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Institution/Company: University of Calgary Location: Calgary, AB Job Description: Novel diagnostic platform for detection of Osteoarthritis I invite applications from highly motivated individuals to join my laboratory as a PhD student...

Job Description: three postdoc positions in computational biology are available at the Center for Genomic Science in Milan (Italy): - Development of computational methods to investigate the interplay between epigenetic and genetic layers and...

doc-openbio.readthedocs.io - SeqMule takes single-end or paird-end FASTQ or BAM files, generates a script consisting of more than 10 popular alignment, analysis tools and runs the script line by line. Users can change the pipeline or fine-tune the parameters by modifying its...

The main objectives of this Practical Course are to strengthen skills of PhD students and young researchers in the domain of Bioinformatics and Genome Data Analyses on the use of advanced fundamental algorithms and their applications in genome...

github.com - Collection of Python libraries to parse bioinformatics files, or perform computation related to assembly, annotation, and comparative genomics. https://github.com/tanghaibao/jcvi More at https://github.com/tanghaibao/jcvi/wiki

Mitochondrial Genome of a 400,000-Year-Old Hominin from Spain Decoded

github.com - KAD is designed for evaluating the accuracy of nucleotide base quality of genome assemblies. Briefly, abundance of k-mers are quantified for both sequencing reads and assembly sequences. Comparison of the two values results in a single value per...

Open source software is software that can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone. Open source software is made by many people, and distributed under licenses that comply with the Open Source Definition.The...

github.com - Flanker, a Python package which performs alignment-free clustering of gene flanking sequences in a consistent format, allowing investigation of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) without prior knowledge of their structure. Flanker can be...

For our next PhD Program starting in October 2014 we are looking for exceptionally motivated PhD candidates with a keen interest in genomics and medicine and a strong interest to work in teams. The 2014 CeMM PhD Program will focus on two thematic...