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	<description><![CDATA[<h3>Global overview papers</h3><p>Next generation quantitative genetics in plants. Jim&eacute;nez-G&oacute;mez, Frontiers in Plant Science 2:77, 2011 <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/Plant_Physiology/10.3389/fpls.2011.00077/full">Full Text</a> </span><em>[equally relevant to animal and microbial systems]</em></p><p>Sense from sequence reads: methods for alignment and assembly. Flicek &amp; Birney, Nat Methods 6(11 Suppl):S6-S12, 2009. <a href="http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v6/n11s/full/nmeth.1376.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><h3>Library construction and experimental design</h3><p>Statistical design and analysis of RNA sequencing data. Auer &amp; Doerge, Genetics 185(2):405-16, 2010. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881125"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>Biases in Illumina transcriptome sequencing caused by random hexamer priming. Hansen et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 38(12): e131, 2010. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896536"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>Analyzing and minimizing PCR amplification bias in Illumina sequencing libraries. Aird et al, Genome Biology 12:R18, 2011 <a href="http://genomebiology.com/2011/12/2/R18"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>Amplification-free Illumina sequencing-library preparation facilitates improved mapping and assembly of GC-biased genomes. Kozarewa et al, Nature Methods 6(4):291-5, 2009 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664327/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>Cost-effective, high-throughput DNA sequencing libraries for multiplexed target capture. Rohland &amp; Reich, Genome Research 22(5): 939&ndash;946. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3337438/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><h3>Data formats, data management, and alignment software tools<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></h3><p>The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools. Li et al, Bioinformatics 25(16):2078-9, 2009 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723002"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>SAM format specification <a href="http://samtools.sourceforge.net/SAM1.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">file</span></a></p><p>Efficient storage of high throughput sequencing data using reference-based compression. Fritz et al, Genome Res 21(5):734-40, 2011. <a href="http://genome.cshlp.org/content/21/5/734.long"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>Compression of DNA sequence reads in FASTQ format. Deorowicz &amp; Grabowski, Bioinformatics 27(6):860-2, 2011. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21252073"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMed</span></a></p><p>Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform. Li &amp; Durbin, Bioinformatics 25(14):1754-60, 2009. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705234"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>Improving SNP discovery by base alignment quality. Li H, Bioinformatics 27(8):1157-8, 2011. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21320865"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMed</span></a></p><p>BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features. Quinlan and Hall, Bioinformatics 26:841-842, 2010. <a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/6/841.full.pdf+html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Publisher Website</span></a></p><h3>Data quality assessment, filtering, and correction</h3><p>SolexaQA: At-a-glance quality assessment of Illumina second-generation sequencing data. Cox et al, BMC Bioinformatics 11:485, 2010. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956736"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>TileQC: a system for tile-based quality control of Solexa data. Dolan &amp; Denver, BMC Bioinformatics 9:250, 2008 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2443380"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a> <em>[requires a reference sequence]</em></p><p>Quake: quality-aware detection and correction of sequencing errors. Kelley et al, Genome Biol 11(11):R116, 2010. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21114842"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMed</span></a></p><p>FastQC: a quality control tool for high-throughput sequence data. <a href="http://www.bioinformatics.bbsrc.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Home Page</span></a></p><p>FASTX-toolkit: FASTQ/A short-reads pre-processing tools <a href="http://hannonlab.cshl.edu/fastx_toolkit/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Home Page</span></a></p><p>Reference-free validation of short read data. Schr&ouml;der et al, PLoS One 5(9):e12681, 2010. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943903"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>Correction of sequencing errors in a mixed set of reads. Salmela, Bioinformatics 26(10):1284, 2010. <a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/10/1284.long"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a> <em>[includes error correction of SOLiD reads in colorspace]</em></p><p>Repeat-aware modeling and correction of short read errors. Yang et al, BMC Bioinformatics 12(Supp1):S52, 2011 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044310"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a> <em>[requires a reference sequence]</em></p><p>HiTEC: accurate error correction in high-throughput sequencing data. Ilie et al, Bioinformatics 27(3):295, 2011 <a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/3/295.long"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>Error correction of high-throughput sequencing datasets with non-uniform coverage. Medvedev et al., Bioinformatics 27(13):i137-41, 2011. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3117386"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><h3>De novo assembly<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></h3><p>Velvet: algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs. Zerbino &amp; Birney, Genome Res 18(5):821-9, 2008. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2336801">u&gt;PubMedCentral</a></p><p>Assembly of large genomes using second-generation sequencing. Schatz et al, Genome Res 20(9):1165-73, 2010. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2928494"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>High-quality draft assemblies of mammalian genomes from massively parallel sequence data. Gnerre et al, PNAS 108(4): 1513-18, 2011 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3029755"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>Genome assembly has a major impact on gene content: a comparison of annotation in two <em>Bos taurus </em> assemblies. Florea&nbsp; et al., PLoS One 6(6):e21400, 2011. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3120881/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>Artemis: an integrated platform for visualization and analysis of high-throughput sequence-based experimental data. Carver et al, Bioinformatics 28(4):464 - 469, 2012 <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3278759/">PubMedCentral</a></span></p><p>Efficient de novo assembly of large genomes using compressed data structures. Simpson &amp; Durbin, Genome Research 22:549-556, 2012 <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://genome.cshlp.org/content/22/3/549.full">Full Text</a></span> <em>[Describes the String Graph Assembler (SGA), which assembled a human genome in less than 6 days using 54 Gb of RAM and a 123-processor compute cluster for calculation of an FM-index of the 1.2 billion reads]</em></p><p>Readjoiner: a fast and memory efficient string graph-based sequence assembler. Gonnella &amp; Kurtz, BMC Bioinformatics 13: 82, 2012 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3507659"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>Assemblathon 1: A competitive assessment of de novo short read assembly methods. Earl et al, Genome Research 21:2224-2241, 2011 <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2011/09/16/gr.126599.111.full.pdf+html">Full Text</a></span></p><h3>Chromatin immunoprecipation analysis: ChIP-seq</h3><p>ChIP-seq: advantages and challenges of a maturing technology. Park, Nat Rev Genet. 10:669-80, 2009 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3191340/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMed</span></a></p><p>ChIP-seq and Beyond: new and improved methodologies to detect and characterize protein-DNA interactions. Furey, Nat Rev Genet 13: 840&ndash;852, 2012 <a href="http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v13/n12/full/nrg3306.html"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Publisher Web Site</span></a></p><p>MuMoD: a Bayesian approach to detect multiple modes of protein&ndash;DNA binding from genome-wide ChIP data. Narlikar, Nucleic Acids Res 41:21&ndash;32, 2013 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3592440/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMed</span></a></p><h3>Transcriptome analysis</h3><h3>Assembly and comparison to genome</h3><p>Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome. Grabherr et al, Nature Biotechnology 29:644 - 652, 2011. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21572440"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMed</span></a> <em>[The software is called <a href="http://trinityrnaseq.sourceforge.net/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Trinity</span></a>, and is available on Sourceforge.]</em></p><p>Comprehensive analysis of RNA-Seq data reveals extensive RNA editing in a human transcriptome. Peng et al, Nature Biotechnology 30:253 - 260, 2012. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22327324">PubMed</a></span> <em>[Several comments on this paper question whether the reported differences are in fact evidence of editing or are simply sequencing errors - the authors stand by their conclusions, but the controversy demonstrates the importance of robust data analysis methods.] </em></p><p>Optimization of de novo transcriptome assembly from next-generation sequencing data. Surget-Groba &amp; Montoya-Burgos, Genome Res 20(10):1432-40, 2010. <a href="http://genome.cshlp.org/content/20/10/1432.long"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>Rnnotator: an automated <em>de novo</em> transcriptome assembly pipeline from stranded RNA-Seq reads. Martin et al, BMC Genomics 11:663, 2010 <a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/663"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p><em>De novo</em> assembly and analysis of RNA-seq data. Robertson et al, Nature Methods 7:909-912, 2010 <a href="http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v7/n11/full/nmeth.1517.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a> <em>[describes Trans-ABySS, a pipeline to use the ABySS parallel assembler for de novo transcriptome analysis]</em></p><h3>Differential expression analysis</h3><p>R-SAP: a multi-threading computational pipeline for the characterization of high-throughput RNA-sequencing data. Mittal &amp; McDonald, Nucleic Acids Res, 2012 <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/28/nar.gks047.long">Full Text</a></span></p><p>Targeted RNA sequencing reveals the deep complexity of the human transcriptome. Mercer et al, Nature Biotechnology 30:99 - 104, 2012 <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n1/full/nbt.2024.html"> Publisher Website</a></span></p><p>Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-Seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks. Trapnell et al, Nature Protocols 7:562 - 578, 2012 <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.nature.com/nprot/journal/v7/n3/full/nprot.2012.016.html"> Publisher Website</a></span></p><p>Characterization and improvement of RNA-Seq precision in quantitative transcript expression profiling. Łabaj et al, Bioinformatics 27:i383 - i391, 2011 <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/13/i383.full.pdf+html"> Full Text</a></span></p><p>Improving RNA-Seq expression estimates by correcting for fragment bias. Roberts et al, Genome Biol 12:R22, 2011 <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3129672/">PubMed Central</a></span></p><p>Cloud-scale RNA-sequencing differential expression analysis with Myrna. Langmead et al, Genome Biol 11:R83, 2010 <a href="http://genomebiology.com/2010/11/8/R83"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>From RNA-seq reads to differential expression results. Oshlack et al, Genome Biol 11(12):220, 2010 <a href="http://genomebiology.com/content/11/12/220"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>DEGseq: an R package for identifying differentially expressed genes from RNA-seq data. Wang et al., Bioinformatics. 26(1):136-8. 2010 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19855105"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> PubMed</span></a></p><p>DEseq: Differential expression analysis for sequence count data. Anders and Huber, Genome Biology 11:R106, 2010 <a href="http://genomebiology.com/2010/11/10/R106"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>edgeR: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data. Robinson et al., Bioinformatics 26(1):139-40 2010 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2796818"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>Two-stage Poisson model for testing RNA-seq data. Auer and Doerge, SAGMB 10(1), article 26 <a href="http://www.bepress.com/sagmb/vol10/iss1/art26/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>Experimental design, preprocessing, normalization and differential expression analysis of small RNA sequencing experiments. McCormick et al., Silence2(1):2, 2011 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3055805"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>RNA-Seq gene expression estimation with read mapping uncertainty. Li et al, Bioinformatics 26:493-500, 2010 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820677">PubMedCentral</a> <em>[describes the RSEM software package]</em></p><h3>Comparing genomes and assemblies; variant detection<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></h3><p>Versatile and open software for comparing large genomes. Kurtz et al, Genome Biol (5(2):R12, 2004. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC395750"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a> <em>[describes the MUMmer software for full-genome alignment &amp; comparisons]</em></p><p>Searching for SNPs with cloud computing. Langmead et al, Genome Biol 10(11):R134, 2009 <a href="http://genomebiology.com/content/10/11/R134"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>Calling SNPs without a reference sequence. Ratan et al, BMC Bioinformatics 11:130, 2010 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851604"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>Microindel detection in short-read sequence data. Krawitz et al, Bioinformatics 26(6):722-9, 2010. <a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/6/722.long"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>vipR: variant identification in pooled DNA using R. Altmann et al., Bioinformatics 27: i77-i84, 2011. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3117388"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>Geoseq: a tool for dissecting deep-sequencing datasets. Gurtowski et al, BMC Bioinformatics 11:506, 2010. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972303/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a> <em>[Geoseq is a web service that allows searching deep sequencing datasets with a reference sequence of a gene of interest]</em></p><p>Detecting and annotating genetic variations using the HugeSeq pipeline. Lam et al, Nature Biotechnology 30:226 - 229, 2012 <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n3/full/nbt.2134.html">Publisher Website</a></span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://hugeseq.snyderlab.org/">Home Page</a></span></p><p>Genome-wide LORE1 retrotransposon mutagenesis and high-throughput insertion detection in <em>Lotus japonicus</em>. Urbański et al, Plant J 64:731-741, 2012. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04827.x/abstract">Publisher Website</a></span> <em>[This paper describes a 2-dimensional pooling strategy with barcoding to allow use of Illumina sequencing to screen for retrotransposon insertion mutations, and includes a software package called FSTpoolit for analysis of the resulting sequence reads.]</em></p><h3>Genotyping by sequencing</h3><p>Genome-wide genetic marker discovery and genotyping using next-generation sequencing. Davey et al., Nat Rev Genet 12(7):499-510, 2011 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21681211"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMed</span></a> <em>[A review of methods available at the time]</em></p><p>A robust, simple genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) approach for high diversity species. Elshire et al., PLoS One 6(5):e19379, 2011. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3087801"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>Development of high-density genetic maps for barley and wheat using a novel two-enzyme genotyping-by-sequencing approach. Poland et al., PLoS One 7(2): e32253, 2012. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3289635/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>Double digest RADseq: an inexpensive method for de novo SNP discovery and genotyping in model and non-model species. Peterson et al, PLoS One 7(5):e37135, . 2012. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3365034/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>Imputation of unordered markers and the impact on genomic selection accuracy. Rutkowski et al, G3 3(3):427-39, 2013. <a href="http://www.g3journal.org/content/3/3/427.long"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) and next-generation sequencing combined: genome-wide, high-throughput, highly informative genotyping for molecular breeding of <em>Eucalyptus</em>. Sansaloni et al., BMC Proceedings 5(Suppl 7):P54, 2011 <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1753-6561/5/S7/P54">Full Text</a></span></p><p>High-throughput genotyping by whole-genome resequencing. Huang et al., Genome Res 19(6):1068-76, 2009. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2694477"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>Multiplexed shotgun genotyping for rapid and efficient genetic mapping. Andolfatto et al. Genome Res 21(4):610-7, 2011. <a href="http://genome.cshlp.org/content/21/4/610.long"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><h3>Restriction-site Associated DNA (RAD) markers</h3><p>Rapid SNP discovery and genetic mapping using sequenced RAD markers. Baird et al, PLoS One 3(10):e3376, 2008 <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003376">Full Text</a></span></p><p>Linkage mapping and comparative genomics using next-generation RAD sequencing of a non-model organism. Baxter et al., PLoS One 6(4):e19315, 2011. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3082572"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>Genome evolution and meiotic maps by massively parallel DNA sequencing: spotted gar, an outgroup for the teleost genome duplication. Amores et al, Genetics 188(4):799-808, 2011. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21828280"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> PubMed</span></a></p><p>Construction and application for QTL analysis of a Restriction-site Associated DNA (RAD) linkage map in barley. Chutimanitsakun et al, BMC Genomics 4; 12:4, 2011. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3023751"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>RAD tag sequencing as a source of SNP markers in <em>Cynara cardunculus </em>L. Scaglione et al., BMC Genomics 13:3, 2012. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/13/3">Full Text</a></span></p><p>Paired-end RAD-seq for de novo assembly and marker design without available reference. Willing et al., Bioinformatics 27(16):2187-93, 2011. <a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/16/2187.long"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Publisher Website</span></a></p><p>Local de novo assembly of RAD paired-end contigs using short sequencing reads. Etter et al., PLOS ONE 6(4): e18561, 2011. <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018561"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>Stacks: building and genotyping loci de novo from short-read sequences. Catchen et al., G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 1:171-182, 2011. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Full Text</span>, <a href="http://creskolab.uoregon.edu/stacks/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Home Page</span></a></p><p>Rainbow: an integrated tool for efficient clustering and assembling RAD-seq reads. Chong et al, Bioinformatics 28(21):2732-7, 2012. <a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/21/2732.long"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Publisher Website</span></a></p><p>UK RAD Sequencing Wiki page, with bibliography and RADTools software download <a href="https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/RADSequencing/Home"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Home Page</span></a></p><h3>Workspace environments</h3><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Papers</span></p><p>Galaxy: a comprehensive approach for supporting accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational research in the life sciences. Goecks et al, Genome Biol 11(8):R86, 2010 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2945788"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>Galaxy Cloudman: Delivering compute clusters. BMC Bioinformatics 11(Suppl. 12):S4, 2010 <a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2105-11-S12-S4.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p><a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsa/wiki/index.php/The_Genome_Analysis_Toolkit"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Genome Analysis Toolkit</span></a>: a MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data. McKenna et al, Genome Res 20(9):1297-303, 2010. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2928508"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PubMedCentral</span></a></p><p>A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data. DePristo et al., Nat Genet 43(5):491-8, 2011. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21478889"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> PubMed</span></a></p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Online resources</span></p><p>The <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">R statistical computing</span></a> environment includes<a href="http://www.bioconductor.org/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Bioconductor</span></a>, a specialized set of tools for analysis of microarray and high-throughput sequencing data. Introductory materials from on-line or short workshops are widely available online; examples are <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://bioconductor.org/help/course-materials/2012/Evomics2012/Bioconductor-tutorial.pdf">Evomics2012 Bioconductor-tutorial.pdf</a></span>, and <a href="http://bcb.dfci.harvard.edu/%7Eaedin/courses/Bioconductor/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Intro to Bioconductor</span></a>. Materials from an advanced course on high-throughput genetic data analysis are at <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://bioconductor.org/help/course-materials/2012/SeattleFeb2012/">Seattle 2012 materials</a></span>. Thomas Girke of UC-Riverside has written a very complete set of manuals describing the use of R and Bioconductor for analysis of genomic datasets, available at <a href="http://manuals.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/home/R_BioCondManual">R and Bioconductor Manuals</a>. <br /> <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Manuals</span></a> and contributed <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">documentation</span></a> for R are available at the R-project.org website, and video tutorials are also available on Youtube; those posted by Tutorlol are brief, clear, and to the point. <br /> Materials from a series of mini-courses in R taught in 2010 at UCLA are available:</p><ul>
<li><a href="http://scc.stat.ucla.edu/page_attachments/0000/0141/10S-basicR.pdf">Intro to programming and graphics</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scc.stat.ucla.edu/page_attachments/0000/0143/S10_RProgII.pdf">Data manipulation and functions</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scc.stat.ucla.edu/page_attachments/0000/0185/Graphics_course.pdf">Graphics for exploratory data analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scc.stat.ucla.edu/page_attachments/0000/0147/20100503_IntroStats.pdf">Introductory statistics</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scc.stat.ucla.edu/page_attachments/0000/0188/reg_R_1_09S_slides.pdf">Linear regression</a></li>
</ul><p><a href="http://a-little-book-of-r-for-bioinformatics.readthedocs.org/en/latest/"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Little Book of R for Bioinformatics</span></a> is an on-line resource with information and exercises to provide practice in bioinformatics analysis of DNA sequences and other biological data in R. <br /> Many books on specific topics in R programming are also available through Amazon or other vendors.</p><h3>Cloud computing resources</h3><p>The case for cloud computing in genome informatics. Lincoln Stein, Genome Biol. 11(5):207, 2010 <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20441614"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Pubmed</span></a></p><p>Galaxy Cloudman: delivering cloud compute clusters. Afgan et al, BMC Bioinformatics <span style="text-decoration: underline;">11</span>(Suppl 12):S4, 2010 <a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/S12/S4"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p><a href="http://cloudbiolinux.com/">CloudBioLinux</a> is an open-source project that provides a bioinformatics Linux system for cloud computing, pre-configured with a variety of software tools installed and ready to use.</p><p>A <a href="https://github.com/chapmanb/cloudbiolinux/blob/master/doc/intro/gettingStarted_CloudBioLinux.pdf?raw=true"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">tutorial</span></a> on getting started with CloudBioLinux on the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)</p><p><a href="http://userwww.service.emory.edu/%7Eeafgan/content/ppt/EnisAfgan_BOSC_2010.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Deploying Galaxy on the Cloud</span></a>  slides from a presentation by Enis Afgan (Emory University) at the <br /> &nbsp;Bioinformatics Open Source Conference in Boston, July 2010</p><p>A <a href="http://screencast.g2.bx.psu.edu/cloud/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> screencast</span></a> that provides a step-by-step guide to starting a Galaxy cluster in the EC2 environment</p><p>A <a href="https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/cloud"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">webpage</span></a> that has the same information in text form, and is the basis for the screencast</p><p>The iPlant Collaborative, an NSF-funded project to create computational resources for plant biology research, provides access to cloud computing resources through <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/discover/atmosphere">Atmosphere</a></span></p><p>SeqWare Query Engine: storing and searching sequence data in the cloud. OConnor et al, BMC Bioinformatics <strong>11</strong>(Suppl 12)<strong>:</strong>S2, 2010 <a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/S12/S2"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>An overview of the Hadoop/MapReduce/HBase framework and its current applications in bioinformatics. Taylor, BMC Bioinformatics <strong>11</strong>(Suppl 12)<strong>:</strong>S1, 2010 <a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/S12/S1"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><h3>Links to Linux command-line tutorials and resources</h3><p>Tutorials for AWK, a powerful tool for handling data tables</p><ul>
<li>A set of <a href="http://people.bu.edu/scottm/AWK.NOTES"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">awk notes</span></a> from Boston University</li>
<li>Bruce Barnett's <a href="http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">awk tutorial</span></a></li>
<li>Greg Goebel's <a href="http://www.vectorsite.net/tsawk.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">awk tutorial</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://teaching.software-carpentry.org/2013/01/16/1433/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Executing an awk command from R</span></a> to simplify data exploratory analysis, from Lex Nederbragt</li>
</ul><p>Tutorials for bash shell scripting</p><ul>
<li>A <a href="http://www.linuxconfig.org/bash-scripting-tutorial"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">tutorial</span></a> at linuxconfig.org</li>
<li>A <a href="http://www.hypexr.org/bash_tutorial.php"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Getting Started With Bash</span></a> tutorial at hypexr.org</li>
<li>Mendel Cooper's <a href="http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Advanced Bash Shell-Scripting Guide</span></a></li>
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<li>A <a href="http://www.panix.com/%7Eelflord/unix/sed.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">tutorial</span></a> at Rutgers</li>
<li>Peteris Krumins claims to have the <a href="http://www.catonmat.net/blog/worlds-best-introduction-to-sed/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> World's Best Introduction to Sed</span></a>; take a look and judge for yourself.</li>
<li>Bruce Barnett's <a href="http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">sed tutorial</span></a>.</li>
</ul><h3>Links to other useful sites</h3><p>The<a href="http://seqanswers.com/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> SEQanswers</span></a> online community has forums on several topics related to sequencing; the bioinformatics forum is the most active.</p><p>The SEQanswers <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://seqanswers.com/wiki/Software">Software Wiki</a></span> is a list of software for analysis of sequencing data</p><p><a href="http://biostar.stackexchange.com/">Biostar</a> is another online community for questions and answers on bioinformatics and computational genomics.</p><p>Information on file formats used by the University of California - Santa Cruz Genome Browser is on the <a href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> FAQ list</span></a></p><p>A manual for the Integrated Genome Browser visualization tool is <a href="http://wiki.transvar.org/confluence/display/igbman/Home"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">here</span></a></p><p>Course materials for a short course entitled <a href="http://bioconductor.org/help/course-materials/2010/SeattleIntro/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Introduction to R and Bioconductor</span></a>, held in Seattle in Dec 2010</p><p><a href="http://great.stanford.edu/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Genomic Regions Enrichment of Annotations Tool</span></a> - A web service to test for over-representation of specific ontology categories among genes near ChIP-seq peaks</p><p><a href="http://www.animalgenome.org/bioinfo/resources/nextgensoft.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Next-gen-seq software</span></a> - a list of software packages, both commercial and open-source, related to analysis of deep sequencing datasets</p><p><a href="http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Software</span></a> from the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland - many useful programs, all open-source</p><p><a href="http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/plaza/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> PLAZA</span></a>: a comparative genomics resource to study gene and genome evolution in plants; described by Proost et al, Plant Cell 21:3718, 2010 <a href="http://www.plantcell.org/content/21/12/3718.full"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Full Text</span></a></p><p>The European Bioinformatics Institute provides tools <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/rcloud/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">ArrayExpressHTS</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> and R-Cloud</span></a> for analysis of transcriptome data</p>]]></description>
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<p>INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SPICES RESEARCH<br />(Indian Council of Agricultural Research)<br />Marikunnu P.O., Kozhikode – 673 012, Kerala</p>

<p>Walk- in- Test cum Interview (based on test) for the selection of Research Associate</p>

<p>under the scheme “Distributed Information Sub Centre –DISC” &amp; Research Assistant under scheme “Phytophthora, Fusarium and Ralstonia diseases of Horticultural and Field Crops” will be held at this Institute as per details indicated below.</p>

<p>WALK -IN- TEST CUM INTERVIEW</p>

<p>Name of the post : Research Associate</p>

<p>Date of Interview : 21-05-2014 at 10.00 AM</p>

<p>No. of posts : One</p>

<p>Qualifications : a)Essential</p>

<p>Ph.D Degree in Bioinformatics OR :  Masters degree in Bioinformatics with a minimum of<br />60% marks or equivalent OGPA with at least two years research experience as evidenced from fellowship/ associateship/training/published papers etc.</p>

<p>b)Desirable: Experience in NGS data analysis.</p>

<p>Emoluments : Rs. 23,000/- per month + HRA (Masters Degree Holders)</p>

<p>Rs. 24,000/- per month + HRA (Ph.D Degree Holders)</p>

<p>Upper age limit : 40 years for Men &amp; 45 years for Women as on date of Interview (Upper Age limits are relaxable for SC, ST and OBC candidates as per Govt. of India norms (at present 5 years for SC/ST and 3 years for OBC)</p>

<p>Duration of Project : Till 31-03-2017.</p>

<p>Title of Assigment : Research Assistant (on contract basis)</p>

<p>No. of vacancy : One</p>

<p>Qualification : Essential : Post Graduation in Bioinformatics and  Minimum one year experience in NGS data analysis</p>

<p>Desirable : Experience in Perl/Python/R</p>

<p>Remuneration : Rs. 20,000/- per month (consolidated)</p>

<p>Scope of work :</p>

<p>1. Analysis of different file formats and their conversions.</p>

<p>2. Assessing the quality of data and filtering of raw reads.<br />3. Assembling the raw reads-de novo as well as reference  mapping.<br />4. Compression of aligned reads using Jam tools<br />5. RNA-seq. Analysis<br />6. Differential expression testing involving Normalization,  Statistical testing, heat map generation &amp; hierarchical  clustering<br />7. Annotating the assembled genome and geneet testing  and their validation<br />8. Metabolic pathway analysis<br />9. Comparative genomics<br />10. Setting up of genome browsers.</p>

<p>Period of Assigment : Initially for six months.</p>

<p>Date &amp; Venue of Interview : 21-05-2014 at IISR, Kozhikode at 10.00 AM</p>

<p>More at http://www.spices.res.in/pdf/disc-advtmnt.pdf</p>
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<p>My research group consists primarily of computer science graduate students and postdocs with expertise in algorithms, statistical inferences and machine learning, and sharing a passion for understanding fundamental biological problems.</p>

<p>We work in a highly interdisciplinary environment at the interface of Computer Science and Biology. Since its inception, our lab has eagerly engaged in collaborative research partnerships with biological and experimental collaborators, facilitated by our affiliation with the Broad Institute and the Computational and Systems Biology initiative (CSBi) at MIT, our participation in the Epigenome Roadmap, ENCODE, and modENCODE consortia, and by several other ongoing collaborations at MIT, Harvard, and the Harvard Medical School affiliated hospitals.</p>

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<p>The goal of our research is to better understand the biology of microbial organisms of significant ecological, veterinary and medical importance.<br />To achieve this goal, our team combines the power of next generation DNA sequencing and  bioinformatics with molecular biology and experimental procedures.</p>

<p>Main research topics:<br />- Comparative and Population Genomics of Plant Symbionts<br />- Parasite Genome Evolution<br />- Experimental Evolution of Microbial Symbionts and Parasites<br />- Phylogenomics of Early Branching Fungi</p>

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<p>Raphael Lab research is focused on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.</p>

<p>Current research interests include next-generation DNA sequencing, structural variation, genome rearrangements in cancer and evolution, and network analysis of somatic mutations in cancer. Earlier research included topics in comparative genomics, multiple sequence alignment, and motif finding.</p>

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	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>The primary goal of the course is for students to be grounded in theory and leave the course empowered to conduct independent genomic analyses.</span><span>&nbsp;We will study the leading computational and quantitative approaches for comparing and analyzing genomes starting from raw sequencing data. The course will focus on human genomics and human medical applications, but the techniques will be broadly applicable across the tree of life. The topics will include genome assembly &amp; comparative genomics, variant identification &amp; analysis, gene expression &amp; regulation, personal genome analysis, and cancer genomics. The grading will be based on assignments, a midterm exam, class presentations, and a significant class project. There are no formal course prerequisites, although the course will require familiarity with UNIX scripting and/or programming to complete the assignments and course project.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/schatzlab/appliedgenomics" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/schatzlab/appliedgenomics</a></p>]]></description>
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	<description><![CDATA[Collection of Java tool kits for bioinformatics works:

Jvarkit : Java utilities for Bioinformatics<p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://lindenb.github.io/jvarkit/" rel="nofollow">http://lindenb.github.io/jvarkit/</a></p>]]></description>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>The global&nbsp;NGS services market&nbsp;is expected to reach USD 13.1 billion by 2025.&nbsp;</strong>Here are the&nbsp;<strong style="font-size: 12.8px;">top 10 NGS services companies to look for &ndash;</strong></p><p><strong>1.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.illumina.com/">Illumina, Inc. (U.S.)</a></strong></p><p>Illumina, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered at San Diego, U.S. Illumina, Inc. is one of the leading players in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, serving customers in the research, clinical, and applied markets. The company offers products for applications in the life sciences, oncology, reproductive health, agriculture, and other emerging segments. The company serves government laboratories, genomic research centers, academics institutions as well as pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agrigenomics, commercial molecular diagnostics laboratories and consumer genomics companies. Illumina, Inc. has its geographic presence in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia-pacific, and others.</p><p><strong>2.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.qiagen.com/us/">QIAGEN N.V. (Netherlands)</a></strong></p><p>QIAGEN N.V. was incorporated in 1986 and is headquartered at Venlo, The Netherlands. The Company is engaged in providing Sample to Insight solutions that transform biological samples into molecular insights. QIAGEN provides its workflow to customers in molecular diagnostics, assay technologies, bioservices and automation systems.&nbsp; The company&rsquo;s genome services are suitable for custom/tailored projects that allow access to genomic sequence information.&nbsp; The Company market its products in more than 100 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle-East &amp;Africa through its subsidiaries and channel partners.</p><p><strong>3.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.perkinelmer.com/">PerkinElmer, Inc. (U.S.)</a></strong></p><p>PerkinElmer, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, the U.S. PerkinElmer, Inc. offers its products &amp; services and solutions for the diagnostics, food, environmental, industrial, life sciences research and laboratory services markets. The company offer comprehensive genetic testing solutions that help to provide insight into the complex nature of rare and inherited diseases. Some of the subsidiaries of the company are Caliper Life Sciences, Improvision, Viacell Inc., ViaCord LLC, among many others. The company has its facilities located in Europe (France, Germany, and Belgium), U.S. and Asia (China, India, and Japan).</p><p><strong>4.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eurofins.com/">Eurofins Scientific SE (Luxembourg)</a></strong></p><p>Eurofins Scientific SE was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Luxembourg, Europe. The company offers a portfolio of over 130,000 analytical methods and more than 150 million assays performed each year to establish the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability, and purity of biological substances and products, as well as carry out human diagnostic services. The company has its geographic presence across 39 countries in Europe, North and South America, and Asia-Pacific.</p><p><strong>5.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gatc-biotech.com/en/index.html">GATC Biotech AG (Germany)</a></strong></p><p>GATC Biotech AG was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Constance, Germany. The company provides DNA and RNA sequencing and bioservices solutions to academics and industrial areas. It also provides next generation sequencing services including genomes, targeted (re)-sequencing, human sample sequencing, transcriptomes, metagenomes, regulomes, pre-sequencing, NGS barcode labels, and next generation sequencing technologies; and bioservices services, including bioservices tools, pipelines and workflows, compute resources, data analysis reports, and case studies. GATC Biotech AG operates as a subsidiary of Eurofins Scientific SE. It offers its products through distributors in Italy, Japan, Portugal, Spain, and the Czech Republic.</p><p><strong>6.<a href="https://www.macrogen.com/">&nbsp;Macrogen, Inc. (South Korea)</a></strong></p><p>Macrogen, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. Macrogen, Inc. provides next generation sequencing services such as whole genome, de novo, exome, targeted, transcriptomics, metagenome, and epigenome sequencing.&nbsp; The company also provides a variety of services such as oligo synthesis, database construction, genome research, and bioservices analysis system consulting services. Macrogen, Inc. provides genome research services in Korea and internationally.</p><p><strong>7.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.genotypic.co.in/">Genotypic Technology Pvt. Ltd. (India)</a></strong></p><p>Genotypic Technology Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India. Genotypic Technology is the first Genomics service provider in India providing Microarray, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), Bioservices and solutions to domestic/ international pharma, biotech companies and academia. The company provides its services for protocol optimization, probe designing, array layouts, project designing, and nucleic acid analysis to in-depth analysis. Genotypic Technology has its geographic presence in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East &amp; Africa, and Latin America.</p><p><strong>8.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.genewiz.com/">GENEWIZ, Inc. (U.S.)</a></strong></p><p>GENEWIZ, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in South Plainfield, New Jersey, the U.S.; The company is a leading provider of research service in the field of Next Generation Sequencing, Sanger DNA sequencing, sequencing of bacteria and phage, gene synthesis, DNA cloning, genomics including mutation analysis, single nucleotide polymorphism, and bioservices. GENEWIZ, Inc. has its geographic presence in U.S., China, Germany, France, Japan, and the U.K.</p><p><strong>9.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.genomics.cn/">Beijing Genomics Institute (China)</a></strong></p><p>Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) is the world&rsquo;s largest genomics organization and non-profit research institution that was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, China. The Company provides a wide range of commercial next generation sequencing services and genetic tests for medical institutions, agricultural and environmental applications. The Company operates all across the globe through its subsidiaries, namely, BGI China (Mainland), BGI Asia Pacific, BGI Americas (North and South America) and BGI Europe (Europe and Africa).</p><p><strong>10.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.scigenom.com/">SciGenom Labs Pvt. Ltd (India)</a></strong></p><p>SciGenom Labs Pvt. Ltd was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Cochin, India with offices in Chennai &amp; Hyderabad in India, and San Francisco in the U.S. It is a Genomics R&amp;D services company that provides genomic sequencing and NGS services to life sciences and healthcare businesses globally as well as academic and government institutions in India.</p><p>Popular mentions &ndash; MedGenome (India), DNA Link, Inc. (South Korea), Otogenetics Corporation (U.S.), Novogene Corporation (China), LGC Limited (U.K.), CD Genomics (U.S.), SeqLL, LLC (U.S.)</p>]]></description>
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	<description><![CDATA[<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p>Mapping reads to a reference genome is an essential step in many types of genomic analysis, such as variant calling and gene expression analysis. Here are some general steps to follow for mapping reads to a genome:</p><ol>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 04:51:28 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/37409/nanopolis-polish-a-genome-assembly</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Nanopolis: polish a genome assembly]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Software package for signal-level analysis of Oxford Nanopore sequencing data. Nanopolish can calculate an improved consensus sequence for a draft genome assembly, detect base modifications, call SNPs and indels with respect to a reference genome and more (see Nanopolish modules, below).</span></p>
<p>Quickstart</p>
<p>http://nanopolish.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart_consensus.html</p>
<p>Algorithms</p>
<p>http://simpsonlab.github.io/2017/06/30/nanopolish-v0.7.0/</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/jts/nanopolish" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jts/nanopolish</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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