1st Viral Bioinformatics and Genomics Training Course

The first Viral Bioinformatics and Genomics training course held at the University of Glasgow was completed successfully by 14 delegates (nine external and five internal) on 10-14 August 2015. The course took place in the McCall Building computer cluster, and the adjacent Lomond and Dumgoyne Rooms were used for refreshments and lunch. Instructors: Joseph Hughes […]

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Setting up automatic BLAST database update on linux servers

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is one of the most commonly used programs for sequence classification using similarity search. Standalone BLAST can be setup easily on the local server. More info about how to set it up on a local Linux server can be found here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK52640/ In our lab, all our servers run […]

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