Phylogenetic & Molecular Genetics Terms and Definitions
analog -- A feature that appears similar in two taxa which have originated from two different ancestors. ancestor -- Any organism, population, or species from which some o...2514 days ago
Alignment-free sequence comparison tools available for next-generation sequencing data analysis
kallisto Transcript abundance quantification from RNA-seq data (uses pseudoalignment for rapid determination of read compatibility with targets) Software (C++) htt...2423 days ago
Edit distance application in bioinformatics !
There are other popular measures of edit distance, which are calculated using a different set of allowable edit operations. For instance, the Damerau–Lev...2393 days ago
Tools for bacterial whole genome annotation
RAST – Web tool (upload contigs), uses the subsystems in the SEED database and provides detailed annotation and pathway analysis. Takes several hours p...2384 days ago
Run miniasm assembler on nanopore reads !
Miniasm is a very fast OLC-based de novo assembler for noisy long reads. It takes all-vs-all read self-mappings (typically by minimap) as input and outputs a...2382 days ago
Bioinformatics Web Application Development with Perl
Perl's second wave of adoption came from the growth of the world wide web. Dynamic web pages—the precursor to modern web applications—were easy to create with...2374 days ago
BBSplit: Read Binning Tool for Metagenomes and Contaminated Libraries
BBSplit internally uses BBMap to map reads to multiple genomes at once, and determine which genome they match best. This is different than with ordinary mapping. If a genom...2367 days ago
List of visualization tools for network biology
Network analysis is any structured technique used to mathematically analyze a circuit (a “network” of interconnected components). The Network analysis...2340 days ago
List of visualization tools for genome alignments
Genome browsers are useful not only for showing final results but also for improving analysis protocols, testing data quality, and generating result drafts. Its integr...2336 days ago
Computational resources for TE discovery and TE detection
Transposable Elements (TEs) to genome structure and evolution as well as their impact on genome sequencing, assembly, annotation and alignment has generated increasing inte...2326 days ago