Tag Archives: genetics
Sharing Genomic Data in the Precision Medicine Era
Scott Edmunds - October 9, 2015
GigaBlog covers human genomic data, from the ASHG meeting in Baltimore to our “Hacking the human genome” event in Hong Kong.
GWAS Reloaded: extended Q&A with PLINK1.9 author Chris Chang
Scott Edmunds - February 26, 2015
The software application PLINK is one of the most widely used tools in bioinformatics, particularly for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that look at genetic variants in different individuals to see if any variant is associated with a trait. With the advent of the thousand dollar genome, the computational demands being made on such programs are […]
Genetics and open access publishing meets Chilli Crab
Nicole Nogoy - April 17, 2013
Write-up on the 2013 Human Genome Meeting/International Congress of Genetics (HGM/ICG) meeting and an Open Access workshop at A*STAR we participated in
HVP Beijing: dealing with variation
Alexandra Basford - December 11, 2011
Write up of the Human Variome Project meeting in Beijing (HVP Beijing), addressing the understanding and treatment of heritable diseases.
ICHG2011: Genetics and Genomics Gets Personal
Scott Edmunds - October 19, 2011
Coverage of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) jamboree: the2011 International Conference of Human Genetics (ICHG2011) in Montreal.