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Scientists have reconstructed the genome of an ancient human who lived nearly 5,700 years ago in Southern Denmark from the birch pitch- an ancient tar-like substance.

github.com - genome simulation across a population with zeta-distributed allele frequency, snps, insertions, deletions, and multi-nucleotide polymorphisms More at https://github.com/ekg/mutatrix ./mutatrix -S sample -P test/ -p 2 -n 10 reference.fasta

China’s BGI says it can sequence a genome for just $100

github.com - RefKA, a reference-based approach for long read genome assembly. This approach relies on breaking up a closely related reference genome into bins, aligning k-mers unique to each bin with PacBio reads, and then assembling each bin in parallel...

github.com - Flanker, a Python package which performs alignment-free clustering of gene flanking sequences in a consistent format, allowing investigation of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) without prior knowledge of their structure. Flanker can be...

github.com - IVA (Iterative Virus Assembler) designed specifically for read pairs sequenced at highly variable depth from RNA virus samples. We tested IVA on datasets from 140 sequenced samples from human immunodeficiency virus-1 or influenza-virus-infected...

ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - List of all viruses on NCBI  https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/release/viral/

github.com - This tool extracts heterozygous kmer pairs from kmer count databases and performs gymnastics with them. We are able to disentangle genome structure by comparing the sum of kmer pair coverages (CovA + CovB) to their relative coverage (CovB / (CovA +...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - LOCUS ON563414 197205 bp DNA linear VRL 30-MAY-2022 DEFINITION Monkeypox virus isolate MPXV_USA_2022_MA001, complete genome. ACCESSION ON563414 VERSION ON563414.3 KEYWORDS . SOURCE Monkeypox virus...

github.com - MitoHiFi v3.2 is a python pipeline distributed under MIT License ! MitoHiFi was first developed to assemble the mitogenomes for a wide range of species in the Darwin Tree of Life Project...