Python Programming for Biology: Bioinformatics and Beyond

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Histones are proteins that wrap around and package DNA to form chromatin, and thus

control access to the DNA.

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E.g. telomere, centromere.

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For example, Illumina machines typically sequence 100 bases, at the time or writing.

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 See:  Burrows,  M.,  and  Wheeler,  D.  (1994).  A  block  sorting  lossless  data  compression

algorithm. Technical Report 124, Digital Equipment Corporation.

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Actually occasional new, refined genome builds will be released.

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 Cock,  P.J.,  Fields,  C.J.,  Goto,  N.,  Heuer,  M.L.,  and  Rice,  P.M.  (2010).  The  Sanger

FASTQ  file  format  for  sequences  with  quality  scores,  and  the  Solexa/Illumina  FASTQ

variants. Nucleic Acids Research 38(6): 1767–1771.