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A short list of tools for shotgun metagenomics

Posted on May 11, 2016 by

We are currently finalizing our work on the analysis of metagenomes for soils taken from the Etosha National Park, Namibia. These soils were interesting since Zebra blood containing the nasty bug Bacillus anthracis had poured into it. Our aim was … Continue reading →

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Gzip vs Bzip2. Some notes when moving files from Windows 7 to Mac OSX

Posted on March 10, 2015 by

For a metagenomic bioinformatics course I needed to created a Virtual machine (VM) with all software that will be used during the course. For this I started with the QIIME Virtual machine disk , since it has already a nice … Continue reading →

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Installing phiSpy on my macbook.

Posted on November 4, 2014 by

The reason for this post is that in my current project I need to identify prophages in Thermotogales genomes. Prophages are phages /virusses that are integrated into the genome of their host, in our case Bacteria. To check if our … Continue reading →

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