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	<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 02:04:56 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43042/bioinformatics-in-thailand</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Bioinformatics in Thailand !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>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 &amp; 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.</p>
<p><strong>https://bioinformatics.kmutt.ac.th/about.html</strong></p>
<p>Duangrudee Tanramluk (Ajarn Wi) uses computational biology and machine learning to tackle the key to drug design problems via MANORAA webserver.</p>
<p><strong>https://mb.mahidol.ac.th/en/bioinformatics/</strong></p>
<p><strong>https://graduate.mahidol.ac.th/inter/</strong></p>
<p>This&nbsp;international&nbsp;Doctorate programme is designed to further broaden students&rsquo; knowledge in Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology to their maximum capability.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>http://www.mbb.psu.ac.th/programmes/phd</strong></p>
<p>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&rsquo;s degree and applicants who hold a master&rsquo;s degree in any related fields of study.</p>
<p><strong>http://www.bioinfo.sc.chula.ac.th/ph-d-program-specialization/</strong></p>
<p>Additional detail&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>https://www.biotec.or.th/en/index.php/research/research-units/genome-technology-research-unit</strong></p>
<p><strong>https://tbrcnetwork.org/labtbrc/index.php/bioinformatics-and-chemoinformatics/</strong></p>
<p><strong>https://genomicsthailand.com/Genomic/home</strong></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://bioinformatics.kmutt.ac.th/" rel="nofollow">https://bioinformatics.kmutt.ac.th/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Shruti Paniwala</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 02:07:58 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/14191/scalpel</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Scalpel]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>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 <a href="http://scalpel.sourceforge.net/" title="available for download">available for download</a> on SourceForge,&nbsp;<span>outperformed the popular tools GATK HaplotypeCaller and SOAPindel in test runs on both simulated and real whole human exomes.</span></p><p>Like other indel callers, Scalpel works by performing <em>de novo</em>&nbsp;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.</p><p>The Cold Spring Harbor team's validation of Scalpel, <a href="http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmeth.3069.html" title="published over the weekend in Nature Methods">published over the weekend in <em>Nature Methods</em></a>, 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.</p><p>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.</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Shruti Paniwala</dc:creator>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 23:34:25 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tech and Bioinformatics roles at Basepaws]]></title>
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<p>Basepaws is an LA-based pet genomics company, quickly growing and focused on feline and canine at-home genetic and biome tests, along with many other projects and products in the works. Thank you for taking a look!</p>

<p>Bioinformatics : https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2681785372/</p>

<p>Engineer: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2681796993/</p>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 02:04:39 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44581/biokit-a-set-of-tools-dedicated-to-bioinformatics-data-visualisation</link>
	<title><![CDATA[BioKit: a set of tools dedicated to bioinformatics, data visualisation]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>BioKit is a set of tools dedicated to bioinformatics, data visualisation (</span><a href="https://biokit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/references.html#module-biokit.viz" title="biokit.viz"><code><span>biokit.viz</span></code></a><span>), access to online biological data (e.g. UniProt, NCBI thanks to bioservices). It also contains more advanced tools related to data analysis (e.g.,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://biokit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/references.html#module-biokit.stats" title="biokit.stats"><code><span>biokit.stats</span></code></a><span>). Since R is quite common in bioinformatics, we also provide a convenient module to run R inside your Python scripts or shell (:mod:biokit.rtools module).</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://biokit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://biokit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Neel</dc:creator>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 11:58:34 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics, Grimmond Lab]]></title>
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<p>Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics</p>

<p>Research Area:<br />pancreatic cancer; ovarian cancer; prostate cancer; bowel cancer; brain cancer; endometrial cancer; breast cancer; personalised medicine; high-throughput genomics</p>

<p>Link @ http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/sean-grimmond</p>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:17:17 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Complex Systems: From Physics to Biology October 15-16 2013 at JNU Convention Center]]></title>
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<p>The symposium intents to focus on complex systems arising in a variety of settings in physics and biology. In particular, applications of the concepts of physics to biological sciences will be the major theme of this meeting.</p>

<p>Selected Topics:</p>

<p>    Cluster Dynamics<br />    Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics<br />    Forced Systems<br />    Hamiltonian Dynamics<br />    Synchronization &amp; Control<br />    Genomics &amp; Systems Biology<br />    Computational Neuroscience<br />    Econophysics</p>

<p>More @ http://www.jnu.ac.in/Conference/SCS2013/</p>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:57:57 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rolland-Lagan lab]]></title>
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<p>The Rolland-Lagan lab at the University of Ottawa is specializing in computational and developmental biology. We use a combination of experimental work, microscopy, image analysis and computer simulations to explore developmental mechanisms in two and three dimensions. </p>

<p>Research Area</p>

<p>Developmental biology, Computational biology, Simulation modeling, Image data analysis</p>

<p>Link @ http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/arolland/index.html</p>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:48:24 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/4590/tigers-genome-sequenced</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Tigers genome sequenced]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Fifteen scientists led by Dr Jong Bhak of Genome Research Foundation, South Korea, decoded as many as 3 billion nucleotides (organic molecules that form the basic building blocks of nucleic acids, such as DNA). They identified 20,000 genes related to various functions of the tiger.&nbsp;</p><p>The biggest and perhaps most fearsome of the world's big cats, the tiger, shares 95.6 percent of its DNA with humans' cute and furry companions, domestic cats.</p><p>The new research showed that big cats have genetic mutations that enabled them to be carnivores. The team also identified mutations that allow snow leopards to thrive at high altitudes.</p><p>Reference:</p><p><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/science/your-cat-ferocious-tigers-share-lot-95-6-percent-their-4B11182690">http://www.nbcnews.com/science/your-cat-ferocious-tigers-share-lot-95-6-percent-their-4B11182690</a></p><p><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Gene-mapping-of-tiger-completed/articleshow/22671681.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Gene-mapping-of-tiger-completed/articleshow/22671681.cms</a></p><p>Paper:</p><p><a href="http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130917/ncomms3433/full/ncomms3433.html">http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130917/ncomms3433/full/ncomms3433.html</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Agarwal</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:18:20 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34443/opera-an-optimal-genome-scaffolding-program</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Opera: An optimal genome scaffolding program]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Opera (Optimal Paired-End Read Assembler) is a sequence assembly program (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_assembly" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_assembly&nbsp;<img src="https://a.fsdn.com/con/img/icons/external_asset.png" alt="image" style="border: 0px;"></a><span>). It uses information from paired-end or long reads to optimally order and orient contigs assembled from shotgun-sequencing reads.</span><br><br><span>An updated version called OPERA-LG has been re-engineered with features for the assembly of large and complex genomes.</span><br><br><span>Song Gao, Denis Bertrand, Burton K. H. Chia and Niranjan Nagarajan. OPERA-LG: efficient and exact scaffolding of large, repeat-rich eukaryotic genomes with performance guarantees. Genome Biology, May 2016, doi: 10.1186/s13059-016-0951-y.</span><br><br><span>Song Gao, Wing-Kin Sung, Niranjan Nagarajan. Opera: reconstructing optimal genomic scaffolds with high-throughput paired-end sequences. Journal of Computational Biology, Sept. 2011, doi:10.1089/cmb.2011.0170.</span></p>
<p><span>https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-0951-y</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/operasf/" rel="nofollow">https://sourceforge.net/projects/operasf/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:05:40 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/34418/spades-hybrid-genome-assembly</link>
	<title><![CDATA[SPAdes hybrid genome assembly]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>When you have both Illumina and Nanopore data, then SPAdes remains a good option for hybrid assembly - SPAdes was used to produce the&nbsp;<a href="https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13742-015-0101-6">B fragilis assembly</a>&nbsp;by Mick Watson&rsquo;s group.</p><p>Again, running spades.py will show you the options:</p><div><pre><code>spades.py
</code></pre></div><p>This produces:</p><div><pre><code>SPAdes genome assembler v3.10.1

Usage: /usr/local/SPAdes-3.10.1-Linux/bin/spades.py [options] -o &lt;output_dir&gt;

Basic options:
-o      &lt;output_dir&gt;    directory to store all the resulting files (required)
--sc                    this flag is required for MDA (single-cell) data
--meta                  this flag is required for metagenomic sample data
--rna                   this flag is required for RNA-Seq data
--plasmid               runs plasmidSPAdes pipeline for plasmid detection
--iontorrent            this flag is required for IonTorrent data
--test                  runs SPAdes on toy dataset
-h/--help               prints this usage message
-v/--version            prints version

Input data:
--12    &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced forward and reverse paired-end reads
-1      &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward paired-end reads
-2      &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse paired-end reads
-s      &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads
--pe&lt;#&gt;-12      &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-1       &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-2       &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-s       &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-&lt;or&gt;    orientation of reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9; &lt;or&gt; = fr, rf, ff)
--s&lt;#&gt;          &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for single reads library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-12      &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-1       &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-2       &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-s       &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-&lt;or&gt;    orientation of reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9; &lt;or&gt; = fr, rf, ff)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-12    &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-1     &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-2     &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-s     &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-&lt;or&gt;  orientation of reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9; &lt;or&gt; = fr, rf, ff)
--nxmate&lt;#&gt;-1   &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for Lucigen NxMate library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--nxmate&lt;#&gt;-2   &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for Lucigen NxMate library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--sanger        &lt;filename&gt;      file with Sanger reads
--pacbio        &lt;filename&gt;      file with PacBio reads
--nanopore      &lt;filename&gt;      file with Nanopore reads
--tslr  &lt;filename&gt;      file with TSLR-contigs
--trusted-contigs       &lt;filename&gt;      file with trusted contigs
--untrusted-contigs     &lt;filename&gt;      file with untrusted contigs

Pipeline options:
--only-error-correction runs only read error correction (without assembling)
--only-assembler        runs only assembling (without read error correction)
--careful               tries to reduce number of mismatches and short indels
--continue              continue run from the last available check-point
--restart-from  &lt;cp&gt;    restart run with updated options and from the specified check-point ('ec', 'as', 'k&lt;int&gt;', 'mc')
--disable-gzip-output   forces error correction not to compress the corrected reads
--disable-rr            disables repeat resolution stage of assembling

Advanced options:
--dataset       &lt;filename&gt;      file with dataset description in YAML format
-t/--threads    &lt;int&gt;           number of threads
                                [default: 16]
-m/--memory     &lt;int&gt;           RAM limit for SPAdes in Gb (terminates if exceeded)
                                [default: 250]
--tmp-dir       &lt;dirname&gt;       directory for temporary files
                                [default: &lt;output_dir&gt;/tmp]
-k              &lt;int,int,...&gt;   comma-separated list of k-mer sizes (must be odd and
                                less than 128) [default: 'auto']
--cov-cutoff    &lt;float&gt;         coverage cutoff value (a positive float number, or 'auto', or 'off') [default: 'off']
--phred-offset  &lt;33 or 64&gt;      PHRED quality offset in the input reads (33 or 64)
                                [default: auto-detect]
</code></pre></div><p>As you can see this is also a &ldquo;pipeline&rdquo; of tools that can be switched on or off. SPAdes takes quite a long time, so for the purposes of this practical, something like this may suffice:</p><div><pre><code>spades.py -t 4 <span>\</span>
          -m 32 <span>\</span>
          -k 31,51,71 <span>\</span>
          --only-assembler <span>\</span>
          -1 miseq.1.fastq -2 miseq.2.fastq <span>\</span>
          --nanopore minion.fastq <span>\</span>
          -o hybrid_assembly
</code></pre></div><p>In turn, these parameters mean</p><ul>
<li>use 4 threads</li>
<li>max memory is 32Gb</li>
<li>use 3 kmer values to build the de bruijn graph(s) - 31, 51 and 71</li>
<li>only run the assembler, not the correction algorithm (for speed)</li>
<li>read 1 and read 2 of the MiSeq data</li>
<li>the nanopore data</li>
<li>put the output in folder &ldquo;hybrid_assembly&rdquo;</li>
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	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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