Re: [DIYbio] How much bioinformatics at your DIY lab?

In addition to what Dan said, at TheLab most of the bioinformatics if you want to call it that is just folks using Snapgene to plan out molecular cloning activities.  On a few occasions I have tried to get group bioinformatics projects going but they tend to fizzle out quickly.

There's a lot of low-hanging fruit and I think community labs have the ability to tackle some grand problems. But I have found organization and communication to be the largest hindrance to progress. A small group of people who speak the same technical lingo can make quick progress but once you have a large group with varying education backgrounds, we spend so much time laying out the basics that the more advanced folks get bored and disperse and the project quietly dies.

The most advanced thing we've done is assemble a bacteria genome combining Illumina short reads, PacBio long reads and optical mapping data to put together a mostly complete draft chromosome.

-Cory

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