Category Jekyll

UV: A Fast Package Manager for Python

As a bioinformatician, you likely use Python packages like BioPython, scanpy, or scikit-bio. Installing and managing these packages has traditionally been done with pip or conda, but these tools can...

Compositional Data Analysis for Microbiome Studies

Microbiome data is inherently compositional - the counts we obtain from sequencing provide information about the relative abundance of taxa, not their absolute abundance in the original sample. This has...

Using Micromamba

Micromamba is a fast, lightweight version of the Mamba package manager. Unlike Miniconda, it comes as a single executable with no default Python installation or base environment, making it perfect...

Category tutorial

Removing custom hosts from metagenomics

Hostile is a fantastic tool for removing host reads from whole metagenome shotgun datasets. It’s very user-friendly and has pre-built databases for human and murine reads decontaminating.

UV: A Fast Package Manager for Python

As a bioinformatician, you likely use Python packages like BioPython, scanpy, or scikit-bio. Installing and managing these packages has traditionally been done with pip or conda, but these tools can...

Compositional Data Analysis for Microbiome Studies

Microbiome data is inherently compositional - the counts we obtain from sequencing provide information about the relative abundance of taxa, not their absolute abundance in the original sample. This has...

Bioinformatics tutorials

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Bioinformatics tutorials

The bioinformaticians of the Core Bioinformatics team at the Quadram Institute Bioscience curates this blog with tutorials and hands-out for microbial genomics training.

Using Micromamba

Micromamba is a fast, lightweight version of the Mamba package manager. Unlike Miniconda, it comes as a single executable with no default Python installation or base environment, making it perfect...

Category metagenomics

Removing custom hosts from metagenomics

Hostile is a fantastic tool for removing host reads from whole metagenome shotgun datasets. It’s very user-friendly and has pre-built databases for human and murine reads decontaminating.