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Five unique traits of effective computational biologist
...volves more than writing code that works. The biological programmers...perience, and knowledge to produce working code. There are some techn...ways think their job is to produce working codes, not technical resea...rch profession without loving your work. There are some very good &ld...3948 days ago
Five points for bioinformatics software/tools
...nbsp;Apart from your computational and analysis work, most of the reviewer also pr...(often because they were the product of an overworked doc/postdoc!) so you are re...well encouraged approach in biological analysis work, because the software is not...3705 days ago
Well designed regular expression cheat sheet
In our computational biology work, we mostly play with DNA or AA string. For string based programming work this regular expression cheat sheet is really helpful. Keep it handy.3947 days ago
List of popular bioinformatics software/tools
In current genome era, our day to day work is to handle the huge geneome sequences, expression data, several other datasets. This link provide a comprehensive list of commonly used sofware/tools.3943 days ago
India's own first drug - from Biocon.
...riasis at a cost 50 per cent lower than the existing one. Biocon is bringing Alzumab (a biologic) in the form of a vial after working on it for nearly a decade. The work had initially started in a jo...3917 days ago
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Which are the best statistical programming languages to study for a bioinformatician?
...I am wondering what other people think is best? or there might not be one specific language but a few that lend themselves best to Bio-informatics work that is math heavy and deals...3949 days ago
Selecting between Python 2 and Python 3?
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Linux SSH Client Commands for Bioinformatics
...hat immediately on the screen until you press and press enter. So, on the remotehost in a new line enter the following key strokes for the below to work: ~ remoteho...3703 days ago
A guide for complete R beginners :- Getting data into R
...that to the function If it has a header column mydata header=T also works Note that there is a comm...s in a columns with ‘NA’ . The last two examples will still work with our file and give the sa...3355 days ago
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Webinar: Wednesday 21 August 2013 at Noon EDT
This webinar will describe the use of combinatorial pooling to reconstruct gene sequences within BACs. Recent work in barley has shown that this level of sequence knowledge is suffic...3917 days ago
Barber pole worm , sheep pathogen sequenced !!!
...e resistance mechanism with an ease. Moreover, the genome could now provide a comprehensive understanding of how treatments against parasitic worms work and point to further new trea...3894 days ago
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Bioinformatics PhD studentship available in New Zealand
...evant discipline and a willingness to learn and apply new techniques and work in a team. Both local and int...g new science team, while staying connected to world class scientific networks. To apply for the post, p...3945 days ago
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Translational Bioinformatics: Transforming 300 Billion Points of Data
...nto diagnostics, therapeutics, and new insights into disease. Dr. Butte, a bioinformatician and pediatric endocrinologist, will highlight his lab's work on using publicly available m...3908 days ago
The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome
...n 2001, scientists wrote down the entire 3-billion letter code contained in the average human genome. Now they're trying to interpret that code; to work out how it's used to make dif...3904 days ago
Install BLAST in Ubuntu/Linux and Window !
...wnload ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/2.7.1/ncbi-blast-2.7.1+-win64.exe with your web browser. #If that FTP links does not work, try HTTP instead http://ftp....1144 days ago
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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 basically want...3528 days ago
Tryst with a Bioinformatician # Dr Altan Kara
...you please describe your research work in a nutshell for BOL users....At my current Institute, I am working in the field of cancer bio...ctor which I developed during this work is accessible via http://meta...nderstand WHY the other researcher worked in that way. Knowing the an...2359 days ago
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Comment on "Letter of motivation for bioinformatics applicants !"
...ogram. Provide the info regarding your previous scholastic and professional experience. You can also include teaching and research experience, work outside an academic field, an...1218 days ago
Comment on "URMAP, an ultra-fast read mapper"
...get input from a pipe, use /dev/stdin as the filename. To send output to a pipe, use "-" (minus sign) as the filename. Using /dev/stdout will not work because urmap attempts to cre...1281 days ago