By Lior Pachter – One of the maxims of computational biology is that “no two programs ever give the same result.” This is perhaps not so surprising; after all, most journals seek papers that report a significant improvement to an existing method. ...
Read More »Quark – semi-reference-based compression of RNA-seq data
The past decade has seen an exponential increase in biological sequencing capacity, and there has been a simultaneous effort to help organize and archive some of the vast quantities of sequencing data that are being generated. While these developments are ...
Read More »RapMap – Unreasonably Fast and Accurate Transcriptome Mapping
from RoBlog by Rob Patro – Thoughts and musings on science and life Introducing RapMap I’ve recently been working with my student Avi Srivastava on a new project, RapMap. RapMap is a tool for mapping (see below for the distinction between mapping ...
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