Bioinformatics for Beginners – How to find scientific publications?

12/08/2013

Nowadays, finding scientific publications is not that big of a challenge any more. Honestly, just thinking about how people did this before computer based databases fills me with terror. Just imagine a few hundred pages long reference list. On paper. Now, imagine finding all articles on the list that contain...

Flashcard Fridays – The Neanderthal Genome Project

09/08/2013

I’ve already written a little bit about the 1000 Genomes project, so for today here is something that is somewhat similar, but possibly even more cool: the Neanderthal Genome Project (Ensembl, UCSC, official webpage of the project on the Max Planck Institute website).

Omixon Academy: Collection of Recent Editions

05/08/2013

After weeks of hard work, it’s worth stopping for a moment and checking all the editions that have been published as a part of Omixon Academy. We might call it the first mid-semester. Please see all the entries below in the three categories we have been using. Bioinformatics for Beginners:...

Flashcard Fridays – How accurate is next generation sequencing?

02/08/2013

As for most unspecific questions, my best answer is “it depends”.* And it depends on a lot of things: the sequencing platform, the experiment design, the lab protocol, the quality of the biological sample, the mood of the lab tech, etc. I could go on and on and on and...

Introducing the Omixon Academy!

23/07/2013

It’s a great pleasure to present you the Omixon Academy, a series of detailed blog entries and tutorials about bioinformatics and next-generation sequencing. We have been creating such guides for weeks and have received amazing feedback about that. Check it out yourself!