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.

Prediction and classification of ncRNAs using structural information

Link: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/15/127/

Decoding a Genomic Revolution: Manolis Kellis at TEDxCambridge 2013

"MIT Computational Biologist Manolis Kellis gives us a glimpse of the doctor's office visit of the future, and uses his own genetic mutations to show us how a..."

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlVZ0ORtpPM

Courtesy: www.scoop.it 

V CONFERENCE WCSA 7th-8th November 2014, Budapest - Call for Paper

Please follow the link: http://www.wcsaglobal.org/images/cbd2.pdf

More @ https://www.facebook.com/pages/WORLD-COMPLEXITY-SCIENCE-ACADEMY-WCSA/173846752681304

Regards,

Drug kills cancer in quarter of leukaemia patients

by: Kate Hagan December 11, 2013,
smh.com.au


A new drug has eliminated cancer in almost a quarter of patients with advanced leukaemia, early trial results show, in a breakthrough that also shows promise for the treatment of other cancers.


http://m.smh.com.au/national/health/drug-kills-cancer-in-quarter-of-leukaemia-patients-20131211-2z4gb.html

WiB Quarterly & Year End Meeting

The WiB quarterly meeting for the year would be held on Saturday, 07 December 2013, 2:30 PM IST. This being the last meeting for the year we shall discuss on the developments and progress through the year and set goals for 2014. All are requested to participate and provide feedback and suggestions for improvement.

Regards
Team WiB.

Essay Competition Results Declared

Check out the results for Essay Competition jointly organized by We The Microbiologist (WTM) and Bioclues here
Cheers and all the very best to the winners and all the participants for all their future endeavors. 

It's time again: Vote for BIRD awards

More details cna be had by clicking here or  visiting www.bioclues.org

Bioclues Foundation Day Ideation Competition

Hi all,

On the occasion of Bioclues Foundation Day, it gives me immense pleasure to announce an Ideation competition to solve any one of the following problems:

Problem 1: How to bridge the gap between industry and academics in the domain of Bioinformatics?

Problem 2: How do we encourage more women scientists in the domain of Bioinformatics?

Rules:

1. Ideas should explicitly address and solve any one of the above topics.

2. Winner would be selected based on the practicality of the solution. The idea should be more practical and realistic.

3. Best entry shall be selected by the core team @ Bioclues and winner shall be announced within a week's time after the deadline for the competition.

4. All the entries should be emailed to newsATbiocluesDOTorg on or before October 1st 2013. No entries shall be accepted post 00:00 hrs October 2nd '13

Surprise: Winner of the Ideation competition would be eligible for loads and loads of benefits from Bioclues.org.

So wish you all the very best.

Happy Ideation ;)

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