Jens Allmer

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Would you share your expertise in miRNomics?

Following the successful first volume of miRNomicsmiRNomics: MicroRNA Biology and Computational Analysis we are currently inviting chapter contributions for the second volume of the book covering...

10 October 2017 2,229 0 View

How to calculate phylogenetic conservation?

Aim:Are the features that we are interested in more conserved in a set of virus strains than expected? Input:1) 100 virus genomes (strains of same virus) as pairwise aligned sequences (no MSA).2)...

12 December 2016 7,920 6 View

What to do when a publication turns out to be completely wrong?

Dear Colleagues, we recently found a publication in PLOS ONE, detailing results which we believed to be impossible after merely reading the abstract. We then spend about 3 months researching their...

11 November 2014 8,501 6 View

Can mature miRNAs (ssRNAs) be directly loaded into RISC?

I am currently wondering whether it is possible to directly load single stranded short RNA sequences into RISC. Is there a requirement for the input molecules to RISC to be double stranded? If...

10 October 2014 5,641 2 View

Who would like to test MicroRNAs in Toxoplasma gondii experimentally?

We predicted MicroRNAs in T. gondii and confirmed most of the published ones (some don't seem to be miRNAs according to our finding and manual inspection). We have many additional confident...

01 January 1970 6,582 0 View

Who would like to contribute to Computational miRNomics?

We aim to Definine the current state-of-the-art in computational miRNomics. Three years ago we published miRNomics (http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781627037471) which has been successful with...

01 January 1970 7,965 0 View