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Genome Informatics Facility Holiday hours

Dear Researchers and faculty,

As we are all get ready for a several well earned days of holiday break and look forward to a new year in 2021, this note provides information concerning staffing of the Genome Informatics Facility (GIF) over the coming weeks. This year, all of the GIF staff have opted to take vacation between the dates of December 24th, 2020 through January 3rd, 2021. What this means is that response time to emails and progress on projects during this time may be limited or delayed. Everyone will be back on Monday the 4th of January. Read more about Genome Informatics Facility Holiday hours

Transforming big data into informative data to accelerate scientific discovery

Andrew Severin will be presenting at the University of Iowa on September 4th about "Transforming big data into informative data to accelerate scientific discovery" Read more about Transforming big data into informative data to accelerate scientific discovery

Tackling Soybean Cyst Nematode in a New Way – The $1 Billion Pest Meets Its Match: A Seed World Strategy Webinar & Podcast

Rick Masonbrink from the Genome Informatics Facility gives a presentation on the Soybean Cyst Nematode Genome he has worked on for the last several years. Read more about Tackling Soybean Cyst Nematode in a New Way – The $1 Billion Pest Meets Its Match: A Seed World Strategy Webinar & Podcast

The Bioinformatics Workbook: Knowledge repository and educational resource

Andrew Severin gave a 4 minute lightning talk about the Bioinformatics Workbook describing the problem it attempts to solve and invites researchers to suggest topics or collaborate in creating this resource. Read more about The Bioinformatics Workbook: Knowledge repository and educational resource

ISU scientists overcome repetitive DNA to sequence the genome of devastating soybean pest

AMES, Iowa – It was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle for which all the pieces are identical, but with only one solution. Read more about ISU scientists overcome repetitive DNA to sequence the genome of devastating soybean pest

Catching yellowtail fish genome with big data

The Seriola dorsalis genome project and sustainable aquaculture are discussed on this podcast with host Jorge Salazar interviewing GIF scientists Arun Seetharam and Andrew Severin about their work on this project. Have a listen. Read more about Catching yellowtail fish genome with big data

Agricultural genomics: Feeding a growing, hungry world

Research at GIF was highlighted by Hewlett Packard Enterprises. Click on the image to go to the article.

Genome Informatics Survey

Now is your chance to provide feedback to us on how we have been doing over the last year. Your feedback is important to the operation and success of GIF. Please fill out the survey by clicking on the link below.

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Postdoctoral Researcher: Computational Biologist

Iowa State University and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the United States Department of Agriculture are seeking a postdoctoral scholar to study alterations at the microbe and animal level following application of various intervention strategies in the animal. The position is offered through a collaboration between the Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit in the ARS-National Animal Disease Center (NADC) and Andrew Severin, manager of the Genome Informatics Facility at Iowa State, providing the chosen candidate with opportunities in both systems biology and bioinformatics. Salary will be commensurate with experience ($41,000-$55,000/year). The term of appointment is one year with potential for extension to a second year based on performance. Read more about Postdoctoral Researcher: Computational Biologist

Holiday Hours

For this week, from December 19th through December 26th, the Genome Informatics Facility will have fewer personnel due to holiday travel and personal leave. If you need bioinformatics support, please email us at gifhelp@iastate.edu.

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NCBI workshops Recordings

In October the library hosted 3 webinars on NCBI resources.

Day 1: Navigating NCBI Molecular Data Using the Integrated Entrez System and BLAST

Day 2: A Practical Guide to NCBI BLAST

Day 3: EDirect: Command Line Access to NCBI’s Biomolecular Databases. Read more about NCBI workshops Recordings

Genome Informatics Services Review

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New Associate Scientists

Two new Associate Scientists have joined the Genome Informatics facility. Both started full time in the facility on February 1st, 2016. We are very excited to have more staff in the facility. There is an incredible need for bioinformatics support staff for data analysis and collaborative grant writing and with these individuals we can start to fill that need. Read more about New Associate Scientists

So Many People, So Little Food: Helping Feed the World through Genomics

Supercomputing.com article about our research

Lab Management 101

This article on genomeweb.com is about lab management from around the US.

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