Interview with Mark Blaxter
In this video Sujai talks to Mark Blaxter about the origins of BlobTool Kit
Mark Blaxter heads the Tree of Life programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, which is sequencing 70,000 species for the Earth Biogenome Project. Mark’s research was the inspiration for BlobToolKit and he describes how contaminants and symbionts and parasites in new genome assemblies became visible for the first time using blob plots.
Are you currently working on a genome assembly or in a related area? How do you think large scale projects like the Earth Biogenome Project might impact your work? Let us know in the comments.
Eukaryotic Genome Assembly: How to Use BlobToolKit for Quality Assessment
Eukaryotic Genome Assembly: How to Use BlobToolKit for Quality Assessment
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