A question and answer site for bioinformatics

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What license do you use when you release code and data?

1h ago Marcin Cieslik 61●3

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How do I access and query entire genome sequences with R

r gene symbol

3h ago Michael Dondrup 325●5

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How to find a 28bp ‘primer’ sequence in a genome?

sequence genome search tool primer

15h ago brentp 221●4

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distance measure between chip-seq peak set profiles

chip-seq distance profiles

17h ago Marcin Cieslik 61●3

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Is it possible for two different Affymetrix probe set ID to have common annotations to same gene ?

microarray annotation affymetrix probeset

1d ago Fred FLECHE 149●6

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Which software development technique is used in your lab?

subjective agile sturdy team-working development

1d ago mndoci 71●2

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Where to advertise or find bioinformatics jobs

job career

1d ago mndoci 71●2

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How to get started in bioinformatics?

recommendations books blog

1d ago Khader Shameer 161●5

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A resource to identify functionally redundant genes

gene function database redundancy

1d ago Fred FLECHE 149●6

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Hardware resources for HPC in Bioinformatics

fpga hpc reconfigurable-computing

1d ago darked89 268●6

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I was studying a gene but it disappeared in the latest ensembl release. What should I do now?

ensembl annotation genes

2d ago Ewan Birney 86●1

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Recommend your favorite bioinformatics books

bioinformatics books resources

2d ago Jarretinha 111●5

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What do you consider the most trivial and the most challenging tasks in your particular field of work?

career subjective

2d ago Jarretinha 111●5

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Which human tumor cell line/sample genomes have been already sequenced completely?

genome analysis integrated ngs

2d ago Yuri 110●5

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Compare two protein sequences using local BLAST

biopython blast

2d ago brentp 221●4

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Computing the reverse and complement of a sequence with Biopython

sequence biopython python

mar 16 at 11:39 Peter 11●1

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Mapping SNPs to Pathways

snp genotyping pathways genes mining

mar 16 at 0:07 David Nusinow 106●2

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Performing BLAST/SmithWaterman searches directly from my application

blast c++ mpi sequence

mar 15 at 12:12 PhiS 96●3

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Appropriate podcasts for a bioinformatician?

podcast subjective recommendations vodcast

mar 15 at 0:32 MarkF 1●1

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How to convert BLAST results to GFF

blast gff format

mar 13 at 20:55 Michael Dondrup 325●5

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Programatic technique for gene-name/id conversion

python geneid conversion

mar 13 at 4:51 Will 133●4

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How to perform tRNA sequence alignment (against a domain-specific tRNA covariance models) with COVE (or Infernal) on windows ?

alignment trna sequence

mar 12 at 16:31 darked89 268●6

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Tools to find gene ontology term enrichment

geneontology enrichment tool go

mar 11 at 18:04 brentp 221●4

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If I have 4 sequence runs, 2 in each direction, 1 bp is different, on each, should I resequence?

sequencing dna

mar 11 at 8:39 Nicojo 295●5

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Unambiguous assembly of next-gen fastq reads into fastq contigs?

assembly unambiguous fastq

mar 11 at 4:16 Istvan Albert♦♦ 933●9

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How can a base-called position be “unknown” but have a non-minimal score?

base-calling phred fastq bustard

mar 11 at 3:59 Istvan Albert♦♦ 933●9

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Experiences with cloud computing in bioinformatics

cloud-computing general

mar 11 at 1:50 Will 133●4

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How to determine if a gene is active from expression data

gene-expression protein-expression

mar 11 at 1:09 Will 133●4

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What open source Java library can I use to query online, free databases in which pathways a metabolite is participating?

metabolomics metabolite cheminformatics java opensource

mar 10 at 21:12 Michael Dondrup 325●5

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Pfam based functional annotaion

annotation protein pfam protein-domain

mar 10 at 21:05 etal 96●2

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Hierarchical Clustering, Cluster Heat Maps in Java

clustering map

mar 9 at 22:41 BioGeek 221●5

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Which programming languages are good to study for bioinformatics?

subjective programming languages

mar 9 at 17:57 Yuri 110●5

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Has enhancer and transcription factor binding site prediction already been made redundant?

cis-regulatory-module dnase-hypersensitivity transcription-factor

mar 9 at 15:44 mikael.huss 116●3

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What methods do you use for short read mapping?

short-read-aligner sequence short-reads

mar 9 at 5:20 Chris Miller 301●4

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How Important is it to belong to a Professional Society in Computational Biology?

professional-society career subjective assessment

mar 8 at 23:29 neilfws 244●2

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Computing the reverse and complement of a sequence with Pygr [closed]

python pygr use-case sequence

mar 8 at 13:50 Istvan Albert♦♦ 933●9

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Compute genetic map

genetic map cm

mar 8 at 10:01 Pierre 11●1

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Score protein variants based on frequency of AA in multiple sequence alignment

protein sequence multiplealignment scoringmatix

mar 7 at 12:18 Tim 46●4

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How to organize a pipeline of small scripts together?

general make pipeline organization

mar 7 at 3:26 brentp 221●4

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How do I contact the moderators or supervisors of this site?

general contact faq

mar 6 at 21:00 giovanni 706●1●10

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How to charecterize a residue in a protein based on it’s ASA

protein structure

mar 6 at 19:03 Ryan 21●1

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Which operating system do you prefer for bioinformatics?

general subjective os

mar 6 at 18:33 mndoci 71●2

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Using HDF5 to store bio-data

hdf biohdf hdf5 storage

mar 6 at 18:14 Michael Hoffman 11●1

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Where can I get the secondary structure of a protein?

sequence protein structure

mar 6 at 17:26 Nir London 21●1

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Gene ID conversion tool

geneid accession mapping conversion

mar 6 at 16:42 Perry 41●2

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k-mer based sequencing contamination detection

sequencing k-mer

mar 6 at 16:34 Michael Dondrup 325●5

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How do I map, align, and plot my SOLiD results?

solid rna-seq galaxy

mar 6 at 15:33 mikael.huss 116●3

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How to do quality trimming of SoLid Reads in colour space?

solid

mar 6 at 14:58 mikael.huss 116●3

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