Great news! Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – German Research Foundation offers additional opportunities to apply for funding high sequencing costs projects together with academic sequencing institutions. Sequencing projects with costs in both medical and non-medical environments can be funded. We and our fellow competence centers in the NGS-CN– NGS Competence Center Tübingen (NCCT)– DRESDEN-concept Genome Center–… Continue reading New funding opportunities for sequencing projects!
Category: Sequencing
Exciting Update on Genomic Benchmarking!
Exciting news from our WGGC experts! The small variant calling benchmarking initiative by the NGS-CN and the GHGA is out and waiting for scientific feedback. Publication Link: https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.140344.1 Publication Highlights: Delve into this pioneering work and stay at the forefront of genomic benchmarking!
BD Single-Cell Multiomics Day – Join us on 21st March in Bonn and Online!
The seminar aims to provide insights into the latest technologies in scRNAseq and multiomics, which are essential to understand gene regulation and single-cell heterogeneity. The program includes an introduction to single-cell multiomics with the BD Rhapsody™ analysis system, insights from the system in real-life applications, and exploring COVID-19 at a single-cell resolution. The speakers are… Continue reading BD Single-Cell Multiomics Day – Join us on 21st March in Bonn and Online!
Single Cell Omics in Clinical Applications SCOG Conference
Join the Single Cell research community at this conference on November 7-9 in Bonn, with organizers and speakers from the WGGC community. More details and registration at the official conference site: https://www.singlecell.de/index.php/events/clinicalapplications/ For late and on-site registration please get in contact with Dr. Anna Drews from the local organizing team: Anna-Dorothee.Drews(at)dzne.de
2021 NGS Summer School
The Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network is organizing the summer school titled “Understanding Next Generation Sequencing from molecule to output data” from September 13-15th, 2021, tailored for MSc and PhD students with planned or ongoing NGS-related projects. The summer school will cover different aspects of Next Generation Sequencing including lectures on experimental design and statistical… Continue reading 2021 NGS Summer School
Fourth NGS DFG call
The 4th DFG call for funding of sequencing costs is out! Important facts and dates: Only scientific projects with a medium to large sized demand (€100,000 to €1 million) of sequencing costs are funded through this call Applications within this call are regular individual research grants The submission of a letter of intent is a… Continue reading Fourth NGS DFG call
Invitation to the Next Generation Sequencing Network online workshop
The one-day virtual workshop will provide an overview of the latest updates and developments in the field of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) as presented by the NGS Competence Network (NGS-CN) sites. This is a good workshop for scientists on the step of “How to get started” and “who to contact” for sequencing projects. Go to… Continue reading Invitation to the Next Generation Sequencing Network online workshop
A new publication from the 1st DFG NGS call is out!
Jennifer V Gerbracht et al. “CASC3 promotes transcriptome-wide activation of nonsense-mediated decay by the exon junction complex”, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 48, Issue 15, 04 September 2020, Pages 8626–8644, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa564 The NGS project funded in the 1st call and led by PI Niels Gehring published their first results on the role of CASC3 in post-transcriptional gene expression. Congratulations… Continue reading A new publication from the 1st DFG NGS call is out!
The first publication from the 1st DFG NGS call is out!
Erger, F., Nörling, D., Borchert, D. et al. cfNOMe — A single assay for comprehensive epigenetic analyses of cell-free DNA. Genome Med 12, 54 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-020-00750-5 cfNOMe is a two-in-one method of measuring cell-free DNA cytosine methylation and nucleosome occupancy in a single assay using non-disruptive enzymatic cytosine conversion and a custom bioinformatics pipeline. This in-house… Continue reading The first publication from the 1st DFG NGS call is out!
The German COVID-19 OMICS Initiative
The NGS Competence Centers launched the German COVID-19 OMICS Initiative DeCOI in collaboration with many national research institutes to use Omics technologies to tackle the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more on DeCOI. Read the Uni Bonn press release (in German).