Actually the dog is somewhat irrelevant – it’s what comes with it which matters. One of the side-effects of dog ownership is that you get to spend an hour or so a day out walking, which means you have an hour or so with your own thoughts and no distractions. I’m sure everyone has experienced…
Choosing the best format for raw sequence data
Introduction In the current Illumina pipeline raw sequence data is generated in qseq files, but can optionally be converted to the more standard FastQ format for use with other analysis programs. The FastQ files produced are uncompressed text files and take up a considerable amount of space in our storage system. We’ve therefore been thinking…
Adding custom chromosome name mappings into SeqMonk
When loading data into SeqMonk the program has to try to connect the chromosome names used in your data file with those which are present in the genome one which your project is based. In many cases there won’t be an exact match between the two – many mapping programs report file names in their…