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Get startedTry to decode a folder containing mysterious sequence data files
Exploring bqtools, a toolkit for working with and manipulating BINSEQ files
Use MUMmer to align two bacterial genomes and visualize the results with Circa.
Learn about the BWT, the algorithm that powers sequence alignment tools like bowtie and bwa.
How to turn your one-liners into reusable command-line scripts
Perform viral phylogenetics analysis using real SARS-COV2 whole-genome sequences.
Interactively explore genomic ranges and how to analyze them with bedtools
Explore and wrangle .fasta and .fastq files with SeqKit
Explore and wrangle .bed files with bedtools.
Filter, extract and transform tabular data (TSV files) using awk.
Evaluate the quality of a sequencing run by running fastp on your FASTQ files.
Distinguish real variants from artifacts using the IGV genome browser.
Start here if you're new to bioinformatics
Get up to speed with the terminal. Start here if you're new to bioinformatics.
Explore and wrangle .fasta and .fastq files with SeqKit
How to turn your one-liners into reusable command-line scripts
Command-line exercises from the Carpentries' Unix Shell lesson.