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Post-doctoral bioinformatician at University of Oxford
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... I assume the Trinity assembly was not assembled from the reads you are mapping? ...
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... I am actually not sure if 2.3.0 works with 2.3.0 index. I would assume so?
The release notes doesn't indicate that a new index should be generated. I'll inform them of the bug. ...
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... After dealing with this for several hours I realized the problem is with my bowtie2 index. I generated my index with bowtie2 2.3.0.
It looks like mapping with 2.3.3 on a 2.3.0 index is causing these problems. ...
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... Does anyone have any experience with bowtie2 (2.3.3) generating malformed sam/bam files? I am mapping a set of fasta files (not fastq) to a set of transcriptome sequences. I noticed from my .sam output that there were a lot of malformed entries.
I wrote a quick script to pull some of these lines o ...
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... I am by no means an expert in this field, but are there any similarities between the network propagation based algorithm to the MCL clustering algorithm? Both seems to be weighing nodes based on probable walk distances? ...
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... Repeatmasker is used here to prevent augustus from predicting genes in repeat regions. ...
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... K-mer spectra of genomic reads are usually modeled as a poisson mixture process where each of the components represents the variety of ploidies of a genome. So a k-mer spectra that looks like the following can be interpreted as showing a poisson component representing heterozygous regions (1N) and a ...
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... I agree with you to a degree about the Q&A format. I think a nicely structured searchable knowledge base would be very helpful and maybe SE can become that.
But I also think that the nature of the bioinformatics field probably means there are enough questions of the abstract type which warrant ...
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... I think the main problem people have with BioStar boils down to an identity crisis. Is BioStar a Q and A site or a forum?
A Q and A type site requires the question to be technical and precise. If someone asks how to convert a format to another format, that can be easily answered.
But if someone ...
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... I completely agree with this. I started my phd as the only bioinformatics student in a molecular lab. Biostars was extremely helpful in not just in answering my questions, but also in expanding my knowledge. I learned tons from reading questions/answers that have no relevance to my phd. I don't see ...
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