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.3661 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/222176003686 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...3688 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.pdf3916 days ago
Comment on "Selecting between Python 2 and Python 3?"
Which version you ought to use is mostly dependent on what you want to get done. If you can do exactly what you want with Python 3.x, great! There's a few downsides, such as...3965 days ago