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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
