A beginner's Guide to Manual Curation of Transposable Elements In the study of transposable elements (TEs), the generation of a high confidence set of consensus sequences that represent the diversity of TEs found in a given genome is a key step in the path to investigating these fascinating genomic [Read more]
C3G Bioinformatics Platform at the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute With next-generation sequencing and other high-throughput technologies revolutionizing life sciences and health care research, data processing and interpretation, rather than data production, has become the major limiting factor for discovery and innovation. Large genomics centers, and increasingly smaller [Read more]
STOP-CoV: Examining COVID-19 vaccination responses across age groups As the rollout for COVID-19 vaccinations continues across Ontario the C3G Toronto Node has helped establish STOP-CoV (SafeTy and Efficacy of Preventative COVID Vaccines), a province-wide study to examine the differences in COVID-19 vaccine responses between younger and older individuals. Participants contribute to the study by completing a [Read more]
Anesthesia-related Tweets during COVID-19 Twitter has become a social media nexus for the sharing of information, and in an Anesthesia & Analgesia Journal article published in April 2021, members of C3G’s Toronto Node at SickKids examined the way Twitter was used to share anesthesia-related information during the COVID-19 pandemic. [Read more]
Tip of the Month Introduction There is a huge library of common bioinformatics software available on Compute Canada resources via the modules maintained by C3G staff and distributed via the CernVM-File System (CVMFS). Despite the breadth of the C3G CVMFS library, there may be times when using the provided [Read more]
