So you want to work on a new pathogen: a self-onboarding checklist
Imagine, you are a bioinformatician but you go into a new lab or go into a new project. You know your basics: genome assembly, genome annotation, SNPs, MLST...
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Erdos Bacon number
Some friends were joking around online about their Kevin Bacon number. “I bumped into an actor one time who worked with Kevin Bacon.” “I went to high school ...
Adapter trimming
After sequencing, one of the first steps is to remove adapter sequences. These are most commonly the sequences that are either used to initiate sequencing li...
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I wrote a post on the microbifie blog on how to get started with Pixi.
Call for action: bioinformatics conferences
Every fiscal year, we have to predict where we are going to travel over the whole next year. However, conferences mainly post on their own website, making no...