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To decide which strategy should be our “preferred” genome assembly approach based on data rather than my gut-feeling about the “best assembly” I decided to do some testing with a known “true” reference E Coli K12 MG1655

sites.google.com - ShRec3D is a program that aims at reconstructing a genome 3D structure (b) from the sole knowledge of the contacts between different genomic regions (a) as determined by Hi-C (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19815776). There are two options to...

www.breedinginsight.org - Breeding Insight at Cornell University will leverage recent improvements in genomics and open source informatics components, and in partnership with small breeding programs, will enable these programs to harness  powerful digital...

github.com - RagTag is a collection of software tools for scaffolding and improving modern genome assemblies. Tasks include: Homology-based misassembly correction Homology-based assembly scaffolding and patching Scaffold merging

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

Mitochondrial genome assembly tools are specialized software and algorithms designed to accurately reconstruct the mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) from sequencing data, typically obtained through techniques like next-generation sequencing (NGS)....

Python 3.5 to include ‘type hinting’

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...

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