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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...

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

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...

Python 3.5 to include ‘type hinting’

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...