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Supposedly Educational R

Rahul Nayak — Tue, 03 May 2016 16:43:08 -0500

R 3.3.0 (codename “Supposedly Educational”) was released today. You can get the latest binaries version from here. (or the .tar.gz source code from here). The full list of new features and bug fixes is provided below.

If you are using Windows you can easily upgrade to the latest version of R using the installr package. Simply run the following code in Rgui:

install.packages("installr") # install 
setInternet2(TRUE)
installr::updateR() # updating R.

Running “updateR()” will detect if there is a new R version available, and if so it will download+install it (etc.). There is also a step by step tutorial (with screenshots) on how to upgrade R on Windows, using the installr package. If you only see the option to upgrade to an older version of R, then change your mirror or try again in a few hours (it usually take around 24 hours for all CRAN mirrors to get the latest version of R).

I try to keep the installr package updated and useful, so if you have any suggestions or remarks on the package – you are invited to open an issue in the github page.

Lawley Lab

Mon, 09 May 2016 03:29:51 -0500

Lawley Lab are covered with a complex microbial community, known as our microbiota, which plays important roles in our physiology, immunity, metabolism and sustenance. Within the human gastrointestinal tract alone there are over 1,000 bacterial species, which amounts to approximately 10 times more cells than we harbor in our entire body and 200 times more genes than are found within our genome. Lawley Lab are really a 'supraorganism' consisting of our 'human' and 'microbial' selves.

More at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/lawley-lab

Release Notes for Genome Workbench 2.10.5

Jit — Thu, 12 May 2016 13:49:41 -0500

New Features in latest release

New ProSplign tool integrated with Genome Workbench (Tutorial, Video)
New export function for BAM/cSRA coverage graphs (Tutorial)
New export function for alignments GFF3 format ((Tutorial))
Tree View: implemented new export mode based on selections (tutorial coming)
Tree View: added support for distance based circular trees
Tree View: new rooting mode (Midpoint Root) results in more balanced trees (Tutorial)
Tree View: added possibility to right-click on an edge between two nodes and "Place Root at Middle of Branch" – to re-root at mid-branch (Tutorial)

Platanus

Jit — Fri, 13 May 2016 05:12:40 -0500

Platanus is a novel de novo sequence assembler that can reconstruct genomic sequences of
highly heterozygous diploids from massively parallel shotgun sequencing data.

The latest version is 1.2.4.

To cite Platanus, please use the following:

Kajitani R, Toshimoto K, Noguchi H, Toyoda A, Ogura Y, Okuno M, Yabana M, Harada M, Nagayasu E, Maruyama H, Kohara Y, Fujiyama A, Hayashi T, Itoh T, “Efficient de novo assembly of highly heterozygous genomes from whole-genome shotgun short reads”. Genome Res. 2014 Aug;24(8):1384-95. doi: 10.1101/gr.170720.113. [abstract | full text]

Address of the bookmark: http://platanus.bio.titech.ac.jp/

Navin Lab

Wed, 18 May 2016 16:40:14 -0500

NAvin laboratory has pioneered the development of single cell sequencing technologies. They apply these tools to study complex biological processes that occur in human cancers including tumor initation, clonal evolution, invasion, metastasis and chemoresistance. These processes have previously been difficult to study with genomic technologies using bulk tissues

More at http://www.navinlab.com/navinlab/home.html

MOSAIK: A Hash-Based Algorithm for Accurate Next-Generation Sequencing Short-Read Mapping

Neel — Fri, 20 May 2016 18:53:49 -0500

MOSAIK is a stable, sensitive and open-source program for mapping second and third-generation sequencing reads to a reference genome. Uniquely among current mapping tools, MOSAIK can align reads generated by all the major sequencing technologies, including Illumina, Applied Biosystems SOLiD, Roche 454, Ion Torrent and Pacific BioSciences SMRT. Indeed, MOSAIK was the only aligner to provide consistent mappings for all the generated data (sequencing technologies, low-coverage and exome) in the 1000 Genomes Project. To provide highly accurate alignments, MOSAIK employs a hash clustering strategy coupled with the Smith-Waterman algorithm. This method is well-suited to capture mismatches as well as short insertions and deletions. To support the growing interest in larger structural variant (SV) discovery, MOSAIK provides explicit support for handling known-sequence SVs, e.g. mobile element insertions (MEIs) as well as generating outputs tailored to aid in SV discovery.

Address of the bookmark: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0090581

Senior Project Fellow Bioinformatics at NBRI

Sat, 21 May 2016 21:01:05 -0500

Walk In Interview No. 03/Project/2016
Senior Project Fellow Bioinformatics Job vacancies in CSIR- National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow
Area III: Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
Qualification : 1st Class M.Sc. in Bioinformatics/Biotechnology/ Life Science /Biochemistry/Botany with 2 years research experience and at least one publication in SCI Journal or 1st class M.Tech in Bioinformatics
Age : 32 years
Salary : Rs.18000
How to apply
Date & Venue of Interview For Area III: 27-05-2016 at 11.00 A.M. at Conference Room, T.N. Khushoo Block, NBRI, Lucknow.

http://www.nbri.res.in/temp.php

Stand-alone programs for Bioinformatician

Radha Agarkar — Sat, 21 May 2016 22:50:15 -0500

This directory contains applications for stand-alone use, built specifically for a Linux 64-bit machine.

For help on the bigBed and bigWig applications see:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bigBed.html
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bigWig.html

View the file 'FOOTER' to see the usage statement for each of the applications.

Address of the bookmark: http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/

Research Associate Bioinformatics at MANIT

Thu, 26 May 2016 02:20:58 -0500

Research Associate Jobs opportunity in Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) on contract basis
Project : “Screening of Anti-venom potential of medicinal plants from Tribal region of Madhya Pradesh"
No. of Post : 01

Qualification : The minimum qualifications are : Ph.D in Bioinformatics/ Biotechnology or allied branches with atleast two publication in SCI journals.
Fellowship : The consolidated emoluments of Rs.36, 000/ PM+HRA+MA as per CSIR rules.

How to apply
Applications (in prescribed attached format and supporting documents) to be received in the Dr. Rahul Shrivastava, Principal Investigator (CSIR Project), Department of Biological Science and Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal – 462003 (MP) on or before 7th June 2016.

More at http://www.web.manit.ac.in/Year%202016/Recruitment%20Contract%20Faculty/Biological/Advertisement%20for%20Antivenome%20project%202.pdf

BioDBnet

Jit — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:11:47 -0500

Database to Database Conversions

db2db allows for conversions of identifiers from one database to other database identifiers or annotations. To use db2db select the input type of your data, changing the input type automatically changes the output options to the ones specific for the input selected. Then select one or more output types and add your identifiers in the ID list box. Set the remove duplicate values to 'No' if you do not want duplicates to be removed. Clicking on submit then returns a table of your inputs matched against all the outputs selected in the exact order as entered. Results can be limited to a particular taxon by entering it's Taxon ID. The performance will vary widely depending on the number of outputs and the options selected. Conversions to a single output with the default options should complete in a few seconds

Address of the bookmark: https://biodbnet-abcc.ncifcrf.gov/db/db2db.php