Genome browsers are useful not only for showing final results but also for improving analysis protocols, testing data quality, and generating result drafts. Its integration in analysis pipelines allows the optimization of parameters, which...
Research Associate/JRF/SRF position, DBT Sponsored Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility
Applicants should hold a PhD or a first class MSc/MTech degree in Bioinformatics of Biotechnology/Life Sciences; experience in using bioinformatics tools,...
There are many tools to perform gap filling using Illumina short reads, for example "GapFiller: a de novo assembly approach to fill the gap within paired reads" or "Toward almost closed genomes with GapFiller". There are also some tools like...
github.com - The goal of the Shasta long read assembler is to rapidly produce accurate assembled sequence using as input DNA reads generated by Oxford Nanopore flow cells.
Computational methods used by the Shasta assembler include:
Using...
Biomedical Informatics Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh invites application for a project dissertation program for students who have completed their first year of M.Sc. in Bioinformatics.
This is an exciting opportunity for Master's students to train...
http://www.vital-it.ch/ - Vital-IT is a bioinformatics competence center that supports and collaborates with life scientists in Switzerland and beyond. The multi-disciplinary team provides expertise, training and maintains a high-performance computing (HPC) and storage...
If we only had Illumina reads, we could also assemble these using the tool Spades.
You can try this here, or try it later on your own data.
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We will use the same Illumina data as we used above:
illumina_R1.fastq.gz: the Illumina...