Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University, Kolkata Quest for creatures A team of wildlife researchers went on an expedition to Amazon forests. The study was carried out by NatureFirm, an eDNA company. It was headed by Kate Bruce who carried out the study for the charity World Wildlife Fund(WWF) The goal was to look for pink river […]
Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata By definition, DNA sequencing refers to a process of determining the order of nucleotides that are present in a DNA sequence. DNA is made of nucleotides. These nucleotides are made of a phosphate group, a sugar group, and nitrogen bases. Nitrogen bases found in DNA are adenine (A), guanine (G), […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata RNA determines the identity of the cell and directs the responses to the cellular needs of the body. These diverse cellular functions are possible due to the vast chemical composition of RNA which comprises four ribonucleotides (A, C, G, and U) and more than 140 modified ribonucleotides. Several years of RNA […]
Nandini Pharasi, Jaypee institute of information technology Human Genome Project: HGP is an international project whose main goal was to sequence the entire human genome. It mainly focused on identifying and mapping all the genes in the human genome. The cost was a billion dollars and 13 years marking the beginning of a new era […]
Saakshi Bangera, DY Patil School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Chemical modifications of nucleotide bases of RNA are important regulators of RNA metabolism. Detecting such modifications may revolutionize transcriptomics, but is equally challenging to develop. RNA profiling concerning the transcriptome is quite difficult due to the lack of effective technology. A solid detection and analysis technique […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Intra-tumor Heterogeneity ( ITH) Aggregation of a distinct set of somatic mutations leads to the generation of tumors. The set of mutations assembled by the prime tumor is known as clonal and the mutations which take place in pre-existing tumors comprise cancer cell sub-populations is known as subclonal. Consequently, the […]
Sumedha B S, Bangalore University Long-read sequencing (LRS), also called third-generation sequencing, offers a number of advantages over short-read sequencing such as Illumina’s NovaSeq, NextSeq, HiSeq and MiSeq instruments. Long-read sequencing technologies could permit the assembly of genomes, which is capable of revolutionizing genomics. It has the potential to reveal the full spectrum of human […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Following the resolution of long-standing technical challenges by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, scientists can now study changes in the DNA of any human tissue for the first time. The new method, known as nanorate sequencing (NanoSeq), allows researchers to study how genetic changes occur in human tissues […]
-Koustav Maiti, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara SSRgenotyper is the SSR (Simple Sequence Repeat) genotyping platform that provides scientists with re-sequence data i.e. whole genome or reduced representational data. SSRs are the microsatellites or simple tandem repeats that are used as genetic markers for genetic markers in the biological field. They are short, multiple-time […]
Sristi Raj Rai, Amity University Kolkata DNA sequencing is one of the key vertebrae that form the backbones of the evolving areas in the field of Biology and other sciences. It is a process that helps us to figure out the sequence in which the nucleotides are arranged in a DNA molecule. Thus, it can […]
