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Survey Results: A Bioinformatic Skills Shortage

Data from the Bioinformatics Survey was captured at noon on 20th Dec 2011. I only present findings about bioinformatics skills here but the complete set of anonymised data from the 70 respondants is available as an attachment to this post.

Bioinformatic Skills Shortage

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Events in Your Calendar - Using iCal Feeds

Keep up-to-date with Events Using iCal Feeds

Simply use one of the iCal feeds below with your calendaring software (e.g. outlook, thunderbird, google calendar etc) and you will automatically have an up-to-date calendar of BIG SA events!

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ACPFG Seeks 33 New Scientific Positions

Reference: JOB7717
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Rsync Linux Files to Local Windows Filesystem

I recently ran out of space on a remote Linux box and needed more space to continue with some genome assembly work. I couldn't just delete the data as it was still needed, so I had to move it elsewhere.

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Bioinformatics Helpdesk Officer

Reference: JOB7088
Location: Urrbrae, South Australia, Australia
Employer: Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics at the School of
Application deadline: CLOSED
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Bioinformatics Survey

Unfortunately you have missed the opportunity to be entered into the prize draw to win an Amazon Kindle Keyboard 3G. However, by completing this survey you will help us get a feel for what the current state-of-affair is with regards to Bioinformatics in South Australia.

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Handling Paired-End FASTQ Files: Interleaving, Finding Read Pairs and Orphans

This blog post describes some of my experiences with handling paired-end FASTQ files in preparation for input into de novo genome assembly 1.

Illumina Paired-End Reads

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What workshops would you like to see BIG SA run?

Intro to R
75% (3 votes)
Intro to Biostatistics
0% (0 votes)
Intro to Genome Browsers
0% (0 votes)
Intro to Perl
0% (0 votes)
Intro to Metabolomics
0% (0 votes)
Intro to Proteomics
0% (0 votes)
Intro to Next Generation Sequencing
25% (1 vote)
Total votes: 4
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