List of useful tools and websites for genomics research.

Tools

https://omictools.com/

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/emboss/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/analyze/

http://ngsutils.org/

Visualization

https://usegalaxy.org/

https://genome.ucsc.edu/

http://software.broadinstitute.org/software/igv/

Questions

https://www.biostars.org/

http://seqanswers.com/

http://www.gettinggeneticsdone.com/

Best Practices

Sequencing with Illumina (https://support.illumina.com/sequencing/best_practices.html)

RNA-Seq (https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-0881-8)

GATK (https://software.broadinstitute.org/gatk/best-practices/)

Best Practices in Insect Genome Sequencing: What Works and What Doesn’t (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465116/)

Best practices for whole-genome de novo sequencing with long-read SMRT Sequencing (http://www.pacb.com/proceedings/best-practices-for-whole-genome-de-novo-sequencing-with-long-read-smrt-sequencing/)

Best Practices for De Novo Transcriptome Assembly with Trinity (http://informatics.fas.harvard.edu/best-practices-for-de-novo-transcriptome-assembly-with-trinity.html)

Conferences

LARGE BIOMEDICAL/SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

1 ASHG: American Society of Human Genetics

2 AACR: American Association for Cancer Research

3 ASM: American Society for Microbiology

4 AAAS Annual Meeting

BIOINFORMATICS/IT MEETINGS

1 Genome Informatics (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

2 ISMB: International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology

3 RECOMB: International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology

4 Bio-IT World

GENERAL GENOMICS MEETINGS

1 Biology of Genomes (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

2 AGBT: Advances in Genome Biology and Technology

3 HUGO: Human Genome Meeting

4 Beyond Genome/Genomic Tools & Technologies Summit

MODEL ORGANISM/PLANT AND ANIMAL MEETINGS:

1 PAG: Plant and Animal Genome Conference

2 American Society of Plant Biologists: Plant Biology

3 International Mouse Genome Conference