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Breitbart’s lab has created a new branch of biology called metagenomics in which one can sample and sequence genetic material collected from the environment. Breitbart lab is located in the College of Marine Science at the University of South...

PIT Bioinformatics Group solves problems in bioinformatics and computational biology. Recent developed online tools: - Budapest Reference Connectome: View a parametrizable connectome (brain graph). - AmphoraNet: The webserver implementation of...

Registrations are now open for the 2019 Summer Bioinformatics Training program at Amity University, Kolkata.

List of bioinformatics tools/Software Website References for genome assembly:

There are numerous genome assembly tools available, each with its strengths and weaknesses. Here is a list of some widely used genome assembly tools as of my last update in September 2021: SPAdes: An assembler specifically designed for...

https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu The Genome 10K project aims to assemble a genomic zoo—a collection of DNA sequences representing the genomes of 10,000 vertebrate species, approximately one for every vertebrate genus. The trajectory of cost reduction...

github.com - Convenient conversions between genome assemblie. The liftover package makes it easy to remap genomic coordinates to a different genome assembly. More at...

github.com - Trinity, developed at the Broad Institute and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, represents a novel method for the efficient and robust de novo reconstruction of transcriptomes from RNA-seq data. Trinity combines three independent software modules:...

bioen-compbio.bioen.illinois.edu - Rreference-Assisted Chromosome Assembly (RACA), an algorithm to reliably order and orient sequence scaffolds generated by NGS and assemblers into longer chromosomal fragments using comparative genome information and paired-end...

www.broadinstitute.org - DISCOVAR is a new variant caller and DISCOVAR de novo a new genome assembler, both designed for state-of-the-art data. Their inputs are chosen to optimize quality while keeping costs low. Currently it takes as input Illumina reads of length 250 or...