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Assembly Exercise
(created by Jason Baumohl, formerly of JGI) Assembly is the process of using sequence similarity to cluster collections of sequencing reads or paired reads into the longest or highest quality contiguous sequence (a.k.a. contig). Putting this in simpler terms, Shotgun library creation can be likened to taking the text from 100 copies of an unknown…
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Bioscriber
Bioscriber – an educational tutorial Developed as a means of introducing the concept of DNA synthesis/synthetic biology to the general public and how it is used at the DOE JGI and the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) for bioenergy research, Bioscriber debuted on October 13, 2012 at the Berkeley Lab Open House. The tutorial level of this…