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For the 3rd year running, we have held our Viral Bioinformatics and Genomics training course at the Garscube campus of the University of Glasgow. The course took place from Monday 7th August – Friday 11th August 2017, with 16 participants attending from academic and health institutions from across the UK, Europe, USA, Uganda, and Saudi […]

Here are my slides from a session on NGS data formats and analyses that I gave as part of the EPIZONE Workshop on Next Generation Sequencing applications and Bioinformatics in Brussels in April 2016. It covers file formats such as FASTA, FASTQ, SAM, BAM, and VCF, and also goes over IUAPAC nucleotide ambiguity codes, read names, quality […]

  We have recently written a review article entitled “Bioinformatics tools to analyse viral genomics data” for the OIE. In the review, we were unable to provide direct hyperlinks and references to all available tools, simply because there are too many, so we included them here. These commonly used bioinformatics tools are split into the following categories: […]

Here are my slides from the BBSRC WestBio DTP skills training session at University of Glasgow, Friday 26th June 2015. The talk was entitled “Case studies of HTS applications” and presents a number of case studies on the application on high-throughput sequencing (HTS), also known as next generation sequencing (NGS), to biological problems ranging from human […]