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Dr. James Thomas is the acting director for the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… Medicine before returning to NHGRI and the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center in 2011. He is currently the deputy director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center. As deputy director of NISC, Dr. Thomas … as efficiency and quality control related aspects of the data production pipeline. His research interests are in the …
Talking Glossary
The genome reference sequence provides a general framework and is not the DNA sequence of a single person.
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 6, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., celebrates the 25th anniversary of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC). a well-respected and highly used large-scale DNA sequencing center that exemplifies the evolution of the field of genomics and the ever-increasing abilities to produce prodigious amounts of genomic data.
… Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a clinical data standard and an application programming interface to … sequence to public databases weekly, as large-scale DNA sequencing had advanced substantially. At that time, it … repertoire, with a partial list of methods including whole-exome sequencing , whole-genome sequencing , RNA sequencing , …
News Release
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.
… purify and sequence the DNA and analyze the resulting data. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will lose a key … 31 retirement of Robert Blakesley, Ph.D., director of the sequencing group at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) in Rockville, Maryland. … "Bob's …
News Release
Baylor College of Medicine. Houston and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee will be providing DNA sequencing for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network.
… College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee will be providing DNA sequencing for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). Each … sequencing of the protein-coding portion of the genome, or exome. The clinical sequencing results will meet standards … The facility will provide CLIA-certified genome sequence data for UDN patients and their family members in partnership …
Talking Glossary
Next-generation DNA sequencing (abbreviated NGS) refers to the use of technologies for sequencing DNA that became available shortly after the completion of the Human Genome Project (which relied on the first-generation method of Sanger sequencing).
… Next-Generation DNA Sequencing … Next-generation DNA sequencing (abbreviated NGS) refers to the use of technologies for sequencing DNA that became available shortly after the …
News Release
Today, we are updating the way we manage data related to the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy.
… M.D., Ph.D. … Today, we are updating the way we manage data related to the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy to again allow unrestricted access to … are importantly distinct from other genomic research data, most notably in that they do not include …
Event
Pre-application webinar on for the Molecular Phenotypes of Null Alleles in Cells (MorPhiC) data analysis validation centers funding opportunity announcement (FOA) on September 7, 2022.
… Phenotypes of Null Alleles in Cells (MorPhiC) Phase I: Data Analysis and Validation Centers (U01 Clinical trials not … will host a pre-application webinar for the MorPhiC Data Analysis Validation Centers funding opportunity … . All times are in US ET. … Virtual … MorPhiC Data Analysis Validation Centers Pre-Application Webinar … …
Educational Resources
Bioinformatics is a subdiscipline of biology and computer science concerned with the acquisition, storage, analysis, and dissemination of biological data.
… storage, analysis, and dissemination of biological data. … Computational Science, Computer Science, Big Data, Biological Data, Bioinformatics … Bioinformatics, as related to genetics …
Staff
​Chris Wellington is a program director for Computational Genomics and Data Science in the NHGRI Office of Genomic Data Science.
… is a program director for Computational Genomics and Data Science in the NHGRI Office of Genomic Data Science. His primary focus is in the Genome Informatics … the NIH Common Fund Human Microbiome Project and the Big Data to Knowledge initiative. Mr. Wellington received his …