sourceforge.net - Grinder is a versatile program to create random shotgun and amplicon sequence libraries based on DNA, RNA or proteic reference sequences provided in a FASTA file.
Grinder can produce genomic, metagenomic, transcriptomic, metatranscriptomic,...
github.com - Jabba is a hybrid error correction tool to correct third generation (PacBio / ONT) sequencing data, using second generation (Illumina) data.
Input
Jabba takes as input a concatenated de Bruijn graph and a set of sequences:
the de Bruijn graph...
github.com - Key features
Filters SNVs from any variant caller to remove false positives
Calculates metrics based on BAM files and provides filtering not possible with other tools
Fully user-configurable filtering (including which filters to use and their...
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
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...