Bioinformatics

November 19, 2015
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Our last work has been just published today on Peer J!

Posted by | Bioinformatics, DNA, Marine Biology, Omics, Red Tides, Research, Toxicology | No Comments

Victoria (Vicky) Suarez-Ulloa, a Graduate Student at Chromevol, has led our last paper entitled “Unbiased high-throughput characterization of mussel transcriptomic responses to sublethal concentrations of the biotoxin okadaic acid”, published today in the journal Peer J. In this work we have collaborated with researchers from UK and Spain characterizing the genes involved in responses to the effects of marine biotoxins. In the pictures below you can see the now traditional “hanging ceremony” of the paper reprint below the corresponding poster (presented at the Gordon Conference in Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics last summer) in the hallway near our lab. Vicky was fortunate enough to count with the help and indications of three gentleman during this operation.

Congrats!!!

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September 09, 2015
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Personalized epigenetics and the future of health sciences

Posted by | Bioinformatics, Epigenetics, FIU, Omics, Research | No Comments

The latest publication resulting from our ongoing collaboration with the Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG) at FIU’s School of Computing & Information Sciences is now available!. In this work (Computational methods in epigenetics), BioRG’s postdoc Dr. Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido (L) and Chromevol’s graduate student Victoria Suarez-Ulloa (R) lead a revision describing the main characterisitics of the various types of data generated during epigenetic studies, providing a description of the most common computational approaches used for their integrative analysis. Congratulations for such a wonderful job!

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December 17, 2014
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Asilomar Chromatin and Chromosomes Conference 2014

Posted by | Bioinformatics, Cellular biology, Chromatin | No Comments

Last week we had the chance of presenting some of our most recent work at the 36th  Asilomar Chromatin and Chromosomes Conference (ACCC) in Pacific Grove, CA. It’s been great being back in this meeting and interact with old and new colleagues interested in the study of chromatin. Next year will mark a turning point for ACCC, with a renewed organization and structure that we’re sure will be appealing to a broad range of scientists, specially students. More information soon!

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July 06, 2013
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Computational methods for studying gene expression in molluscs

Posted by | Bioinformatics, Molecular biology, Omics, Technology | No Comments

Our collaboration with the RNASA-IMEDIR Research Group at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies in the University of A Coruna (Spain) has produced a new paper recently published in the Journal Lecture Notes in Computer Science (7902:453-462). In this work, the performance of different clustering techniques is evaluated for the analysis of gene expression patterns in the mussel Mytilus

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March 12, 2013
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Introducing the CHROMEVALOA Database

Posted by | Bioinformatics, Histones | No Comments

It is with great excitement and pride that we introduce a new resource for the study of marine pollution using molluscs as sentinel organisms, the CHROMEVALOA database (chromevaloa.com). This database gathers the chromatin-associated transcriptome of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis, providing a framework for the study of the genotoxic effect of the biotoxin Okadaic Acid, one of the main responsibles for diarrhetic shellfish poisoning syndrome. The work describing CHROMEVALOAdb has been published today in the journal Marine Drugs.

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