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Common bioinformatics software maintained by C3G

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 software isn’t ideal.

Bioinformatics Software

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 transport in RNA granules and regulated local translation”.

Architecture beyond buildings

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 worked in a variety of academic research disciplines building data and metadata management systems mostly for their Open Data initiatives.

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.

Matching single cells to a reference cell type

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.

single cell

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.

Bioinformatician

Don’t Skip the Repeats

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.

genetic repeats

Denmark’s Minkstermination

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.

extermination minks SARS-CoV-2

COVID-19 didn’t cancel these summer internships

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 Collaborative Centre for Genomics and Biomedical data(C3G) shifted gears and revved up for a summer of working from home internships.

C3G interns internships

Making New Discoveries Using Public Data

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 solution exists in the form of huge libraries accessible with a few clicks: public data.

Public data