In which I describe Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI), which we can use to pigeonhole bacteria into conceptual boxes labelled as 'species'. And I share more code.
A science blog, by a scientist, mostly about computational biology and plant science, but a little rambly in places.
Showing posts with label BLAST. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BLAST. Show all posts
Sunday, 10 November 2013
ANI are you okay? Are you okay ANI?
Labels:
ANI,
bioinformatics,
biology,
biopython,
BLAST,
DNA,
genome,
github,
MUMmer,
phylogenetics,
phylogenomics,
science,
script,
scripting,
scripts,
sequence,
sequence analysis,
sequencing,
statistics,
visualisation
Thursday, 19 July 2012
On Reciprocal Best BLAST Hits
In which I narrowly avoid a rant. Reciprocal best BLAST hits can improve the quality of your searching, and are a good way to find candidate orthologues. There's evidence and everything.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)