The Institute of Biology and the Philippine Genome Center is co-hosting a seminar titled “Cardiac Disease Modeling Using Patient-derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and single-cell RNA-sequencing” featuring Dr. Michael Zumaraga, Associate Professor from the UCI Cardiogenomics Research Program. The talk will be held on July 16, 2025, 10:00 am PST, at Rm 250, IB building, UP Diliman.
Cracking the genomes of marine & non-model organisms: novel approaches for correcting, assembling and scaffolding genomic data using de Bruijn graphs and Hi-C contact maps
For a very long time, most bioinformatic tools for handling genome data have been geared toward haploid (or diploid but nearly homozygous) organisms such as humans, bacteria and laboratory strains of model species. As a result, these tools often perform very badly on highly heterozygous diploid or polyploid organisms, which is the case of many non-model and/or marine species.
Cracking the biological code: insights from Dr. Dawn Field
We’re used to thinking of codes as long strings of seemingly indecipherable characters – languages known to computer programmers. However, there exists another, more significant code found within us and around us: DNA, our planet’s biological code.