As you’ve probably seen on our Facebook page or on our Twitter feed, we decided to add a brand new post category to the Omixon blog. These new posts will be about a more technical side of bioinformatics.

So, first of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Krisztina Rigó and I work at Omixon as a staff scientist. I’ve been working with NGS data for a few years now, but I’m originally a zoologist (a parasitologist, to be exact), so I mostly did field work and some basic wet-bench work. I had some genetics and population genetics related classes at university, but we hardly learned anything useful about Sanger sequencing, not to even mention next-generation sequencing. So when I started to work at Omixon, I was basically an NGS newbie. Naturally, it took me a little while to wrap my head around the whole next generation thing, especially with the dozens of unfamiliar file formats, tools, technologies etc. When the idea of a bioinformatics blog came up during one of our meetings, I immediately knew that this would be a great opportunity for me to help out the people, who are – just like me a few years ago – NGS newbies.