Project description:Mar1 deletion and RNA enrichment in Cryptococcus neoformans: pilot data for a high-throughput sequencing course. The goal of this project was to generate pilot data in preparation for a summer course on high-throughput sequencing where participants prepared their own RNA-Seq libraries and analyzed the resulting data. This pilot experiment addressed two questions: 1. Does this experimental system (Cryptococcus neoformans H99 wildtype and mar1 deletion mutant grown in YPD and tissue culture media) provide a good dataset for course participants to analyze. 2. Which rRNA depletion method is best to use in the wetlab component of the course. This data was generated in preparation for the intensive summer course on high-throughput sequencing, funded by NIH grant 5R25EB023928-03 "A hands-on, integrative next-generation sequencing course: design, experiment, and analysis".
Project description:Most proteogenomic approaches for mapping single amino acid polymorphisms (SAPs) require construction of a sample-specific database containing protein variants predicted from the next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. We present a new strategy for direct SAP detection without relying on NGS data. Among the 348 putative SAP peptides identified in an industrial yeast strain, 85.6% of SAP sites were validated by genomic sequencing.
Project description:Patients suspected of adenomatous polyposis were included. The criteria used were more than 10 polyps observed under colonoscopy, and pathological confirmation of adenoma. Clinical data and pedigree information were collected. The variants of 139 genes associated with different hereditary cancers and polyposis were screened by NGS, which was performed by Genetron Health on the HiSeqX-ten sequencing platform.
Project description:Pseudomonas syringae was grown on minimal media and King's B medium. The goal of this project was to generate pilot data in preparation for a summer course on high-throughput sequencing where participants prepared their own RNA-Seq libraries and analyzed the resulting data. The summer course was funded by NIH grant 5R25EB023928-03 "A hands-on, integrative next-generation sequencing course: design, experiment, and analysis".
Project description:Modern humans spend most of their time having eaten recently. The purpose of the current project is to understand how the blood, which contains immune cells, responds in the hours after eating a meal that is moderately high in fat. We used a sequencing method to observe the expression of all the genes in blood cells in five participants who were each fed a high fat meal on three separate days. The results are reported in the manuscript, “Temporal changes in postprandial blood transcriptomes reveal subject-specific pattern of expression of innate immunity genes after a high-fat meal."