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github.com - HiCanu, a significant modification of the Canu assembler designed to leverage the full potential of HiFi reads via homopolymer compression, overlap-based error correction, and aggressive false overlap filtering.  More...

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

github.com - SHAMAN is a shiny application for differential analysis of metagenomic data (16S, 18S, 23S, 28S, ITS and WGS) including bioinformatics treatment of raw reads for targeted metagenomics, statistical analysis and results visualization with a large...

Python 3.5 to include ‘type hinting’

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...

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...

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...

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

github.com - MitoHiFi v3.2 is a python pipeline distributed under MIT License ! MitoHiFi was first developed to assemble the mitogenomes for a wide range of species in the Darwin Tree of Life Project...

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...