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Breitbart’s lab has created a new branch of biology called metagenomics in which one can sample and sequence genetic material collected from the environment. Breitbart lab is located in the College of Marine Science at the University of South...

Job Description We are looking for a motivated application scientist to help evaluate, compare, and develop next generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis methods. The successful candidate should be able to quickly understand the state-of-art...

www.landesbioscience.com - Related latest article: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7502/pdf/nature13377.pdf

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...

ncbi.github.io - Magic-BLAST is a tool for mapping large next-generation RNA or DNA sequencing runs against a whole genome or transcriptome. Each alignment optimizes a composite score, taking into account simultaneously the two reads of a pair, and in case of...

github.com - HapCUT2 is a maximum-likelihood-based tool for assembling haplotypes from DNA sequence reads, designed to "just work" with excellent speed and accuracy. We found that previously described haplotype assembly methods are specialized for specific read...

ml.ssu.ac.kr - gSearch compares sequence variants in the Genome Variation Format (GVF) or Variant Call Format (VCF) with a pre-compiled annotation or with variants in other genomes. Its search algorithms are subsequently optimized and implemented in a...

github.com - indexcov, an efficient estimator of whole-genome sequencing coverage to rapidly identify samples with aberrant coverage profiles, reveal large-scale chromosomal anomalies, recognize potential batch effects, and infer the sex of a...

github.com - VariantBam is a tool to extract/count specific sets of sequencing reads from next-generational sequencing files. To save money, disk space and I/O, one may not want to store an entire BAM on disk. In many cases, it would be more efficient to store...