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As part of the PhD program in Computer Science at University of Essex, I am looking for a PhD student in computational and synthetic biology. The ideal candidate is interested in designing new biological design automation methods for genome scale...

github.com - maftools - An R package to summarize, analyze and visualize MAF files. Introduction. With advances in Cancer Genomics, Mutation Annotation Format (MAF) is being widley accepted and used to store variants detected. The Cancer Genome Atlas Project...

dunbrack.fccc.edu - BioDownloader is a program for downloading and/or updating files from ftp/http servers. The program has unique features that are specifically designed to deal with bioinformatics data files and servers: optimized to work with vast amount of data...

dagchainer.sourceforge.net - The DAGchainer software computes chains of syntenic genes found within complete genome sequences. As input, DAGchainer accepts a list of gene pairs with sequence homology along with their genome coordinates. Using a scoring function which accounts...

A major focus of our lab is understanding the effects of genetic variation on molecular phenotypes and human disease. We develop methods for integrating diverse functional genomic datasets of transcription, chromatin modifications, regulator...

github.com - SequenceServer lets you rapidly set up a BLAST+ server with an intuitive user interface for use locally or over the web. More at http://sequenceserver.com.

In an attempt to find a good Linux reference for bioinformatician and BOL readers, I was unsuccessful at finding a decent one on the Internet. So, we decided to make a cheat sheet for biological programmers.

www.atgc-montpellier.fr - LoRDEC is a program to correct sequencing errors in long reads from 3rd generation sequencing with high error rate, and is especially intended for PacBio reads. It uses a hybrid strategy, meaning that it uses two sets of reads: the reference read...

Short term perl training for geneticist

NGS & Bioinformatics Summit Europe Conference 7th to 8th October 2013 Berlin, Germany Website: https://www.gtcbio.com/conference/ngseurope-overview Contact person: Kristen Starkey We welcome you to join us at GTC’s NGS...