Part of the reason R has become so popular is the vast array of packages available at the cran and bioconductor repositories. In the last few years, the number of packages has grown exponentially!
This is a short post giving steps on how to...
github.com - Call sviper
~$ ./sviper -s short-reads.bam -l long-reads.bam -r ref.fa -c variants.vcf -o polished_variants
This will output a polished_variants.vcf file, that contains all the refined variants.
Sometimes it is helpful to look at the...
Research Associate Bioinformatics job position in Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI)
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www.darwintreeoflife.org - The specimens were collected by the Oxford Wytham Woods and Edinburgh Lohse lab teams. DNA extraction and sequencing was carried out by the Sanger Institute Scientific Operations teams. Assemblies were carried out by the Tree of Life team (Shane...
The real bioinformatics scope lies if there are research labs which work in this field. One has to take account of that. If so then try to get information of those labs and visit them to get a hang of the work they pursue. For detail...
github.com - Filtlong is a tool for filtering long reads by quality. It can take a set of long reads and produce a smaller, better subset. It uses both read length (longer is better) and read identity (higher is better) when choosing which reads pass the...
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github.com - FastProNGS to integrate the quality control process with automatic adapter removal. Parallel processing was implemented to speed up the process by allocating multiple threads. Compared with similar up-to-date preprocessing tools, FastProNGS is by...
Centrillion Biosciences is a venture backed life sciences company located in Palo Alto, California. The company provides high quality genomic services to academic and industrial customers including top universities and research institutes....
hal.archives-ouvertes.fr - Pros and cons of HairSplitter Limitations of HairSplitter:
Not very fast: it re-polishes the whole assembly
Limited in the number of haplotypes
Strengths of HairSplitter:
Very modular, can be used with any assembler
Naive: makes no...