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...
https://gold.jgi.doe.gov/ - GOLD:Genomes Online Database, is a World Wide Web resource for comprehensive access to information regarding genome and metagenome sequencing projects, and their associated metadata, around the world.
https://gold.jgi.doe.gov/
github.com - Integration of the Ra assembler - a de novo DNA assembler for third generation sequencing data developed on Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), Ruder Boskovic Institute (RBI) and Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS).
Ra is in...
github.com - Manta calls structural variants (SVs) and indels from mapped paired-end sequencing reads. It is optimized for analysis of germline variation in small sets of individuals and somatic variation in tumor/normal sample pairs. Manta discovers, assembles...