Streamlining Space Studies : vimarsana.com

May 12, 2021
Ohio Wesleyan professor Chris Wolverton has earned two NASA grants to explore how plants respond to gravity, including sending research to be conducted on the International Space Station.
Streamlining Space Studies
By Cole Hatcher
DELAWARE, Ohio – Work by NASA-funded researchers, including Ohio Wesleyan University professor Chris Wolverton, to standardize protocols for genetic studies conducted in outer space will help to ensure that none of their important scientific data falls into academic black holes.
The researchers, with Wolverton as a co-author, have published information about their efforts to create more meaningful and sharable data in the April 23 edition of iScience, an open-access journal published by Cell Press. The article, outlining work that began in 2018, is titled “NASA GeneLab RNA-seq consensus pipeline: Standardized processing of short-read RNA-seq data.”