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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41046/iseqqc-a-tool-for-expression-based-quality-control-in-rna-sequencing</guid>
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 08:47:17 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41046/iseqqc-a-tool-for-expression-based-quality-control-in-rna-sequencing</link>
	<title><![CDATA[iSeqQC: a tool for expression-based quality control in RNA sequencing]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>iSeqQC, an expression-based QC tool that detects outliers either produced due to variable laboratory conditions or due to dissimilarity within a phenotypic group. iSeqQC implements various statistical approaches including unsupervised clustering, agglomerative hierarchical clustering and correlation coefficients to provide insight into outliers.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://cancerwebpa.jefferson.edu/iSeqQC/">http://cancerwebpa.jefferson.edu/iSeqQC/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-020-3399-8">https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-020-3399-8</a></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/gkumar09/iSeqQC" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gkumar09/iSeqQC</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/42826/ktrim-an-extra-fast-and-accurate-adapter-and-quality-trimmer-for-sequencing-data</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 21:39:05 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/42826/ktrim-an-extra-fast-and-accurate-adapter-and-quality-trimmer-for-sequencing-data</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Ktrim: an extra-fast and accurate adapter- and quality-trimmer for sequencing data]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Ktrim&nbsp;is written in&nbsp;<code style="font-size: 13.6px; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; margin: 0px; background-color: var(--color-markdown-code-bg);">C++</code>&nbsp;for GNU Linux/Unix platforms. After uncompressing the source package, you can find an executable file&nbsp;<code style="font-size: 13.6px; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; margin: 0px; background-color: var(--color-markdown-code-bg);">ktrim</code>&nbsp;under&nbsp;<code style="font-size: 13.6px; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; margin: 0px; background-color: var(--color-markdown-code-bg);">bin/</code>&nbsp;directory compiled using&nbsp;<code style="font-size: 13.6px; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; margin: 0px; background-color: var(--color-markdown-code-bg);">g++ v4.8.5</code>&nbsp;and linked with&nbsp;<code style="font-size: 13.6px; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; margin: 0px; background-color: var(--color-markdown-code-bg);">libz v1.2.7</code>&nbsp;for Linux x86_64 system. If you could not run it (which is usually caused by low version of&nbsp;<code style="font-size: 13.6px; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; margin: 0px; background-color: var(--color-markdown-code-bg);">libc++</code>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<code style="font-size: 13.6px; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; margin: 0px; background-color: var(--color-markdown-code-bg);">libz</code>&nbsp;library) or you want to build a version optimized for your system, you can re-compile the programs:</p>
<p>user@linux$ make clean &amp;&amp; make</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/hellosunking/Ktrim" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/hellosunking/Ktrim</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/fun/view/9207/biogeek-fun</guid>
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 06:33:31 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/fun/view/9207/biogeek-fun</link>
	<title><![CDATA[BioGeek Fun]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>1. A futuristic computational biology student was told to write "It is in my gene!!!" on the board 100 times as a punishment. here's his response -<br /><br />use warnings;<br />for ($count=1; $count &lt;=100; $count++) { print "It is in my gene!!!";}<br /><br />I guess, he is gonna to be a real biogeek. Nice try though. Smart kid.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>2. In some perl script I found this <br />&nbsp;. . . . . .<br />&nbsp;. . . . . .<br /># It works for me, only God understood how it is working<br />while (/(&lt;\/[^&gt;]+&gt;)|(&lt;[^&gt;]+&gt;)|(&lt;[^&gt;]+&gt;)$|([^&gt;&lt;]+)/go) {<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $startGene=$1;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $beginChromosome=$2;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />. . . . . .<br />&nbsp;.. . . . . .<br />}</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>3. One more interesting message in Perl found &hellip;. It will must tickle you bone :) <br />open(my $fh, "&lt;", "gene.txt")&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;or kill " Me if you think this is a mistake :$!";<br /><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>4. From the Perl <br /><br />&nbsp; while () {&nbsp; # "The Mothership Connection is here!"<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;print &ldquo;$_\n&rdquo;; # Printing the offspring :)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>5. Perl message<br />if ($1) { print &ldquo;Just found a the error in chromosome !!!, yahoo&hellip;&rdquo;; else { &ldquo;That is not error, but mutation you moron!&rdquo;;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>6. One genome database curator walk in wine bar asked the bartender:<br />CREATE TABLE gene IF NOT EXISTS SexOnTheBeach;</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/fun/view/44845/a-bioinformatician%E2%80%99s-lament</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 01:33:31 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/fun/view/44845/a-bioinformatician%E2%80%99s-lament</link>
	<title><![CDATA[A Bioinformatician’s Lament]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<div><div dir="auto"><p><em>"I have a presentation tomorrow,"</em>&nbsp;they say,</p><p>With hopeful eyes, like it&rsquo;s all child's play.<br />As if results bloom overnight, full-grown&mdash;<br />Not wrangled from chaos, and error-prone.</p><p><strong>Oh brave soul, sit, let&rsquo;s walk through the tale,</strong><br />Of pipelines broken and servers that fail.<br />The journey starts: &ldquo;The data? It&rsquo;s there&mdash;<br />Just fetch it from S3, easy, I swear.&rdquo;</p><p>Now I summon&nbsp;<code>awscli</code>&nbsp;with dread,<br />Reset my keys, credentials fed.<br />Configure regions, IAM roles too&mdash;<br />All this, and still no peek at the view.</p><p>Next up, the tool: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s open source!&rdquo;<br />On GitHub, rotting, no sign of remorse.<br />Python 2.7, some GCC trick&mdash;<br />The install alone might make you sick.</p><p>Finally, progress! The pipeline runs&hellip;<br />Till RAM collapses and error stuns.<br />Oh, and the metadata? A crime,<br />Merged cells, font soup, out of time.</p><p>Sample IDs&mdash;what a cryptic game:<br /><code>Sample_1</code>,&nbsp;<code>S1</code>,&nbsp;<code>sample-1</code>... the same?<br />Controls mislabeled, cases flipped,<br />No wonder my sanity's starting to slip.</p><p>Then QC plots, PCA joy&mdash;<br />Wait, that&rsquo;s a tumor labeled as a boy?<br />Clusters cross, and axes lie,<br />And I still don&rsquo;t know&nbsp;<em>which</em>&nbsp;sample&rsquo;s "guy."</p><p>But the clock ticks on, and it&rsquo;s half-past doom,<br />They want the final UMAP soon.<br />With pastel colors, labeled clear&mdash;<br />"Can we move that legend to&nbsp;<em>right here</em>?"</p><p>Tweak by tweak, I adjust each frame,<br />Resize Panel B, annotate a name.<br />Export the plot&mdash;it starts to gleam&hellip;<br />Then my laptop crashes. I scream.</p><p>This is the grind, the long-haul game,<br />Where science hides behind code and flame.<br />No &ldquo;Export to Nature&rdquo; button to press,<br />Just toil and logic and hope for success.</p><p>So next time you whisper that fated line&mdash;<br />&ldquo;I have a talk, can you make it shine?&rdquo;<br />Know: bioinformatics is craft, not a click,<br />It&rsquo;s science with scars, not just a quick fix.</p><p><strong>To all who debug at 3AM light,</strong><br />Who ghostwrite figures through sleepless night&mdash;<br />You are the backbone, silent and true,<br />First-author-worthy, if only they knew.<br /><br /></p><hr><p><em><br />"कल मेरी प्रेज़ेंटेशन है,"</em>&nbsp;वो कहते हैं,</p></div></div><div><div dir="auto"><p>आशा भरी आँखों से, जैसे सब सहज है।<br />जैसे परिणाम रातोंरात प्रकट हो जाएं&mdash;<br />ना कि डेटा की भूलभुलैया से उखाड़े जाएं।</p><p><strong>आओ बैठो, एक किस्सा सुनाता हूँ,</strong><br />जहाँ पाइपलाइन टूटती है, और सर्वर भी थक जाते हैं।<br />कहानी शुरू होती है: &ldquo;डेटा तो है&mdash;<br />बस S3 बकेट में, एकदम पास में कहीं।&rdquo;</p><p>अब&nbsp;<code>awscli</code>&nbsp;बुलाता हूँ डरते हुए,<br />कुंजी सेट करूँ, क्रेडेंशियल जोड़ूं, रीजन भरूँ।<br />इतनी मशक्कत, फिर भी डेटा नहीं मिला,<br />बस सेटअप में ही पूरा दिन चला।</p><p>फिर आता है टूल: &ldquo;ओपन-सोर्स है!&rdquo;<br />GitHub पर है, 2019 से सूखा पड़ा है।<br />Python 2.7 चाहिए, एक पुराना कम्पाइलर,<br />और साथ में थोड़ी सी दुआ की ताकत।</p><p>आख़िरकार टूल चला, खुशी सी हुई,<br />लेकिन रन करते ही, मेमोरी ने हार मानी।<br />और मेटाडेटा? एक एक्सेल की आफ़त,<br />मर्ज़ किए हुए सेल, बस और क्या चाहिए काफ़ियत?</p><p>सैंपल आईडी? बस भगवान ही जाने&mdash;<br /><code>Sample_1</code>,&nbsp;<code>sample-1</code>,&nbsp;<code>S1</code>, और&nbsp;<code>control1</code>&mdash;<br />ये सब एक ही सैंपल हैं क्या?<br />पता तब चलता है जब पूछो दो-तीन बार।</p><p>काउंट मैट्रिक्स तैयार, अब R या Python की बारी,<br />QC करो, PCA प्लॉट&mdash;पर कुछ गड़बड़ भारी।<br />ट्यूमर और नॉर्मल का अदला-बदली खेल,<br />बार-बार, वही पुरानी झमेल।</p><p>आख़िर में आया मॉडलिंग का समय,<br />स्टैट्स, प्लॉट्स, डिफरेंशियल एक्सप्रेशन का श्रम।<br />लेकिन घड़ी में 5 बज चुके हैं जनाब,<br />और 8 बजे तक UMAP चाहिए, साफ़-सुथरा जबाब।</p><p>तो मैं कोड लिखता हूँ रात भर बैठ कर,<br />कलर पैलेट, जीन लेबल, लीजेंड बाहर रख कर।<br />फ़ॉन्ट, पैनल, एक्सिस सब सुधार,<br />एक्सपोर्ट करता हूँ... और लैपटॉप कहता है&mdash;"अब नहीं यार!"</p><p>इसीलिए बायोइन्फॉर्मेटिक्स में लगता है समय,<br />ये &ldquo;बस सीरत चलाओ&rdquo; या &ldquo;वोल्कैनो प्लॉट बनाओ&rdquo; नहीं है।<br />ये है सिस्टम एडमिन का काम, डेटा की सफ़ाई,<br />QC, डिबगिंग, और सांइस की सच्ची लड़ाई।</p><p><strong>तो कुछ सीखें इस व्यथा से आप भी आज:</strong><br />24 घंटे पहले चमत्कार मत माँगिए।<br />अच्छे फ़िगर साफ़ डेटा से बनते हैं।<br />बायोइन्फॉर्मेटिक्स जादू नहीं, विज्ञान है।<br />समय से बात कीजिए, प्रक्रिया का सम्मान कीजिए।</p><p><strong>और उन सभी बायोइन्फॉर्मेटिशियनों को सलाम,</strong><br />जो दूसरों की प्रेज़ेंटेशन के लिए रातों में जागते हैं&mdash;<br />तुम हो फ़िगर्स के भूत लेखक,<br />तुम हो बिना नाम के सह-लेखक।<br />तुम पहले लेखक बनने के हक़दार हो&mdash;<br />और एक लंबी नींद के भी।</p><p>Note: Written with the help of AI/LLM Tools !</p></div></div>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>LEGE</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/fun/view/42877/bioinformatician-on-valentines-day</guid>
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2021 11:36:32 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/fun/view/42877/bioinformatician-on-valentines-day</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Bioinformatician on Valentine's Day]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Once asked to a bioinformatician "How is ur Valentine's Day?"</p><blockquote><p>Bioinformatician replied:</p><p>if ($date == "Valentine's Day" &amp;&amp; $me =! Bioinformatician) {</p><p>rose_day(); promise_day(); kiss_day();</p><p>}</p><p>else {</p><p>hack_genome(); ko-fi(); youtube(); do_scripting(); sleep();</p><p>)</p></blockquote>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioQueen</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/33960/mgra-breakpoint-graphs-and-ancestral-genome-reconstructions</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:48:25 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/33960/mgra-breakpoint-graphs-and-ancestral-genome-reconstructions</link>
	<title><![CDATA[MGRA: Breakpoint graphs and ancestral genome reconstructions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>MGRA (Multiple Genome Rearrangements and Ancestors) is a tool for reconstruction of ancestor genomes and evolutionary history of extant genomes.</p>
<p>It takes as an input a set of genomes represented as sequences of genes (or synteny blocks) and produces such sequences for ancestral genomes at the internal nodes of the phylogenetic tree.</p>
<p>The phylogenetic tree may be also specified completely or partially, in the latter case MGRA can reconstruct conserved ancestral regions (CARs) of the ancestral genome of interest.</p>
<p>Since version 2 MGRA supports gene insertion and deletions in addition to genome rearrangements and allows the input genomes to have different gene content.</p>
<p>It also can reconstruct most plausible phylogenetic tree based on the rearrangement characters.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://mgra.cblab.org/" rel="nofollow">http://mgra.cblab.org/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34377/genomicus-genome-browser-that-enables-users-to-navigate-in-genomes-in-several-dimensions</guid>
	<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2017 16:10:16 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34377/genomicus-genome-browser-that-enables-users-to-navigate-in-genomes-in-several-dimensions</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Genomicus: genome browser that enables users to navigate in genomes in several dimensions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Genomicus is a genome browser that enables users to navigate in genomes in several dimensions: linearly along chromosome axes, transversaly across different species, and chronologicaly along evolutionary time.</p>
<p>Once a query gene has been entered, it is displayed in its genomic context in parallel to the genomic context of all its orthologous and paralogous copies in all the other sequenced metazoan genomes. Moreover, Genomicus stores and displays the predicted ancestral genome structure in all the ancestral species within the phylogenetic range of interest.</p>
<p>All the data on extant species displayed in this browser are from&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ensembl.org/">Ensembl</a>.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://genomicus.biologie.ens.fr/genomicus-90.01/cgi-bin/search.pl" rel="nofollow">http://genomicus.biologie.ens.fr/genomicus-90.01/cgi-bin/search.pl</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34488/scripts-for-the-analysis-of-hgt-in-genome-sequence-data</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:44:10 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34488/scripts-for-the-analysis-of-hgt-in-genome-sequence-data</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Scripts for the analysis of HGT in genome sequence data.]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Scripts for the analysis of HGT in genome sequence data</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/reubwn/hgt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/reubwn/hgt</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34569/ksnp30-snp-detection-and-phylogenetic-analysis-of-genomes-without-genome-alignment-or-reference-genome</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:48:40 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34569/ksnp30-snp-detection-and-phylogenetic-analysis-of-genomes-without-genome-alignment-or-reference-genome</link>
	<title><![CDATA[kSNP3.0: SNP detection and phylogenetic analysis of genomes without genome alignment or reference genome]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Sept. 20, 2017 Version 3.1 released. Major upgrade. Version 3.1 fixes the problems with SNP annotation that arose when NCBI discontinued use of GI numbers. Please read carefully the Preface (page 3) and the File of annotated genomes section (pages 9-10) in the version 3.1 User Guide. Thanks to Tom Slezak for revsing the get_genbank_file3 script and to Tod Stuber (USDA) for testing version 3.1 even though he doesn't need the annotation feature. All users are encouraged to upgrade to version 3.1.&nbsp;<br></span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ksnp/files/" rel="nofollow">https://sourceforge.net/projects/ksnp/files/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/34707/string-graph-based-genome-assembly-software-and-tools</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:17:38 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/34707/string-graph-based-genome-assembly-software-and-tools</link>
	<title><![CDATA[String graph based genome assembly software and tools !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>In&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory" title="Graph theory">graph theory</a>, a&nbsp;<strong>string graph</strong>&nbsp;is an&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersection_graph" title="Intersection graph">intersection graph</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve" title="Curve">curves</a>&nbsp;in the plane; each curve is called a "string".&nbsp; String graphs were first proposed by E. W. Myers in a&nbsp;<a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/suppl_2/ii79.full.pdf+html">2005 publication</a>.&nbsp;In&nbsp;recent&nbsp;<a href="http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2012/01/22/gr.126953.111">Genome Research paper</a>&nbsp;describing an innovative approach for assembling large genomes from NGS data caught our attention for several reasons. i) it give different "string graph" prospective of long lasting genome assembly problem ii) the&nbsp;paper is coauthored by Jared Simpson, the developer of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2694472/">ABySS assembler</a>&nbsp;and Richard Durbin. iii)&nbsp;Simpson-Durbin algorithm is that it does not rely on de Bruijn graphs, and instead employs a different graph construction approach called &lsquo;string graph&rsquo;.</p><p>Following are the genome assembly tools based on string graph:</p><p>1.SGA (String Graph Assembler)&nbsp;https://github.com/jts/sga</p><p>Assembles large genomes from high coverage short read data. SGA is designed as a modular set of programs, which are used to form an assembly pipeline. SGA implements a set of assembly algorithms based on the FM-index. As the FM-index is a compressed data structure, the algorithms are very memory efficient. The SGA assembly has three distinct phases. The first phase corrects base calling errors in the reads. The second phase assembles contigs from the corrected reads. The third phase uses paired end and/or mate pair data to build scaffolds from the contigs. The output of this software is a PDF report that allows the properties of the genome and data quality to be visually explored. By providing more information to the user at the start of an assembly project, this software will help increase awareness of the factors that make a given assembly easy or difficult, assist in the selection of software and parameters and help to troubleshoot an assembly if it runs into problems.</p><p>2.&nbsp;SAGE: String-overlap Assembly of GEnomes&nbsp;https://github.com/lucian-ilie/SAGE2</p><p>SAGE, for de novo genome assembly. As opposed to most assemblers, which are de Bruijn graph based, SAGE uses the string-overlap graph. SAGE builds upon great existing work on string-overlap graph and maximum likelihood assembly, bringing an important number of new ideas, such as the efficient computation of the transitive reduction of the string overlap graph, the use of (generalized) edge multiplicity statistics for more accurate estimation of read copy counts, and the improved use of mate pairs and min-cost flow for supporting edge merging. The assemblies produced by SAGE for several short and medium-size genomes compared favourably with those of existing leading assemblers.</p><p>3. FSG: Fast String Graph</p><p>The new integrated assembler has been assessed on a standard benchmark, showing that fast string graph (FSG) is significantly faster than SGA while maintaining a moderate use of main memory, and showing practical advantages in running FSG on multiple threads. Moreover, we have studied the effect of coverage rates on the running times.</p><p>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;BASE&nbsp;https://github.com/dhlbh/BASE</p><p>It enhances the classic seed-extension approach by indexing the reads efficiently to generate adaptive seeds that have high probability to appear uniquely in the genome. Such seeds form the basis for BASE to build extension trees and then to use reverse validation to remove the branches based on read coverage and paired-end information, resulting in high-quality consensus sequences of reads sharing the seeds. Such consensus sequences are then extended to contigs.&nbsp;BASE is a practically efficient tool for constructing contig, with significant improvement in quality for long NGS reads. It is relatively easy to extend BASE to include scaffolding.</p><p>5.&nbsp;Fermi&nbsp;https://github.com/lh3/fermi/</p><p>Fermi is a de novo assembler with a particular focus on assembling Illumina&nbsp;short sequence reads from a mammal-sized genome. In addition to the role of a&nbsp;typical assembler, fermi also aims to preserve heterozygotes which are often&nbsp;collapsed by other assemblers. Its ultimate goal is to find a minimal set of&nbsp;unitigs to represent all the information in raw reads.</p><p>If you want to learn about String Graph assembler, please read the following papers -</p><p>i)&nbsp;<a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/suppl_2/ii79.full.pdf+html">The Fragment Assembly String Graph - E. W. Myers</a></p><p>This paper describes the String Graph concept.</p><p>ii)&nbsp;<a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/12/i367.full#ref-20">Efficient construction of an assembly string graph using the FM-index - Jared T. Simpson and Richard Durbin</a></p><p>This earlier paper from Simpson and Durbin</p><p>iii)&nbsp;<a href="http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2012/01/22/gr.126953.111">Efficient de novo assembly of large genomes using compressed data structures - Jared T. Simpson and Richard Durbin</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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