Python

Bloom Filter Made Simple: Theory and Code

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This tutorial simplifies Bloom Filter in Python by teaching what is a bloom filter, talks about its false positive and false negative rate, introduces some graphics …

Bioinformatics

Painless Prokaryote Pan Genome – Step-by-Step

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This tutorial shows how to annotate genomes in FASTA format and how to generate the pan-genome and core genome using the annotation. For annotating the genes, …

Bioinformatics

How to Simulate NGS reads – Step-by-Step

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This tutorial shows how to use a read simulator in Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) sequence for single-cell genomes and metagenomics. It covers how to simulate Illumina (NovaSeq, …

Bioinformatics

Genome Assembly for Omics – Step-by-Step

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This tutorial will show step-by-step how to assembly single-cell Microbial genomes and metagenomic datasets. Here we will be using SPAdes to assemble the datasets and show …

Bioinformatics

Painless Metagenomic Contigs Binning – Step-by-Step

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This blog post teaches a step-by-step on binning metagenomic contigs using two unsupervised methods – CONCOCT and Metabat2. Furthermore, it uses a simulated metagenomic to evaluate …

Bioinformatics

Everything About the NCBI BLAST Aligner and Faster Alternatives

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This blog post talks about everything you need to know about BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) NCBI. Here you will learn: How to run it …

Python

Python Random – A super simple random number generator

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Python Random is a built-in module that can be used to generate or manipulate random numbers. These types of functions are used in a lot of …

Python

Python Sleep – A flexible way to halt the flow of code

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Python sleep () is one of the most popular functions that come along with the Python module called time. The sleep () in Python is a …

Bioinformatics

Scaffolding Genome: Increase Draft Genome N50 Length – Step-by-Step

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This tutorial demonstrates how to increase a draft genome N50 by using Scaffold_Builder which takes pre-assembled genomes and a closely related reference genome.

Machine Learning

Simple Near-duplicate String Detection with LSH

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This tutorial teaches you how to use Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) to detect near-duplicate sentences. Moreover, the task of identifying similar sentences is a common task …