Past events:
Manually analyzing MIPs, part 1, Thursday, May 8th, at 9 am GMT-4 (4 pm East Africa time):
Molecular Inversion Probes (MIPs) are a technology that allows researchers to cheaply and efficiently study the genetic sequence of hundreds of regions of a genome within thousands of samples. This is useful for cheaply screening large numbers of malaria-infected people for the presence (and relative abundance) of drug resistance mutations. Alfred Simkin held an introductory meeting with members of Deus Ishengoma’s MSMT (Molecular Surveillance of Malaria in Tanzania) team of researchers to discuss Molecular Inversion Probe amplicon sequencing, and how to identify probe sequence, insert sequence, and Unique Molecular Identifiers (UMIs). Resources from this event can be found here.
Upcoming events:
Manually analyzing MIPs, part 2, Thursday, May 15th, at 9 am GMT-4 (4 pm East Africa time):
Alfred Simkin will be holding a followup meeting to part 1 of this event with members of Deus Ishengoma’s MSMT (Molecular Surveillance of Malaria in Tanzania) team of researchers to discuss the followup assignment from the end of the first event. At the end, we will also introduce the MIPTools automated bioinformatics pipeline for MIP analysis. Please review the resources from part 1 and send an email to boxwoodbioinformatics@gmail.com if you’re interested in attending.
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