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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Xenopus Community<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> This is the <b>LAST CALL</b> to register for the
<b>NXR Bioinformatics Workshop</b> being held May 13-19. Space is still available. Why attend you may ask? Well I’d like to give you some reasons to attend:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. Do you have any RNA-seq or proteomic data? Are you planning on doing any such experiments to generate the data? If so then you should attend the workshop.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. Tired of not being able to understand all the jargon used in Big Data? Trimming? Yes I do that as well otherwise my hedges will overgrow. Oh wait that is not what is meant. If you thought that is what it meant then you should attend.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. Great teacher:student ratio. 3:1. You will get hands on advice and help.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4. Ever stare at the Xenopus genome on JBrowse and wonder what those squiggly lines mean or how do I get the cDNA sequence? You will learn more about that in the workshop.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5. Ever wonder how one maps sequence data to the Xenopus genome? You’ll learn that here.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6. You’ll be in Woods Hole.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">7. You’ll get to see Marko and his crew; oh yeah and the NXR<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">8. You are thinking of your future as an independent PI and realize I must be able to do bioinformatics otherwise I will have to rely on others to do it. And then you recall that you don’t want to end up like Marko - he has been sitting
on his RNA-seq data for 5 years now without getting it properly analyzed because he did not attend the Bioinformatics workshop. He has to rely on others……<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">9. You get to eat Swope food.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10. You’ll be in Woods Hole and get to eat french bakery goods.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hope to see more of you register. It is very simple. Here is how you do it:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. Go the NXR webpage for the workshop, <a href="http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus/workshops/bioinformatics">
http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus/workshops/bioinformatics</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. Click on REGISTER HERE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. Login and fill out the form.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marko <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">**************************************************************************</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><br>
</span><b><i><span style="color:black">If the NXR contributed to your work please cite us in your papers.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black">Cite us in the materials and methods as National Xenopus Resource RRID:SCR_013731 at the Marine Biological Laboratory</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black">Cite us in your references: Pearl, E. et al "Development of Xenopus resource centers: the National Xenopus Resource and the European Xenopus Resource Center" Genesis 50, 155-163</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
Marko Horb, Ph.D.<br>
Director, National <i>Xenopus</i> Resource (NXR)<br>
Senior Scientist, Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering<br>
Marine Biological Laboratory<br>
7 MBL Street<br>
Woods Hole, MA 02543<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Email: mhorb@mbl.edu<br>
Office: 508-289-7627<br>
Lab: 508-289-7370<br>
Cell: 508-564-3764<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">http://www.mbl.edu/horb<br>
http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus<br>
https://twitter.com/xenopusnxr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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