Tag Archives: sequence

Bioawk for handling bioinformatics formats

Today I found a new tool: bioawk that was written by Heng Li who also wrote samtools and bwa. I first discovered it ont this blog: bioawk-basics (Bioinformatics Workbooks) There is also a short tutorial on GitHub: github.com/vsbuffalo/bioawk-tutorial I also found a recent docker image, and in fact there are only 2 images on docker hub: lbmc/bioawk updated 2 months ago,… Read More »

Hunting for SRA sequence archives

SRA: Sequence Read Archive The Sequence Read Archive (SRA) makes biological sequence data available to the research community to enhance reproducibility and allow for new discoveries by comparing data sets. The SRA stores raw sequencing data and alignment information from high-throughput sequencing platforms, […] However, it is rather difficult to even find the download links… and even… Read More »