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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...

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...

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...
