Once your research group is ready to make a larger investment and hire a bioinformatician to gain a competitive edge, there are several key traits to seek out in potential candidates. The best bioinformatician are:-
milkweedgenome.org - Some of the useful bioinformatics scripts.
For example ... contig-stats.pl is a Perl script that will automatically describe features of a sequence assembly.
http://milkweedgenome.org/?q=scripts
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This tutorial is intended to introduce users quickly to the basics of R, focusing on a few common tasks that biologists need to perform some basic analysis: load a table, plot some graphs, and perform some basic statistics. More...