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Dr. Tyra Wolfsberg is the associate director of the Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core at the National Human Genome Research Institute. ​
… and other biologically relevant sequence data. The computational pipelines will be used to annotate additional … I hypersensitive sites using tiled microarrays. Nature Methods , 3:503-509. 2006. [ PubMed ] Crawford GE, Holt IE, … … Tyra Wolfsberg, bioinformatics, genome sequencing, computational genomics … Dr. Tyra Wolfsberg is the associate …
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NIH will fund grants totaling $38 million over five years to develop methods that will improve the way that polygenic risk scores can be used to predict disease in diverse communities.
… grants totaling $38 million over five years to develop methods that will improve the way that polygenic risk scores … from existing and new datasets to develop and evaluate the methods used for calculating polygenic risk scores for … Lab-space (AnVIL) cloud-based resource to address their computational analysis and storage needs. “AnVIL will foster …
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Nurses and other health professionals looking to integrate genomics into patient care now have access to an online toolkit with more than 100 resources.
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Valentina Di Francesco is NHGRI's Chief Data Science Strategist and Director of the Office of Genomic Data Science within the NHGRI Office of the Director.
… NHGRI in 2014 and was the lead program director of the Computational Genomics and Data Science Program . She … a diverse portfolio of genomic data science and computational biology grants and funding opportunities, and … where she was involved in developing statistical methods for protein structure prediction. … Biography … …
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NIH lost a key member of its broader genomics team when Robert Blakesley, Ph.D., director of the NISC sequencing group at NIH, retired on Dec. 31, 2015.
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NIH will award nearly $80 million to support the establishment of the Mendelian Genomics Research Consortium and the development of novel methods and approaches that help researchers identify the genetic causes of single-gene diseases.
… Genomics Research Consortium and the development of novel methods and approaches that help researchers identify the … primary goal is to explore and find innovative methods to increase the rate at which the genes responsible … Genomics Research Consortium and the development of novel methods and approaches that help researchers identify the …
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Researchers from NHGRI, Oxford University and other National Institutes of Health centers have developed and tested a new method to predict hospital-acquired infections involving five other important pathogens.
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Dr. Wilson is the co-chief of and senior investigator in NHGRI's Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch.
… Institute in 1995. He is a scientist emeritus in the Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, at the … of the statistical properties of newly developed methods of genetic analysis for quantitative traits. … The … Medical Center and then the Genometrics Section of the Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch of the NHGRI …
Talking Glossary
Cell-free DNA testing is a laboratory method that involves analyzing free (i.e., non-cellular) DNA contained within a biological sample, most often to look for genomic variants associated with a hereditary or genetic disorder.
Talking Glossary
Next-generation DNA sequencing (abbreviated NGS) refers to the use of technologies for sequencing DNA that became available shortly after the completion of the Human Genome Project (which relied on the first-generation method of Sanger sequencing).