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Many times bioinformatician needs to parse binary files like bam and sff. Advantage of binary files is that they occupy less space in memory with maximum information content. Link for those who looking for structure of Bam and sff...

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) organises lots of bioinformatics courses covering wide range of topics: http://www.isb-sib.ch/education/training-courses.html Canadian bioinformatics also organises various bioinformatics and sequencing...

talks.biogo.googlecode.com - Another good lecture for Illumina sequencing data analysis from  Dan Kortschak, Bioinformatics Group, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science ,The University of Adelaide

Only 4.4 percent DNA difference between Tiger and house cats

"The Human Brain Project’s is consists of 130 research institutions throughout Europe and coordinated through the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL)"

grouthbio.com - Plz check out link for bioinformatics and genomics companies. 

The focus of the bioinformatics group is to use computational approaches to gain an insight into genome evolution in primates. http://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/bioinformatics/overview.html?Fsize=0%2C%20%40%2F%27 Kelso Group Department of...

kallisto Transcript abundance quantification from RNA-seq data (uses pseudoalignment for rapid determination of read compatibility with targets) Software (C++) https://pachterlab.github.io/kallisto/ Sailfish Estimation of isoform abundances...

sourceforge.net - AIRVF that works on flowgram, raw and mapped reads and called variants to reduce artifact-driven false variant calls. Tests on sequencing data of standard reference material showed up to ∼98% reduction of false variants when combined to...

github.com - ALPACA requires Celera Assembler 8.3 or later. It is recommended to build Celera Assembler from source. (Why? The pre-built binaries CA_8.3rc1 and CA8.3rc2 will work for any large data set.  Detail paper...