Written by Eric Cabot, PhD With the latest version of Lasergene, MegAlign Pro, part of the Molecular Biology Suite, supports pairwise sequence alignments. In addition to the five multiple alignment engines that were already available, users can now perform local, global and semi-global pairwise alignments using the industry standard Smith-Waterman and Needleman-Wunsch algorithms. This article […]

Written by Guy Plunkett III, PhD in Bacteriology As a bacteriologist and genomics researcher at the University of Wisconsin, and in my current role as Senior Scientist at DNASTAR, data has always played a central role in successful scientific pursuits. I’ve been in the research game long enough to remember having to travel to another […]

By Matthew Keyser De novo assembly of whole transcriptome sequencing data from non-model organisms can be very challenging for a variety of reasons. Factors such as computing limitations and unseen problems lurking in the sequence data can quickly derail your results and your timeline.  For example, the presence of untrimmed Illumina adapter sequences, ribosomal RNA, and […]