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...

Flashcard Fridays – “Bioinformatics for Next Generation Sequencing” virtual issue

23/08/2013

In 2009, Bioinformatics (Oxford Journals) launched a “virtual issue” about NGS. This is basically a regularly updated list of papers relevant to next generation sequencing that have been published in the journal.

Workflow Wednesdays – Short Read Aligners – The “Oldies”

21/08/2013

Although BWA is a very popular and well tested aligner, it’s hardly the only aligner around. There is an extensive list of open source and commercial short read aligners available on Wikipedia. Another collection can be found on the EBI webpage (there’s also information about the number of citations for...

Looking for Your Feedback in Social Media!

20/08/2013

We have been publishing news, analyses and commentaries about next generation sequencing and HLA typing every single day on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as we see amazing potential in using social media channels for spreading the word about these topics and bioinformatics in general. We hope to get feedback from you on any of...

Bioinformatics for Beginners – R

19/08/2013

No, today is not Talk Like A Pirate Day. “R” is a statistical software (more like an environment) which was inspired by “S” and was originally developed by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka. Nowadays, more than a dozen contributors are working on development and bug fixes. There are also more...