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 bioi...3853 days ago
Dynamic chromosome breakpoints !!!
Cell division involves the distribution of identical genetic material, DNA, to two daughters’ cells. During this process, duplicated deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) goes...3698 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 Gopal4055 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...3633 days ago
Bioinformatics approach to Boar Taint
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 Skato...3935 days ago
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Want to Know which genome assembler rule the world ?
Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome assembly http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/content/2/1/10/abstract http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/07/genome...4065 days ago
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 i...4093 days ago
Genome Assembly Tools and Software - PART2 !!
The genome assemblers generally take a file of short sequence reads and a file of quality-value as the input. Since the quality-value file for the high throughput short re...2831 days ago
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Workshop on population and metagenomics analysis @ NERC
Workshop Overview A ten-day workshop taking place between 25 February - 6 March 2014 providing detailed hands-on training for population and meta-genomics analysis for...3953 days ago
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How DNA is Packaged (Advanced)
Each chromosome consists of one continuous thread-like molecule of DNA coiled tightly around proteins, and contains a portion of the 6,400,000,000 basepairs (DNA building...4022 days ago
Download the genome from NCBI using bash script/command
#!/bin/bash # Download the genome from NCBI using command # Create a Directory mkdir genome cd genome # Look for genome assembly summary and extract the URL #...2677 days ago
Download the gff files from NCBI using bash script/command
#!/bin/bash # Download the genome from NCBI using command # Create a Directory mkdir genome_gff cd genome_gff # Look for genome assembly summary and extract the...2668 days ago
Which of the following programming language is best for a bioinformatics beginner?
I will be doing NGS in the course of my research work and I will like to learn a programming language which is compatible with most bioinformatics tools or software. I bas...3676 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 r...2507 days ago
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Comment on "R and Bioconductor Tutorial"
Useful collection of an R "meta" book can be found at http://www.r-bloggers.com/an-r-meta-book/3851 days ago