Five unique traits of effective computational biologist
Bioinformatics research is driven by large set of software, scripts, and tools to analyse gigantic biological data. Being a great biological programmer or bioinformaticia...3982 days ago
Five points for bioinformatics software/tools
In the bioinformatics sector we mostly spend time on computational analysis of huge amounts of data and try to make sense of it, biologically. But, most of the newbie bio...3739 days ago
Comparison of Short Read De Novo Alignment Algorithms
Excellent article to introduce different sequencing methods along with tools for de novo assembly of sequencing reads and their relevant references. Title: Comparison of Short Read De Novo Alignment Algorithms Author: Nikhil Gopal3942 days ago
Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Tutorials
Institute of computational biomedicine, Cornell University provide an NGS workshop tutorial at http://chagall.med.cornell.edu/NGScourse/ You can also add your...3519 days ago
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Bio++ : C Language libraries for your biological need
C has always been a language that never attempts to tie a programmer down - it allows for easy implementation, it comes with a genuinely useful standard library that can...3980 days ago
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High Density Sheep SNP Genotyping Chip released!!!
If you are working on Sheep genomics then there is a good news for you. FarmIQ in conjunction with Illumina and the International Sheep Genomics Consortium (ISGC) are tod...3929 days ago
Illumina reveals first dataset of long reads
With the help of Moleculo technology , acquired by Illumina releases new service for long reads sequencing i.e., FastTrack Long Reads. Average read length is aroun...3940 days ago
Project Assistant Position at JMI
Project Assistant Position (@ Rs.10,000/pm Fixed) is available for one year ina research project funded by the Department of Science and Technology entitled, "Folding and...3555 days ago
Bioinformatician for a lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated and talented people, at all career stages (MSc, PhD, postdoctoral fellows), to join the lab! Bioinformatics in particular are i...3524 days ago
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Perl Poem: Parse it in both Perl and English!
Larry's, er, corpus has fortunately been overshadowed by that of the reigning Perl Poet, Sharon Hopkins. She has written quite a few Perl poems, as well as a paper on Per...3950 days ago
You can't install David Brownlee ;-)
By mistake I ask cpan to install abs, and it return this message. jitendra@jitendra-Aspire-S3-391[parallelLastz] sudo cpan install abs [ 4:43AM]Going to read '/h...1862 days ago
Bioinformatics -- Understanding of living systems through information science
Recently, the progress of the Human Genome Project, aiming to decode all human DNA sequences, has highlighted a research field called bioinformatics. In this new field, c...3949 days ago
The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome
Ever since a monk called Mendel started breeding pea plants we've been learning about our genomes. In 1953, Watson, Crick and Franklin described the structure of the mole...3938 days ago
Python script to download covid genome !
#!/usr/bin/env python3 # these are the publicly available "complete" sequences # https://www.gisaid.org/ has more (1200?), but they require you to sign up import r...1168 days ago
R script to visualize fastANI core-genome comparison
####### # Purpose: Visualize fastANI core-genome comparison # Usage: Rscript # Output: .pdf # Uses genoPlotR package: http://genoplotr.r-forge.r-project.org #...1133 days ago
Tryst with a Bioinformatician # Dr Altan Kara
Dr Altan Kara is a Bioinformatics specialist at the faculty of Gene Engineering and Biotechnology Institute at TUBITAK MAM Research Center. His research interest...2394 days ago
Comment on "List of non-commercial NGS genotype-calling software"
Delly – Structural variant discovery by integrated paired-end and split-read analysis. [ paper-2012 ] lumpy – lumpy: a general probabilistic framework f...1174 days ago
Comment on "REAPR: a universal tool for genome assembly evaluation"
Reapr is a tool trying to find explicit errors in the assembly based on incongruently mapped reads. It is heavily based on too low span coverage, or reads mapping to...1369 days ago