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Open Source Software in Life Science Research
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Open Source Software in Life Science Research

by L Harland, M Forster
October 2012
Beginner to intermediate
582 pages
15h
English
Woodhead Publishing
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GenomicTools: an open source platform for developing high-throughput analytics in genomics

Aristoteli.s. Tsirigos, Niin.a. Haiminen, Erha.n. Bilal and Filipp.o. Utro

Abstract:

Following the dramatic reduction of sequencing cost, research laboratories have been producing huge amounts of data, measuring DNA variations, RNA abundances, protein–DNA interactions, DNA methylation levels, and even chromosomal conformations. Making sense of terabytes of data requires reliable data management, computational resources, and, eventually, efficient computational methods for pre-processing, quality control, analysis and meta-analysis. In this work, we present a flexible computational platform for facilitating the development of pipelines to accomplish ...

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