In Computer Science, a trie is a data structure that is also known as a digital search tree or a prefix tree. It can be used for fast retrieval on large data sets such as looking up words in a dictionary. The term trie was invented from the phrase ‘Information Retrieval’ by Fredkin(1960). As a […]
Read MorevNvS Our upcoming tool vNvS calculates the dN/dS ratio at each site, codon and also for the sample as a whole, here is an explanation of the theory behind it. vNvS is currently in development – for more information email Richard.Orton@glasgow.ac.uk dN/dS dN/dS is the ratio of the number of nonsynonymous substitutions per non-synonymous site (pN) […]
Read MoreUSE THE FOLLOWING RESPONSIBLY PLEASE! Recently, we wanted to send out a survey for the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) to a large number of authors who have recently published in a virology journal. Fortunately, PubMed stores author affiliations and the email address is also sometimes present in the affiliation. We decided to […]
Read MoreMetAMOS is a modular metagenomic analysis pipeline that can be used to automate metagenomic assembly, annotation and scaffolding analysis. Further information and published paper about MetAMOS can be found here and documentation about the pipeline can be found here. One of the biggest advantages of using the MetAMOS framework is the modularity of the framework. […]
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