Top 4 challenges of equitable precision medicine
In our previous articles on precision medicine, we reviewed how advances in precision medicine...
BioStrand Omics Analysis Blog:
Genetic research
The BioStrand Interviews: Meet Christophe Van Neste
Bioengineer, philosopher, programmer, bioinformatician and teacher, Christophe Van Neste is a truly...
How to characterise protein domains
Classifying genes and assigning functions to gene products is a fundamental step in converting huge...
Bring Meaning to the Chaotic Space of Omics & Text
Learn how to integrate and normalise omics and biomedical text data into a single data model/frame...
Defining next-generation biobanks
Since the term was first introduced in the mid-nineties, biobanking has evolved significantly from...
The role of NGS in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, accounting for 25% of all female...
The metadata challenge in biological research
One of the key highlights of the global response to COVID-19 has been the importance of effective,...
Learnings from the global response to the pandemic
Prior to 2020, the fastest vaccine development program had taken four years from viral sampling to...
How to identify species related to a sequence
The taxonomic identification of species is a fundamental process in biological research that allows...
The future of precision medicine
The sequencing of the human genome heralded a potential revolution in healthcare. So much so that...
How to retrieve shared motifs across homologous sequences
Motifs refer to short, typically fixed length patterns that are repeated in exact or approximate...