Alexis Thornton joins the lab as a Junior Specialist/Post-Bacc! She will be working on applying eVIP to study transcript variants.
What is eVIP? Our paper with colleagues at the Broad on high-throughput approaches to functionally characterize cancer variants is now officially out as a featured article in Cancer Cell!
A link to the manuscript: http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(16)30282-3
A link to Cancer Cell’s Preview on the the manuscript and related studies: http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(16)30345-2
Another summary of the manuscript from Broad News: http://www.broadinstitute.org/news/8456