Validation of BWA-mem

I have a new job! A couple of weeks ago I became a permanent employee of PHE. This new role will mean a shift from VTEC O157 to Salmonella. We have sequenced 1500 strains of Salmonella from diverse serotypes to validate serotyping via MLST (see Achtman et al., 2013 for more details). This is prior…

How to do a Dendroscope tanglegram

Tanglegrams are a very cool way of visualising the difference between two trees. There is an implementation in Dendroscope that allows them to be made very easily, IF you know how (it isn’t covered very well in the documentation). This is how. This is definitely one of those, ‘write it down before I forget’ blogs.…