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Huge amounts of genotype data are being produced with recent technological advances, both from increasingly comprehensive and inexpensive genome-wide SNP microarrays and from ever more accessible whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing methods

Institution/Company: University of Calgary Location: Calgary, AB Job Description: Novel diagnostic platform for detection of Osteoarthritis I invite applications from highly motivated individuals to join my laboratory as a PhD student...

Prioritizing missense variants for further experimental investigation is a key challenge in current sequencing studies for exploring complex and Mendelian diseases. A large number of in silico tools have been employed for the task of...

Job Description: three postdoc positions in computational biology are available at the Center for Genomic Science in Milan (Italy): - Development of computational methods to investigate the interplay between epigenetic and genetic layers and...

$ sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib ipython ipython-notebook python-pandas python-sympy python-nose[sudo] password for urbe: Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree Reading state information... DoneThe...

The main objectives of this Practical Course are to strengthen skills of PhD students and young researchers in the domain of Bioinformatics and Genome Data Analyses on the use of advanced fundamental algorithms and their applications in genome...

github.com - Mix is a tool that combines two or more draft assemblies, without relying on a reference genome and has the goal to reduce contig fragmentation and thus speed-up genome finishing. The proposed algorithm builds an extension graph where vertices...

Mitochondrial Genome of a 400,000-Year-Old Hominin from Spain Decoded

github.com - VcfR is an R package intended to allow easy manipulation and visualization of variant call format (VCF) data. Functions are provided to rapidly read from and write to VCF files. Once VCF data is read into R a parser function extracts matrices from...

The method used to isolate, enrich and sequence a sample will affect the composition of the sequencing data in terms of the types of RNA species represented and their relative abundances