ARCHIVES 2015

New publication

We published a new article in PLoS ONE: Lange A, Jost S, Heider D, Bock C, Budeus B, Schilling E, Strittmatter A, Boenigk J, Hoffmann D. AmpliconDuo: A Split-Sample Filtering Protocol for High-Throughput Amplicon Sequencing of Microbial Communities. PLoS ONE 2015, 10(11): e0141590. (Link)   Abstract High throughput sequencing (HTSeq) of small ribosomal subunit amplicons…

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New publication

We published a new article in Nature Scientific Reports: Kälsch J, Bechmann LP, Heider D, Best J, Manka P, Kälsch H, Sowa JP, Moebus S, Slomiany U, Jöckel KH, Erbel R, Gerken G, Canbay A. Normal liver enzymes are correlated with severity of metabolic syndrome in a large population based cohort. Nature Scientific Reports 2015,…

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GCB 2015

Two poster abstracts of the Bioinformatics group have been accepted at the GCB 2015: Riemenschneider et al.: SHIVA – A web application for drug resistance testing. Neumann et al.: Comparison of variable importance measures from random forest algorithms on strongly unbalanced data. Looking forward to Dortmund!

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Meeting in Melbourne

Our group recently started a research collaboration with the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Australia. This collaboration is supported by the Bavarian Research Alliance (BayIntAn_HSWT_2015_87). Please find some impressions from our stay in Melbourne.

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Software UI mockup

Few days ago I’ve started developing a web application for analyses of metatranscriptome data. One really fantastic thing that helped me to quickly get a general idea of the user interface layout and design was the online tool moqups. It’s ideal to create GUI drafts especially for web based apps and it’s definitely better than…

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