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the bioinformatics chat

A podcast about computational biology, bioinformatics, and next generation sequencing.

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#6 Allele-specific expression

#6 Allele-specific expression

I talk about allele-specific expression: why it arises and how it can bereliably detected. Sections: The biology of all... Read more

25 Jun 2017

33mins

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#39 Amplicon sequence variants and bias with Benjamin Callahan

#39 Amplicon sequence variants and bias with Benjamin Callahan

In this episode, Benjamin Callahan talks about some of the issues faced bymicrobiologists when conducting amplicon seque... Read more

29 Nov 2019

1hr 1min

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#35 The role of the DNA shape in transcription factor binding with Hassan Samee

#35 The role of the DNA shape in transcription factor binding with Hassan Samee

Even though the double-stranded DNA has the famous regular helical shape,there are small variations in the geometry of t... Read more

26 Jul 2019

1hr 1min

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#30 Bayesian inference of chromatin structure from Hi-C data with Simeon Carstens

#30 Bayesian inference of chromatin structure from Hi-C data with Simeon Carstens

Hi-C is a sequencing-based assay that provides information about the 3-dimensional organization of the genome.In this ep... Read more

27 Feb 2019

1hr 5mins

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#5 Relative data analysis and propr with Thom Quinn

#5 Relative data analysis and propr with Thom Quinn

In this episode, Thom Quinn and I explore different waysto transform and analyze relative data arising in genomics. We a... Read more

10 Jun 2017

55mins

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#21 Linear mixed models, GWAS, and lme4qtl with Andrey Ziyatdinov

#21 Linear mixed models, GWAS, and lme4qtl with Andrey Ziyatdinov

Linear mixed models are used to analyze GWAS data and detect QTLs.Andrey Ziyatdinov recently released an R package, lme4... Read more

31 May 2018

50mins

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#4 ChIP-seq and GenoGAM with Georg Stricker and Julien Gagneur

#4 ChIP-seq and GenoGAM with Georg Stricker and Julien Gagneur

In this episode, I meet with Georg Stricker and Julien Gagneur from the Technical University of Munichto discuss ChIP-se... Read more

29 May 2017

55mins

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#3 miRNA target site prediction and seedVicious with Antonio Marco

#3 miRNA target site prediction and seedVicious with Antonio Marco

In this episodeAntonio Marcotalks about miRNA target site prediction and his tool, seedVicious. Links: seedVicious prep... Read more

12 May 2017

56mins

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#19 Genome fingerprints with Gustavo Glusman

#19 Genome fingerprints with Gustavo Glusman

In this episode, Gustavo Glusman explains his method of reducing a VCF fileto a small “fingerprint”, which could be then... Read more

7 Apr 2018

1hr 28mins

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#16 Javier Quilez on what makes large sequencing projects successful

#16 Javier Quilez on what makes large sequencing projects successful

Javier Quilez and I discuss what it’s like to bea bioinformatician, how to improve communication between the wet and dry... Read more

24 Dec 2017

1hr 3mins

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#23 RNA design, EteRNA and NEMO with Fernando Portela

#23 RNA design, EteRNA and NEMO with Fernando Portela

In this episode, I talk to Fernando Portela,a software engineer andamateur scientistwho works on RNA design — the proble... Read more

27 Jul 2018

1hr 31mins

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#13 Bracken with Jennifer Lu

#13 Bracken with Jennifer Lu

Jennifer Lu joins me to discuss species abundance estimation from metagenomic sequencing data. Links: The Bracken paper... Read more

21 Oct 2017

46mins

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#38 Issues in legacy genomes with Luke Anderson-Trocmé

#38 Issues in legacy genomes with Luke Anderson-Trocmé

In this episode, Luke Anderson-Trocmétalks about his findings from the 1000 Genomes Project. Namely, the earlysequenced ... Read more

22 Oct 2019

1hr 1min

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#22 smCounter2: somatic variant calling and UMIs with Chang Xu

#22 smCounter2: somatic variant calling and UMIs with Chang Xu

In this episode I’m joined by Chang Xu. Chang is a senior biostatisticianat QIAGEN and an author of smCounter2, a low-fr... Read more

29 Jun 2018

1hr 4mins

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#36 scVI with Romain Lopez and Gabriel Misrachi

#36 scVI with Romain Lopez and Gabriel Misrachi

In this episode, we hear from Romain Lopez and Gabriel Misrachi aboutscVI—Single-cell Variational Inference.scVI is a pr... Read more

30 Aug 2019

1hr 20mins

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#33 Genome assembly from long reads and Flye with Mikhail Kolmogorov

#33 Genome assembly from long reads and Flye with Mikhail Kolmogorov

Modern genome assembly projects are often based on long reads in an attempt tobridge longer repeats. However, due to th... Read more

31 May 2019

1hr 12mins

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#40 Plasmid classification and binning with Sergio Arredondo-Alonso and Anita Schürch

#40 Plasmid classification and binning with Sergio Arredondo-Alonso and Anita Schürch

Does a given bacterial gene live on a plasmid or the chromosome? Whatother genes live on the same plasmid? In this episo... Read more

30 Dec 2019

45mins

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#14 Generating functions for read mapping with Guillaume Filion

#14 Generating functions for read mapping with Guillaume Filion

Guillaume Filion recently published a preprint in which he appliesgenerating functions, a concept from analytic combinat... Read more

13 Nov 2017

1hr 10mins

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#8 Perfect k-mer hashing in Sailfish

#8 Perfect k-mer hashing in Sailfish

The original version of Sailfish, an RNA-Seq quantification tool, used minimal perfect hash functions toreplace k-mers w... Read more

5 Aug 2017

22mins

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#20 B cell receptor substitution profile prediction and SPURF with Kristian Davidsen and Amrit Dhar

#20 B cell receptor substitution profile prediction and SPURF with Kristian Davidsen and Amrit Dhar

In this episodeKristian DavidsenandAmrit Dharpresent their project called SPURF.SPURF can predict the B cell receptor (B... Read more

30 Apr 2018

2hr 1min

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