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JRF in Bioinformatics @ Bioinformatics Centre, North-Eastern Hill University

Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:24:05 -0600

Applications with complete bio-data are invited for JRF (3) and Project Assistant (1) in a DBT project "Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)-based de novo assembly of expressed transcripts and genome information of Orchids in North-East India" sanctioned for a period of 3 years.

Details are available at www.nehu.ac.in and www.bicnehu.ac.in.

Applications must reach the undersigned within 15 days from the date of publication of this advertisement.

Prof. Pramod Tandon. PI/Mr. Devendra Kumar Biswal (Co-PI)

MIT Computational Biology Group

Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:47:01 -0600

My research group consists primarily of computer science graduate students and postdocs with expertise in algorithms, statistical inferences and machine learning, and sharing a passion for understanding fundamental biological problems.

We work in a highly interdisciplinary environment at the interface of Computer Science and Biology. Since its inception, our lab has eagerly engaged in collaborative research partnerships with biological and experimental collaborators, facilitated by our affiliation with the Broad Institute and the Computational and Systems Biology initiative (CSBi) at MIT, our participation in the Epigenome Roadmap, ENCODE, and modENCODE consortia, and by several other ongoing collaborations at MIT, Harvard, and the Harvard Medical School affiliated hospitals.

http://compbio.mit.edu/

Affy has acquired Eureka Genomics for 15M $

Martin Jones — Wed, 20 May 2015 15:11:20 -0500

Affymetrix Acquires Assets Of Eureka Genomics Corporation To Provide High Throughput And Economical Crop And Animal Genotyping

http://www.thestreet.com/story/13151062/1/affymetrix-acquires-assets-of-eureka-genomics-corporation-to-provide-high-throughput-and-economical-crop-and-animal-genotyping.html

Alessandra Carbone Lab

Tue, 26 May 2015 08:54:34 -0500

Our group works on various problems connected with the functioning and evolution of biological systems. We use mathematical tools, coming from statistics and combinatorics, algorithmic tools and molecular physics tools to study basic principles of cellular functioning starting from genomic data. We run several projects in parallel, all aiming at understanding the basic principles of evolution and co-evolution of molecular structures in the cell. They are intimately linked to each other.

Our main research themes are:

Domain annotation and metagenomics
Transcriptomics and sequence analysis
Protein evolution and interactions
Protein conformational dynamics

More at http://www.lcqb.upmc.fr/AnalGenom/home.html

X. Shirley Liu Lab

Tue, 26 May 2015 17:28:23 -0500

The research in our laboratories are focused on the following three areas:

Bioinformatics
Cancer
Epigenetics

More at http://liulab.dfci.harvard.edu/

Ensembl 27

Jit — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:10:36 -0500

What is new?

Expansion of Protists and Fungi with hundreds of annotated genomes
Variation data for bread wheat, rice, Aedes aegypti, and Ixodes scapularis
Whole genome alignments for O. longistaminata and T. cacao
Non-coding RNA gene models in Bacteria
New assembly of tomato (version 2.50)
Full support for UCSC Track Hub format for hosting your own data in Ensembl

More at http://www.ensembl.info/blog/2015/06/16/ensembl-genomes-release-27-is-out/

BISR Jaipur

Tue, 07 Jul 2015 23:12:26 -0500

The Bioinformatics Centre at BISR has created an infrastructure for providing facilities to the users working in the field of Biological Sciences. The users of Rajasthan, Jaipur in particular, are using facilities available at the Bioinformatics Centre extensively. The centre has leased line Internet connection as well latest Bioinformatics software for sequence and structure analysis. The centre provides the following services:

Bioinformatics supports to researchers
Customized training in Bioinformatics for researchers and faculty members
Support in Installing, implementing and maintaining software on computer.
Create awareness for taking preventive measure against data security
Organize workshops on thrust ares of Bioinformatics
Research Training to students of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics

More at http://bioinfo.bisr.res.in/index.php

liftover

Jitendra Narayan — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:45:03 -0600

Convenient conversions between genome assemblie. The liftover package makes it easy to remap genomic coordinates to a different genome assembly.

More at https://github.com/aaronwolen/liftover

https://www.bioconductor.org/help/workflows/liftOver/

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/aaronwolen/liftover

Comparative genomics educational material and papers bookmarks

Jit — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 16:23:30 -0600

Alignment of the porcine genome against seven other mammalian genomes (Supplementary Information) identified homologous synteny blocks (HSBs). Using porcine HSBs and stringent filtering criteria, 192 pig-specific evolutionary breakpoint regions (EBRs) were located. The number of porcine EBRs is comparable to the number of bovine-lineage-specific EBRs (100) reported earlier using a slightly lower resolution (500 kilobases (kb)), indicating that both lineages evolved with an average rate of ~2.1 large-scale rearrangements per million years after the divergence from a common cetartiodactyl ancestor ~60 Myr ago². This rate compares to ~1.9 rearrangements per million years within the primate lineage (Supplementary Table 11). A total of 20 and 18 cetartiodactyl EBRs (shared by pigs and cattle) were detected using the pig and human genomes as a reference, respectively.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v491/n7424/abs/nature11622.html

Genomics for Bioinformatician

Jitendra Narayan — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 07:03:00 -0500

Genomics is the study of the genomes of organisms. The field includes intensive efforts to determine the entire DNA sequence of organisms and fine-scale genetic mapping efforts. The field also includes studies of intragenomic phenomena such as heterosis, epistasis, pleiotropy and other interactions between loci and alleles within the genome. In contrast, the investigation of the roles and functions of single genes is a primary focus of molecular biology or genetics and is a common topic of modern medical and biological research. Research of single genes does not fall into the definition of genomics unless the aim of this genetic, pathway, and functional information analysis is to elucidate its effect on, place in, and response to the entire genome's networks.

Genomics was established by Fred Sanger when he first sequenced the complete genomes of a virus and a mitochondrion. His group established techniques of sequencing, genome mapping, data storage, and bioinformatic analyses in the 1970-1980s. A major branch of genomics is still concerned with sequencing the genomes of various organisms, but the knowledge of full genomes has created the possibility for the field of functional genomics, mainly concerned with patterns of gene expression during various conditions. The most important tools here are microarrays and bioinformatics. Study of the full set of proteins in a cell type or tissue, and the changes during various conditions, is called proteomics. A related concept is materiomics, which is defined as the study of the material properties of biological materials (e.g. hierarchical protein structures and materials, mineralized biological tissues, etc.) and their effect on the macroscopic function and failure in their biological context, linking processes, structure and properties at multiple scales through a materials science approach. The actual term 'genomics' is thought to have been coined by Dr. Tom Roderick, a geneticist at the Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME) over beer at a meeting held in Maryland on the mapping of the human genome in 1986.

The outcome of almost two years of intense discussions with literally hundreds of scientists and members of the public, has three major areas of focus: Genomics to Biology, Genomics to Health, and Genomics to Society.

Genomics to Biology:
The human genome sequence provides foundational information that now will allow development of a comprehensive catalog of all of the genome's components, determination of the function of all human genes, and deciphering of how genes and proteins work together in pathways and networks.

Genomics to Health:
Completion of the human genome sequence offers a unique opportunity to understand the role of genetic factors in health and disease, and to apply that understanding rapidly to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. This opportunity will be realized through such genomics-based approaches as identification of genes and pathways and determining how they interact with environmental factors in health and disease, more precise prediction of disease susceptibility and drug response, early detection of illness, and development of entirely new therapeutic approaches.

Genomics to Society:
Just as the HGP has spawned new areas of research in basic biology and in health, it has created new opportunities in exploring the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of such work. These include defining policy options regarding the use of genomic information in both medical and non-medical settings and analysis of the impact of genomics on such concepts as race, ethnicity, kinship, individual and group identity, health, disease, and "normality" for traits and behaviors.

This vision for the future of genomics is not just about the NHGRI. It encompasses the whole field of genomics, including the work of all the other Institutes and Centers at the NIH and of a number of other federal agencies. All of the NIH Institutes are already taking full advantage of the sequence and will apply its data to the better understanding of both rare and common diseases, almost all of which have a genetic component. A recent example of the way that the HGP and the knowledge and new technologies it has spawned are already facilitating science is the extremely rapid sequencing by groups in Canada and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta of the genome of the virus that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The sequencing of the SARS virus genome provides insight into this new and deadly disease at a speed never before possible in science. In turn, this should lead to the rapid development of diagnostic tests and, in time, vaccines and effective treatments.

Links for the addition material available on Net

Genomes and genomics:

Bioinformatics and Genomics:

Structural genomics tutorial:

Comparative Genomics Tutorial:

GENOME TUTORIAL:

Tools and resources for identifying protein families, domains and motifs

Bioinformatics Tools
Tips, Tutorials, and Terminology for Using Selected Resources in Genome Database Guide:

A Web-Based Comparative Genomics Tutorial for Investigating Microbial Genomes:

Free Online Tutorials Teach Anyone How to Use Genome Databases:

Circos to create concise, explanatory, unique and print-ready visualizations of your data:

Genomics and Comparative Genomics Learning Module:

Computational Challenges in Comparative Genomics

A Tutorial:

A Comparative Genomics Resource for Grains:

PLAZA: A Comparative Genomics Resource to Study Gene and Genome Evolution in Plants:

VISTA :

Software for Genomics

Artemis Artemis is a free genome viewer and annotation tool that allows visualization of sequence features and the results of analyses within the context of the sequence, and its six-frame translation.
Chromas It will display and prints chromatogram files from ABI automated DNA sequencers, and Staden SCF files which the analysis programs for ALF, Li-Cor and Visible Genetics OpenGene sequencers can create.
Glimmer A system for finding genes in microbial DNA, especially the genomes of bacteria and archaea.Glimmer (Gene Locator and Interpolated Markov Modeler) uses interpolated Markov models (IMMs) to identify the coding regions and distinguish them from noncoding DN
Glimmer HMM A fast and accurate gene finder based on a GHMM architecture, developed specifically for eukaryotes. It incorporates splice site models adapted from the GeneSplicer program and uses interpolated Markov models for evaluating the coding regions.
Glimmer M A gene finder derived from Glimmer, but developed specifically for eukaryotes. It is based on a dynamic programming algorithm that considers all combinations of possible exons for inclusion in a gene model and chooses the best of these combinations. The d
MUMmer MUMmer is a system for rapidly aligning entire genomes, whether in complete or draft form.
pDRAW pDRAW32 is being developed as a free time hobby project. It is far from finished, but as it has reached a point where it could be helpful for many labs, it is now available to the scientific community.
Sequin Sequin is a stand-alone software tool developed by the NCBI for submitting and updating entries to the GenBank, EMBL, or DDBJ sequence databases. It is capable of handling simple submissions that contain a single short mRNA sequence, and complex submissio
Staden The Staden Package consists of a series of tools for DNA sequence preparation (pregap4), assembly (gap4), editing (gap4) and DNA/protein sequence analysis (spin).

For more software @ http://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/926/list-of-popular-bioinformatics-softwaretools