BOL

github.com - CoNvex Gap-cost alignMents for Long Reads (ngmlr) is a long-read mapper designed to sensitively align PacBilo or Oxford Nanopore to (large) reference genomes. It was designed to quickly and correctly align the reads, including those spanning...

www.nature.com - Segmental Duplication Assembler (SDA; https://github.com/mvollger/SDA) constructs graphs in which paralogous sequence variants define the nodes and long-read sequences provide attraction and repulsion edges, enabling the partition and assembly of...

Meat products obtained from intact male pigs often produce offensive smell or odour which is recognized as a complex genetic trait called boar taint.Androstenone and Skatole in the fat primarily cause boar taint. Metabolism of androstenone and...

Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome...

Researchers have uncovered essential information in the fight against drug resistance in worms.

Ancient DNA study of Serbian boy!!!

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140422/ncomms4657/full/ncomms4657.html

Floating Sequencing lab

Smaller Exome datasets were found to be worse performer than those from larger datasets (WGS)

Pathway Analysis is usually performed with aim to enrich the genes with their functional information and reveal the underlying biological mechanisms pursue by genes. Pathway Analysis is not only limited to what biological pathways a particular set...