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github.com - A de novo genome assembly can be summarised b y a number of metrics, including: Overall assembly length Number of scaffolds/contigs Length of longest scaffold/contig Scaffold/contig N50 and N90Assembly base composition, in...

Roche has acquired Bina Technologies, a privately-owned biotech company based in California.

github.com - MARVEL consists of a set of tools that facilitate the overlapping, patching, correction and assembly of noisy (not so noisy ones as well) long reads. The assembly process can be summarized as follows: overlap patch reads overlap...

Python 3.5 to include ‘type hinting’

github.com - This software is provided ``as is” without warranty of any kind. In no event shall the author be held responsible for any damage resulting from the use of this software. The program package, including source codes, executables, and this...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Cancer Systems Biology Department of Oncology, Old Road Campus Research Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford Grade 7: £30,434 - £37,394 with a discretionary range to £40,847 p.a. Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral...

wishart.biology.ualberta.ca - CGView is a Java package for generating high quality, zoomable maps of circular genomes. Its primary purpose is to serve as a component of sequence annotation pipelines, as a means of generating visual output suitable for the web. Feature...

BioInformatics introduces 'Interactive Market Intelligence', a cloud-based market research tool for life science industry

Young computational biologist named Yaniv Erlich shocked the research world by showing it was possible to unmask the identities of people listed in anonymous genetic databases using only an Internet connection