Comment on "List of popular bioinformatics software/tools"
TopHat http://tophat.cbcb.umd.edu/manual.shtml is a program that aligns RNA-Seq reads to a genome in order to identify exon-exon splice junctions. It is built on the ultrafast short read mapping program Bowtie.3794 days ago
Comment on "Tools to detect synteny blocks regions among multiple genomes"
Thanks for such an informative blog. I notice MCScan is missing. MCScan is an algorithm able to scan multiple genomes or subgenomes in order to identify putative homologous chromosomal regions, and align these regions using genes as anchors. More at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/222176003820 days ago
Comment on "Tools to detect synteny blocks regions among multiple genomes"
r2cat (related reference based contig arrangement tool) can be used to order a set of contigs with respect to a single reference genome. This is done by mapping the contigs onto the...3821 days ago
Comment on "R and Bioconductor Tutorial"
The book "Applied Statistics for Bioinformatics using R" provide an introduction into statistics in order to solve some problems of bioinformatics. http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Krijnen-IntroBioInfStatistics.pdf4049 days ago
Comment on "Selecting between Python 2 and Python 3?"
...'t yet have a released version that is compatible with Python 3, and porting that package is a non-trivial task, you may choose to use Python 2 in order to retain access to that pack...4098 days ago