CAGE analysis using the R Bioconductor package CAGEr

This post is outdated; please refer to the official documentation. Cap Analysis Gene Expression (CAGE) is a molecular technique, developed at RIKEN, which captures all transcription starting sites (TSSs) of an RNA population. The C in CAGE refers to the altered nucleotide at the 5′ site of precursor messenger RNA, termed the cap, which CAGE…

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Using the R twitteR package

Updated 2014 November 26th to reflect changes in the tm package Updated 2015 February 18th to reflect changes in the twitteR package A short post on using the R twitteR package for text mining and using the R wordcloud package for visualisation. I did this on my Windows machine, which has this problem. I’ve updated…

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Student journal club

Updated 2014 March 6th: I have begun to provide summaries of papers I’ve read at my second Wiki. I have recently volunteered to organise the student journal club at my institute. I asked for the job because I am not particularly well organised, so I thought I could improve on this aspect. Another reason was…

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