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Best of both worlds

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 Sanger Institute apprenticeship, bioinformatics, careers, degree, software developer, study min read

A degree apprenticeship offers the opportunity to earn whilst studying.

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Pioneering Computer Science

October 8, 2019October 7, 2019 Sanger Institute ada lovelace, bioinformatics, bletchley park, computing, grace hopper, margaret hamilton, software developer, stem, women in science min read

Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths.

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Sanger’s super-sized sequencing scales new heights

May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 Communications Team 10 PB, bioinformatics, data centre, dna sequencing, genomes, Genomics, illumina, novaseq, petabases, terabases, uk biobank min read

We’re celebrating: we’ve just read the same amount of DNA in one year as we achieved in the previous 25 years combined. This dizzying speed offers unprecedented possibilities to unlock new understanding in health and disease

A Day in the Life: Bioinformaticians at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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A Day in the Life: Bioinformatician – collaboration, cancer and all life on Earth

March 8, 2019March 14, 2019 cc13sangeracuk bioinformatics, cancer, careers, computing, DNA, helminths, informatics careers, jobs, life on earth, vertebrate genome project, worms min read

Understanding the nature of life on Earth has been revolutionised by DNA sequencing. In the past we could only observe what was happening, now we can read (and alter) the blueprints of life to understand health and disease at the most intimate level. Yet none of this would be possible without the unsung work of bioinformaticians

Credit: Justine Desmond, Wellcome Images

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Helping computers to read symptoms

April 15, 2015June 29, 2018 Communications Team bioinformatics, human phenotype ontology, International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium, ontology min read

15.04.15 Big data can help us find the causes of rare diseases. But, says Anika Oellrich, computers must first understand the many ways we describe symptoms

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A molecular archaeologist’s toolkit

January 14, 2015June 29, 2018 Communications Team bioinformatics, cancer, Cancer Genome Project, International Cancer Genome Consortium min read

14.01.15 Like archaeologists, cancer researchers piece together the shards of past catastrophe. However, as Moritz Gerstung explains, algorithms, not brushes, are the tools of the trade