Coffee break with TRANSFAC®

A free online seminar in which Prof. Dr. Alexander Kel, CEO and CSO of geneXplain GmbH, demonstrated the new features of release 2024.1 and answered questions live.

Held 9 July 2024 · one-hour demo, then 30 minutes of Q&A

The seminar

What it covered

Four topics, one hour, then questions from the audience.

Release 2024.1 new features and statistics overview

MATCH™ Suite, now available for mouse and rat

HOMER tool in the geneXplain® platform

TRANSPATH®: new pathways and reactions, REACTOME integration

Worked through live

What was demonstrated

Every step shown is reproducible by licensed users.

How to identify peaks for ATAC-seq and CUT&RUN data

How to join and intersect peaks and tracks

How to identify TF-binding motifs enriched in a differential peak set

What upstream analysis is — combined promoter and pathway analysis

How to find master regulators as potential drug targets

The lecturer

Prof. Dr. Alexander Kel

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology and Genetics, 1990; over 35 years of research experience.

M.S. in biology with a focus on mathematical biology, Novosibirsk State University, 1985.

Originator of the “fuzzy puzzle” concept for modelling gene regulatory regions.

Developed upstream analysis for identifying biomarkers and drug targets across diseases.

Author of more than 130 scientific publications and several book chapters.

CEO and CSO of geneXplain GmbH, Wolfenbüttel; Visiting Professor at RCSI, Dublin.

Related recordings

Seminars on the same tools

The recording of this particular session is not published here. These cover the same ground and are freely available.

Your first TRANSFAC® analysis

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Promoter analysis of model organisms

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Audience

Who it was for

Bench biologists and students looking for ways to analyse gene regulation data. Basic knowledge of biochemistry and molecular biology is enough — no programming skills are required.

Questions

FAQ

Can I still see what was shown?

The session was recorded for registered attendees. The recording of this particular seminar is not published on this page; the related recordings above cover the same tools and workflows.

Will I be able to repeat the analysis?

Yes. Every step demonstrated is reproducible by duly licensed users of the geneXplain® platform and TRANSFAC®.

Do I need to be able to program?

No. Basic knowledge of biochemistry and molecular biology is enough; no programming skills are required.

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