Bioinformatics tools to analyse viral genomics data

  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: […]

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Case studies of HTS applications

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 […]

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Convert NCBI Protein GI to Genome Accession

A few days back I posted a question on BioStars about getting genome accession numbers for a list of protein GIs. I had a long list of protein GI and I wanted the genome accession number for each protein GI (if there is one in NCBI databases) but without downloading files for each protein GI […]

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Why and how to use biomaRt?

The bioinformatics work includes the gene annotation work. In recent years more and more biological data has become available.  Meanwhile, how to get the access these valuable data resources and analyse the data is important for comprehensive bioinformatics data analysis. The biomaRt is a very useful tool to achieve that. Now there are two questions: […]

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Trie Data Structure

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 […]

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