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	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2015 18:34:46 -0500</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[OpenCPU]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>OpenCPU is a system for embedded scientific computing and reproducible research. The OpenCPU server provides a reliable and interoperable <a href="https://www.opencpu.org/api.html">HTTP API</a> for data analysis based on R.</p><p>The OpenCPU <a href="https://www.opencpu.org/jslib.html">JavaScript client library</a> provides the most seamless integration of R and JavaScript available today.</p><p>OpenCPU uses standard R packaging to develop, ship and deploy web applications. Several open source <a href="https://www.opencpu.org/apps.html">example apps</a> are available from Github.</p><p>Installing your own OpenCPU server is <a href="https://www.opencpu.org/download.html">super easy</a> and only takes a few minutes.</p><p>More at https://www.opencpu.org/</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/23680/five-key-traits-to-seek-out-in-potential-bioinformatics-candidates</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:53:50 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/23680/five-key-traits-to-seek-out-in-potential-bioinformatics-candidates</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Five key traits to seek out in potential bioinformatics candidates !!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Genomics and proteomics data are being collected in bulk, but mostly, traditional biologist don&rsquo;t know what to do with it. Perhaps this is the reason why (not only this!!! ) computational biologist/bioinformatics scientists are hot commodities in the research world.</p><p>In fact, there are huge demands for expert biological data analyst. It&rsquo;s a fairly new &nbsp;(not exactly) hot area, these bioinformatician are invaluable because they know and understand the significance of biological data for your research and how you can use it for better understanding of biological problems.</p><p>The bioinformatics can discover biological patterns and stories in genomic and proteomics data. They can develop the pipeline needed to properly collect, store and analyse it.</p><p><img src="http://bioinformaticsonline.com/mod/photo/hire.gif" alt="image" style="border: 0px;"></p><p>Once your research group is ready to make a larger investment and hire a bioinformatician to gain a competitive edge, there are several key traits to seek out in potential candidates. The best bioinformatician are:</p><p>1. Highly Skilled - programming skills, experience with the biological software and tools.</p><p>The biological data won&rsquo;t illuminate much if the scientist analysing it doesn&rsquo;t possess practical programming skills, experience with the biological software and tools and a thorough understanding of basic biological stuff. A solid background in mathematics and statistics is also an indispensable trait.</p><p>2. Insight - Real vision, robust understanding and deep insight.</p><p>In order to hire the best bioinformatics and computational biologist scientist for your needs, it is always recommended and mostly practiced by the recruiters, to ask each contender to write and develop a sample script/presentation based on a specific set of data you provide. Then, explore the approaches used to deal with data provided and pick up those candidates who convey real vision, robust understanding and deep insight.</p><p>3. Energetic &ndash; Curiosity to explore</p><p>Mostly natural curiosity and enthusiasm for solving big biological problems coupled with an ability to transform data into a scientific stories may place one candidate above the rest. In addition to achieve that, the bioinformatician should be agile enough to quickly modify their methods to suit changes within a particular research.</p><p>4. Researcher &ndash; Publications</p><p>Look for someone who has a keen sense and understanding of concern biological problems. You can judge it by looking at previously published papers and data. It is always recommended to have a look at GitHub and other repository for codes written by her/him.</p><p>5. Impressive communicator - Insight that can&rsquo;t be expressed is worthless.</p><p>Good bioinformatics scientists are able to uncover biological patterns and are willing to explain those patterns in clear and helpful ways through thoughtful and open communication. In other words, they should must have good scientific writing skills. A computational biologis/bioinformatician&nbsp; should know how to present the data and tell a scientific story through numbers/images.</p>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:56:18 -0600</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Pilon]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Pilon is a software tool which can be used to:</p>
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<li>Automatically improve draft assemblies</li>
<li>Find variation among strains, including large event detection</li>
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<p>Pilon requires as input a FASTA file of the genome along with one or more BAM files of reads aligned to the input FASTA file. Pilon uses read alignment analysis to identify inconsistencies between the input genome and the evidence in the reads. It then attempts to make improvements to the input genome, including:</p>
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<li>Single base differences</li>
<li>Small indels</li>
<li>Larger indel or block substitution events</li>
<li>Gap filling</li>
<li>Identification of local misassemblies, including optional opening of new gaps</li>
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<p>More at https://github.com/broadinstitute/pilon/wiki</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/broadinstitute/pilon/wiki" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/broadinstitute/pilon/wiki</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:11:47 -0500</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[BioDBnet]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Database to Database Conversions</span> </p>
<p>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 <a href="https://biodbnet-abcc.ncifcrf.gov/tools/orgTaxon.php">Taxon ID</a>. 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</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://biodbnet-abcc.ncifcrf.gov/db/db2db.php" rel="nofollow">https://biodbnet-abcc.ncifcrf.gov/db/db2db.php</a></p>]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 05:43:38 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[SRF Bioinformatics job position in National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR)]]></title>
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<p>SRF Bioinformatics job position in National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR)<br />Title : “Transcriptome and small RNA diversity analysis of developing seed contrasting rice varieties” <br />Qualification : Candidates having M.Sc./M.Tech. degree or equivalent (with minimum 60% marks) in Bioinformatics with a minimum of two years of post M.Sc./M.Tech research experience are eligible to apply.<br />No. of Post : 01<br />How to apply<br />Application should reach to Dr. Pinky Agarwal, Staff Scientist, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, P.O. Box NO. 10531, New Delhi - 110067 on or before 30/09/2016</p>

<p>More at http://www.nipgr.res.in/careers/vacancies_latest.php#</p>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:09:39 -0600</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Gene Synteny Database]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Comparative genomics remains a pivotal strategy to study the evolution of gene organization, and this primacy is reinforced by the growing number of full genome sequences available in public repositories. Despite this growth, bioinformatic tools available to visualize and compare genomes and to infer evolutionary events remain restricted to two or three genomes at a time, thus limiting the breadth and the nature of the question that can be investigated. Here we present Genomicus, a new synteny browser that can represent and compare unlimited numbers of genomes in a broad phylogenetic view. In addition, Genomicus includes reconstructed ancestral gene organization, thus greatly facilitating the interpretation of the data.</p>
<p><strong>Availability:</strong>&nbsp;Genomicus is freely available for online use at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dyogen.ens.fr/genomicus" target="pmc_ext">http://www.dyogen.ens.fr/genomicus</a>&nbsp;while data can be downloaded at&nbsp;<a href="ftp://ftp.biologie.ens.fr/pub/dyogen/genomicus" target="pmc_ext">ftp://ftp.biologie.ens.fr/pub/dyogen/genomicus</a></p>
<p><strong>Contact:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="mailto:dev@null">rf.sne.eigoloib@crh</a></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2853686/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2853686/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:53:12 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Postdoctoral Research Position in Bioinformatics in Milan]]></title>
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<p>The lab of Immunobiology of Neurological Disorders has a main interest in the biological processes associated with multiple sclerosis, an inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. The projects of interest for this application involve research on translational bioinformatics in complex human neurological disorders.</p>

<p>You have a  PhD in Computational Science, Bioinformatics,  or equivalent, and expertise in analysis and modeling of human RNA-seq data, statistics, data mining and machine learning. Excellent communication skills in English (written and oral) is a must. Flexibility and willingness to work across multiple projects and technologies in a rapidly evolving scientific context is required.<br />Salary will depend on qualification and experience. Starting date: immediate.</p>

<p>Interested candidates should send to farina.cinthia@hsr.it:</p>

<p>1. CV (please show evidences of relevant titles, projects, courses, references, etc.)           <br />2. One page with a list of research topics (i.e. ongoing projects)     <br />3. earliest availability</p>

<p>4. 2-3 contact names</p>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 03:35:15 -0500</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Bioinformatics Algorithms]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>An algorithm is a computable set of steps to achieve a desired result.</p><p>We use algorithms every day. For example, a recipe for baking a cake is an algorithm. Most programs, with the exception of some artificial intelligence applications, consist of algorithms. Inventing elegant algorithms -- algorithms that are simple and require the fewest steps possible -- is one of the principal challenges in programming. An algorithm is a description of a procedure which terminates with a result. In other words an algorithm is a set of instructions, sometimes called a procedure or a function, that is used to perform a certain task. This can be a simple process, such as adding two numbers together, or a complex function, such as adding effects to an image. For example, in order to sharpen a digital photo, the algorithm would need to process each pixel in the image and determine which ones to change and how much to change them in order to make the image look sharper.</p><p>In mathematics, computer science, and related subjects, an algorithm is an effective method for solving a problem using a finite sequence of instructions. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and many other fields.<br />Each algorithm is a list of well-defined instructions for completing a task. Starting from an initial state, the instructions describe a computation that proceeds through a well-defined series of successive states, eventually terminating in a final ending state. The transition from one state to the next is not necessarily deterministic; some algorithms, known as randomized algorithms, incorporate randomness.</p><p><strong>History</strong></p><p>The origin of the term comes from the ancients. The concept becomes more precise with the use of variables in mathematics. Algorithm in the sense of what is now used by computers appeared as soon as first mechanical engines were invented.<br />The word algorithm comes from the name of the 9th century Persian Muslim mathematician Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi. The word algorism originally referred only to the rules of performing arithmetic using Hindu-Arabic numerals but evolved via European Latin translation of Al-Khwarizmi's name into algorithm by the 18th century. The use of the word evolved to include all definite procedures for solving problems or performing tasks.<br />The algorithm of Archimedes gives an approximation of the Pi number.<br />Eratosthenes has defined an algorithim for retrieving prime numbers.<br />Averro&egrave;s (1126-1198) was using algorithmic methods for calculations.<br />Adelard de Bath (12 th) introduces the algorismus term, from Al-Khwarizmi.<br />During the 1800's up to the mid-1900's:<br /><br />- George Boole (1847) has invented the binary algebra, the basis of computers. Actually he has unified logic and calculation in a common symbolism.<br /><br />- Gottlob Frege (1879) formula language's, that is a lingua characterica, a language written with special symbols, "for pure thought", that is free from rhetorical embellishments... constructed from specific symbols that are manipulated according to definite rules.<br /><br />- Giuseppe Peano (1888) It's The principles of arithmetic, presented by a new method was the first attempt at an axiomatization of mathematics in a symbolic language.<br /><br />- Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell in their Principia Mathematica (1910-1913) has further simplified and amplified the work of Frege.<br /><br />- Kurt Go&euml;del (1931) cites the paradox of the liar that completely reduces rules of recursion to numbers.<br /><br />The concept of algorithm was formalized in 1936 through Alan Turing's Turing machines and Alonzo Church's lambda calculus, which in turn formed the foundation of computer science.<br />Stephen C. Kleene (1943) defined his now-famous thesis known as the "Church-Turing Thesis". In this context:<br /><br />" Algorithmic theories... In setting up a complete algorithmic theory, what we do is to describe a procedure, performable for each set of values of the independent variables, which procedure necessarily terminates and in such manner that from the outcome we can read a definite answer, "yes" or "no," to the question, "is the predicate value true?"</p><p><strong>Classification</strong></p><p><strong>Classification by purpose</strong></p><p>Each algorithm has a goal, for example, the purpose of the Quick Sort algorithm is to sort data in ascending or descending order. But the number of goals is infinite, and we have to group them by kind of purposes:</p><p><strong>Classification by implementation</strong></p><p>An algorithm may be implemeted according to different basical principles.</p><ul>
<li>Recursive or iterative</li>
</ul><p>A recursive algorithm is one that calls itself repeatedly until a certain condition matches. It is a method common to functional programming.&nbsp;<br />Iterative algorithms use repetitive constructs like loops.<br />Some problems are better suited for one implementation or the other. For example, the towers of hanoi problem is well understood in recursive implementation. Every recursive version has an iterative equivalent iterative, and vice versa.</p><ul>
<li>Logical or procedural</li>
</ul><p>An algorithm may be viewed as controlled logical deduction.&nbsp;<br />A logic component expresses the axioms which may be used in the computation and a control component determines the way in which deduction is applied to the axioms.&nbsp;<br />This is the basis of the logic programming. In pure logic programming languages the control component is fixed and algorithms are specified by supplying only the logic component.</p><ul>
<li>Serial or parallel</li>
</ul><p>Algorithms are usually discussed with the assumption that computers execute one instruction of an algorithm at a time. This is a serial algorithm, as opposed to parallel algorithms, which take advantage of computer architectures to process several instructions at once. They divide the problem into sub-problems and pass them to several processors. Iterative algorithms are generally parallelizable. Sorting algorithms can be parallelized efficiently.</p><ul>
<li>Deterministic or non-deterministic</li>
</ul><p>Deterministic algorithms solve the problem with a predefined process whereas non-deterministic algorithm must perform guesses of best solution at each step through the use of heuristics.<br /><br /><strong>Classification by design paradigm</strong></p><p>A design paradigm is a domain in research or class of problems that requires a dedicated kind of algorithm:</p><ul>
<li>Divide and conquer</li>
</ul><p>A divide and conquer algorithm repeatedly reduces an instance of a problem to one or more smaller instances of the same problem (usually recursively), until the instances are small enough to solve easily. One such example of divide and conquer is merge sorting. Sorting can be done on each segment of data after dividing data into segments and sorting of entire data can be obtained in conquer phase by merging them.<br />The binary search algorithm is an example of a variant of divide and conquer called decrease and conquer algorithm, that solves an identical subproblem and uses the solution of this subproblem to solve the bigger problem.</p><ul>
<li>Dynamic programming</li>
</ul><p>The shortest path in a weighted graph can be found by using the shortest path to the goal from all adjacent vertices.&nbsp;<br />When the optimal solution to a problem can be constructed from optimal solutions to subproblems, using dynamic programming avoids recomputing solutions that have already been computed.&nbsp;<br />- The main difference with the "divide and conquer" approach is, subproblems are independent in divide and conquer, where as the overlap of subproblems occur in dynamic programming.&nbsp;<br />- Dynamic programming and memoization go together. The difference with straightforward recursion is in caching or memoization of recursive calls. Where subproblems are independent, this is useless. By using memoization or maintaining a table of subproblems already solved, dynamic programming reduces the exponential nature of many problems to polynomial complexity.</p><ul>
<li>The greedy method</li>
</ul><p>A greedy algorithm is similar to a dynamic programming algorithm, but the difference is that solutions to the subproblems do not have to be known at each stage. Instead a "greedy" choice can be made of what looks the best solution for the moment.&nbsp;<br />The most popular greedy algorithm is finding the minimal spanning tree as given by Kruskal.</p><ul>
<li>Linear programming</li>
</ul><p>The problem is expressed as a set of linear inequalities and then an attempt is made to maximize or minimize the inputs. This can solve many problems such as the maximum flow for directed graphs, notably by using the simplex algorithm.&nbsp;<br />A complex variant of linear programming is called integer programming, where the solution space is restricted to all integers.</p><ul>
<li>Reduction also called transform and conquer</li>
</ul><p>Solve a problem by transforming it into another problem. A simple example: finding the median in an unsorted list is first translating this problem into sorting problem and finding the middle element in sorted list. The main goal of reduction is finding the simplest transformation possible.</p><ul>
<li>Using graphs</li>
</ul><p>Many problems, such as playing chess, can be modeled as problems on graphs. A graph exploration algorithms are used.&nbsp;<br />This category also includes the search algorithms and backtracking.<br /><br /><strong>The probabilistic and heuristic paradigm</strong></p><ul>
<li>Probabilistic</li>
</ul><p>Those that make some choices randomly.</p><ul>
<li>Genetic</li>
</ul><p>Attempt to find solutions to problems by mimicking biological evolutionary processes, with a cycle of random mutations yielding successive generations of "solutions". Thus, they emulate reproduction and "survival of the fittest".</p><ul>
<li>Heuristic</li>
</ul><p>Whose general purpose is not to find an optimal solution, but an approximate solution where the time or resources to find a perfect solution are not practical.</p><p><strong>Classification by complexity</strong></p><p>Some algorithms complete in linear time, and some complete in exponential amount of time, and some never complete.</p><p><strong>Algorithms resources on net.</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.cs.uga.edu/~cai/courses/compbio/2008fall/bookchapters/Chapter08/Ch08_GraphsDNAseq.pdf">Graph Algorithms in Bioinformatics</a></p><p><a href="http://zikuladevs.com/notes/Part%20II%20Revision/Bio_Alg_Descriptions[1].pdf">Bioinformatics Algorithms Description</a></p><p><a href="http://users.aims.ac.za/~marshall/BioinformaticsCourse.html">Bioinformatics Algorithms Course Page</a></p><p><a href="http://www.cybertory.org/downloads/bae/BioinformaticsAlgorithmsExcelDoc.pdf">Bioinformatics Algorithm Demonstrations</a></p><p><a href="http://www.cse.sc.edu/~maxal/csce590b/Lect01-02.pdf">Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms Lectures 1-2 by Dr. Max Alekseyev USC, 2009</a></p><p><a href="http://lectures.molgen.mpg.de/online_lectures.html">Online Lectures on Bioinformatics</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/science/bioinformatics-tutorial/bioinformatics.pdf.bak">Sequence Alignment Algorithms</a></p><p><a href="http://www.avatar.se/molbioinfo2001/seqali-dyn.html">Algorithm for sequence alignment: dynamic programming</a></p><p><a href="http://www.4tphi.net/~awalters/PI/pi.pdf">Network Protocol Analysis using Bioinformatics Algorithms</a></p><p><strong>Bioinformatics Algorithms Links</strong></p><p><strong>Dynamic Programming</strong></p><p>Particularly good sites...</p><p>&bull;<a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sahuguet/MSA/">http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sahuguet/MSA/</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.blc.arizona.edu/courses/bioinformatics/align.html">http://www.blc.arizona.edu/courses/bioinformatics/align.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeStrings/Notes/DPA.html">http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeStrings/Notes/DPA.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.cs.orst.edu/~schut/cs325/dynamic.htm">http://www.cs.orst.edu/~schut/cs325/dynamic.htm</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.catalase.com/dprog.htm">http://www.catalase.com/dprog.htm</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://bioweb.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~bioph490/BIOPH2.html#SEQUENCE_COMP">http://bioweb.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~bioph490/BIOPH2.html#SEQUENCE_COMP</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/home/cisc365/javascript/dp1/index.html">http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/home/cisc365/javascript/dp1/index.html</a><br />Other sites...<br />&bull;<a href="http://bioweb.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~bioph490/dynamic_programming_demo.html">http://bioweb.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~bioph490/dynamic_programming_demo.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/home/cisc365/365overheads.html">http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/home/cisc365/365overheads.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/home/cisc365/dp/dp.p01.html">http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/home/cisc365/dp/dp.p01.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/csc270/tut_dp.html">http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/csc270/tut_dp.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://queue.ieor.berkeley.edu/~jshu/knapsack/DP/dp.html">http://queue.ieor.berkeley.edu/~jshu/knapsack/DP/dp.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/classes/dynamic/dynamic.html">http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/classes/dynamic/dynamic.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~scistra/class_3">http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~scistra/class_3</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/Econ101/dynamic.htm">http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/Econ101/dynamic.htm</a><br />&bull;<a 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href="http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~papagel/project/ex5_6_1.htm">http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~papagel/project/ex5_6_1.htm</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/lectures-good/node12.html">http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/lectures-good/node12.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/lectures-good/node12.html">http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/lectures-good/node12.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.utdallas.edu/~scniu/documents/7315.htm">http://www.utdallas.edu/~scniu/documents/7315.htm</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.ii.uib.no/~pinar/seminar/larry.html">http://www.ii.uib.no/~pinar/seminar/larry.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/~gecole/books.html">http://www.deakin.edu.au/~gecole/books.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.cseg.engr.uark.edu/~wessels/algs/notes/dynamic.html">http://www.cseg.engr.uark.edu/~wessels/algs/notes/dynamic.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ped/teachadmin/algor/dyprog.html">http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ped/teachadmin/algor/dyprog.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.eli.sdsu.edu/courses/fall96/cs660/notes/dynamicProg/dynamicProg.html">http://www.eli.sdsu.edu/courses/fall96/cs660/notes/dynamicProg/dynamicProg.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/l/www/ftp/techreports/TR514.html">http://www.cs.indiana.edu/l/www/ftp/techreports/TR514.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~mairson/poems/node3.html">http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~mairson/poems/node3.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.cis.tu-graz.ac.at/igi/oaich/animations/Dynamic2.html">http://www.cis.tu-graz.ac.at/igi/oaich/animations/Dynamic2.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://bioweb.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~workshop/">http://bioweb.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~workshop/</a></p><p><br />Smith Waterman<br />&bull;<a 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href="http://acer.gen.tcd.ie/~amclysag/nwswat.html">http://acer.gen.tcd.ie/~amclysag/nwswat.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://laguerre.psc.edu/biomed/TUTORIALS/SEQUENCE/MULTIPLE/tutorial.html">http://laguerre.psc.edu/biomed/TUTORIALS/SEQUENCE/MULTIPLE/tutorial.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/compbio/">http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/compbio/</a></p><p><strong>Hmms</strong></p><p>&bull;<a href="http://www.medmicro.mds.qmw.ac.uk/HMMER/main.html">http://www.medmicro.mds.qmw.ac.uk/HMMER/main.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://alfredo.wustl.edu/ismb96/abs/p02.html">http://alfredo.wustl.edu/ismb96/abs/p02.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/compbio/html_format_papers/hughkrogh96/cabios.html">http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/compbio/html_format_papers/hughkrogh96/cabios.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://wwwsyseng.anu.edu.au/~jason/hmmlinks.html">http://wwwsyseng.anu.edu.au/~jason/hmmlinks.html</a><br />&bull;<a 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/>&bull;<a href="http://kal-el.ugr.es/gags.html">http://kal-el.ugr.es/gags.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://kal-el.ugr.es/~jmerelo/GAJS.html">http://kal-el.ugr.es/~jmerelo/GAJS.html</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.genetic-programming.org/">http://www.genetic-programming.org/</a><br />&bull;<a href="http://www.iitk.ac.in/kangal/deb_tut.shtml">http://www.iitk.ac.in/kangal/deb_tut.shtml</a></p>]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Tryst with a Bioinformatician # Dr Altan Kara]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://bioinformaticsonline.com/profile/altan"><strong>Dr Altan Kara</strong></a> is a Bioinformatics specialist at the faculty of Gene Engineering and Biotechnology Institute at TUBITAK MAM Research Center. His research interest revolves around the cancer informatics and computational aided-drug design. I applaud Dr Altan for clearly setting out both his expectations of people that join his lab/university in addition to listing his responsibilities to his research members at TUBITAK MAM Research Instit&uuml;te. Hopefully, this interview will prove useful to others in the field, especially to those who are just starting their bioinformatics careers.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="https://photos-4.dropbox.com/t/2/AACboDtsdWXl6WLM8ijWiKVTxcLCdQaHuOxglRGVSIYqlQ/12/85115969/jpeg/32x32/1/_/1/2/altanLondon.JPG/EOfXoUIYmJ8CIAcoBw/HYCj2M1qYATfPnq3Lg_ETCtxjGzDJ34mwQP0ycTpMMM?size=1280x960&amp;size_mode=3" alt="image" width="720" height="720" style="border: 0px; border: 0px;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">You can find out more about Dr Altan by visiting his (well documented) lab page (<a href="http://gmbe.mam.tubitak.gov.tr/en">http://gmbe.mam.tubitak.gov.tr/en</a>) and BOL page <a href="http://bioinformaticsonline.com/profile/altan">http://bioinformaticsonline.com/profile/altan</a> . And now, on to the BOL:&ldquo;Tryst with a Bioinformatician&rdquo; interview series ...</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What push you to join Computational Biology/Bioinformatics?</strong></p>
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</ul><p style="text-align: justify;">According to me, bioinformatics is the center of modern biological research and if a researcher wants to discover new biological insights by evaluating the globally produced biological data to derivate unified solutions for specific biological problems, learning bioinformatics is the only way to achieve this goal.</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What fascinates you about Computational Biology/Bioinformatics?</strong></p>
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</ul><p style="text-align: justify;">It's flexibility. As well known, there are highly diverse and complex biological questions are waiting to be enlightened and it's impossible to bring solutions to this diversity by using similar approaches. Thus, the employed method has to be unique for the targeted biological problem and by using bioinformatics tools this can be easily achieved.&nbsp;</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What is the </strong><em><strong>one word</strong></em><strong> you would use to </strong><em><strong>describe yourself</strong></em><strong>?</strong></p>
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</ul><p>Bioinformatician. :)</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Can you please describe your research work in a nutshell for BOL users.</strong></p>
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</ul><p style="text-align: justify;">At my current Institute, I am working in the field of cancer bioinformatics. Briefly, the overall aim of the project which I am working for (AKMARK (Project CODE:5153403)) is, applying a bioinformatics-supported genome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome analysis to reveal the molecular profile of the disease through an integrated approach, and to develop an early diagnosis and scanning kit based on this profile. Alterations in the gene, transcript, protein, and metabolite profiles between normal tissue, normal tissue adjoined to the tumor (reactive stroma), tumor tissue, lymph node metastasis, and blood samples taken from the same patient and the reflection of these changes in some other selected body fluids will be revealed within the scope of the project. The molecular structures involved in the development and progression of NSCLC will be determined and relations with the clinical, tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging and histology will be made. The development of a diagnostic kit for immediate clinical purposes and an electrochemical biosensor for quick on-site applications are targeted through the development of a number of antibody and aptamer formed against the most specific biomarker selected from the panel.</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Is there anything else we should know about you and your research?</strong></p>
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</ul><p style="text-align: justify;">Besides AKMARK, I am also in preparation of having a side project that aims for the development of a computational method to design inhibitors for prokaryotic two-component systems. In this project, I will be in collaboration with Prof. Maria Kontoyianni, SIUE: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, School of Pharmacy.</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What was your greatest scientific disappointment in life till now?</strong></p>
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</ul><p>So far I do not experience any memorable scientific disappointment in my life. :)</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What major research challenges and problems did you face yet? How did you handle them? </strong></p>
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</ul><p style="text-align: justify;">The major challenge which I faced so far in my scientific career was predicting the interaction between the prokaryotic two-component proteins. To be able to accurately predict the interactions between these proteins, I create a meta-predictor by using a support vector machine. By using this technique I integrated six different protein-protein interaction methods in a way to cover disadvantage of one method with the advantage of another one. The meta-predictor which I developed during this work is accessible via <a href="http://metapred2cs.ibers.aber.ac.uk/">http://metapred2cs.ibers.aber.ac.uk/</a> and for more detailed information about the system the articles with the PMID IDs; PMID: 27378293 and PMID: 26384938 can be read.</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What's your all-time favourite bioinformatics package, and why?</strong></p>
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</ul><p style="text-align: justify;">For me, the best bioinformatics package is R/Bioconductor. The reason why I like this package is, it provides lots of useful tools for comprehensive analysis and comparison of high-throughput experimental data in an integrated manner and besides lots of the packages it provides, it is open source and also open for development. As a result, it provides strong and flexible ways to do science.</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In bioinformatics, do you see yourself in which of the following roles-scientist, analyst, developer, engineer or pure academician?</strong></p>
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</ul><p>Scientist / Developer.</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What will you like to accomplish in next five years / ten years? </strong></p>
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</ul><p style="text-align: justify;">For my current research, I would like to design a pipeline to automatically integrate and analyse omics data for cancer research which will be specifically aiming for biomarker and novel drug target discovery. In addition to this, I also like to develop another pipeline for prokaryotic TCS protein structure prediction and inhibitor design.</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>When you will be retired, what would you tell next generation bioinformaticians?</strong></p>
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</ul><p style="text-align: justify;">Bioinformatics is not all about scripting and researchers who study in this field should never expect a tool to do their analyses for them. Besides computational skills, a bioinformatician must have a strong biological background in his/her research area which will allow them to understand if anything went wrong during their run by only looking at the results instead of just blindly trusting the output of the bioinformatics tools.</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What you always miss in bioinformatics when you will no longer working in this field?</strong></p>
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</ul><p style="text-align: justify;">Bioinformatics is open to doing multi-discipliner research with scientists all around the world. As a result, while I studying in this field I can interactively learn a lot from wide range research community. I think this is the one thing which I will miss the most.</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>If there will be bioinformatics company owned by you in future, What are your company focus and aim?</strong></p>
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</ul><p style="text-align: justify;">With the increasing amount of data in databases, there is already a massive need for effective methods to eliminate the manipulated data and reach to clean/useful information. As days pass, the requirement of data mining will be the first step of any research project. For this reason, the major goal of my bioinformatics company will be developing effective tools to eliminate manipulated datasets and information that exist in the literature and provide trustworthy clean information/datasets for researchers.</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>How much bioinformatics change in 2050, according to your wild imagination?</strong></p>
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</ul><p style="text-align: justify;">Bioinformatics is a field that constantly and dynamically changes. As the bioinformatics progress, new tools and methods become available and they provide a better application of existing methods or totally new methods that offer an alternative solution to various biological problems. A long with these updates, developers also provide easy to use GUIs for most of the tools. Considering this, if the field carries on developing like this, every single researcher with a strong biological background can be able to perform bioinformatics analyses by him/herself without needing a professional help. As a result, almost all of the bioinformaticians will be responsible just for development of new methods/tools.</p><ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What would one piece of advice you give someone who's trying to reinvent themselves and enter into bioinformatics sector?</strong></p>
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</ul><p style="text-align: justify;">Bioinformatics is a wide field with a lot of career options. Thus, if a researcher likes to step into this field first he/she should be clear about the branch of the bioinformatics they like to study in. Following to this decision they should first learn at least one programing language and investigate the ways of how other researcher employed that language in their researches and WHY? A researcher, in this field, should never create and use copy paste scripts but always must understand WHY the other researcher worked in that way. Knowing the answer of this question is the only way to learn bioinformatics. Besides, a researcher in the field of bioinformatics (from any branch) must always be good about the environmental control. In other words, one should always easily control input output directories, modify files or directories, annotate and modify employed scripts during the research and should not allow any confusion during the different stages of the research. Finally, they should not blindly trust the output of a tool/software but do a benchmarking test for each of the tools which they decided to utilise in their research. In addition to this, even if the tools pass the benchmarking, researchers should have a good biological background in their field to tell if anything when wrong during the process by only looking the output(s) of the employed pipelines/packages/tools.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jitendra Narayan</dc:creator>
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