After weeks of hard work, it’s worth stopping for a moment and checking all the editions that have been published as a part of Omixon Academy. We might call it the first mid-semester. Please see all the entries below in the three categories we have been using.

Bioinformatics for Beginners:

• Bioinformatics for Beginners – Biggest players on the NGS field
• Bioinformatics for Beginners – How to get NGS data? Part 1. Short reads
• Bioinformatics for Beginners – How to get NGS data? Part 2. Reference sequences
• Bioinformatics for Beginners – File formats: Part 1. Reference sequences
• Bioinformatics for Beginners – File Formats Part 2. – Short reads
• Bioinformatics for Beginners – File Formats Part 3. – Alignments
• Bioinformatics for Beginners – File formats Part 4. – Variants and annotations
• Bioinformatics for Beginners – The UCSC Genome Browser
• Bioinformatics for Beginners – How to find known variants?
• Bioinformatics for Beginners – BLAST

Workflow Wednesdays:

• Workflow Wednesdays – Part 1. Introduction, datasets, plans
• Workflow Wednesdays – Part 2. Read preprocessing – File format conversion
• Workflow Wednesdays – Part 3. Read preprocessing – Read quality control 1. – Running QC tools
• Workflow Wednesdays – Part 3. Read preprocessing – Read quality control 2. – QC results
• Workflow Wednesdays – Reference sequence – Part 1. Indexing
• Workflow Wednesdays – Reference sequence – Part 2. Subsampling and statistics
• Workflow Wednesdays – Part 3. Read preprocessing – Adaptor trimming
• Workflow Wednesdays – Part 3. Read preprocessing – Subsampling
• Workflow Wednesdays – Part 3. Read preprocessing – Filtering

Flashcard Fridays

• Flashcard Fridays – Part 1. Comparison of next generation sequencing technologies
• Flashcard Fridays – Part 2. Let’s talk about variant callers!
• Flashcard Fridays – Comparison of variant callers
• Flashcard Fridays – SEQanswers
• Flashcard Fridays – The 1000 Genomes Project
• Flashcard Fridays – Scitable
• Flashcard Fridays – Incidental findings in genetic testing
• Flashcard Fridays – Open Online Courses
• Flashcard Fridays – How accurate is next generation sequencing?