Toll Free Mentoring in Bioinformatics (TOFMIB) Survey

Confused about a career in Bioinformatics? Fill up this online survey so as to understand your thoughts on the same.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XGDFGW6

IJCB Call for articles

Dear Colleague,

We are very pleased to invite you to submit manuscripts of your original paper, extended versions of conference papers, for possible publication in the next issue (Volume 3, Number 2) of the International Journal of Computing Academic Research (IJCAR) ISSN 2305-9184.

IJCAR is an open access, peer reviewed journal for publication of original articles and short communications in all aspects of computer science and information technology.

We also like to invite you to visit our website at: http://www.meacse.org/ijcar  for more information about IJCAR, services and details.

Author Benefits:

The benefits of publishing in our journal include:

·         Fast publication times: your paper will appear online as soon as it is ready.

·         Excellent editorial standards.

·         A rigorous, fast and constructive peer review process (review time of paper is 10 working days).

·         Indexing in International societies like Ulrichsweb and Google Scholar, also registered in ISSN.

·         All abstracts and full text available free online.

·         Low publication fees.

Paper Submission:

We shall be glad to receive your technical contributions at your earliest convenience.

Submission of manuscripts can be done by email to the Editor of IJCAR at:

submission.ijcar@meacse.org

Important Dates for Next Issue (Volume 3, Number 1):

·         Submission Deadline: April 25, 2014.

·         Author Notification: May 1, 2014.

·         Revised manuscript: May 6, 2014.

·         Publication: Immediately after paper registration completed.  

With kind regards,

Sincerely,

IJCAR Editorial Board

Contact information: editor.ijcar@meacse.org  , editor1.ijcar@gmail.com

Journal web site: http://www.meacse.org/ijcar

Preventing Infections in Cancer Patients

Information for Patients and Caregivers

Cancer patients who are treated with chemotherapy are more likely to get infections through everyday activities, or from health care settings. One out of every 10 cancer patients who receives chemotherapy gets an infection that requires a hospital visit.

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/preventinfections/patients.htm

Courtesy: CDC.GOV

PCMdb: Pancreatic Cancer Methylation Database

Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group

Pancreatic cancer is the fifth most aggressive malignancy and urgently requires new biomarkers to facilitate early detection. For providing impetus to the biomarker discovery, the authors have developed Pancreatic Cancer Methylation Database (PCMDB,http://crdd.osdd.net/raghava/pcmdb/), a comprehensive resource dedicated to methylation of genes in pancreatic cancer. 

http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140226/srep04197/full/srep04197.html

UGENE

Important changes in this major release include:
* DAS support: annotation of amino acid sequences using annotations of its homologs.
* NCBI Genbank search interface: search for DNA and protein sequences in GenBank database with UGENE.
* Bowtie2: use sequencing reads aligner "Bowtie2" from UGENE GUI.
* Multiple Alignment Format: PHYLIP format support added.
* Assembly Format: ACE format is supported by Assembly Browser.
* Workflow Designer: there were a lot of major and minor improvements.
- Common workflow output directory
- History of a workflow runs (in dashboards)
- Debugging workflows and watching of an intermediate data.

Youtube episode about the release: UGENE podcast #40: Whats new in UGENE 1.13

AVAILABILITY:
http://ugene.unipro.ru/

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Webinar of the month..

Webinar of the Month

Configuring SNP detection pipelines for accurate analysis of clinical samples

By Dr. Vamsi Veeramachaneni

Vice President - Bioinformatics, Strand Life Sciences

Running a SNP detection pipeline and identifying high quality variant calls quickly is challenging. This is especially true in the case of clinical labs where multiple panels are used and kit-specific biases can result in false positive SNP predictions. In this webinar, we show how one can use the powerful visualization features of Avadis NGS to quickly detect false positive SNP predictions, identify the cause of the errors, and fine-tune the detection pipeline for accurate analysis

Updates

• Catch us at the 2014 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting to be held in Nashville, Tenessee from 26- 29 March 2014
• Read the latest blog on 'Mapping RefSeq transcripts to the genome using UCSC' by Dr Vamsi Veeramachaneni


- The Avadis NGS Team

WiB Quarterly Meeting

Dear all

Its time that we meet again. Please be informed that the WiB quarterly and the first meeting for the year would be held on Saturday, 08th March 2014, 2:00-3:00 PM IST at Skype. The main objectives of the meeting is to review our performance in the previous year and discuss on further developments and improvements over our earlier performances. For the same reason, we would like to invite new proposals and suggestions from all our members.

Your presence would add strength to our cause, so please make it in time and we would appreciate if you could get along your friends and fellow colleagues to attend the meeting.

Any queries please write to mona@bioclues.org or reetasinghania@gmail.com

We await your participation.

Regards

Mona with Reeta,
For WiB Forum.