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Removing contaminated sequences using NCBI quality assurance tools

tools.bat.infspire.org - Circoletto, an online visualization tool based on Circos, which provides a fast, aesthetically pleasing and informative overview of sequence similarity search results. Online version and downloadable software package for offline use (source code in...

REST API The Representational State Transfer (REST) sample clients are provided for a number of programming languages.

www.animalgenome.org - The Blast Extension and Assembly Program (BEAP) is a computer program that uses a short starting DNA fragment, often a EST or partial gene segment, as "primer", to recursively blast nucleotide databases in an attempt to obtain all sequences that...

github.com - Scripts for the analysis of HGT in genome sequence data

github.com - ShadowCaster implements an evolutionary model to calculate Bayesian likelihoods for each ‘alien genes’ with an unusual sequence composition according to the host genome background to detect HGT events in...

huttenhower.sph.harvard.edu - Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is an important mechanism for genome diversification in microbial communities, including the human microbiome. While methods exist to identify LGTs from sequenced isolate genomes, identifying LGTs from community...

Traits of biological programmers

Learn basics of Perl in a day

I'm new to bioinformatics and recently started learning Perl. I found several rival distributions available for Windows platform, which confuse me at the begining. I google it and found that Strawberry comes with additional dev tools to compile...