Recent advances in DNA sequencing technology have enabled entire genomes to be sequenced quickly and accurately, resulting in an exponential increase in the number of organisms whose genome sequences have been elucidated. ...

Ciliates are a class of organisms which undergo a genetic process called gene descrambling after mating. In order to better understand the problem, a literature review of past works has been presented in this thesis. This ...

Canada is the world’s largest producer of canola and the trend of production is ever increasing with an annual growth rate of 9.38% according to FAOSTAT. In 2017, canola acreage surpassed wheat in Saskatchewan, the highest ...

Analysis of gene expression microarray data has traditionally been conducted using hierarchical clustering. However, such analysis has many known disadvantages and pattern discovery (PD) has been proposed as an alternative ...

We show that by representing Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) data to a neural network in a way that incorporates quality scores and avoids filtering out low quality SNPs we are able to increase the effectiveness of a ...

There are no programs that allow a user to isolate strain-specific sequences within a complex assembly of mixed bacterial strains, unbiased by reference assembly. The tools that do exist each have a specialized focus, such ...

Advances in next-generation sequencing have accelerated the field of microbiology by making accessible a wealth of information about microbiomes. Unfortunately, microbiome experiments are among the least reproducible in ...