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NGS quality control and trimming are essential steps to ensure reliable and accurate data for analysis. While the "ifs" highlight the clear benefits of these steps, the "buts" remind us of the potential pitfalls. By adopting best practices and...

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

github.com - VariantBam is a tool to extract/count specific sets of sequencing reads from next-generational sequencing files. To save money, disk space and I/O, one may not want to store an entire BAM on disk. In many cases, it would be more efficient to store...

Python 3.5 to include ‘type hinting’

github.com - jackalope simply and efficiently simulates (i) variants from reference genomes and (ii) reads from both Illumina and Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) platforms. It can either read reference genomes from FASTA files or simulate new ones. Genomic variants...

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...

console.cloud.google.com - List of publically available databases on google server. More at https://software.broadinstitute.org/gatk/download/bundle ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/organisms/human_9606/VCF/GATK/. ftp://ftp.broadinstitute.org/bundle/hg38/hg38bundle/

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

Pay Scale: Rs. 16,000/- + 30 % HRA per month Educational Requirements: M.Sc. in Bioinformatics with at least 55% marks Qualifications: Knowledge of Perl, R and other programming language or Database management or knowledge of pipelines to analyze...