Disambiguating mixed-species of graft samples by Senthilkumar Kailasam As a Bioinformatician, often I get to work with PDX cancer samples. I’ve recently been reading about samples containing genome admixture, and was revisiting strategies that we commonly use for analyzing these biological data. Presented here is a summary of the [Read more]
Making New Discoveries Using Public Data by Audrey Baguette Every research project is composed of three key elements: a question to answer, the analyzes to perform and the data to use. Often, that last component is limiting. Indeed, producing new data is expensive and sometimes even time-consuming. Thankfully, a [Read more]
COVID-19 didn’t cancel these summer internships byDavid Brownlee With economies locked down this past summer and companies reluctant to hire, for many students, internship opportunities looked rather grim. Despite the shutdown of the McGill campus, the Canadian Center for Computational Genomics (C3G) shifted gears and revved up for a [Read more]
Denmark’s Minkstermination by Qinwei Zhuang The decision announced by the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, on November 4th to destroy all minks in the northern country is projected to result in the destruction of more than 15 million minks. The Danish government claimed their decision was supported by evidence [Read more]
Don’t Skip the Repeats By Jeffrey Hyacinthe Junk DNA: vestigial remains or the genome’s dark matter? For a long time, genetic repeats and transposable elements were characterized as such – useless, nuisances and unknowable. There was some sense to that vision. Once the 20 000 genes of the human [Read more]
In a Bioinformatician’s Shoes Meet Hector in this short video interview as he shares with us his passion as a bioinformatician and the exciting challenges he faces at C3G in the era of Covid19. One of his many projects tracks Covid19 mutations and variant evolutions in near real-time to [Read more]
Matching single cells to a reference cell type By Maxime Caron For more than a decade it has been possible to profile the transcriptome of single cells and numerous analytical methods have emerged over these years [1]. C3G is currently undertaking one such single cell transcriptomic project. A useful [Read more]
McGill and Genome Canada announce new Canadian SARS-CoV-2 Data Portal The development and implementation of the new Canadian SARS-CoV-2 Data Portal will be led by McGill University’s Dr. Guillaume Bourque, Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, and Director, Canadian Center for Computational Genomics. The Data Portal will manage [Read more]
Architecture beyond buildings Hi there! Could you please tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do at C3G? My name is Ksenia Zaytseva and I am a Data Architect within the Data Team at C3G. I have a Master’s degree in Information Science. Before C3G I [Read more]
