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Annotate: A Plugin for the Ion Torrent Browser
The main topic of this blog post is to detail a plugin that I have developed for the Torrent Browser. There are currently two plugins which does variant calling: (1) Germ-lineVariantCaller is a genera… more →
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Annotate: A Plugin for the Ion Torrent Browser
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wrote 1 year ago: The main topic of this blog post is to detail a plugin that I have developed for the Torrent Browser … more →
Ion Torrent Sequencing on Humans
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wrote 1 year ago: Bored to death seeing public releases of sequencing runs from E. coli coming off desktop sequencers? … more →
Ion Torrent and the Democratization of Sequencing
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wrote 1 year ago: Back from my North East American trip and still jet lagged so I’ll return to the blog sphere w … more →
Ion Torrent - Rapid Software Improvements
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wrote 1 year ago: This is the second post of what is now to be a four part series looking at how Ion Torrent accuracy … more →
The Ion Torrent Accuracy Challenge - A non-biological explanation
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wrote 1 year ago: My computing friends have read my blog and don’t understand it but think my lame jokes are qui … more →
Ion Torrent - QV Prediction Algorithm
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wrote 1 year ago: In this stand alone blog post, I will attempt to detail the predicted quality value (phred scoring) … more →
Ion Torrent Signal Processing (Part 1) - Background and Nucleotide Incorporation Models
wrote 1 year ago: This is the first part of a planned three part blog series on Ion Torrent signal processing. In this … more →
Ion Torrent - Rapid Accuracy Improvements
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wrote 1 year ago: The periodic public release of data sets by Life Technologies and others in the scientific community … more →
Challenges in Improving Ion Torrent Raw Accuracy (Part 3)
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wrote 1 year ago: This is the final part of the Fundamentals of Base Calling series. In the first part of the series, … more →
Life Grand Challenges – Innocentive but not enough Incentives (Part 3)
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wrote 1 year ago: In this series I explore three aspects of the Life Grand Challenge. In the first part, I briefly des … more →
Life Grand Challenges – Mission Impossible to Improbable (Part 2)
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wrote 1 year ago: In the first part of this three part series, I gave a brief introduction to the Life Grand Challenge … more →
Life Grand Challenges - Mission Impossible?
wrote 1 year ago: I am taking a break before writing Part 3 of The Fundamentals of base calling where I will be discus … more →
Fundamentals of base calling (Part 2)
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wrote 1 year ago: In part 1, I discussed signal normalization and droop correction. Below is the amount of variation i … more →
Fundamentals of base calling (Part 1)
wrote 1 year ago: The main goal of base calling is to go from raw numerical values (Figure 1) to a sequence of bases ( … more →
Fundamentals of base calling (Prequel)
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wrote 1 year ago: In the coming days I will write and discuss the following major topics: Signal Normalization and Sig … more →
Ion Torrent – Test Fragment Accuracy (Part 2)
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wrote 1 year ago: In the first part of this two part blog post, I highlighted the importance of test fragments and ana … more →
Ion Torrent - Test Fragment Accuracy (Part 1)
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wrote 1 year ago: Test Fragments are known sequences and therefore the ideal output can be derived and quality metrics … more →
