Life as a Bioinformatics Freelancer: The tools
Some information on what technology I found useful for doing my work for different projects as a consulting bioinformatics scientist.
Category: bioinformatics
Life as a Bioinformatics Freelancer: Finding work
Some ideas for bioinformatics freelancers to find work and advertise themselves to the world.
Using Container Software
Docker and Singularity are very appealing software systems to run different operating systems or reproducible analysis steps by using “containers”. Here is a quick intro to get you started.
RNA-Seq data quality scores
There are different ways to encode the quality scores in FASTQ files from Next-generation sequencing machines. This is important to find out before using the data and to convert between formats if necessary.
The CCDS project
The CCDS project tries to identify a core set of human and mouse protein coding regions in a stable manner.