Flashcard Fridays – Virtual Labs

16/08/2013

Although, nothing can replace hands on experience in an actual laboratory, if you don’t have a “wet lab” background and you don’t have a chance to at least visit an actual lab in real life, you can still get a feeling for how things work by taking a look at...

Workflow Wednesdays – Creating alignments – BWA

14/08/2013

Drumroll! Hurrah! We are finally going to do some alignments today! BWA is probably the most widely used short read aligner ever. By now, it’s even part of the official Illumina analysis pipeline. BWA actually contains three different aligner algorithms. We’ll try all of these today.

Congratulations to Omixon’s new CEO!

13/08/2013

We congratulate Tim Hague for taking over the CEO responsibilities for Omixon. Attila Berces will continue as Chairman of the Board and will focus on the strategic relationships of the company. “Tim has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities and it is a natural step for him to advance to the top,”...

Bioinformatics for Beginners – How to find scientific publications?

12/08/2013

Nowadays, finding scientific publications is not that big of a challenge any more. Honestly, just thinking about how people did this before computer based databases fills me with terror. Just imagine a few hundred pages long reference list. On paper. Now, imagine finding all articles on the list that contain...

Flashcard Fridays – The Neanderthal Genome Project

09/08/2013

I’ve already written a little bit about the 1000 Genomes project, so for today here is something that is somewhat similar, but possibly even more cool: the Neanderthal Genome Project (Ensembl, UCSC, official webpage of the project on the Max Planck Institute website).