The Ultimate in Scientific Collaboration

If you’ve ever spent time looking for a specialized piece of research equipment or for a lab  that has an expertise in a particular technique, you are going to love the new online tool recently launched by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI). The CFI Research Facilities Navigator is a searchable online directory of CFI-funded research facilities across Canada and the expertise they offer. All labs and facilities listed in this directory have received funding from the CFI or use CFI-funded infrastructure and are open to working with business. There are currently over 360 laboratories from 63 universities and research hospitals across Canada listed in the Navigator.

On the other hand, if you are an academic lab with CFI funding, the Navigator serves as a perfect place for you to advertize your lab’s marketable skills and to earn money by selling your services to the business community.

The CFI Navigator has placed the power of collaboration into the hands of academic laboratories and small biotechnology companies and is the perfect tool for facilitation a bench to bedside research strategy.

To explore research facilities available across Canada, visit CFI’s Navigator website.

Treasure from Deep Diving the Biotechnology Web

We came across this supplement from the National Post:
Investing in Life Sciences

Click here to review it.

Site Found: Personal Proteomics

Personal Proteomics Let the transparent journey of personal proteomics begin! Please visit this tecnical site.
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Biotechnology science fiction on your Kindle this weekend

WHAT ELSE?

The Hunger Games Trilogy

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Appropriate Genomic Data Analysis Techniques

This gem was originally posted in August 2010, however, in consideration of our post on reference gene selection posted earlier this week, I thought that now would be a good time to share this information once again. Enjoy!

We have done many posts on the importance of appropriate sample preparation and sample handling techniques in order to ensure that you get top quality, reliable results from your genomic or proteomic experiments. Past posts include:

• protein extraction
• protein solubilization
• removing salt from your protein sample
• removing contaminant from your protein sample
  
• proper sample handling for real-time PCR (MIQE tutorial and related post)

However, proper sample handling alone is not enough to ensure accurate information. When working with very large data sets such as those involved in microarray analysis, it is imperative to ensure proper data handling and analysis. While perusing the GenOmics Facebook page from Genome Alberta , I came across a video from Dr. Laura Scott of the University of Michigan on handling and analyzing data from a genome-wide association study. In the video, Dr. Scott talks about the importance of defining your data analysis process prior to commencing your study and appropriate ways of storing the data, performing quality control analysis and viewing and storing results.