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Dr. Tyra Wolfsberg is the associate director of the Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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… and other biologically relevant sequence data. The computational pipelines will be used to annotate additional … I hypersensitive sites using tiled microarrays. Nature Methods , 3:503-509. 2006. [ PubMed ] Crawford GE, Holt IE, … … Tyra Wolfsberg, bioinformatics, genome sequencing, computational genomics … Dr. Tyra Wolfsberg is the associate …
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NIH researchers demonstrated that gene therapy may be the best method for correcting the single faulty gene that causes Niemann-Pick disease, type C1.
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NIH will fund grants totaling $38 million over five years to develop methods that will improve the way that polygenic risk scores can be used to predict disease in diverse communities.
… grants totaling $38 million over five years to develop methods that will improve the way that polygenic risk scores … from existing and new datasets to develop and evaluate the methods used for calculating polygenic risk scores for … Lab-space (AnVIL) cloud-based resource to address their computational analysis and storage needs. “AnVIL will foster …
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Valentina Di Francesco is NHGRI's Chief Data Science Strategist and Director of the Office of Genomic Data Science within the NHGRI Office of the Director.
… NHGRI in 2014 and was the lead program director of the Computational Genomics and Data Science Program . She … a diverse portfolio of genomic data science and computational biology grants and funding opportunities, and … where she was involved in developing statistical methods for protein structure prediction. … Biography … …
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Nurses and other health professionals looking to integrate genomics into patient care now have access to an online toolkit with more than 100 resources.
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NIH lost a key member of its broader genomics team when Robert Blakesley, Ph.D., director of the NISC sequencing group at NIH, retired on Dec. 31, 2015.
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NIH will award nearly $80 million to support the establishment of the Mendelian Genomics Research Consortium and the development of novel methods and approaches that help researchers identify the genetic causes of single-gene diseases.
… Genomics Research Consortium and the development of novel methods and approaches that help researchers identify the … primary goal is to explore and find innovative methods to increase the rate at which the genes responsible … Genomics Research Consortium and the development of novel methods and approaches that help researchers identify the …
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Researchers from NHGRI, Oxford University and other National Institutes of Health centers have developed and tested a new method to predict hospital-acquired infections involving five other important pathogens.
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Dr. Wilson is the co-chief of and senior investigator in NHGRI's Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch.
… Institute in 1995. He is a scientist emeritus in the Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, at the … of the statistical properties of newly developed methods of genetic analysis for quantitative traits. … The … Medical Center and then the Genometrics Section of the Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch of the NHGRI …
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Cell-free DNA testing is a laboratory method that involves analyzing free (i.e., non-cellular) DNA contained within a biological sample, most often to look for genomic variants associated with a hereditary or genetic disorder.