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github.com - Key features Filters SNVs from any variant caller to remove false positives Calculates metrics based on BAM files and provides filtering not possible with other tools Fully user-configurable filtering (including which filters to use and their...

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

Only 4.4 percent DNA difference between Tiger and house cats

Job Description We are looking for a motivated application scientist to help evaluate, compare, and develop next generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis methods. The successful candidate should be able to quickly understand the state-of-art...

www.landesbioscience.com - Related latest article: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7502/pdf/nature13377.pdf

kallisto Transcript abundance quantification from RNA-seq data (uses pseudoalignment for rapid determination of read compatibility with targets) Software (C++) https://pachterlab.github.io/kallisto/ Sailfish Estimation of isoform abundances...

sourceforge.net - AIRVF that works on flowgram, raw and mapped reads and called variants to reduce artifact-driven false variant calls. Tests on sequencing data of standard reference material showed up to ∼98% reduction of false variants when combined to...