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28 BRIG the BLAST Ring Image Generator
We chat to Nabil-Fareed Alikhan about the bioinformatics software he authored called BRIG, the BLAST Ring Image Generator. Software: http://brig.sour…
6 years, 1 month ago
27 SNP-sites: rapid efficient extraction of SNPs from multi-FASTA alignments
We chat to the author of SNP-sites, bioinformatics software for extracting SNPs from a multi-FASTA alignment. Sounds simple but behind all of our sof…
6 years, 1 month ago
26 SARS-CoV-2 contextual data specification for open genomic epidemiology
We talk to Dr Emma Griffiths (UBC), Dr Ruth Timme (FDA) and Dr Duncan MacCannell (CDC) about the PHA4GE SARS-CoV-2 contextual data specification for …
6 years, 1 month ago
25 Sustainable bioinformatics software
How do you make bioinformatics software sustainable so that we can move our field from academic research into hospitals and doctors offices? We discu…
6 years, 2 months ago
24 Experimental projects lead to experimental software
Experimental projects lead to experimental software. We discuss the issues around the sustainability of academic bioinformatics software. How it curr…
6 years, 2 months ago
23 CoronaHiT: large scale multiplexing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes on Nanopore
We chat with the authors of CoronaHiT which lets you sequence up to 94 SARS-CoV-2 samples on a single MinION flowcell. This reduces the cost of seque…
6 years, 3 months ago
22 Assembly after party
When you get an assembly the fun doesnt stop there. You then have to fix it up and see how good it is. In this episode we discuss scaffolding, gapfil…
6 years, 3 months ago
21 Setting up coronavirus sequencing for real-time public health surveillance
We chat to Justin O'Grady and Andrew Page on how to get a SARS-CoV-2 sequencing effort off the ground in the middle of a pandemic and go on to sequen…
6 years, 3 months ago
20 Assembly read healing
Preprocessing of sequence data in advance of de novo assembly is a critical step to improving the final quality of your assembly. We chat about read …
6 years, 3 months ago
19 Microbinfies assemble
Short read de novo assembly is discussed in this podcast. We cover the history of assembly and how short read assemblers have evolved into what we us…
6 years, 4 months ago