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Efficient sequence analysis with bqtools

Exploring bqtools, a toolkit for working with and manipulating BINSEQ files

November 2025
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Aligning genomes with MUMmer

Use MUMmer to align two bacterial genomes and visualize the results with Circa.

October 2025
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The Burrows-Wheeler Transform

Learn about the BWT, the algorithm that powers sequence alignment tools like bowtie and bwa.

October 2025
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How to write a Bash script

How to turn your one-liners into reusable command-line scripts

July 2025
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Viral Phylogenetics

Perform viral phylogenetics analysis using real SARS-COV2 whole-genome sequences.

June 2025
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Genomic ranges

Interactively explore genomic ranges and how to analyze them with bedtools

June 2025
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Wrangle FASTA and FASTQ with SeqKit

Explore and wrangle .fasta and .fastq files with SeqKit

September 2024
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Terminal Exercises

Command-line exercises from the Carpentries' Unix Shell lesson.

August 2024
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Explore and wrangle .bed files with bedtools.

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Evaluate the quality of a sequencing run by running fastp on your FASTQ files.

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Distinguish real variants from artifacts using the IGV genome browser.

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Get up to speed with the terminal. Start here if you're new to bioinformatics.

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Explore and wrangle .fasta and .fastq files with SeqKit

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