DNA Sequencing: the process of determining the precise order of nucleotides within a DNA molecule. It includes any method or technology that is used to determine the order of the four bases-adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine-in a strand of DNA. The advent of rapid DNA sequencing methods has greatly accelerated biological and medical research and discovery.
DATE: January 30, 2018TIME: 9:00AM PST, 12:00PM ESTInfectious disease surveillance and monitoring is critical in settings where disease outbreaks and antibiotic resistance can dramatica...
DATE: November 16, 2017TIME: 7:00am PST, 10:00 am EST, 3:00pm CETThis is the fifth topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’Th...
DATE: November 28, 2017TIME: 7:00AM PT, 10:00AM ET, 4:00PM CETGene expression profiling by high-throughput sequencing reveals qualitative and quantitative changes in RNA species at stea...
DATE: November 07, 2017TIME: 7:00am PST, 10:00 am EST, 3:00pm CETThis is the fourth topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’G...
Currently, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in North America, the most frequent malignancy in men from all ethnicities, surpassing lung cancer. Prostate tumors...
DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 06:00am PDT, 09:00am EDTThis is the third topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’.Repetitive DNA...
The analysis of circulating biomarkers in a patient’s blood holds significant potential for early disease detection and disease monitoring. Circulating DNA is the most commonly studied...
Nanopore sequencing has enormous potential for application to cancer, but specifically offers advantages into two main arenas, epigenetics and structural variation. Methylation is well-known...
Bioflavonoids are dietary agents found in everyday food items such as fruits, vegetables, and legumes. It has been suggested that bioflavonoids be used with chemotherapeutics as an anti-cance...
DATE: June 27, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ETThe purpose of this study is to identify genetic variants that influence cellular responses, and patterns of M.tb infection and growth in h...
DATE: May 31, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PDT, 12:00PM ETAlthough more remains to be learnt, great advances have recently been made in the understanding of the molecular & genetic bases of dis...
The Instrumentation Group at the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) is unusual in having an engineering group and extensive prototyping facilities embedded in a biomedical...
Genetic testing currently plays a relatively niche role in healthcare, with testing typically limited to single genes and targeting a relatively narrow range of diseases, including paediatric...
SMRT Sequencing is a DNA sequencing technology characterized by long read lengths and high consensus accuracy, regardless of the sequence complexity or GC content of the DNA sample. These cha...
Cell free DNA (cfDNA) analysis for the purpose of diagnostics is currently practiced for non-invasive prenatal screening of cell free fetal DNA (cffDNA), and is anticipated to be leveraged fo...
Massive parallel sequencing (MPS) technologies have paved the way into new areas of research including individualized medicine. However, sequencing of trace amounts of nucleic acids still rem...
DATE: April 25, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETImmunotherapy has emerged as one of the most promising options for the future treatment of a growing number of cancers and is to...
DATE: April 18, 2017TIME: 7:30am PT, 10:30am ETLabs large and small that conduct genomic studies are looking for ways to vastly improve NGS sample prep, especially from challenging FFPE...
Genomics and metagenomics have become ubiquitous research efforts. Here we will show details of the development of physical, computational, and even space-based standards for metagenomi...
With the exception of the Microbiome Quality Control (MBQC), very little has been published on best practices and reference standards for microbiome and metagenomic studies. As evidenced by r...
As next generation sequencing has lowered the price of DNA sequencing orders of magnitude below what it cost to create the first consensus human genome, the sheer diversity of human sequence...
In spite of the huge potential impact of microbiome science, current measurement capabilities are insufficient, particularly for translating discoveries and correlations observed in the lab i...
Epigenetics refers to the study of nuclear architecture and gene regulation. Epigenetic mechanisms govern many physiological processes such as cell differentiation, x-inactivation, and genomi...
Liquid Biopsies are gaining acceptance in the Oncology community as a surrogate or complement to the gold standard of tissue biopsy. A liquid biopsy provides biomarker information that...
DATE: January 30, 2018TIME: 9:00AM PST, 12:00PM ESTInfectious disease surveillance and monitoring is critical in settings where disease outbreaks and antibiotic resistance can dramatica...
DATE: November 16, 2017TIME: 7:00am PST, 10:00 am EST, 3:00pm CETThis is the fifth topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’Th...
DATE: November 28, 2017TIME: 7:00AM PT, 10:00AM ET, 4:00PM CETGene expression profiling by high-throughput sequencing reveals qualitative and quantitative changes in RNA species at stea...
DATE: November 07, 2017TIME: 7:00am PST, 10:00 am EST, 3:00pm CETThis is the fourth topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’G...
Currently, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in North America, the most frequent malignancy in men from all ethnicities, surpassing lung cancer. Prostate tumors...
DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 06:00am PDT, 09:00am EDTThis is the third topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’.Repetitive DNA...
The analysis of circulating biomarkers in a patient’s blood holds significant potential for early disease detection and disease monitoring. Circulating DNA is the most commonly studied...
Nanopore sequencing has enormous potential for application to cancer, but specifically offers advantages into two main arenas, epigenetics and structural variation. Methylation is well-known...
Bioflavonoids are dietary agents found in everyday food items such as fruits, vegetables, and legumes. It has been suggested that bioflavonoids be used with chemotherapeutics as an anti-cance...
DATE: June 27, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ETThe purpose of this study is to identify genetic variants that influence cellular responses, and patterns of M.tb infection and growth in h...
DATE: May 31, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PDT, 12:00PM ETAlthough more remains to be learnt, great advances have recently been made in the understanding of the molecular & genetic bases of dis...
The Instrumentation Group at the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) is unusual in having an engineering group and extensive prototyping facilities embedded in a biomedical...
Genetic testing currently plays a relatively niche role in healthcare, with testing typically limited to single genes and targeting a relatively narrow range of diseases, including paediatric...
SMRT Sequencing is a DNA sequencing technology characterized by long read lengths and high consensus accuracy, regardless of the sequence complexity or GC content of the DNA sample. These cha...
Cell free DNA (cfDNA) analysis for the purpose of diagnostics is currently practiced for non-invasive prenatal screening of cell free fetal DNA (cffDNA), and is anticipated to be leveraged fo...
Massive parallel sequencing (MPS) technologies have paved the way into new areas of research including individualized medicine. However, sequencing of trace amounts of nucleic acids still rem...
DATE: April 25, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETImmunotherapy has emerged as one of the most promising options for the future treatment of a growing number of cancers and is to...
DATE: April 18, 2017TIME: 7:30am PT, 10:30am ETLabs large and small that conduct genomic studies are looking for ways to vastly improve NGS sample prep, especially from challenging FFPE...
Genomics and metagenomics have become ubiquitous research efforts. Here we will show details of the development of physical, computational, and even space-based standards for metagenomi...
With the exception of the Microbiome Quality Control (MBQC), very little has been published on best practices and reference standards for microbiome and metagenomic studies. As evidenced by r...
As next generation sequencing has lowered the price of DNA sequencing orders of magnitude below what it cost to create the first consensus human genome, the sheer diversity of human sequence...
In spite of the huge potential impact of microbiome science, current measurement capabilities are insufficient, particularly for translating discoveries and correlations observed in the lab i...
Epigenetics refers to the study of nuclear architecture and gene regulation. Epigenetic mechanisms govern many physiological processes such as cell differentiation, x-inactivation, and genomi...
Liquid Biopsies are gaining acceptance in the Oncology community as a surrogate or complement to the gold standard of tissue biopsy. A liquid biopsy provides biomarker information that...
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