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Danish hold the key to happiness!! http://www.techtimes.com/articles/10792/20140718/do-the-danish-hold-the-key-to-happiness-perhaps-says-study-in-their-genome.htm #Omics #Seq

114 different tools out there for DNA/RNA assembly https://twitter.com/kbradnam/status/479039027249971201/photo/1 #Assembly #Genome #Tools

The China National Genebank Initiates Global Collaboration to Sequence Transcriptomes of 1,000 Fish Species http://www.genomics.cn/en/news/show_news?nid=99788 #T1K #Transcriptomics #Fish

101 questions with a bioinformatician http://www.acgt.me/blog/2014/6/17/101-questions-with-a-bioinformatician-11-ewan-birney #101question #Bioinformatics #Question #FAQ

Hi Neelam, I prefer VarScan ( http://varscan.sourceforge.net/ ) This is a tool that detects variants (SNPs and indels) in next-generation sequencing data. VarScan now takes SAMtools pileup as input, so it’s compatible with most SAM-friendly...

Your friends may be as genetically similar to you as your fourth cousin ...

Hi Neelam, There are several free software and pipelines for SNP calling. I will suggest you to read this beginners guide to SNP calling from high-throughput DNA-sequencing data. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22886560  and try some...

Dear Ashwin, There is a simple difinition: Computational biologist: Programmer learn biology and do research. Bioinformatics: Biologist learn programming and do research. I guess this make sense. Thanks