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Tutorial: [Beginner] Introduction to bioinformatics file types

Here is a beginner's introduction to bioinformatics file type formats.

There are a ton of different file types out there which can be overwhelming for someone trying to get into the field. This lesson covers the most commonly used filetypes, and gives users enough information to understand what a filetype is, what type of data it contains, and what software or tools are used with it.

http://binf.snipcademy.com/lessons/sequence-file-formats

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updated by gallardodiazmiriam • gallardodiazmiriam • written by Luke Crichton Luke Crichton

In sections where handling BED files and file format conversion, just a note that BEDOPS provides tools to do both.

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written by Alex Reynolds Alex Reynolds

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Nice resource. To add to this, UCSC has brief information about different file formats: https://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html

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written by mmitra • mmitra

Some basic info about NGS-related formats:

http://openwetware.org/wiki/Wikiomics:EMBO_Tunis_1#NGS_file_formats_overview

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written by Darked89 Darked89

Brilliant resource. Thank you !!

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written by morovatunc morovatunc

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