A feed of the latest posts of Bioinformatics blogs around the world
<p>Today I wanted to predict plasmids in a bacterial genome assembly, and used the <a href="https://github.com/phac-nml/mob-suite">MOB-suite</a> tool.</p><p>Here's how I ran it on the Sanger...
In a paper titled “THEOREMS FOR A PRICE: Tomorrow’s Semi-Rigorous Mathematics Culture” published in 1993, mathematician Doron Zeilberger wrote: There are writings on the wall that, n...
This one is pretty niche even by my standards. Notes largely for my own benefit, but they may be useful if you: I’ll assume that you have git-cloned jekyll-theme-chirpy, run bundle and are able ...
<p>ChatGPT came out in November 2022 and it has completely changed the Internet. In my post Learning about ChatGPT via ChatGPT I had prompted: "Will ChatGPT replace Google?" to which the model back th...
<p>I wanted to download fastq files for a long list of SRR accessions from the <a href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/home">ENA</a> today.</p><p>I realised I could use the <a href="https://av...
<p>I've been making genome assemblies for some Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT) sequencing data using the <a href="https://github.com/rpetit3/dragonflye">Dragonflye</a> package by Rober...
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Fish-scale geckos, Geckolepis spp., are small and arboreal lizards endemic to Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. The base coloration of the fish-scaled gecko is generally chestnut-cream with darker/b...
<p>When using native barcoding kits from ONT we have noticed some low frequency miss-assignments between barcodes/samples. Now we don’t know if this is an issue from the wet lab side (cross cont...