Tag Archives: assemblathon
Bioinformatics, Birthdays, and Booze at Boston BOSC.
Scott Edmunds - July 17, 2014
Birthdays are always emotional. The GigaScience team are on their way back from the always jam packed ISMB meeting and its satellite SIGs. This year was a particularly event filled one, with our second birthday, the BMC open data award and drinks reception, and our “What Bioinformaticians need to know about digital publishing beyond the […]
Extended Q&A with Assemblathon2 Author Keith Bradnam
Scott Edmunds - August 20, 2013
A lot has already been written about last months Assemblathon2 paper in GigaScience (see the growing list of articles here), but for the box-set completists interested in squeezing every last bit of insight into the project and how it was put together, there was a lot of additional material left over from the recent Biome […]
Genome assembly in the spotlight
Scott Edmunds - July 25, 2013
Biggest ever contest to put genome assemblers through their paces If you haven’t caught it yet, the largest systematic assessment the process of genome assembly carried out to date has been published this week in GigaScience. The second Assemblathon competition saw 21 teams submit 43 entries based on data from three different unassembled parrot, cichlid […]