DNA sequencing: Standing of the shoulders of giants
Learning materials of DNA sequencing
I found the teaching materials of Ben Langmead who is the author of bowtie and bowtie2. This is a great material to learn DNA sequencing.
Langmead Lab @ Johns Hopkins University - Teaching Materials: http://www.langmead-lab.org/teaching-materials
Fast high level programming languages for bioinformatics
According to the Heng Li who is the author of samtools, bwa and minimap2.
R/Python/Bash tends to be recognized as the "three main pillars" of Bioinformatics.
It is a bit disheartening to see people now think R/Python/Bash as the "three main pillars" of Bioinformatics. Well, high-performance algorithms and tools like BLAST, STAR & Canu are far more essential. Without these, we wouldn't have a genome and most scripts would be pointless.
— Heng Li (@lh3lh3) April 17, 2020
But does it really align with the effectiveness? The Heng's research on his blog gives the chance for people to rethink the high level languages to be used in Bioinformatics.
Fast high-level programming languages: http://lh3.github.io/2020/05/17/fast-high-level-programming-languages
Florence, Italy
The photos are from the travel last year.