Hi all,
I am an undergraduate with a fair bit of programming experience and am beginning to dip my toes into bioinformatics and the ENCODE consortium data sets. Are there any walkthroughs, tutorials, or other references that I could go through to become more familiar with the ins and outs of this field? For example, learning what the signal in FAIRE-seq means, why we need to isolate peaks, and how to align the signal with a genome.
Many thanks!
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vedtopkar •
I would start with the main Encode papers - each has an extensive methodology section that describes the data, analysis standards and other practices.
Thanks! A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), though not exhaustive, was also very helpful.
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vedtopkar •
Nice job following up with a good recommendation!
Because your background is in programming, I would recommend Rosalind, which is a bunch of bioinformatics problems to be solved by programming. You should storm through them with your programming knowledge, but learn bioinformatics at the same time.
That's a great resource, thanks!
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