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Brief 2023 update: belugas, weird turf algae, and job prospecting
It has been a minute, so an update is due. Briefly, the past year I have been focused on work for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, analysing genomic datasets in beluga management units. The past year has been a great learning experience in terms of genome assembly, annotation, and calling variant positions for…
First collections summer 2022
After some significant delays due to permits, CAUS certifications, ect. Gary and I were finally able to dive for some seaweed! Our first dive this summer was at Duck Pond Beach, where we enjoyed calm sunny weather, tons of tiny hermit crabs, and beds of Phycodrys. As detailed on Dr. Gary Saunder’s blog, the Phycodrys…
Whole genome variant calling workflow now public
Hello everyone. I have spent the past couple months automating a workflow used to call whole genome sequencing variants for phylogenomic and population genomic analyses. The workflow currently exists as a slurm script you submit to a high performance computing environment, but the string of commands could be adapted for local servers. The workflow still…
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Genomic investigations of global marine forests 