Bioinformatics for Beginners – How to find known variants?

29/07/2013

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...

Flashcard Fridays – Open Online Courses

26/07/2013

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

24/07/2013

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!

23/07/2013

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. Check it out yourself!

Bioinformatics for Beginners – The UCSC Genome Browser

22/07/2013

The UCSC Genome Browser is developed and maintained by the Genome Bioinformatics Group at the University of California Santa Cruz. The website contains a large number of reference sequences and genome assemblies from different species. Sequences and annotation sets can be downloaded or viewed in the Genome Browser.