<![CDATA[BOL: Related items]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/related/1295?offset=1140 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44476/omark-software-for-proteome-protein-coding-gene-repertoire-quality-assessment Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:01:20 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44476/omark-software-for-proteome-protein-coding-gene-repertoire-quality-assessment <![CDATA[OMArk: software for proteome (protein-coding gene repertoire) quality assessment]]> OMArk is a software for proteome (protein-coding gene repertoire) quality assessment. It provides measures of proteome completeness, characterizes the consistency of all protein coding genes with regard to their homologs, and identifies the presence of contamination from other species. OMArk relies on the OMA orthology database, from which it exploits orthology relationships, and on the OMAmer software for fast placement of all proteins into gene families.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/DessimozLab/OMArk

]]> LEGE https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/42188/tools-and-method-for-haplotype-phasing Fri, 04 Sep 2020 20:41:40 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/42188/tools-and-method-for-haplotype-phasing <![CDATA[Tools and Method for Haplotype phasing !]]> Huge amounts of genotype data are being produced with recent technological advances, both from increasingly  comprehensive and inexpensive genome-wide SNP microarrays and from ever more accessible whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing methods. The vast amount of knowledge contained in these results, however, is best  exploited through phased haplotypes, which classify the alleles co-located on the same chromosome. Since sequence and SNP array data normally take the form of unphased genotypes, one does not specifically observe which of the two parental chromosomes, or haplotypes, falls on a specific allele. Fortunately, new advances in both computational and laboratory methods promise improved determination of haplotype phase. Following are useful tools :
 

Arlequin: http://cmpg.unibe.ch/software/arlequin3/

BEAGLE: http://faculty.washington.edu/browning/beagle/beagle.html

fastPHASE: http://stephenslab.uchicago.edu/software.html

GENEHUNTER: http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/soft/gh/

The Genome Analysis Toolkit:

http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsa/wiki/index.php/The_Genome_Analysis_Toolkit

IMPUTE2: https://mathgen.stats.ox.ac.uk/impute/impute_v2.html

MACH: http://www.sph.umich.edu/csg/abecasis/MACH/

MERLIN: http://www.sph.umich.edu/csg/abecasis/Merlin/

PHASE: http://stephenslab.uchicago.edu/software.html

PL-EM: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~junliu/plem/

“Read-backed phasing” algorithm: http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsa/wiki/index.php/Read-backed_phasing_algorithm

SHAPE-IT: http://www.griv.org/shapeit/

]]> Manisha Mishra https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/36373/tools-to-predict-the-impact-of-missense-variants Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:57:33 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/36373/tools-to-predict-the-impact-of-missense-variants <![CDATA[Tools to Predict the Impact of Missense Variants !]]> Prioritizing missense variants for further experimental investigation is a key challenge in current sequencing studies for exploring complex and Mendelian diseases. A large number of in silico tools have been employed for the task of pathogenicity prediction, including PolyPhen‐2, SIFT, FatHMM, MutationTaster‐2, MutationAssessor, Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion, LRT, phyloP, and GERP++, as well as optimized methods of combining tool scores, such as Condel and Logit. Due to the wealth of these methods, an important practical question to answer is which of these tools generalize best, that is, correctly predict the pathogenic character of new variants.

Study of 10 tools on five datasets that such a comparative evaluation of these tools is hindered by two types of circularity: they arise due to (1) the same variants or (2) different variants from the same protein occurring both in the datasets used for training and for evaluation of these tools, which may lead to overly optimistic results. Comparative evaluations of predictors that do not address these types of circularity may erroneously conclude that circularity confounded tools are most accurate among all tools, and may even outperform optimized combinations of tools.

Following tools are useful for mis sense muation detection ... 

PolyPhen‐2 (PP2)
“Predicts possible impact of an amino acid substitution on the structure and function of a human protein using straightforward physical and comparative considerations”

MutationTaster‐2 (MT2)
“Evaluation of the disease‐causing potential of DNA sequence alterations”

MutationAssessor (MASS)
“Predicts the functional impact of amino acid substitutions in proteins, such as mutations discovered in cancer or missense polymorphisms”

LRT
“Identify a subset of deleterious mutations that disrupt highly conserved amino acids within protein‐coding sequences, which are likely to be unconditionally deleterious”

SIFT
“Predicts whether an amino acid substitution affects protein function”

GERP++
“Identifies constrained elements in multiple alignments by quantifying substitution deficits. These deficits represent substitutions that would have occurred if the element were neutral DNA, but did not occur because the element has been under functional constraint. We refer to these deficits as “rejected substitutions.” Rejected substitutions are a natural measure of constraint that reflects the strength of past purifying selection on the element”

phyloP
“Compute conservation or acceleration P values based on an alignment and a model of neutral evolution”

FatHMM unweighted (FatHMM‐U)
Predicts “functional consequences of both coding variants, that is, nonsynonymous single‐nucleotide variants, and noncoding variants”

FatHMM weighted (FatHMM‐W)
Predicts “functional consequences of both coding variants, that is, nonsynonymous single‐nucleotide variants, and noncoding variants” and its weighting scheme attributes higher tolerance scores to SNVs in proteins, related proteins, or domains that already include a high fraction of pathogenic variantsh

Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion (CADD)
“CADD is a tool for scoring the deleteriousness of single‐nucleotide variants as well as insertion/deletions variants in the human genome”

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36510/scallop-reference-based-transcriptome-assembler-for-rna-seq Tue, 08 May 2018 04:23:27 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36510/scallop-reference-based-transcriptome-assembler-for-rna-seq <![CDATA[Scallop: reference-based transcriptome assembler for RNA-seq]]> Scallop is an accurate reference-based transcript assembler. Scallop features its high accuracy in assembling multi-exon transcripts as well as lowly expressed transcripts. Scallop achieves this improvement through a novel algorithm that can be proved preserving all phasing paths from reads and paired-end reads, while also achieves both transcripts parsimony and coverage deviation minimization.

Scallop paper has been published at Nature Biotechnology. The datasets and scripts used in this paper to compare the performance of Scallop and other assemblers are available at scalloptest.

Please also checkout the podcast about Scallop (thanks Roman Cheplyaka for the interview). It is available at both the bioinformatics chat and iTunes.

 

https://github.com/Kingsford-Group/scallop

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/Kingsford-Group/scallop

]]> Rahul Nayak https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/37520/mmgenome-tools-for-extracting-individual-genomes-from-metagneomes Thu, 09 Aug 2018 17:41:17 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/37520/mmgenome-tools-for-extracting-individual-genomes-from-metagneomes <![CDATA[mmgenome: Tools for extracting individual genomes from metagneomes]]> The mmgenome toolbox enables reproducible extraction of individual genomes from metagenomes. It builds on the multi-metagenome concept, but wraps most of the process of extracting genomes in simple R functions. Thereby making the whole process of binning easy and at the same time reproducible through the Rmarkdown format.

The mmgenome R package also facilitates effortless integration with additional data sources and hence should not be seen as "yet another binning method", but rather a package to integrate different binning strategies.

All functions in the mmgenome R package has associated documentation, check it out in R by e.g. ?mmplot.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/MadsAlbertsen/mmgenome

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/43896/list-of-comparative-genomics-resources Tue, 28 Jun 2022 04:08:06 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/43896/list-of-comparative-genomics-resources <![CDATA[List of comparative genomics resources !]]>

Compare structural and functional annotations of proteins between sequenced genomes.

View AREs in the human transcriptome and study the comparative genomics of AREs in model organisms.

Find information about orthologous genes in prokaryotes.

Search for publicly available QTL data on livestocks and animal species.

Find information about bovine genomics data.

A multi-organism web-based resource system designed to easily retrieve, correlate and interpret data across species.

A database resource of developmentally associated conserved non-coding elements.

Delineate conserved non-coding blocks from upstream regions of putative orthologous gene pairs from man, mouse, rat, fugu, Mus musculus, Danio rerio, and zebrafish.

Find coexpressed gene lists and networks in human and mouse.

Construct phylogenetic tree of microorganisms based on oligopeptide content of their complete proteomes.

A novel database server that classifies GenBank's dbEST (database of expressed gene sequences) libraries and removes contaminants.

Find information about the ancestral relationship between genes.

Provides an overview of the genomic organization of microRNAs and extent of conservation during evolution in different metazoan species.

Conduct comparative biometric analysis of chromosomes of different organisms.

Search for Indices of gene and transcripts in human and mouse.

Search and compare 12 new and old Drosophila genomes.

Access to whole genome alignments of human, mouse, rat and fish sequences.

Find eukaryotic paralog/paralogon information.

Analyze the evolutionary process of overlapping genes when comparing different species.

The first publicly available system reported to handle inter-species gene mention normalization.

A web-based software/database system aimed at an improved and accelerated annotation of prokaryotic genomes.

Visualize gene indices of human, mouse, Arabidopsis, Zebrafish, Drosophila and Sheep.

Find information about mutated mouse genes.

A data management and analysis system for metagenomes

Search for influenza sequence, vaccine, and drug resistance information.

LAMHDI, the initiative to Link Animal Models to Human DIsease, is designed to accelerate the research process by providing biomedical researchers with a simple, comprehensive Web-based resource to find the best animal models for their research.

The missing link between multi-species full genome comparisons and functional analysis.

Conduct comparative analysis of completely sequenced microbial genomes.

A biologist-centric software for evolutionary analysis of DNA and protein sequences.

Conduct single nucleotide polymorphisms diversity measurements among homologous sequences from the Mammalia class.

Find information about 1000s of microbial genomes.

A database dedicated to the study of genome conservation.

Explore orthologous relations across 352 complete genomes.

Browse complete genomes in several clades.

A database of orthologous genomic markers for placental mammal phylogenetics.

Conduct genome wide functional and structural analysis.

Conduct genome-wide cis-regulatory module (CRM) predictions for both the human and the mouse genomes.

Compare phenotypes of a given gene or gene set in different model organisms.

Phylemon is a web server that integrates a selected suite of more than 20 different tools from the most popular stand-alone programs of phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis.

Use this database to see where in the evolution some phylogenetic lineages were started, and over which species they were contained.

Search for genomic information on nematode satellite species Pristionchus pacificus.

Find information about related protein sequences.

Database hosting genomics and post-genomics data from multiple protozoans.

A database of pseudogene families based on the protein families from the Pfam database.

Find genomic information about mammals.

Find information about predicted regulons in prokaryotic transcription regulation.

Perform systematic comparison of proteome data among species.

A comparative map viewer dedicated to the biology of the Solanaceae family.

Analyze data from functional analysis on fragmented microbial genetic material.

Visualize and explore comparative genomic hybridization data sets.

Search for genome-wide annotations of regulatory sites in yeast and prokaryotes genomes.

Search for information on adaptive evolution in gene families of higher plants and chordate.

Generate graphical maps of circular genomes that show sequence features, base composition plots, analysis results and sequence similarity plots.

Conduct a comprehensive analysis of genes and genomes.

An interactive online poster presentation on the Macaque genome, including high-quality images, video clips, and Web resources

Search for annotated genetic information of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) in different eukaryotic organisms.

Find mapping and expression information for a unigene cluster (ESTs and full-length mRNA sequences organized into clusters that each represent a unique known or putative gene)

A public online resource for identifying or designing 'universal' overgo-hybridization probes from conserved sequences that can be used to efficiently screen one or more genomic libraries from a designated group of species.

Comprehensive suite of programs and databases for comparative analysis of genomic sequences.

Find metabolic networks and phylogenomic information on a taxonomically diverse range of eukaryotes.

]]> Shruti Paniwala https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44401/bioinformatics-tools-for-phylogeny Mon, 06 Nov 2023 03:09:59 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44401/bioinformatics-tools-for-phylogeny <![CDATA[Bioinformatics Tools for Phylogeny !]]> Direct access to the individual tools available on this server.

Multiple Alignment:Phylogeny:Tree viewers:Utilities:
MUSCLE PhyML TreeDyn Gblocks
T-Coffee / 3DCoffee TNT Drawgram Jalview
ClustalW BioNJ Drawtree Readseq
ProbCons MrBayes ATV (A Tree Viewer) Built-in converter
]]> BioStar https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34400/ioniser-tools-for-the-quality-assessment-of-data-produced-by-oxford-nanopore%E2%80%99s-minion-sequencer Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:24:19 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34400/ioniser-tools-for-the-quality-assessment-of-data-produced-by-oxford-nanopore%E2%80%99s-minion-sequencer <![CDATA[IONiseR: tools for the quality assessment of data produced by Oxford Nanopore’s MinION sequencer]]> This package is intended to provide tools for the quality assessment of data produced by Oxford Nanopore’s MinION sequencer. It includes a functions to generate a number plots for examining the statistics that we think will be useful for this task.

However, nanopore sequencing is an emerging and rapidly developing technology. It is not clear what will be most informative. We hope that IONiseR will provide a framework for visualisation of metrics that we haven’t thought of, and welcome feedback at mike.smith@embl.de.

If you’re not interested in the quality assement of the raw or event level data, and want to jump straight to the getting FASTQ format files from fast5 files you can go straight to the final section of this document.

Address of the bookmark: https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/vignettes/IONiseR/inst/doc/IONiseR.html

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36512/hisat2-a-fast-and-sensitive-alignment-program-for-mapping-next-generation-sequencing-reads Tue, 08 May 2018 04:27:22 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36512/hisat2-a-fast-and-sensitive-alignment-program-for-mapping-next-generation-sequencing-reads <![CDATA[HISAT2: a fast and sensitive alignment program for mapping next-generation sequencing reads]]> HISAT2 is a fast and sensitive alignment program for mapping next-generation sequencing reads (both DNA and RNA) to a population of human genomes (as well as to a single reference genome). Based on an extension of BWT for graphs [Sirén et al. 2014], we designed and implemented a graph FM index (GFM), an original approach and its first implementation to the best of our knowledge. In addition to using one global GFM index that represents a population of human genomes, HISAT2 uses a large set of small GFM indexes that collectively cover the whole genome (each index representing a genomic region of 56 Kbp, with 55,000 indexes needed to cover the human population). These small indexes (called local indexes), combined with several alignment strategies, enable rapid and accurate alignment of sequencing reads. This new indexing scheme is called a Hierarchical Graph FM index (HGFM). 

more at https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/hisat2/index.shtml

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/infphilo/hisat2

]]> Rahul Nayak https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/37915/dna-nucleotide-counter Fri, 12 Oct 2018 04:37:01 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/37915/dna-nucleotide-counter <![CDATA[DNA Nucleotide Counter]]> DNA Nucleotide Counter is delivered in a DNA Baser package together with other free molecular biology tools. Download the package and double click it. The programs inside the package will be extracted to the destination folder (specified by you). Go to the destination folder and double click the program you want to use.

It installs in any computer even if you don't have administrator rights!

Address of the bookmark: http://www.dnabaser.com/download/DNA-Counter/index.html

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