Blogposts

Oncoviral integration in cervical never-responder
We are detecting sites of HPV18 oncovirus integration into the human genome, and investigating the mechanism it facilitated cervical cancer progression
Last updated on Sep 22, 2021 9 min read bioinformatics
Panel of normals
Building a panel of unrelated normals to filter somatic variant calls from artefacts and germline leakage.
Last updated on Sep 21, 2021 6 min read bioinformatics
Amazon for the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV)
On expanding the Broad’s Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) to read input directly from AWS S3.
Last updated on Sep 22, 2021 7 min read bioinformatics, infrastructure
BWA-MEM vs Minimap2: WGS somatic variant calling
We evaluate differences between bwa-mem and minimap2-aligned reads for somatic variant calling.
Last updated on Sep 21, 2021 5 min read bioinformatics