Cost-effective whole human genome sequencing has revolutionized the landscape of genetic research and personalized medicine by making comprehensive genetic analysis accessible to a wider population. Through advancements in sequencing technologies,...
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
"The Human Brain Project’s is consists of 130 research institutions throughout Europe and coordinated through the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL)"
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...