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Microbial communities are usually highly diverse and often involve multiple strains from the participating species due to the rapid evolution of microorganisms. In such a complex microecosystem, different strains may show different biological functions. While reconstruction of individual genomes at the strain level is vital for accurately deciphering the composition…

NEW YORK – Pacific Biosciences said on Wednesday that it has made progress on the development of two sequencing platforms and announced that it is amending payment terms for its collaboration with Invitae on a high-throughput whole-genome sequencer. The Invitae collaboration is one of three R&D projects PacBio officials mentioned…

Outcome of DNA sequencing, assembly, and validation In this study, initially total DNA was isolated from the finely chopped, full-grown pupa of Blepharipa sp. The NanoDrop spectrophotometer (1294 ng/μl) and the Qubit fluorometer (732.8 ng/μl) both found that the concentration of total DNA in the sample at an optimum level for mitochondrial DNA enrichment. The Tape Station profile showed…

Hi all! I am analysing CSS Pacbio data and each sample came from different run, in particular I have three files for each sample. I tested both pbmm2 and minimap2 to align my long reads, after getting the consensus sequences. This is the command I used to run mnimap2: minimap2…

Sequencing data We used publicly available sequencing data from the GIAB consortium45, 1000 Genomes Project high-coverage data46 and Human Genome Structural Variation Consortium (HGSVC)4. All datasets include only samples consented for public dissemination of the full genomes. Statistics and reproducibility For generating the assemblies, we used all 14 samples for…

NEW YORK – Pacific Biosciences said on Monday that it is collaborating with Corteva Agriscience to develop custom workflows for plant, pest, and microbial sequencing. Under the terms of the project, the partners will establish high-throughput workflows for DNA extraction and library preparation to enable sequencing of thousands of samples….

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Researchers from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium have generated an assembly of a complete human reference genome that could lead to better variant calling in the clinic and inform new studies of cell biology. The results of the project were presented by Karen Miga, an investigator at…

A team of almost 100 scientists part of the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium has successfully sequenced the most complete human genome yet. If you’re thinking “Wait a minute — didn’t scientists produce the complete human genome sequence almost two decades ago?” Well, you wouldn’t be wrong. The Human Genome Project finished…

. 2022 Mar 3;220(3):iyac017. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyac017. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA. 2 Presidential Initiative in Data Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA. Item in Clipboard Hope M Healey et al. Genetics. 2022. Show details Display options Display options…

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Steen AD, Crits-Christoph A, Carini P, DeAngelis KM, Fierer N, Lloyd KG, Cameron TJ. High proportions of bacteria and archaea across most biomes remain uncultured. ISME J. 2019;13:3126–30. PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Goh KM, Shahar S, Chan K-G, Chong CS, Amran SI, Sani MH, Zakaria II, Kahar UM. Current…

An email was successfully sent. MaSuRCA assembler MaSuRCA is whole genome assembly software. It combines the efficiency of the de Bruijn graph and Overlap-Layout-Consensus (OLC) approaches. MaSuRCA can assemble data sets containing only short reads from Illumina sequencing or a mixture of short reads and long reads (Sanger, 454, Pacbio and…

INTRODUCTION Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized many areas of biological research (1, 2), providing ever-more data at an ever-decreasing cost. One such area is microbiome research, the study of microbes in their theater of activity using metagenomic sequencing (3). Here, deep short-read sequencing, and improving performance of long-read sequencing, are…

The taxonomy of the genus Neisseria remains confusing, particularly regarding Neisseria mucosa and Neisseria sicca. In 2012, ribosomal multi-locus sequence typing reclassified both as N. mucosa, but data concerning 17 N. sicca strains remain available in GenBank. The continuous progress of high-throughput sequencing has facilitated ready accessibility of whole-genome data,…

find_te_ins is designed to find Transposon Element (TE) insertions using long reads (nanopore), by alignment directly. (minimap2) Install $ git clone github.com/bakerwm/find_te_ins.git
 $ cd find_te_ins Change the following variables upon your condition: genome_fa and te_fa in line-10 and line-11; $ bash run_pipe.sh run_pipe.sh Prerequisite minimap2 – 2.17-r974-dirty, align long…

Help Variant Details tab shows known variant placements on genomic sequences: chromosomes (NC_), RefSeqGene, pseudogenes or genomic regions (NG_), and in a separate table: on transcripts (NM_) and protein sequences (NP_). The corresponding transcript and protein locations are listed in adjacent lines, along with molecular consequences from Sequence Ontology. When…

Conflicting results suggest a missing variant In order to narrow down candidates for the causal genetic variant, we performed genome-wide association mapping separately in individual lake populations (previously, association mapping was only performed across the whole species flock5). Interestingly, despite clear association peaks in the crater lakes (Fig. 1a, b), the…

Significance The DPANN superphylum is a grouping of symbiotic microorganisms categorized based on their genomic contents and a few examples of cultivation experiments. Although the genome information of DPANN archaea is increasing year by year, most of them have remained uncultivated, limiting our knowledge of these organisms. Herein, a thermoacidophilic…

. 2021 Dec 24;3(1):101072. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2021.101072. eCollection 2022 Mar 18. Affiliations Expand Affiliation 1 Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA. Free PMC article Item in Clipboard Jun Huang et al. STAR Protoc. 2021. Free PMC article Show details Display options Display options Format AbstractPubMedPMID . 2021 Dec…

Using Minimap2 with FMLRC2 1 Hello all, I am using FMLRC2 (github.com/HudsonAlpha/rust-fmlrc) to correct PacBio reads with Illumina reads for hybrid genome assembly. Since FMLRC2 only corrects reads (does not do any assembly) another program is needed. In the paper published on FMLRC minimap (now succeeded by minimap2, github.com/lh3/minimap2) was…

Added whole genome sequencing capacity enables the SOLVE-RD research program to significantly increase sample throughput MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PacBio (Nasdaq: PACB), a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing platforms, today announced Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands will increase their…

Hi everyone,I analyzed my pacbio data according to this PR, but an error was happened: Error in h(simpleError(msg, call)) : Error: invalid class “SRFilterResult” object: superclass “Mnumeric” no t defined in the environment of the object’s class stop Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/xxx/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2021.4/lib/python3.8/site- packages/q2_dada2/_denoise.py”, line 361, in denoise_ccs…

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BLEND is a mechanism that can efficiently find fuzzy seed matches between sequences to significantly improve the performance and accuracy while reducing the memory space usage of two important applications: 1) finding overlapping reads and 2) read mapping. Finding fuzzy seed matches enable BLEND to find both 1) exact-matching seeds…

Please be aware that, as a condition of employment, proof of COVID vaccination is required for all U.S.-based employees (subject to limited exceptions).Title: Bioinformatics Scientist Location: San Diego, CA, or Menlo Park, CA , or Remote Position Summary An emerging leader in next-generation sequencing technology is seeking a driven Bioinformatics…

TLDR: Thanks to funding from EOSC-Life, the Freiburg Galaxy team will work in 2022 with Biolytix, a Swiss Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) specialized in molecular biology and microbiological analyses, toward Accessible and scalable detection and identification of foodborne pathogens. Background Food contaminations with pathogens are a major burden on…

Available online 7 December 2021 doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2021.12.003Get rights and content Highlights • Corynebacterium_1, Clostridium_sensu_stricto_1, Porphyromonas, Anaerococcus, Streptococcus, and Bacteroides were the core microbiota in all healthy sows. • V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene sequence and full-length 16S rRNA analysis confirmed that Burkholderia was a dominant genus in endometritis sows…

. 2021 Nov 17;2021:6287280. doi: 10.1155/2021/6287280. eCollection 2021. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Infectious Diseases, Mengchao Hepatobiliary Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350025, China. 2 Institute of Applied Genomics, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China. Item in Clipboard Xiaoling Yu et al. Biomed Res Int. 2021. Show details Display options…

Abstract In less than 25 y, the field of animal genome science has transformed from a discipline seeking its first glimpses into genome sequences across the Tree of Life to a global enterprise with ambitions to sequence genomes for all of Earth’s eukaryotic diversity [H. A. Lewin et al., Proc. Natl….

Christian Henry, CEO, PacBio It’s fair to say long-read sequencing company PacBio has been through some trials in the past few years, not the least of which was the scuttled merger it had planned with short-read sequencing behemoth Illumina. But since that time, the company has revamped its leadership team…

Description Posted Date 18 Nov 2021 Locations Leuven Center VIB KU Leuven Center for Microbiology Type Post doctoral Positions 1 About the Lab The lab for Systems Biology of Kevin Verstrepen is a research team at VIB & University of Leuven. Our team focuses on genomics, genetics, epigenetics, transcriptomic, and…

0 HiFiASM 1o assembly Primary assembly input from hifiasm workflow, in FASTA format. 1 HiFi reads as FASTQ Raw HiFi reads input, in FASTQ format. 2 Step 1. Base-level coverage toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/iuc/purge_dups/purge_dups/1.2.5+galaxy3 3 Step 1. Run minimap2 to align pacbio data and generate paf files, toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/iuc/minimap2/minimap2/2.20+galaxy2 4 Step 1. Split an…

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Author: Brianna Nee Editor: Liane Xu and Megan Liu Artist: Tiffany Gao The human genome consists of about 3.2 billion base pairs, which make up approximately 30,000 genes. When genes are expressed, the sequence of bases is transcribed in the nucleus from DNA into RNA. Then, in the ribosome, the…

I am trying to download information from NCBI Entrez databases (nucleotide), using Biopython package. I don’t need molecular data at all. I just want to check the textual information about certain records, to see references, authors, journals, and information about voucher specimens from which the genome sample was extracted. My…

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A computational framework for analyzing single-cell chromatin data is presented in Nature Methods this week. Called Signac, the resource enables end-to-end analysis of chromatin data and includes functionality for a range of analysis tasks including identifying cells from background non-cell-containing barcodes, calling peaks, quantifying counts in genomic regions, and quality…

Annotation with egg-mapper 0 Hello everyone, I have assembled a bacterial genome from PacBio reads. I would like know annotate that genome. I used egg-mapper to do that. Prodigal detects 4131 CDS and egg-mapper outputs an GFF annotation file. Is there a way to filter that GFF, in order to…

  Issue TitleStateCommentsCreated DateUpdated DateClosed Datesamtools 1.10 csi vs 1.13 generation/reading closed 22021-11-012021-10-272021-11-03mpileup: –output-BP-5 switches output column 7 and 8 open 22021-11-012021-10-27-ampliconclip bug when hardclipping odd-length sequences from the left closed 12021-10-232021-10-272021-11-03Feature Request: Flag in ampliconclip to clip out everything except target sequence open 22021-10-222021-10-27-samtools markdup slow in docker open…

The encoding is compatible with a P – PacBio Phred+33, HiFi reads typically (0, 93) See the Wikipedia page that GenoMax also linked. Though the sequencing run is from 2010 and is not on PacBio I think what happened is that the upper limit was not truncated to 40 as…

Assembly of mitochondrial genome MtDNA sequence of N. cadamba was determined using PacBio sequencing technique and was successfully assembled in two genome circles. This probably reflects the feature of rapid evolution of structure of plant mitochondrial genomes38,39,40. Figure 1 shows two parts of circular structure of the mitochondrial genome, designated as…

I have a lot of fasta files, each one with thousand of reads containing the hexameric motif “CCCTCT”. The hexameric motif is highly continuous in most cases but interruptions may occur. I need to count the hexameric motif keeping the read ID and identify their structure (CCCTCT)n. These interruptions are…

The Biostar Herald publishes user submitted links of bioinformatics relevance. It aims to provide a summary of interesting and relevant information you may have missed. You too can submit links here. This edition of the Herald was brought to you by contribution from Mensur Dlakic, Istvan Albert, GenoMax, and was…

Run purge_dups with PacBio hifi reads and HiCanu assembly 0 Hi there, I was wondering if it is possible to run purge_dups on a de novo genome assembly generated with HiCanu and PacBio hifi reads without any short reads. One of the arguments in step 1 of the “usage” section…

[bam_sort_core] merging from 32 files and 16 in-memory blocks… samtools sort: failed to write header to “-“ 0 Hi, When I run script samtools sort -@ 16 -T “path/to/temp” “$bamfile” > “$_sorted.bam, I get this error message: [bam_sort_core] merging from 112 files and 16 in-memory blocks… samtools sort: failed to…

Run purge_dups with PacBio hifi reads and HiCanu aassembly 0 Hi there, I was wondering if it is possible to run purge_dups on a de novo genome assembly generated with HiCanu and PacBio hifi reads without any short reads. One of the arguments in step 1 of the “usage” section…

Platanus-allee phasing fail: Error(13): Error, SolveDBG exception!! 0 Hello there, I am using Platanus-allee 2.2.2 to generate hybrid assembly of Illumina short reads and PacBio reads. I have got contigs.fa from short reads but phasing step with PacBio reads gives the following error after running for couple of hours Error(13):…

Pacific Biosciences seeks a Senior/Staff/Principal Scientist with a strong molecular biology background to join the sample prep team. This position will contribute to development of the up-front DNA preparation for Pacific Biosciences SMRT™ sequencing platform, as well as support of internal research efforts, by working with a team that is…

Different mechanisms of adaptation have different timescales. Epigenetic changes are often rapid and reversible, while most genetic changes have nearly negligible rates of reversion (1). This poses a challenge for genetic adaptation to transient conditions such as drug treatment; mutations that confer drug resistance are often deleterious in the absence…

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analysing basemods in old pacbio data; advice on setting up SMRT link/tools 0 I have pacbio data from old sequencing projects and I want to analyse them for base modifications and motifs but I no longer have access to a SMRT link setup at a sequencing facility. I would need…

QC metrics from pacbio long reads data 0 Hello, I have two samples that were sequenced using pacbio technology. These samples are different in terms of their shearing methods. I also have SMRTLink installed through command line interface. I want to run some primary analysis to compare these samples, for…

how to map Pacbio CCS fastq 1 I have a Pacbio CCS fastq like this I want to map to genome, and this is my command and out. I want to know how to solve it. Is this fastq correct? Thanks minimap2 Pacbio • 25 views It might pay to…

mapping long-reads to a reference library 1 Hi, I have long, pacbio, reads and I have a reference library of only repeats, I want to map the long reads on the repeats library using bwa mem, is this command correct? bwa index mmm.pacbio.fastq.gz bwa mem mmm.pacbio.fastq.gz repeat-library.fasta | samtools sort…

Today’s guest on The Long Run is Christian Henry. Christian is the CEO of Menlo Park, Calif.-based PacBio. It makes DNA sequencing instruments that are used by scientists around the world. Christian Henry, CEO, PacBio The company has long toiled in the shadow of the market leader – some would…

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Duplicate of: github.com/lindenb/jvarkit/issues/190 Hi can anyone help me resolve the issue I’m having with sam2tsv. It is a nifty piece of software but I have been encountering issues with it regarding the numbering of nucleotides it shows for the reference sequence. Here’s what sam2tsv tells me: The nucleotide string marked…

MinHash Sketch is a method of rapidly comparing large strings or sets. In genomics, you can use it like this: 1) Gather all the kmers in a genome. 2) Apply a hash function to them. 3) Keep the 10000 smallest hashcodes and call this set a “sketch”. If you do…

The human genome is made up of over three billion base pairs of DNA, which in turn create the 23 chromosome pairs which make up a human being’s genetic code. The initial draft sequence of the human genome was unveiled by Celera Genomics and the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium…

News:Genome Assembly and Annotation 0 Dear all, registrations are now open for the Physalia course on “Genome Assembly and Annotation”: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/course20/ When: March, 14th-18th This course will introduce biologists and bioinformaticians to the concepts of de novo assembly and annotation, providing a theoretical framework and practical examples. A variety of…

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center is looking for a highly motivated Senior Computational Biologist to lead the Bioinformatics Core of the Sequencing Technologies and Analysis Shared Resource, which develops new technologies at the cutting edge of genome science, including new assays that take advantage of long-read and single-cell…

Introduction Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death globally, taking an estimated 17.9 million (32.1%) lives in 2015, up from 12.3 million (25.8%) in 1990.1,2 CVDs are highly heterogeneous diseases involving a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels, which include cardiomyopathy, hypertensive heart disease, heart…

Genome assembly In this study, we de novo assembled the plum, Prunus mira, and Prunus davidiana genomes for the first time and improved the peach and apricot genomes by integrating single-molecule real-time (SMRT) long-read sequencing (PacBio), short high-quality Illumina paired-end sequencing, and Hi-C technology. First, we used SMRT reads (99−130 Gb,…

These are just a few of the questions answered in this comprehensive overview of Bayesian approaches to phylogenetics. Finally, make sure the Include Primers box is unchecked, as we are not submitting primers with this sequence. Influenza virus sequences. September, 2008. Please download the current version. Some mitochondrial genomes contain CDS’s that…

Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. PACB, also popularly known as PacBio, recently collaborated with The European Reference Genome Atlas (“ERGA”) consortium to aid its efforts with regards to understanding and safeguarding biodiversity. The partnership involves PacBio lending support to biodiversity protection through generation of high-quality reference genomes for European plant…

Submission of sequence data to NCBI archives . Learn more. This post will show you how to… Careers, General: your contact details, authors, publication, data release date, Original or third-party assembly/annotation, Set designation (if applicable) for multiple sequences of the same locus, Nucleotide sequences in FASTA or alignment format, Source…

Location: 2240 CIEMAS During the past decade, a new generation of high-throughput DNA sequencers has transformed biomedical and biotechnology research. These new technologies have fostered the development of a wide range of applications to basic and clinical research, including SNP discovery, transcriptome profiling, genome sequencing, and epigenetics. The goal of this…

NEW YORK – Until recently, Illumina had been able to stay ahead of pandemic-related reagent shortages affecting the entire biotech industry. But since the beginning of the summer, customers have noticed that delivery of certain Illumina next-generation sequencing reagents is being delayed by weeks — or even indefinitely. “We are…

Which files from PacBio output files to use in downstream analysis in R 0 I just received Pacbio sequences of 16S gene from the core facility. After download, I got 5 files for each sample with following suffix: .ccs.bam longest.bam scraps.bam subreads.bam whitelist From readings, I believe that I should…

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Nearly three years ago, when Pacific Biosciences agreed to be acquired by Illumina, the acquisition was positioned as a pair of companies with complementary DNA sequencing technologies. Antitrust regulators believe that this is not the case, causing these companies to abandon the deal. PacBio now has another deal that aims…

Data provision and standards. GEO sequence submission procedures are designed to encourage provision of MINSEQE elements: Thorough descriptions of the biological samples under investigation, and procedures to which they were subjected. Thorough descriptions of the protocols used to generate and process the data. Request updates to accessioned records per the…

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA – Researchers from the University of Minnesota have developed a library preparation method for Pacific Bioscience’s Sequel platform that addresses the challenge of sequencing DNA molecules that are too long for short reads but not long enough to make long-read sequencing cost effective. Their solution: link up…

Procambarus fallax collections and PCR genotyping Animals were collected from various wild populations (Table S1) in compliance with state and local regulations (Georgia department of natural resources scientific collection permit 115621108, state of Florida collection permits S-19-10 and S-20-04). DNA was isolated from abdominal muscle tissue using SDS-based extraction and precipitation…

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What are the steps of an full lengh RNA seq annotation method? 0 I have read a few papers, some of them used GenMark, or PacBios proprietary Iso-Seq pipeline but as I’m just a Bachelor’s student I am having trouble understanding how exactly it works. Can some one roughly explain…

How does PacBio Iso-Seq annotation compare to other pipelines? 1 I have no experience in annotation RNA seq data (or genome assembly) but I’ve spent the last weeks ploughing through some papers and looking at manuals. I am wondering why it seems so common that e.g. proprietary pipelines of sequencers…

Next Generation Sequencing has been with us for little more than a decade, but has already revolutionised biological science. According to Jonas Korlach, chief scientific officer of US-based sequencing company Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) we are now entering a golden age of sequencing technology and the advanced understanding of genetics it…

Significance A great challenge for humanity is feeding its growing population while minimizing ecosystem damage and climate change. Here, we uncover the global benefits arising from the introduction of one wild species accession to peanut-breeding programs decades ago. This work emphasizes the importance of biodiversity to crop improvement: peanut cultivars…

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NEW YORK – The results of a major, core facilities-driven benchmarking study for next-generation sequencing platforms are in, and just about every major player in the field can claim a victory of some sort. The data support longstanding advantages touted by market leader Illumina, while also providing a sneak peak…

How does PacBio Iso -Seq Annotation compare to other pipelines? 1 I have no experience in annotation or assembly but I’ve spent the last weeks ploughing through some papers and looking at manuals. I am wondering why it seems so common that e.g. proprietary pipelines of sequencers are not used?…

Strategy and design of the method We sought to develop a simple method to increase the sequencing capability of PacBio CCS to sequence several diverse DNA libraries ~ 870 bp in length that encoded protein variants originating from a directed evolution campaign. To achieve an increase in the throughput of a PacBio sequencing…

NEW YORK — An international team of researchers has examined how variations in sequencing approaches can influence the ability to accurately detect cancer mutations, providing guidance for the wider community. The team additionally developed a set of reference samples for benchmarking efforts. Next-generation sequencing approaches are increasingly being adopted to…

Sudden coverage increase in IGV 0 Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows how to interpret this sudden change in coverage in IGV? I’ve aligned illumin reads of the system against the pacbio generated genome. In the vast majority of this genome, the coverage from one base to the next…

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DNA sequencing has helped develop various sectors of the economy and mainly in the health sector. DNA sequencing has helped scientists understand the causes of related genetic disorders and how to cure them. DNA sequencing has also helped scientists understand the evolution of different animal species. What about developing GMOs?…

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IPD values from ipdsummary, methylation analysis using PacBio 0 Is there anybody familiar with methylation analysis using PacBio data? I ran the ipdsummary tool from smrtlink package. The minimum coverage and p-value were set to 50X and 0.001, respectively. The methylation rate is about 2% of the total bases with…

CHICAGO – Canadian startup BugSeq Bioinformatics has devised a method of detecting pathogens via metagenomic nanopore sequencing that the company says is more accurate and sensitive than PCR and microbial cultures. Notably, the technology does not need to target specific pathogens like PCR and microbial culture tests must. The firm…

problems with snippy on galaxy 0 Hello I have a few questions regarding snippy. I need to analyze around 20 genomes and compare them to reference genome. I used unicycler to assemble my reference genome from illumina short reads and Pacbio long reads and then I used snippy to find…

Location: 2240 CIEMAS During the past decade, a new generation of high-throughput DNA sequencers has transformed biomedical and biotechnology research. These new technologies have fostered the development of a wide range of applications to basic and clinical research, including SNP discovery, transcriptome profiling, genome sequencing, and epigenetics. The goal of…

Next generation sequencing can bring about a revolution in biological sciences and unprecedented progress to society as genomics is the sunrise sector of the 21st century just like Information Technology in the 90s took the country to great heights, said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday. Mr. Singh was speaking…

How much would it cost to do a de novo assembly (plus annotation) of a jellifish genome? 0 I found this paper doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16801-9 and I was wondering how much their budget could have been per jellyfish. They’ve used PacBio and Hi-C data to generate a high-quality genome which is what…

Interpretation of .gfa 1 I love .gfa, but sometimes I have trouble to understand them. I have used Flye with pacBio reads with defaults options to make a first shot at assemble a linear bacterial genome. The genome probably contains some plasmids or some phages sequences. Flye gave me the…