Course: Eukaryotic Genome Assembly: How to Use BlobToolKit for Quality Assessment

BTK is not the only tool you can use for genome assembly and QA. There are a number of tools designed to separate multi-taxa genomic data. Some are specifically aimed …

In November 2015, an American university published a paper reporting that they had sequenced the first ever complete genome of a tardigrade species known as Hypsibius dujardini. Tardigrades are miniscule …

In this article we’re going to dive deeper into one of the examples of BlobToolKit that Mark Blaxter showed in his introduction. Follow this link to see a BTK blob …

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 …

Let’s start with BlobToolKit BlobToolKit is a software suite for identifying contaminants and other species present in eukaryotic genome assemblies. When researchers sequence the genome of any species, non-target organisms …

How to learn on this course Your learning You are going to learn by watching videos, reading articles, completing exercises where you apply the BlobToolKit tools for yourself, discussing the …

Your week 3 educators are welcoming you to the week’s learning.

Welcome to this course on Eukaryotic Genome Assembly and using BlobToolKit for Quality Assessment. The course has been created by an international team of BlobToolKit developers and experts, in collaboration …

Here your Week 2 educators welcome you to the second week of the course As you have learned the basic functions of the BlobToolKit in Week 1, this week you …