Bioinformatics Resources

Virginia Tech Resources

              Advanced Research Computing (ARC)

              DNAStar/LaserGene  A GUi-based software for analysis of Sanger and Next Generation DNA Sequencing data.
                 A license subscription for Virginia Tech users is supported by the Fralin Life Sciences Institute.

              Data Transfer & Management on VT ARC (PDF Document)        

Public Access & Freeware

Bioconductor: An R-based bioinformatics platform for analyzing NGS data

CIPRES: web-based computational resource for advanced phylogenetic and population genetic analysis.

CyVerse Discovery Environment: NSF funded computational resource containing hundreds of open-source bioinformatic applications.

FASTQC: A free Java-based software for assessing NGS read quality

Galaxy: Web-based open-source platform for biomedical and bioinformatics research, with a large selection of NGS analysis tools.

Mothur: open-source software for microbial ecology and metagenomics

QIIME 2: A microbiome multi-omics data science platform.

WEKA: open-source machine learning algorithms for data mining

Select VT Course Listings

BIOL 4824 - Bioinformatics Methods

BIOL 5824/5824G - Advanced Bioinformatic Methods

ALS 5224 - Intro to Genomic Data Science

CSES 5844 - Plant Genomics

GBCB 5874 - Prob Solving GBCB                 

Online Short Courses & Reference Materials

Coursera – Genomic Data Science Specialization – A 6 course series for NGS data analysis, including use of Python, other Command Line Tools, Bioconductor and more.

EdX – How to Analyze a Microbiome, Essentials of Genomics and Biomedical Informatics

The Little Book of R for Bioinformatics – free online manual for Introductory Bioinformatics utilizing R statistics software.