Bioinformatics for Beginners – Bash

02/09/2013

If you would like to do serious bioinformatics work, sooner or later you”re going to end up working in a Linux/Unix environment. For those of you who have no experience with bash/shell scripting, here are few links, you should check out:

Flashcard Fridays – nextgenseq@nature.com

30/08/2013

Similarly to last week’s “virtual issue” created by Bioinformatics (Oxford Journals), the Nature Group also has a selection of NGS related articles. This collection is available on their webpage. The list of highlighted articles is updated twice a month, and you can also subscribe to a monthly newsletter.

Workflow Wednesdays – Short read aligners – Omixon Variant Toolkit

28/08/2013

Omixon Variant Toolkit (aka Omixon Read Mapper or ORM)is our “own” alignment algorithm which is available as a standalone java application or in Omixon Target. The aligner actually contains two, slightly different algorithms*: one for shorter Illumina reads, called “bridge” and one for longer (IonTorrent and 454) reads, called “lace”....

Interview with Tim Hague, the new CEO of Omixon

28/08/2013

Tim Hague, the new CEO of Omixon, answered some of our questions about the future of next generation sequencing and more. What have you been working on at Omixon so far? Up to now, I’ve been Omixon’s Chief Technology Officer, so I’ve been concentrating on leading the research and development...

Bioinformatics for Beginners – Bioconductor

26/08/2013

Bioconductor is an open source, open development toolset for analysing high-throughput genomic data. It is based on the R programming language (see last week’s post about R). Bioconductor can be used for a wide range of subjects from analysing assays, to querying databases or finding candidate binding sites for transcription...