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Snakemake—a scalable bioinformatics workflow engine

Jit — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 16:32:42 -0500

Snakemake is a workflow engine that provides a readable Python-based workflow definition language and a powerful execution environment that scales from single-core workstations to compute clusters without modifying the workflow.

Address of the bookmark: https://bioconda.github.io/recipes/snakemake/README.html

Introduction to Bioinformatics

eliabrodsky — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 14:58:11 -0500

Introduction to bioinformatics is a course for biologists and clinicians that would like to learn more about the way bioinformatics is used in healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuitcal industry as well as basic research. The course covers many of the topics transformed by the emergence of big data and computational technologies. To learn more about the course, visit: https://edu.t-bio.info/course/introduction-bioinformatics/

Bioclues and Pine Biotech join forces to advance Bioinformatics in India

eliabrodsky — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 10:20:47 -0500

As a collaborative effort, the two organizations will help implement best practices in bioinformatics education across universities in Inida that have little to no experience in bioinformatics. The collaboration comes as Pine Biotech starts registrations for it's pilot program at Amity University in Kolkata, India.

To read more about this collaboration, visit: https://edu.t-bio.info/pine-biotech-joins-forces-with-the-bioclues-organization-to-promote-bioinformatics/

Liu Lab

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:27:02 -0600

Shirley is a computational biologist with expertise in cancer epigenetics. Her research focuses on algorithm development and integrative mining from big data generated on microarrays, massively parallel sequencing, and other high throughput techniques to model the specificity and function of transcription factors, chromatin regulators and lncRNAs in tumor development, progression, drug response and resistance.

https://liulab-dfci.github.io/software/

Basic Notions in Molecular Biology and Genetics

Antony Campos — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 18:15:29 -0500

This is a presentation about some fundamental concepts applied in molecular biology and genetics, also it contains a little bit of the experience that one of our members has gained in his years of undergraduate state related to molecular cloning. Our research group, called "BIOPHARM" (Acronymus of Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Pharmacogenetics), was stablished on 2007, took it a bit of years to make it real this initative, although, nowadays, we're working on some projects involved in those fields. This research group belongs to the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. We try to encourage research initiatives, helping them and also we use to participate in differents courses, congress and symposiums.

BioContainers

Jit — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 05:29:46 -0600

BioContainers is a community-driven project that provides the infrastructure and basic guidelines to create, manage and distribute bioinformatics packages (e.g conda) and containers (e.g docker, singularity). BioContainers is based on the popular frameworks Conda, Docker and Singularity.

Address of the bookmark: https://biocontainers.pro/#/

Bioinformatics-focused postdoctoral fellow

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 05:52:52 -0500

Jason Thomas Ladner currently recruiting for a bioinformatics-focused postdoctoral
fellow to join the group at the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute,
Northern Arizona University (http://www7.nau.edu/ladnerlab/). This
will be a multi-year, NIH-funded position focused on the development and
utilization of a novel platform for highly multiplexed antiviral serology,
which utilizes high-throughput sequencing technology.

To apply:
https://hr.peoplesoft.nau.edu/psp/ph92prta/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=604999&PostingSeq=1

For more information, feel free to contact me: jason.ladner@nau.edu

bioinformatics workbook

biogeek — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:42:32 -0600

This books assumes that the reader has some knowledge of biology and basic understanding of the Unix command line. However, for the beginner, the appendix contains introductory material and tips/tricks for common bioinformatic problems, that is referred to for more information throughout the book.

https://bioinformaticsworkbook.org/

Address of the bookmark: https://bioinformaticsworkbook.org/

Bioinformatics in Thailand !

Shruti Paniwala — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 02:04:56 -0500

Our international PhD and master programs are designed for students who desire focused training in the elements of biology, computer science, and information technology needed for a successful career in the exciting new discipline of Bioinformatics & Systems Biology. Students in our program will receive comprehensive training in omics analysis, database design and management, software engineering and programming (including web-based development), simulation techniques and modeling, and data integration. Each student will apply their skills to a practical project, where they will design and implement a solution to a real-world problem under the guidance of an experienced mentor in industry or academia.

https://bioinformatics.kmutt.ac.th/about.html

Duangrudee Tanramluk (Ajarn Wi) uses computational biology and machine learning to tackle the key to drug design problems via MANORAA webserver.

https://mb.mahidol.ac.th/en/bioinformatics/

https://graduate.mahidol.ac.th/inter/

This international Doctorate programme is designed to further broaden students’ knowledge in Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology to their maximum capability.

http://www.mbb.psu.ac.th/programmes/phd

Ph.D. program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology is a joint effort of the Faculty of Science and Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. The program has study plans for both applicants who hold a bachelor’s degree and applicants who hold a master’s degree in any related fields of study.

http://www.bioinfo.sc.chula.ac.th/ph-d-program-specialization/

Additional detail

https://www.biotec.or.th/en/index.php/research/research-units/genome-technology-research-unit

https://tbrcnetwork.org/labtbrc/index.php/bioinformatics-and-chemoinformatics/

https://genomicsthailand.com/Genomic/home

Address of the bookmark: https://bioinformatics.kmutt.ac.th/

Scalpel

Shruti Paniwala — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 02:07:58 -0500

A team from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has released an algorithm, called Scalpel, for finding insertions and deletions in next generation sequencing data sets. Scalpel, which is open source and available for download on SourceForge, outperformed the popular tools GATK HaplotypeCaller and SOAPindel in test runs on both simulated and real whole human exomes.

Like other indel callers, Scalpel works by performing de novo assembly of regions of interest, so that misalignment to the reference genome cannot obscure the presence of an insertion or deletion. Scalpel's innovation is to repeatedly check its assembly before comparing to the reference genome, to account for simple sequence repeats that are a regular source of error in indel calling. When Scalpel assembles an exon, it collects reads that map to that exon (including partial matches), splits them into k-mers, and creates a de Bruijn graph to span the exon; however, if it detects repeats in the map, it iteratively increases the size of the k-mers by one base until the repeats are eliminated. This ensures that the final assembly of the exon is highly accurate while minimizing compute time.

The Cold Spring Harbor team's validation of Scalpel, published over the weekend in Nature Methods, compares Scalpel's performance on a live whole exome against HaplotypeCaller and SOAPindel. The donor is an individual with serious neurological disorders, which may be linked to a high incidence of indels. One thousand indels from this individual's exome, called by one or more of the informatics pipelines, were selected for focused resequencing. This resequencing revealed a 77% true positive rate for Scalpel calls, dramatically better than the rates for either of the competing tools; Scalpel performed especially well with indels longer than five base pairs, a traditional weak point for indel callers.

Finally, the authors demonstrate Scalpel's use on a large set of genetic data from nearly 600 families who donated samples to the Simons Simplex Collection, a project of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. Scalpel found a very high enrichment for indels in children affected by autism, compared with their unaffected siblings, a pattern that persisted even after excluding common variants.