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Re:How to download the complete genome for an organism by nickthemagicman on Friday December 25, 2015 @12:51PM (#10791761)
Any guidance on tutorials on how to use this? i.e. software to analyze this data?
Re:How to download the complete genome for an organism by jldugger on Friday December 25, 2015 @02:19PM (#10792039)
It's called grad school ;)

There's tools like BLAST that can use this data to answer questions like "is there a copy of influenza virus in pig DNA". It's basically a fast fuzz search engine.

If you grab a lot of these, you can concatenate pairs of genomes, estimate ancestry distance based on compression ratio, and then produce a phylogenetic tree.

Project Rosalind (http://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/) has a series of simple programming problems related to bioinformatics.

Re:How to download the complete genome for an organism by kadrian on Friday December 25, 2015 @04:37PM (#10792426)
You could go to one chromosome, download the .fa (fasta) file, fire up R Studio and follow this tutorial: http://a-little-book-of-r-for-bioinformatics.readthedocs.org...
Re:How to download the complete genome for an organism by Ultimatt on Friday December 25, 2015 @12:56PM (#10791785)
Analyze it to answer what question? Happy to help.