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Research Notes and Tutorials
Practical notes on pathogen genomics, surveillance workflows, and reproducible public-health bioinformatics.
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Bioinformatics on a Windows PC
From FASTQ to Phylogeny: set up your workspace, explore sequence files, understand quality scores, and interpret FastQC reports in context.
Explore the series → · Start Part 1 · Part 2: FASTA vs FASTQ · Part 3: Quality scores · Part 4: FastQC and practice files · Part 5: Interpreting FastQC warnings- From an outbreak signal to a whole genome: investigating CV-A24v in Islamabad - Pathogen Genomics in Practice, August 31, 2026
- Four research questions at the bench–code interface - Research Agenda, August 31, 2026
- Before calling a mixed viral population: an evidence ladder for minor variants - Research Notes, August 26, 2026
- How I review an ONT/DDNS run for poliovirus VP1 evidence - Tutorials, May 17, 2026
- Why synthetic data matters in public-health bioinformatics - Tutorials, May 17, 2026
- Whole-capsid poliovirus NGS: QC, consensus, antigenic sites, and phylogeny - Tutorials, May 17, 2026
- Turning a manuscript into a reproducible genomics repository - Reproducibility, May 1, 2026
- Culture-free nanopore sequencing for poliovirus environmental surveillance - Work Notes, April 18, 2026
- Host subtraction and competitive mapping: avoiding overconfident metagenomic calls - Methods, April 4, 2026
- From FASTQ to public-health report: a viral genomics workflow - Tutorials, March 26, 2026
- Depth masking is not a technical detail - Methods, March 8, 2026
- Designing amplicon panels when reference diversity is uneven - Methods, February 11, 2026
- Making Nextstrain useful for routine outbreak communication - Tutorials, January 8, 2026
- What wastewater genomics can and cannot tell public-health teams - Field Issues, December 21, 2025
- What I look for in a surveillance pipeline runbook - Work Notes, December 15, 2025
- How I read a genomic surveillance repository - Career, November 22, 2025