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.
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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.
Continue readingMaking 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.
Continue readingDisambiguating mixed-species of graft samples
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 existing software tools used for this purpose.
Continue readingThe ANCHOR pipeline
ANCHOR is a high-resolution metagenomics pipeline, the result of a multi-disciplinary collaboration between C3G and researchers at Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) at Université de Montreal.
Continue readingCharacterizing the landscape of genetic drivers and their clinical impact
Recently published in [Nature Communications], this paper presents work by members of the C3G Toronto node that integrates genomic and transcriptomic analyses to assess the molecular and clinical features of infant glioma patients.
Continue readingFibromyalgia
This summer has also been very special for C3G’s metagenome specialist Emmanuel Gonzalez with a publication in Pain highlighting a strong potential link between the microbiome and fibromyalgia, a terrible and elusive disorder affecting a large fraction of the population.
Continue readingGSoC 2019
Again this year, C3G was a Google Summer of Code organization. For people unfamiliar with it, GSoC is in Google’s own words: ” a global program that matches students up with open source, free software and technology-related organizations to write code and get paid to do it! ”
Continue readingAltered differentiation is central to HIV-specific CD4
Another noteworthy publication to which C3G members contributed as authors was published in Nature Immunology this summer.
Continue readingMethylation signatures investigations
The C3G Toronto node has also been involved in two projects to investigate methylation signatures for specific conditions.
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