I am a bioinformatician at CDC. In my free time, I try to be a good husband and parent, and in my imaginary free time, I podcast with my co-hosts on the Micro Binfie podcast. All opinions are my own and are not necessarily shared by my employer.
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...
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 ...
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...