the Non-Coding RNA Group

Dept of Medical Genetics | Oslo University Hospital

This is the webpage of the Non-Coding RNA group at OUS.
Our research interests include:

We are currently looking for masters students for experimental and computational projects.

please email us if you are interested.

Research

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HCMV

Association between the Human Cytomegalovirus genome and severity of disease.

Ethnicity

Investigating non-coding variation

Data Standards

Developing FAIR like data sharing solutions

miRNAs

What is a miRNA?

Rabies

Prevention and Control

TBGEN

mapping Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes among genetically distinct human populations in four African countries.

The Non-Coding Genome

probing the interesting bits

Software

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miRAW

miRNA target prediction using deep learning.

miRBaseMiner

A software tool to investigate miRBase annotation.

Jasmine

isomiR characterization and analysis

Lab Members

Researchers

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Simon Rayner

Group Leader

Computational Biology, the non-coding genome, communicable and non-communicable disease, data standards

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Endalkachew A. Alemu

Senior Researcher

Epitranscriptomics, The Non-coding genome, The Role of RNA binding proteins in gene regulation

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Nora Bull

Researcher

phylogenetic dispersion, population and evolution, Data mining

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Pável Vázquez

Postdoctoral Researcher

Data analytics, Data mining, Data management, Machine Learning, Scientific computing

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Siqing Liu

Postdoctoral Researcher

non-coding RNA regulation, Population genetic variation in diseases, RNA virus and host interaction

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Xuan Jiang

Scientia Fellow

Human Cytomegalovirus, Virus evolution, The non-coding genome

Visitors

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Frida Moi

Master Student, Bioinformatics, NMBU

Statistical Learning, The Non-Coding Genome, Python

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Rosa Tsegaye

EDCTP Research Fellow

Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval

Recent Publications

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Systematic assessment of commercially available low-input miRNA library preparation kits

High-throughput sequencing is increasingly favoured to assay the presence and abundance of microRNAs (miRNAs) in biological samples, …

Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients, Both Newly Diagnosed and Methotrexate Treated, Show More DNA Methylation Differences in CD4+ Memory Than in CD4+ Naïve T Cells

Differences in DNA methylation have been reported in B and T lymphocyte populations, including CD4+ T cells, isolated from rheumatoid …

Identification and BAC construction of Han, the first characterized HCMV clinical strain in China

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the leading infectious cause of birth defects, and may lead to severe or lethal diseases in …

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