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Meat products obtained from intact male pigs often produce offensive smell or odour which is recognized as a complex genetic trait called boar taint.Androstenone and Skatole in the fat primarily cause boar taint. Metabolism of androstenone and...

Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome...

High-value Tannat grape sequenced and $1 syphilis detection test

www.news.ucdavis.edu - The enormous size of the loblolly pine genome having 22 billion base pairs compared to only 3 billion in the human genome. In other words, it is seven times larger than a human’s and also the largest and the most...

Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungus responsible for a million cases of pneumonia and meningitis every year- are so malleable and dangerous

Smaller Exome datasets were found to be worse performer than those from larger datasets (WGS)

github.com - GraphMap is a novel mapper targeted at aligning long, error-prone third-generation sequencing data.It is designed to handle Oxford Nanopore MinION 1d and 2d reads with very high sensitivity and accuracy, and also presents a significant...

apps.bioconnector.virginia.edu - Coverage / Read Count Calculator Calculate how much sequencing you need to hit a target depth of coverage (or vice versa). Instructions: set the read length/configuration and genome size, then select what you want to calculate. Written by Stephen...

sourceforge.net - Grinder is a versatile program to create random shotgun and amplicon sequence libraries based on DNA, RNA or proteic reference sequences provided in a FASTA file. Grinder can produce genomic, metagenomic, transcriptomic, metatranscriptomic,...

github.com - Jabba is a hybrid error correction tool to correct third generation (PacBio / ONT) sequencing data, using second generation (Illumina) data. Input Jabba takes as input a concatenated de Bruijn graph and a set of sequences: the de Bruijn graph...