There was a lot of buzz about Oxford Nanopore Technologies® is developing the GridION™ system and miniaturised MinION™ device. These are a new generation of electronic molecular analysis system for use in scientific research,...
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...
www.genengnews.com - "By removing the time-consuming step of read mapping, the authors reported, Sailfish able to provide quantification estimates 20–30 times faster than current methods without loss of accuracy."
Tool...
https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu
The Genome 10K project aims to assemble a genomic zoo—a collection of DNA sequences representing the genomes of 10,000 vertebrate species, approximately one for every vertebrate genus. The trajectory of cost reduction...
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...
ufmg-simba.sourceforge.net - SIMBA, SImple Manager for Bacterial Assemblies, is a Web interface for managing assembly projects of bacterial genomes. SIMBA was created to assist bioinformaticians to assemble bacterial genomes sequenced with NextGeneration Sequencing (NGS)...
ab.inf.uni-tuebingen.de - Our software can be used to generate collections of synthetic reads that reflect the diverse taxonomical composition of typical metagenome data sets. Based on a database of given genomes, the program allows the user to design a...
genome.sph.umich.edu - vt is a variant tool set that discovers short variants from Next Generation Sequencing data.
https://genome.sph.umich.edu/wiki/Vt
https://github.com/atks/vt
