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Teaching Yourself Bioinformatics/Encode?

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vedtopkar ▴ 60

Hi all,

I am an undergraduate with a fair bit of programming experience and am beginning to dip my toes into bioinformatics and the ENCODE consortium data sets. Are there any walkthroughs, tutorials, or other references that I could go through to become more familiar with the ins and outs of this field? For example, learning what the signal in FAIRE-seq means, why we need to isolate peaks, and how to align the signal with a genome.

Many thanks!

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Istvan Albert · Answer 1 · 2013-06-20

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Istvan Albert 100k

I would start with the main Encode papers - each has an extensive methodology section that describes the data, analysis standards and other practices.

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Thanks! A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), though not exhaustive, was also very helpful.

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Nice job following up with a good recommendation!

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okay http://uonlibrary.uonbi.ac.ke/

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sirenbeserker ▴ 70

Because your background is in programming, I would recommend Rosalind, which is a bunch of bioinformatics problems to be solved by programming. You should storm through them with your programming knowledge, but learn bioinformatics at the same time.