Lucas Tanigutitaniguti.blog·Jun 28, 2023Exploring Spider Genomes: Assessing Assembly CompletenessWhen 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...Discuss·144 readsgenome
Lucas Tanigutitaniguti.blog·Jun 8, 2023BAM Files: When Sequence Reads Match with ReferencesNo 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...Discuss·392 readsBioinformatics Files Decoded: Unraveling the Mystery of Formatsbioinformatics
Lucas Tanigutitaniguti.blog·May 27, 2023FASTQ Files: Everywhere You Look in BioinformaticsI 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...Discuss·1 like·426 readsBioinformatics Files Decoded: Unraveling the Mystery of Formatsbioinformatics