by Amit | Jul 27, 2023 | Bioinformatics
NGS Data Analysis Bottlenecks One of the biggest bottlenecks in next generation sequencing (NGS) today is data analysis, which is surprising, considering that we have massive compute available at our fingertips, the available infrastructure to process thousands of...
by Amit | Apr 18, 2023 | Bioinformatics
When Auditing goes wrong Is your genomics team keeping track of the open source tools it’s using? What about software version numbers and the parameters being set? Genome reference files, usage logs, the custom scripts bioinformaticians are deploying? If you’re not...
by Amit | Apr 6, 2023 | Bioinformatics
Writers write, painters paint, genomics researchers… wait patiently for bioinformatics pipelines to finish processing NGS data, only to spend as much time visualizing results? As long-time researchers and bioinformaticians, we’re well aware that in NGS data analysis,...
by Amit | Oct 30, 2019 | Views
Among the factors responsible for scaring people away from bioinformatics, the various input and output filetypes surely rank very high. If you want to plot heat maps using ngsplot, you need a bam file. If you want to use deeptools instead, also to make heat maps, you...
by Amit | Jun 10, 2019 | Bioinformatics
Sometimes popular NGS analysis pipelines aren’t enough, and your team needs a custom solution. EpiCypher, a biotech company that develops cutting-edge technologies for epigenetic and chromatin biology, needed a specialized pipeline built for their internal team and...