This is a blog post by Lauren Cowley ——————————————————————————— TL;DR? A confusing difference in trimmed/non-trimmed velvet phage assemblies raised suspicions that it was a mixed phage culture Spades assembly seemed to show more than one phage present in the culture I concluded that spades is better than velvet at showing a representation of the whole…
This is a ‘write it down before I forget’ post. I have shared it in case anyone else is overcome by a sense of existential dread at having to use Bionumerics. Minimum spanning trees are a nice way to present data when you want to express the relationship between different genotypes you have observed and…
This post will be a short summary of an interesting paper by Michael McClelland’s group, Evolutionary genomics of Salmonella enterica subspecies, Desai et al., 2011. I will focus on the phylogenetic aspects of the study as this is my primary interest at the moment. Intro 6 sub-species of Salmonella enterica, 5/6 of which (excluding enterica…
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