BWA, SOAP, MAQ, BLAT…OMG Alignment Methods!
Before launching into today’s lecture, Konrad update us on the news that came out of Illumina. Illumina basically giving the finger to other technologies…ahem Ion Torrent…The Next-Seq 500 and HiSeq …
Faculty Highlight: Mike Zody
Workshop on Genomics 2014 Faculty Highlight Mike Zody The Broad Institute Chief Sequencing Technologist Sequencing Guru Software Engineer We think at night he puts on a mask and cape and …
Ikea: Some assembly required?
Participant Discussions So last year I was inspired after just reading all three books in the Lord of the Rings series and thematically pooled our student discussion under the inspiration …
Quality control: Appreciating the trees in your forest
So I never fully appreciated the value of knowing and assessing the quality of my data until the advent of Next Generation Sequencing. With Sanger sequencing it’s easy enough to …
Our sequencing Guru takes the podium…
Dr. Mike Zody Broad Institute Topic: Genomics Study Design Dr. Zody is a jack of all sequencing trades–he’s been at it for several years and his career spans the Human …