I know the basic terms from high school biology: nucleotide, base, base pair, centromere, nucleic acid, etc.
But the "newer" terms common on this forum for describing the technology around sequencing and alignment are foreign to me: chimeric reads, clipped alignment, lane, etc.
Can anyone suggest a good tutorial reference that describes terms akin to the above? Are there references for computer scientists who are not biologists?
Note: I have read "The Processes of Life" by Hunter, which is aimed at non-biologists, but it does not spend much time on sequencing technology.
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For all the terms linked to sequencing technologies (lane, flowcell, cycle, mate pairs...) either for Illumina, Roche 454 (...) you can go to [?]SeqAnswers forums[?]. Detailed tutorials (pdf) are available. You will find useful information on the Bioinformatics algorithms as well.
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