BOL

github.com - jackalope simply and efficiently simulates (i) variants from reference genomes and (ii) reads from both Illumina and Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) platforms. It can either read reference genomes from FASTA files or simulate new ones. Genomic variants...

console.cloud.google.com - List of publically available databases on google server. More at https://software.broadinstitute.org/gatk/download/bundle ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/organisms/human_9606/VCF/GATK/. ftp://ftp.broadinstitute.org/bundle/hg38/hg38bundle/

online resources on must-read papers in evolutionary biology, for a literature club

ncbi.github.io - Magic-BLAST is a tool for mapping large next-generation RNA or DNA sequencing runs against a whole genome or transcriptome. Each alignment optimizes a composite score, taking into account simultaneously the two reads of a pair, and in case of...

github.com - The pipeline was developed based on a popular workflow framework Nextflow, composed of four core procedures including reads alignment, assembly, identification and quantification. It contains various unique features such as well-designed...

Sequencing based service

Strand Life Sciences announces the release of Strand NGS v3.1 at ASHG 2017

github.com - proActiv is an R package that estimates promoter activity from RNA-Seq data. proActiv uses aligned reads and genome annotations as input, and provides absolute and relative promoter activity as output. The package can be used to identify active...

Strand NGS is a biologist friendly NGS analysis tool that allows biologists to analyze their data using a very intuitive workflow for the analysis and visualization of RNA-Seq data. This webinar will give an overview of the workflow which includes...

Guest Faculty Job vacancies in Pondicherry University Qualification : M.Phil. / M.Tech. / M.Sc. in Computer Science / Master of Computer Applications with a minimum of 55% of marks. Candidates with Ph.D. degree and NET/SLET qualification will be...