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Hi, Can anyone please tell me what will be the easiest way to convert from GFA into FASTG format for the assembly graph? Thank you

Hi I have been using the assembly graphs output in fastg format by (meta-)SPAdes and megaHIT. They are relatively easy to parse and manipulate in …

<p>Hi all,</p> <p>I have a few different VCF files produced from three different variant detectors and I want to perform concondance analysis in a pairwise …

http://www.broadinstitute.org/software/allpaths-lg/blog/?p=625 The FASTG Format Specification Working Group is pleased to announce version 1.0 of the FASTG specification FASTG is a format for faithfully representing genome …

<p>Are there any resources out there for TFBS predictions for the yeast and pombe genomes? Even if these are only de novo predictions, I would …

<p>Are there any computational tools to predict binding affinity to specific DNA motifs from protein domain sequence information?</p>

<p>(not sure if this is a question, it's more of a poll) <br/> I would like to know what is the next step in a …

<p>Can I use Cufflinks starting from reads in <a href='http://samtools.sourceforge.net/SAM1.pdf'>sam</a>/bam format aligned using <a href='http://bio-bwa.sourceforge.net/'>bwa</a> instead of bowtie? If not, what is the alternative to …

<p>Hi all when i downloaded the files from pdb's ftp site the format is in GZ. are there any ways that i can convert them …