Integrative RNA Biology
On May 2, 2023, Dr. Matvei Khoroshkin from Dr. Hani Goodarzi’s group at UCSF presented their recent preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.11.532161v1 The manuscript describes a new approach the authors called “SwitchSeeker”, which allows for the identification of RNA structural switches in eukaryotes. SwitchSeeker generates secondary structures from sequence and draws on their…
On Nov. 22, 2022, Christina Akirtava from Prof. Joel McManus’s lab at Carnegie Mellon University presented her and Gemma May’s latest work where they investigated how errors in genome annotations can lead to false positives. They’re intriguing story was also recently published in a Proceedings of the National Academy of…
EMBL-EBI Course | Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretation | 20 – 24 February 2023 Gain an introduction to the technology, data analysis, tools, and resources used in RNA sequencing and transcriptomics. The content will provide a broad overview of the subject area, and introduce participants to basic analysis of…
On May 4, 2022, Dr. Rasim Barutcu from the university of Toronto presented how he, co-first author Mingkun Wu and their colleagues applied APEX labeling to survey the distribution of RNA transcripts in the cell nucleus. The work led in Dr. Benjamin Blencowe’s lab at the University of Toronto…