AgSeq comes to Texas A&M AgriLife Research

Posted on April 25, 2018May 11, 2018 by Charlie Johnson

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

Posted on April 22, 2018May 12, 2018 by Charlie Johnson

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

Posted on April 22, 2018October 18, 2018 by Charlie Johnson

@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 C Murray (@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 Read more about Final of spring short courses for NGS/data analysis 2018[…]

NGS analysis workshops come to Aggieland

Posted on April 13, 2018April 15, 2018 by Charlie Johnson

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

Posted on March 13, 2018April 22, 2018 by Charlie Johnson

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

Posted on January 26, 2018April 15, 2018 by Charlie Johnson

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

Posted on November 20, 2017November 20, 2017 by Charlie Johnson

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[…]

PoreCampUSA17 Twitter Feed

Posted on June 10, 2017April 22, 2018 by Charlie Johnson

PoreCamp USA 2017 New blog post! Very helpful @nanopore Q&A session from June 2017 #porecampusa @txresearch https://t.co/Qez1i0mG4e — Lisa K. Johnson (@monsterbashseq) February 1, 2018 Q&A at Porecamp TAMU, June 2017: From the Ebola Outbreak to Sequencing on Mars #PoreCampUSA 2017 and @nanopore make the local TV news @pathogenomenick @Scalene @BioMickWatson @mattloose @DrT1973 https://t.co/jq1wK3v5vD — Charlie Read more about PoreCampUSA17 Twitter Feed[…]