Plague in the UK!
September 25, 2019
Researchers at the University of Nottingham thought that they had discovered an occurrences of the bacteria that causes plague in a rats from Liverpool and Vancouver. They were using a widely used microarray based platform specifically designed to identify zoonotic pathogens. By supplementing their analysis with metagenomics sequencing we were able to interrogate the validity …
Increasing lean muscle mass in pigs
Researchers at the University of Nottingham in conjunction with scientist at Zoetis were comparing the effect of growth hormones and beta agonists on pig growth. By integrating time series RNAseq, microarray and metabolomic datasets using machine learning we were able to identify some the key gene networks and enriched molecular pathways that could in part …
Digital Research Team Receive Best Paper Award at ICISO 2018
July 20, 2018
This week I attended the 18th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, held at the University of Reading. The theme for this year’s conference was Digitalisation, Innovation and Transformation, and over three days we got to hear a wide-range of talks on Business Intelligence, Data Visualisation, Technology Acceptance, Strategy Lifecycles, Digital Games and …
