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Jul 22, 2023 · 6 min read · Have you ever wondered how scientists and bioinformaticians store, access, and organize the genetic variants they discover in each sample? This is the purpose of the Variant Call Format (VCF). To tie in with what we've already discussed in previous p...
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Jun 28, 2023 · 6 min read · When I was a child, my parents gifted me a fascinating magazine series dedicated to the discovery of Earth's "mini monsters" – tiny creatures that inhabit our planet. Little did I know that today dozens of spider genomes would be available, and scien...
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Jun 8, 2023 · 8 min read · No matter if you obtained your sequence from Illumina, Nanopore or Sanger, it's always possible to align their nucleotide bases against a reference sequence. It is common to call this reference sequence a "Reference Genome" if it represents the whole...
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Jun 5, 2023 · 8 min read · At the start of this year, I read a book named "Effective Remote Work". This resource discusses the rise of remote work due to the pandemic, the key challenges of this transition, and provides practical tips for maintaining or even increasing product...
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May 27, 2023 · 8 min read · I dare say that every bioinformatician working with genomics has encountered FASTQ files. Usually, after ordering DNA sequencing, we receive these files filled with tons of reads. But what exactly are these files? Where do they come from? And most im...
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