Adventures with Nanopore

This is a guest post by Alex Jironkin (@biocomputerist) in the core bioinformatics group at Colindale. TL;DR: Try assembling your hybrid Illumina-MinION data with smaller number of kmers for better assemblies By now you probably heard about the new Nanopore technology, it is truly marvellous bit of engineering. The DNA strands are pulled through the…

Fantastic Beatson Group Tools

This is a post by Lauren Cowley. I have just spent one amazing month in Australia with Scott Beatson’s group at the University of Queensland. I was lucky enough to be awarded the Presidents fund grant by the SGM that enabled me to make the visit and am pleased with all the productive collaborations and…