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China’s BGI says it can sequence a genome for just $100

Post-doc in Genomics of Fungi Fungi are of central importance for the global carbon cycle because of their role in the degredation of complex organic matter such as plant material. Fungi also represent one of the last frontiers...

github.com - RefKA, a reference-based approach for long read genome assembly. This approach relies on breaking up a closely related reference genome into bins, aligning k-mers unique to each bin with PacBio reads, and then assembling each bin in parallel...

Internships available for Bachelors and Masters students Each node will host student interns interested in pursuing a research career in mathematical or computational biology at institutions located in its region. Eligibility: Bachelors (3rd...

github.com - Despite marked recent improvements in long-read sequencing technology, the assembly of diploid genomes remains a difficult task. A major obstacle is distinguishing between alternative contigs that represent highly heterozygous regions. If primary...

List of generic simulation software/tools/resource with brief description and homepage ALF A Simulation Framework for Genome Evolution http://www.cbrg.ethz.ch/alfBayesian Serial SimCoal Bayesian Serial SimCoal, (BayeSSC) is a modification of...

github.com - InfoGenomeR is the Integrative Framework for Genome Reconstruction that uses a breakpoint graph to model the connectivity among genomic segments at the genome-wide scale. InfoGenomeR integrates cancer purity and ploidy, total CNAs, allele-specific...

Advt. No.1/2014 Recruitment for Research Associate and Project Assistant positions Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB) is an autonomous academic institution established by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India with regional and...

bioinfologics.github.io - What is a k-mer anyway? A k-mer is just a sequence of k characters in a string (or nucleotides in a DNA sequence). Now, it is important to remember that to get all k-mers from a sequence you need to get...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - Install and use the NCBI Datasets command line tools The NCBI Datasets datasets command line tools are datasets and dataformat . Use datasets to download biological sequence data across all domains of life from...