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LAST can: Handle big sequence data, e.g: Compare two vertebrate genomes Align billions of DNA reads to a genome Indicate the reliability of each aligned column. Use sequence quality data properly. Compare DNA to proteins, with...

Delete space from FASTA header: perl -pe 's/>\S+\K.+//' < file.fasta > new_file.fasta #PerlOneLiner #Trick #Perl #Space #Fasta

Rename the name of multi fasta sequesnces with awk awk '/^>/{print ">chromosome" ++i; next}{print}' < file.fasta

There are many mapping tools, and each one has its own specifications. Once we have two or more tools for similar purposes, how can we say which tool is better?

Hi Gudiya, N50 can be defined as the largest entity E such that at least half of the total size of the entities is contained in entities larger than E. For example if we have a collection of contigs with sizes 7, 4, 3, 2, 2, 1, and 1 kb (total size...

Pattern searching holds much importance for biologists , for the understanding of DNA ( and its functionality) can be more than a matter of satisfying curiosity , but also give answers to many issuess uchas medical conditions . However,there are a...

Thanks for such a useful list of synteny identification tools. If anyone interested to analyze synteny at the protein level, they can try this tool https://github.com/thiesgehrmann/proteny

I am currently dealing with new contig assembly dataset, and bit confused about N50 and L50 stuff ....