After last weeks post about randomly subsampling fastq files, let’s take a look at a different method for making read files smaller.
Month: July 2013
Bioinformatics for Beginners – How to find known variants?
If you’re interested in a specific gene (or set of genes) of the human genome, one of the important question you might consider is what (and what kind of and how many) variants are usually found in that particular genomic region.
So here’s a list of online resources, to help you with this task. Feel free to add additional resources in the comments!
Flashcard Fridays – Open Online Courses
I was searching for online learning resources and ran into the following article:
“An Online Bioinformatics Curriculum” , written by David B. Searls. It is basically a collection of free online lectures and courses about biology, mathematics and computer science.
Workflow Wednesdays – Part 3. Read preprocessing – Subsampling
It”s often a good idea (especially for large datasets) to use a subset of the reads for some preliminary analyses. A smaller dataset can be useful for figuring out the alignment parameters or checking for alignment problems.
Introducing the Omixon Academy!
It’s a great pleasure to present you the Omixon Academy, a series of detailed blog entries and tutorials about bioinformatics and next-generation sequencing. We have been creating such guides for weeks and have received amazing feedback about that.
