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Once your research group is ready to make a larger investment and hire a bioinformatician to gain a competitive edge, there are several key traits to seek out in potential candidates. The best bioinformatician are:-

Applications are invited from suitable candidates for six months ‘Training Fellowship’ in Bioinformatics under the BTISNET program of DBT in the Distributed Information Sub center (DISC) facility at NIPGR, New Delhi, under the supervision of Dr....

http://busco.ezlab.org/ - Assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs More at http://busco.ezlab.org/

crossmap.sourceforge.net - CrossMap is a program for convenient conversion of genome coordinates (or annotation files) between different assemblies (such as Human hg18 (NCBI36) <> hg19 (GRCh37), Mouse mm9 (MGSCv37) <> mm10 (GRCm38)). It supports most commonly...

Last date for submitting the online application has been extended till 5th August 2016.

In an attempt to find a good Linux reference for bioinformatician and BOL readers, I was unsuccessful at finding a decent one on the Internet. So, we decided to make a cheat sheet for biological programmers.

github.com - GroopM is a metagenomic binning toolset. It leverages spatio-temoraldynamics (differential coverage) to accurately (and almost automatically)extract population genomes from multi-sample metagenomic datasets. GroopM is largely parameter-free. Use:...

Short term perl training for geneticist

github.com - This project contains scripts and tutorials on how to assemble individual microbial genomes from metagenomes, as described in: Genome sequences of rare, uncultured bacteria obtained by differential coverage binning of multiple metagenomes Mads...

NGS & Bioinformatics Summit Europe Conference 7th to 8th October 2013 Berlin, Germany Website: https://www.gtcbio.com/conference/ngseurope-overview Contact person: Kristen Starkey We welcome you to join us at GTC’s NGS...