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Genes, Genomes and Variation

Authoritative databases of genome sequences and their function

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Participation history

4 GSoC years

2019

3 projects

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Applying machine learning techniques to characterising and naming lncRNA genes

Advances in RNA sequencing technologies have revealed the complexity of our genome. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) make up the majority of the...

Circular RNA analytics frontend

The project aims to deliver a responsive web-based analytics dashboard, integrated to an in-house catalogue of circRNAs identified from multiple...

Using Deep Learning Techniques To Enhance Orthology Calls

Homology refers to the shared ancestry between a pair of structures, organisms or genes, in different taxa. Currently, homology types are decided on...

2018

2 projects

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Transcript Comparisons

In Comparative Genomics we compare an unknown gene with some other known genes, for better inference of biological properties of that unknown gene....

Automated Processing of Primary Genome Analysis

Develop an automated system that performs analyses on newly sequenced genomes.

2017

5 projects

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Project Proposal Ensembl Track Database Mentors : Andy Yates, Stephen Trevanion

Ensembl is a data warehousing and data sets project which helps to analyse advanced biological data. Simple this application displays a 1 dimensional...

Data file search API

The Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes projects provide genomic data for over 40 thousands genomes. Considering even the increasing number of this data, it...

Strain Differential

The objective of the project is to get a scrollable web view for gene variations after changing the reference strain of genome data in real time. The...

Enabling large file format support in Genoverse

The motive is enable support for large binary file formats in Genoverse, a genome browser that is written in javascript. This project would involve...

Gene Visualisation in Mixed Reality with Microsoft HoloLens.

This project would involve building an application allowing genes to be visualised in ‘mixed reality’ with the Microsoft HoloLens. Mixed reality...

2016

2 projects

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Visualization of Genomic Sequence Graphs

Recent scientific advances have lead to a huge increase in the amount of available genomic sequence information. In the past this sequence...

Graphical workflow editor for eHive using Blockly

eHive is a system used to run computation pipelines in distributed environments. eHive workflows are currently being migrated to a Relax NG...