenesis experiments ForCas Tool (ForCasT) is a comprehensive tool for the design, evaluation and collection of CRISPR/Cas9 guide RNAs and primers. Using robust parameters, it generates guide RNAs for target loci, assesses their quality for any potential off-target [Read more]
Why better health care depends on improving data sharing- Two of McGill's leading experts on genomics discuss epigenetics, open science and personalized medicine The future of personalized medicine is dependent on data sharing, according to Yann Joly, Research Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policies (right); and Guillaume [Read more]
Covid-19 updates at C3G We would like to provide a quick update amidst the coronavirus pandemic. While our host institutions (McGill University, SickKids Toronto) have put various measures in placeto ensure the safety of our staff, our platform remains fully operational and available to support genomics research. Researchers should [Read more]
GenPipes: an open-source framework for distributed and scalable genomic analyses It started in June with the publication of our beloved GenPipes framework and set of NGS data analysis pipelines in GigaScience. We use these pipelines on a daily basis for data production and routine analysis and hope the community [Read more]
