backofenlab @BackofenLab
Bioinformatics Lab - Department of Computer Science - University of Freiburg - https://t.co/OQBOIU7FDe bioinf.uni-freiburg.de Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Joined January 2017-
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Day #2 of the #DFG SPP2002 conference in Kiel. 🙂This morning @Lydia_LH17 from our group will present our joint Z-project with @BackofenLab on ribosome profiling and bioinformatics approaches for global sORF identification.
Day #2 of the #DFG SPP2002 conference in Kiel. 🙂This morning @Lydia_LH17 from our group will present our joint Z-project with @BackofenLab on ribosome profiling and bioinformatics approaches for global sORF identification.
We're delighted to share our new work on CRISPR-Cas. CRISPRloci: comprehensive and accurate annotation of CRISPR–Cas systems academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…
Exciting news, our preprint about predicting #ORF in bacteria from #Ribo-seq data is available. Great collab: @realgelhausr, @SarahLSvensson, @amri2k, @SharmaLab1, @eggtron, @BackofenLab biorxiv.org/content/10.110… github.com/RickGelhausen/… #proteins #benchmark #Bioinformatics #SPP2002
Are you interested in developing an online data analysis game in the context of @StreetScienceCo? This student position is for you, apply now! #streetscience #CitizenScience #OpenScience
A new #usegalaxy tool suite from @BackofenLab for chimeric RNAs associated with specific cancer types. ChiRA: an integrated framework for chimeric read analysis from RNA-RNA interactome and RNA structurome data doi.org/10.1093/gigasc…
And thanks to the organizers! First and foremost @hexylena and @shiltemann! What a great event!
And thanks to the organizers! First and foremost @hexylena and @shiltemann! What a great event!
@denbiOffice and RBC Freiburg @BackofenLab will also support the next @galaxyproject Papercuts CoFest #usegalaxy #Bioinformatics. For more information see: denbi.de/training/1194-…
We welcome our 1080 registered trainees! Don't hesitate to ask any of the 50+ trainers from all over the world. galaxyproject.eu/posts/2021/02/… @ELIXIREurope @EoscLife #denbi @UniFreiburg @Gallantries_EU
🦠Don't miss out on the next #COVID19 Galaxy webinar with @bjoerngruening @babi2305 and Wolfgang Maier With them, you will explore the Viral Beacon and Galaxy variant workflows ➡️bit.ly/GalaxyCOVID19 @CRGenomica @galaxyproject @denbiOffice @usegalaxyp #usegalaxy @UniFreiburg
To all biologists: what are your favourite online conferences you will attend this year?
Today @sergeilkp will talk about "Insights from selection analysis of complete genomes and read-level data". Join us and learn more about the genetics of #SARSCoV2. @ELIXIREurope #denbi #usegalaxy
Today @sergeilkp will talk about "Insights from selection analysis of complete genomes and read-level data". Join us and learn more about the genetics of #SARSCoV2. @ELIXIREurope #denbi #usegalaxy
Heartfelt congratulations to @MiladMiladi_ for successfully defending his PhD thesis last friday. He published an amazing number of papers, 12 of them with a major contribution! Check out his work here: orcid.org/0000-0002-0173… #bioinformatics #COVID19 #bioconda #RNA #usegalaxy
We're very happy to share our new work on CRISPR-Cas. CRISPRidentify: identification of CRISPR arrays using machine learning approach. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar… A data-driven approach that uses ML to detect and differentiate true arrays from false ones based on several features.
We're pleased to share our new work on CRISPR-Cas.Casboundary: Automated definition of integral Cas cassettes academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… the first method for automated cassette boundary detection, Cas protein annotation and classification, which comprise single and multi-modules.
NanoGalaxy: Nanopore long-read sequencing data analysis in Galaxy. Our work on bridging @nanopore and @galaxyproject, the two accessibility heavens of sequencing & data analysis, is now published: doi.org/10.1093/gigasc… @WanderingWim @shiltemann @bjoerngruening @mariusvdbeek
Our tool is online now. You are welcome to try it. Please tell us what do you think about it and also we would appreciate seeing your feedback to improve the tool.
Our tool is online now. You are welcome to try it. Please tell us what do you think about it and also we would appreciate seeing your feedback to improve the tool.
We're pleased to share our new work on CRISPR-Cas. The CRISPRcasIdentifier clearly outperforms all other available tools on the most recent and comprehensive CRISPR-Cas classification dataset(F-score of 0.91) academic.oup.com/gigascience/ar…
@ProjectJupyter notebooks running in #usegalaxy and analysing the result of the 3k+ #SARSCoV2 workflow. @rstudio is also available of course :) Thanks @nekrut for presenting and @DBlankenberg for his awesome work in Interactive Tools.

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