Your friendly bioinformatician.
I'm writing this blog to help biologists, or aspiring computational biologist/ bioinformaticians, with little to no experience in coding. Hopefully my writing can help some people who are trying to use computational methods to analyze biological data.
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Preliminary Preparation: Before we start, there are a couple of tools (hyperlinked) to download: HISAT2, Cufflinks, Samtools, and Bowtie2. Make sure you have the correct binary and the latest version when downloading and follow the instructions to in...

Continuing in our series, the next part I will be discussing is sequence mapping. Referring back to this diagram below after cleaning (quality control) the sequence data we have to align the sequence reads. What does aligning mean? It means "arrangi...
