Greetings from AL - working with Avian Retina Transcriptome

[Louis_Lemire]

Greetings SEQ community -

I don't recall ever being a newbie in any forum in the recent past but I must say that is the case here.

I will be working with an Illumina transcriptome derived from the retinal/RPE tissue of Gallus gallus and will be starting from scratch - just now working out the details to obtain a computer with enough memory, etc.

I think I may start with ngs_backbone to clean up my reads when I receive them shortly from Emory Univ in GA. Luckily I'll have the Gallus gallus genome in my favor which is decently annotated and nearly complete.

Mostly I will be reading threads and trying to learn from them but should I run into a roadblock I'll certainly post for help.

I am looking forward to learning a lot on this forum and I thank those of you who help others to learn NGS techniques in advance - you guys are fulfilling a role that may allow me in the future to help others as well.

Also in my favor is a decently annotated Contig library from the retinal tissue of Gallus and I hope to take advantage of that as well.

Right now I am learning the basics of Linux.

Thanks for being here and helping.

Louis Lemire
Ft. White, FL
Research Collaborator
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Auburn University
Auburn, AL