TxGen named PerkinElmer Center of Excellence
https://today.agrilife.org/2018/12/05/texas-am-agrilife-receives-sponsored-support-for-agrigenomics-lab-from-perkinelmer/
Tag: AgriLife
Fall Bioinformatics/HPC short course series
We are pleased to announce our fall bioinformatics/HPC short course series, offered by TAMU HPRC and Agrilife Genomics and Bioinformatics Service. The short courses will start with introduction to Linux/Unix (Friday September 7), followed by introduction to the Ada/Terra systems that have most of bioinformatics tools already installed and ready for you to use. Please Read more about Fall Bioinformatics/HPC short course series[…]
Over 9000!
Our Computational biology / #bioinformatics worldwide job site just hit 9123 jobs pulled in from groups around the world. We started this bioinformatics job’s page as a service to the faculty and students at Texas A&M University and the rest of the world. We now have links to over 9000 jobs from groups around the world Read more about Over 9000![…]
AgSeq comes to Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Texas A&M, PerkinElmer create leading public agriculture, life sciences genome platform April 25, 2018 Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Charlie Johnson, 979-862-3287, Charlie@ag.tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M AgriLife Research and their internationally recognized Genomics and Bioinformatics Service are poised to change the face of agriculture-focused genomics. Dr. Charlie Johnson, director of the Read more about AgSeq comes to Texas A&M AgriLife Research[…]
Capacity to processing 50,000 DNA Samples a year
Our army of amazing PerkinElmer, Inc. robots have arrived! With a capacity to process 50,000 samples a year. In combination with our Illumina NovaSeq system (Illumina’s first agricultural focused NovaSeq site) we now have an even larger capacity to support agriculture and life science researchers from across Texas A&M AgriLife, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M Read more about Capacity to processing 50,000 DNA Samples a year[…]
Final of spring short courses for NGS/data analysis 2018
@TXGEN offers valuable data science shortcourses @TAMU, this last one before summer focuses on teaching some genomic data analyses skills https://t.co/LRAppo77gT — Seth (@DrSethMurray) April 21, 2018 Final computer/programing training workshop of the spring semester. More to come this summer @aglifesciences @tamu @DrSethMurray https://t.co/MIAHldqmoV — TXGEN (@TXGEN) April 21, 2018 Finale of HPRC + TxGen Read more about Final of spring short courses for NGS/data analysis 2018[…]
NGS analysis workshops come to Aggieland
Next set of NGS analysis courses comes to Texas A&M University, covering introduction, RNA-Seq, assembly, metagenomics and genotyping in collaboration between TxGen and TAMU HPRC. Outstanding instructors and a great group of students 👏👏👏 . Whoop for all the Aggies with the new rings on Ring day. R class next week. Organized by Noushin Ghaffari, Read more about NGS analysis workshops come to Aggieland[…]
1st Software Carpentry workshop at Texas A&M University
25 Texas A&M faculty & students use their Spring Break to attend the first Software Carpentry workshop at Texas A&M University. The workshop was taught by A&M instructors. Instructors: Noushin Ghaffari, Anna Dabrowski, Ramalingam Saravanan Helpers: David Bapst, Jian Tao, Michael Dickens The attendees learned best practices for scientific programing. Participants from across the University, Read more about 1st Software Carpentry workshop at Texas A&M University[…]
Hosting K-12 Educators visit
Great to have K-12 STEM educators in our center this morning! introducing sequencing technologies (Dr. Josh Hill) and bioinformatics analysis (me). Interdisciplinary research interests should start early on. #stem4innovation @TXGEN @tamu_hprc pic.twitter.com/HIunO51kCy — Noushin Ghaffari (@Noushin_Gh) January 26, 2018
Latest crop improvement technology coming to Texas A&M AgriLife Research
COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M AgriLife Research is investing in the future of rapid crop design with improved traits through the deployment of two new labs and a half-million dollar seed grant program to jump-start the process. “We are pleased to announce a new funding opportunity that focuses on building a pipeline for genome editing Read more about Latest crop improvement technology coming to Texas A&M AgriLife Research[…]