Tag Archives: genetics

Sharing Genomic Data in the Precision Medicine Era

- October 9, 2015

GigaBlog covers human genomic data, from the ASHG meeting in Baltimore to our “Hacking the human genome” event in Hong Kong.

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GWAS Reloaded: extended Q&A with PLINK1.9 author Chris Chang

- 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 […]

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Genetics and open access publishing meets Chilli Crab

- 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

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HVP Beijing: dealing with variation

- December 11, 2011

Write up of the Human Variome Project meeting in Beijing (HVP Beijing), addressing the understanding and treatment of heritable diseases.

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ICHG2011: Genetics and Genomics Gets Personal

- October 19, 2011

Coverage of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) jamboree: the2011 International Conference of Human Genetics (ICHG2011) in Montreal.

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