The Genome Factory

Bioinformatics tips, tricks, tools and commentary with a microbial genomics bent. Written by Torsten Seemann from Melbourne, Australia.

Tuesday, 31 May 2022

How to perform a fresh Bioconda installation

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Introduction Conda has been revolutionary for scientific software. For developers it has made it simpler to package their tool...
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Monday, 9 September 2019

25 reasons assemblies don't make it into Refseq

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Introduction When you submit a genome assembly, or NCBI assembles the reads you submitted, it ends up in Genbank. If the assembly is o...
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Sunday, 14 October 2018

A Unix one-liner to call bacterial variants

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Introduction Variant finding is the generic term for finding differences between two genome sequences. These differences can take many ...
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Saturday, 10 September 2016

Manipulating big TSV files in the Unix terminal

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Introduction Bioinformatics is full of plain text, machine readable file formats. One of my favourites is the " tab separated val...
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Monday, 11 April 2016

What bacterial genome assemblers are people using?

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Introduction As of April 2016, there are about 70,000 genome assemblies in Genbank (draft and complete), with the majority being bacter...
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