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
www.geneprof.org - GeneProf is a web-based, graphical software suite that allows users to analyse data produced using high-throughput sequencing platforms (RNA-seq and ChIP-seq; "Next-Generation Sequencing" or NGS): Next-gen analysis for next-gen data!
Some of...
github.com - ALPACA requires Celera Assembler 8.3 or later. It is recommended to build Celera Assembler from source. (Why? The pre-built binaries CA_8.3rc1 and CA8.3rc2 will work for any large data set.
Detail paper...
bix.ucsd.edu - BLASR (Basic Local Alignment with Successive Refinement) for mapping Single Molecule Sequencing (SMS) reads that are thousands to tens of thousands of bases long with divergence between the read and genome dominated by insertion and deletion...