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
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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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