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3.4 years ago
ZBL
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Hello!
I'm very new here, and was forced to shift to writing a bioinformatics dissertation because almost all the wet-labs in my country are closed. I am absolutely clueless about how this works and am still studying basic Python/R in the mean time. That being said, I need help designing a workflow for the specific reason of comparing resistance gene abundance between multiple samples of soil.
Would bowtie2 or blastn be more suitable for my needs? Would I need to assemble the data from the Illumina sequencer before alignment?
Many Thanks,
Zach
Have you found any papers describing what you want to do?
Thank you for your response! I have been reading papers for the past few weeks and some have similar goals although really just differ in the assembly or alignment tools used respectively. I apologize if I seem unknowledgeable.