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

https://dfast.nig.ac.jp/ - We developed a prokaryotic genome annotation pipeline, DFAST, that also supports genome submission to public sequence databases. DFAST was originally started as an on-line annotation server, and to date, over 7,000 jobs have been processed since its...

wiki.bits.vib.be - compare two BWA mapping methods with the online hg18-mapped data We first operate a rapid inspection of the different BAM files using samtools flagstat. Illumina provided chr21 read mapping obtained with their GA IIx deep...

NCBI Genome Workbench updates with important bugs fixed.

Geospatial data is becoming increasingly important in many fields, including urban planning, environmental science, public health, and more. These tools can help you work with data from a variety of sources, including satellite imagery, GPS data,...

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-sequence-the-human-genome-mark-j-kiel Your genome, every human's genome, consists of a unique DNA sequence of A's, T's, C's and G's that tell your cells how to operate. Thanks to technological...

peerj.com - The sequencing, assembly, and basic analysis of microbial genomes, once a painstaking and expensive undertaking, has become almost trivial for research labs with access to standard molecular biology and computational tools. However, there are a wide...

User-friendly tools for the normalization and visualization of deep-sequencing data

rosalind.info - Rosalind is a platform for learning bioinformatics and programming through problem solving. Take a tour to get the hang of how Rosalind works. http://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/

The aim of this series to interviews some notable bioinformaticians to get their views on various aspects of bioinformatics research.