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github.com - Software accompanying "HINGE: Long-Read Assembly Achieves Optimal Repeat Resolution" Preprint: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/08/01/062117 Paper: http://genome.cshlp.org/content/27/5/747.full An ipython notebook to...

arthropods.eugenes.org - EvidentialGene is a genome informatics project, "Evidence Directed Gene Construction for Eukaryotes", to construct high quality, accurate gene sets for animals and plants, developed by Don Gilbert at Indiana University,...

New SPAdes 3.15.0.0. announced by the SPADes team

You will have some previous experience with genome bioinformatics or other large scale scientific data analysis, or a newly qualified graduate student with data science skills interested in DNA sequence data. While desirable, previous experience...

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

github.com - The EDTA package was designed to filter out false discoveries in raw TE candidates and generate a high-quality non-redundant TE library for whole-genome TE annotations. Selection of initial search programs were based on benckmarkings on the...

Only 4.4 percent DNA difference between Tiger and house cats

sourceforge.net - Opera (Optimal Paired-End Read Assembler) is a sequence assembly program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_assembly ). It uses information from paired-end or long reads to optimally order and orient contigs assembled from...

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

RAST – Web tool (upload contigs), uses the subsystems in the SEED database and provides detailed annotation and pathway analysis. Takes several hours per genome but I think this is the best way to get a high quality annotation...