There are other popular measures of edit distance, which are calculated using a different set of allowable edit operations. For instance,
the Damerau–Levenshtein distance allows insertion, deletion, substitution, and...
The Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University Medical Center is seeking a Postdoctoral Associate for a one year appointment to work on several high-dimensional research projects. The specific goals of the project are to...
Awk is a programming language which allows easy manipulation of structured data and is mostly used for pattern scanning and processing. It searches one or more files to see if they contain lines that match with the specified patterns and then...
Bioinformatics education is often limited to technical education about coding or utilization of code-line tools, however what is significantly lacking is an appreciation of big data and multi-omics challenges related to solving important and...
Ph.D. Fellowship (18,000 euro/pa, plus tuition fees at the EU students rate) is available for four years to work on development of Bioinformatics resources for the analysis and visualization of ribosome profiling data. Ribosome profiling (ribo-seq)...
The 3rd Annual Next Generation Sequencing Asia Congress is to be held on the 22nd and 23rd of October 2013 in Singapore. Over the 2 days, the conference will provide an overview of the current options of next-generation sequencing platforms,...
Naegleria fowleri is a free living, universally distributed amoeba, which is mostly found in natural, stagnant, warm water bodies such as ponds, lakes, etc. It is also reported to be present even in indoor water bodies, such as swimming pools...