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	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 01:36:28 -0500</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[BioRuby :Ruby packages for biologist]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>BioRuby is a package of Open Source Ruby code, with classes for DNA and protein sequence analysis, alignment, database parsing, and other Bioinformatics tools.<br />BioRuby project provides an integrated environment in bioinformatics for the Ruby language. This project is supported by University of Tokyo (Human Genome Center), Kyoto University(Bioinformatics Center) and the Open Bio Foundation. The project was supported by Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) as an Exploratory Software Project in 2005<br />RubyForge is a home for open source Ruby projects: RubyForge is a home for open source Ruby projects. BioRuby project was started in late 2000, and is still in progress. Currently, there are over 80 files and 15,000 lines (except comment-only lines) in our source code. This might be equivalent to twice or more lines of other languages because of Ruby's extremely high descriptive power.</p><p>Classes for <br />Multiple alignment (Bio::Alignment), <br />Gene Ontology(Bio::GO), <br />PDB (Bio::PDB), <br />FANTOM database(Bio::FANTOM), <br />GFF (Bio::GFF) and KEGG<br />Orthology (Bio::KEGG::KO).</p><p>They also added support for many applications such as PSORT, SOSUI, TargetP, TMHMM, GenScan, ClustalW, MAFFT, and KEGG API.</p><p>Wiki Links<br />http://bioruby.open-bio.org/wiki/BioRubyOnRails<br />http://dev.bioruby.org/en/</p><p>BioRuby in Anger<br />http://dev.bioruby.org/en/?BioRuby+in+Anger</p><p>BioRuby RDocs<br />http://bioruby.org/rdoc/</p><p>BioRuby Tutorial Website<br />http://dev.bioruby.org/en/?Tutorial.rd</p><p>Why BioRuby Hub for BioRuby<br />http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5915</p><p>Social Coding Hub for BioRuby<br />http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5915</p><p>Bioinformatics on Rails: BioRuby Tutorial<br />http://bioinforuby.blogspot.com/2008/02/bioruby-tutorial.html</p><p>RRA BioRuby<br />http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/bioruby/</p><p>BioRuby Project Discussion Group<br />http://portal.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bioruby</p><p>BioRuby related Projects: Project tree<br />http://rubyforge.org/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=252</p><p>Reference<br />http://www.jsbi.org/journal/GIW03/GIW03P191.pdf</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jitendra Narayan</dc:creator>
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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/opportunity/view/42187/scientist-b-at-aiims-new-delhi-delhi</guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2020 07:04:11 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Scientist B at AIIMS, New Delhi, Delhi]]></title>
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<p>Scientist B at AIIMS, New Delhi, Delhi</p>

<p>Overview<br />Applications are invited from eligible candidates for the following position under Meity funded research project entitled: Artifical Intelligence in Oncology, Harnsessing big data and advanced computing to provide personalized diganosis and treatment for cancer patients purely on contractual basis</p>

<p>Scientist B</p>

<p>Salary: Rs.80,000/-</p>

<p>Qualification: 1st Class Masters Degree in Bioinformatics/ Computer Science/ Statistics with Ph.D in relevant subject from a recognized University with experience in Machine learning/ AI project plus two years research experience</p>

<p>Age: Upto 40 years</p>

<p>Details<br />Experience:2 Years<br />Location:New Delhi<br />Education:1st Class Masters Degree<br />SALARY: Rs.80,000/-<br />Key Skills: Research Fellowship<br />Desired Profile<br />Two years research experience</p>

<p>Company: AIIMS<br />All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi is a medical school, hospital and public medical research university</p>

<p>More at https://www.aiims.edu/en/notices/recruitment/aiims-recruitment.html?id=10844<br />PDF https://www.aiims.edu/images/pdf/recruitment/advertisement/Post_BioChem_22_08_20.PDF</p>
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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/opportunity/view/871/postdoctoral-position-in-bioinformatics-sweden</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:49:57 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Postdoctoral position in bioinformatics @ Sweden]]></title>
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<p>Information about the department<br />The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg has about 170 faculty and staff and is the largest department of mathematical sciences in the Nordic countries. The department belongs to both Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg (for more information see http://www.chalmers.se/math/).</p>

<p>Job description<br />We are looking for a motivated, self-driven post-doctoral researcher to work with large-scale sequence data analysis. The position is for 24 months and located at Mathematical Statistics, Department of Mathematical Sciences in Erik Kristiansson’s research group. We are focused on methods development for and analysis of next generation DNA sequencing, in particular comparative metagenomics and gene expression analysis (RNA-seq). We have strong interdisciplinary profile and are actively collaborating with several experimental groups, especially within the environmental sciences, ecology, infectious diseases and cancer genomics. More information is available at http://bioinformatics.math.chalmers.se.</p>

<p>The Post-doctoral position is an appointment that offers an opportunity to qualify for further research positions within academia or industry. The majority of your working time is devoted to your own research, normally as a member of a research group. Included in your work is also to take part in supervision of Ph.D. students and M.Sc thesis students. Teaching of undergraduate students may also be included to a small extent.</p>

<p>The employment is limited to a maximum of 2 years (1+1).</p>

<p>Qualifications<br />The applicant should have Ph.D. degree preferably in bioinformatics, mathematics, statistics, computer science or equivalent by the start of the appointment. Experience from analysis of large-scale data, in particular from next generation DNA sequencing, is highly valued. The applicant should also be proficient in programming (e.g. Python/Java/C) and comfortable with Unix/Linux systems. Interaction with experimental biologists is central and good collaborative skills are therefore important. Fluency in written and spoken English is a strong requirement. As a post-doctoral researcher you are expected to work independently and to be able to supervise/co-supervise PhD and Master’s students.</p>

<p>Application procedure<br />The application should be marked with Ref 20130126 and written in English. The application should be sent electronically via Chalmers webpage.</p>

<p>Application deadline: September 8, 2013.</p>

<p>For questions, please contact: <br />Ass prof. Erik Kristiansson, Matematiska Vetenskaper, erik.kristiansson@chalmers.se, +46 31-772 3521, +46 70-5259751.</p>

<p>Chalmers continuously strive to be an attractive employer. Equality and diversity are substantial foundations in all activities at Chalmers.</p>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 22:59:54 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Doctoral researcher (PhD) in Computational Biology / Biostatistics at Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB)]]></title>
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<p>Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract<br />Work Hours: Full Time 40.0 Hours per Week<br />Location: Belval<br />Student and employee status (36 months studies programme, as per university standards) with project funding available for up to 48 months<br />36 months fixed-term contract (renewable depending on thesis progress evaluation)<br />Job Reference: UOL03604<br />Further Information<br />Applications should be submitted online and include:</p>

<p>A detailed Curriculum vitae<br />A motivation letter, including a brief description of past research experience and future interests, as well as the earliest possible starting date<br />Copies of degree certificates and transcripts<br />Name and contact details of at least two referees<br />Early application is highly encouraged, as the applications will be processed upon reception. Please apply ONLINE formally through the HR system. Applications by email will not be considered.</p>

<p>*gn=gender neutral.</p>

<p>More at https://recruitment.uni.lu/en/details.html?id=QMUFK026203F3VBQB7V7VV4S8&amp;nPostingID=54876&amp;nPostingTargetID=74639&amp;mask=karriereseiten&amp;lg=UK</p>
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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/opportunity/view/42402/two-postdoc-positions-to-study-multiscale-genome-evolution-and-cephalopod-gene-regulation-university-of-vienna-austria</guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 11:45:16 -0600</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Two postdoc positions to study multiscale genome evolution and cephalopod gene regulation (University of Vienna, Austria)]]></title>
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<p>Vienna Biocenter are seeking two postdoctoral researchers to join our team and work on the ERC funded project "METASCALE: Modes of genome evolution during major metazoan transitions". The task of both positions will be to study co-evolutionary trends within animal genomes and their association with the emergence of new gene regulation. Our group employs methods of comparative and regulatory genomics to study the regulatory impact of transitions in animal genome architecture. More recently, we have identified a major genome reorganization in the "smart" coleoid cephalopod molluscs (squid, octopus, cuttlefish) that, together with other genomic changes, potentially comprises a unique path or mode of genome evolution among animals. We are thus interested in quantifying these modes of genome evolution across all available animal genomes and to test whether their shifts are associated with the emergence of novel regulation (e.g., in cephalopods). One of our main model species is the Hawaiian bobtail squid species Euprymna scolopes.  The tasks of the two candidates will be complimentary and highly collaborative with one position focusing on comparative genomics analyses across all metazoans and the other position on regulatory genomics in the squid. A solid background in in bioinformatics and comparative genomics is highly desired for the first position, whereas the second position will benefit from experience in molecular and regulatory genomics methods such as HiC, ATAC-seq, RNA-seq or single cell transcriptomics.</p>

<p>The postdocs will join an international group and network of researchers at the University of Vienna studying a diverse range of species and questions in molecular evolution, development, morphology and genomics. Our group is also part of the large evolVienna network of more than 50 evolutionary biology labs in Vienna, across several universities and research institutes. Our Faculty will be relocating to a new campus at the Vienna Biocenter in summer 2021 (https://biologiezentrum.univie.ac.at/en/). Vienna is a vibrant historic European capital with a high QOL. Information about postdoctoral salaries in Austria can be found on this webpage: https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/personnel-costs/</p>

<p>Earliest start date will be after July 2021. Initial term of employment is for two years with the possibility of extension. Remote working, at least initially, is a possibility.</p>

<p>Requirements:<br />- PhD degree or equivalent by the start date <br />- Publishing record in peer-reviewed journals or evidence thereof <br />- At least 2 letters of support</p>

<p>Applications including a letter of motivation should be submitted via the Job Center to the University of Vienna (https://personalwesen.univie.ac.at/en/jobs-recruiting/job-center/,<br />job reference number 11615).</p>

<p>Application deadline: January 15th 2021.<br />Application link: https://univis.univie.ac.at/ebewerbung</p>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 03:21:28 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/918/data-mining-in-bioinformatics</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Data Mining in Bioinformatics]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Data mining, the extraction of hidden predictive information from large databases. Data mining is becoming an increasingly important tool to transform this data into information. It is commonly used in a wide range of profiling practices, such as marketing, surveillance, fraud detection and scientific discovery. Data Mining for Bioinformatics enables researchers to meet the challenge of mining vast amounts of biomolecular data to discover real knowledge. In other words, you&rsquo;re a bioinformatician, and data has been dumped in your lap. Find the patterns, trend, answers, or what ever meaningful knowledge the data is hiding. They scour databases for hidden patterns, finding predictive information that experts may miss because it lies outside their expectations.This page Covering theory, algorithms, and methodologies, as well as data mining technologies. Unfortunately life is never simple. In molecular biology, it&rsquo;s becoming more common to generate reams of data then ask someone in bioinformatics to produce an answer. This is exploratory data analysis, one of the most difficult things to do well. Especially if you&rsquo;re thrown in at the deep end.</p><p><strong>Data mining commonly involves four classes of tasks:</strong></p><ul>
<li>Classification - Arranges the data into predefined groups. For example, an email program might attempt to classify an email as legitimate or spam. Common algorithms include decision tree learning, nearest neighbor, naive Bayesian classification and neural networks.</li>
<li>Clustering - Is like classification but the groups are not predefined, so the algorithm will try to group similar items together.</li>
<li>Regression - Attempts to find a function which models the data with the least error.</li>
<li>Association rule learning - Searches for relationships between variables. For example a supermarket might gather data on customer purchasing habits. Using association rule learning, the supermarket can determine which products are frequently bought together and use this information for marketing purposes. This is sometimes referred to as market basket analysis.</li>
<li>From experience, I can say that is one of the most frustrating positions to be in. Data mining is a huge field and can easily be bewildering for a beginner. However, high through-put techniques in molecular biology require, more and more, that bioinformatics is required to interpret the data. Furthermore, people working in bioinformatics generally come from computer science, or biology backgrounds. Data mining, however, involves statistics to one degree or another, which means entering a field that is may not be your strong point.</li>
<li>Excel is fine for creating graphs. If you&rsquo;re serious about data mining though, you&rsquo;ll need something more heavy weight. I use R, free, and with good data mining packages such as vegan and labdsv. For beginners R can be impenetrable, I recommend this book an introduction to R as well as the underlying statistics.</li>
<li>Any of us can rush head on into a land of support vector machines, hidden markov models and neural networks. But coming back to the first point, what are you trying to prove? Always question what are you doing, how does it fit in to the wider picture? Try to regularly review, and keep track of where you are going? This will prevent you from falling into data mining despair.</li>
</ul><p><strong>Data Mining Resources on the net:</strong><br /><br />A laboratory of data mining and bioinformatics is headed by Prof. Ambuj Singh. There are currently seven graduate students in the research group. Our research focuses on image informatics and scalable querying and mining of graphs.For more detail visit:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~dbl/">http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~dbl/</a></p><p>Here are the materials (Lecture notes) from several past courses on data mining and/or Web mining by Stanford: For detail visit:&nbsp;<a href="http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mining/mining.html">http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mining/mining.html</a><br />Statistical Data Mining Tutorial Slides by Andrew Moore The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms. For detail visit:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/">http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/</a></p><p>A tutorial on Introduction to Data Mining for Discovering hidden value in your data warehouse:<a href="http://www.thearling.com/text/dmwhite/dmwhite.htm">http://www.thearling.com/text/dmwhite/dmwhite.htm</a>&nbsp;<br />Wiki Links:&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining</a><br />Bioinformatics with Clementine&nbsp;<a href="http://www.spss.ch/upload/1051192224_inseratClemBio.pdf">http://www.spss.ch/upload/1051192224_inseratClemBio.pdf</a>&nbsp;<br />Causal Data Mining in Bioinformatics by Ioannis Tsamardinos:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.forth.gr/ics/bmi/In_the_News/2007/EN69-4.pdf">http://www.forth.gr/ics/bmi/In_the_News/2007/EN69-4.pdf</a></p><p>Report on ACM Text Mining in Bioinformatics (TMBIO 006)&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sigir.org/forum/2007J/2007j_sigirforum_song.pdf">http://www.sigir.org/forum/2007J/2007j_sigirforum_song.pdf</a>&nbsp;<br />BIOKDD 2002: Recent Advances in Data Mining for&nbsp;<br />Bioinformatics:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/issue4-2/zaki.pdf">http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/issue4-2/zaki.pdf</a></p><p><strong>Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics:</strong>&nbsp;<br /><br />Tools for Mining and Applying Genetic Information in Patient Care:<a href="http://www.biomedtechalliance.org/pdfs/03_03_05/03_03_05.pdf">http://www.biomedtechalliance.org/pdfs/03_03_05/03_03_05.pdf</a></p><p>DATA MINING OF MICROARRAY DATABASES FOR HUMAN LUNG CANCER:&nbsp;<a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.106.385&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.106.385&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf</a></p><p>Towards knowledge-based gene expression data mining:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ailab.si/blaz/papers/2007-JBI-BellazziZupan.pdf">http://www.ailab.si/blaz/papers/2007-JBI-BellazziZupan.pdf</a></p><p>DRAFT Accepted for publication in 'Data Mining in Bioinformatics'<br />Jason Wang, Mohammed Zaki, Hannu Toivonen, and Dennis Shasha (Eds.), Springer:<a href="http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/htoivone/pubs/gene_mapping_by_pattern_discovery.pdf">http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/htoivone/pubs/gene_mapping_by_pattern_discovery.pdf</a></p><p>Data Mining and Text Mining for Bioinformatics: Proceedings of the European Workshop:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rok.informatik.hu-berlin.de/wbi/research/publications/2003/proceedings_ws_mining.pdf">http://www.rok.informatik.hu-berlin.de/wbi/research/publications/2003/proceedings_ws_mining.pdf</a></p><p><strong>Biological Network Analysis:<br /></strong><br />Graph Mining in Bioinformatics:&nbsp;<a href="http://agbs.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/wikis/bg/BNA-5.pdf">http://agbs.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/wikis/bg/BNA-5.pdf</a>.</p><p>Text mining in bioinformatics:&nbsp;<a href="http://agbs.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/wikis/bg/4.pdf">http://agbs.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/wikis/bg/4.pdf</a></p><p>Some datamining books that are available on google books:</p><p>Data mining and bioinformatics: first international workshop, VDMB 2006 By Mehmet M. Dalkilic</p><p>Data mining: concepts and techniques By Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jitendra Narayan</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 09:04:01 -0600</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Bioinformatics in Africa:- Part 1]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>The Institut Pasteur de C&ocirc;te d&rsquo;Ivoire was created by the N&deg;72&shy;511 law of July 27th, 1972 under the Presidency of his Excellency Felix Houphou&euml;t Boigny and Professor Jacques Monod, then Leading of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Pasteur&nbsp;institute&nbsp;of&nbsp;Paris.</p><p>The&nbsp;objectives&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Bioinformatics&nbsp;pole&nbsp;are:</p><p>&bull; Encourage the access to innovations in research and the best exploitation of research data management.</p><p>&bull; Develop&nbsp;the&nbsp;critical&nbsp;spirit&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;researchers&nbsp;around&nbsp;their&nbsp;axis&nbsp;of&nbsp;research.</p><p>&bull; Bring an active help to the improvement of the public health while having for constant worries&nbsp;to&nbsp;feed&nbsp;it&nbsp;by&nbsp;research&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;innovation.&nbsp;</p><p>&bull; Start&nbsp;training&nbsp;researchers&nbsp;to&nbsp;use&nbsp;bioinformatics&nbsp;as&nbsp;an&nbsp;indispensable&nbsp;tool&nbsp;to&nbsp;research.</p><p>&bull; Encourage interdisciplinary creating a network of scientific information available to the researchers&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;institute&nbsp;and&nbsp;partners</p><p>Long&shy;term&nbsp;training&nbsp;activities:</p><p>&bull; To&nbsp;integrate&nbsp;the&nbsp;bioinformatics&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;training&nbsp;programs&nbsp;of&nbsp;academic&nbsp;scientists.</p><p>&bull; Development&nbsp;of&nbsp;West&nbsp;Africa&nbsp;Centre&nbsp;training&nbsp;in&nbsp;bioinformatics&nbsp;and&nbsp;genome&nbsp;data&nbsp;analysis.</p><p>Short&shy;term&nbsp;training&nbsp;activities:</p><p>The IPCI will organize in the month of May 2007 a yearly regional course of initiation and using genome data analysis with the participation of the Centre Biotechnologique de Sfax, Tunisia (Pr Ahmed&nbsp;Reba&iuml;,&nbsp;Department&nbsp;of&nbsp;bioinformatics).</p><p>More at&nbsp;https://www.pasteur.ci/</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 07:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Genomics for Bioinformatician]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><strong><em>Genomics to Biology:</em></strong>&nbsp;<br />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.<br /><br /><strong><em>Genomics to Health:<br /></em></strong>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.<br /><br /><strong><em>Genomics to Society:</em>&nbsp;<br /></strong>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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><strong>Links for the addition material available on Net</strong></p><p><a href="http://pevsnerlab.kennedykrieger.org/bioinformatics/bioinf10_genomes.htm">Genomes and genomics:</a></p><p><a href="http://www.123genomics.com/learning.html">Bioinformatics and Genomics:</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/docs/roadshow_tutorial/strgenomics/tutorial.html">Structural genomics tutorial:</a></p><p><a href="http://www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/Users/Philippe.Gautier/tutorial/index.html">Comparative Genomics Tutorial:</a></p><p><a href="http://www.scfbio-iitd.res.in/tutorial/genomics.html">GENOME TUTORIAL:</a></p><p><a href="http://genomebiology.com/content/pdf/gb-2001-3-1-reviews2001.pdf">Tools and resources for identifying protein families, domains and motifs</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/posters/chromosome/tools.shtml">Bioinformatics Tools</a><a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/posters/chromosome/tools.shtml">&nbsp;<br />Tips, Tutorials, and Terminology for Using Selected Resources in Genome Database Guide:</a></p><p><a href="http://www.doe-mbi.ucla.edu/Reprints/R31%20Strong%20A%20Web-based%20Comparative%20Genomics%20tutorial%20Microbiology%20Eduction%202004.pdf">A Web-Based Comparative Genomics Tutorial for Investigating Microbial Genomes:</a></p><p><a href="http://www.genome.gov/27530225">Free Online Tutorials Teach Anyone How to Use Genome Databases:</a></p><p><a href="http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/circos/?tutorials">Circos to create concise, explanatory, unique and print-ready visualizations of your data:</a></p><p><a href="http://www.igd.cornell.edu/Comparative%20Genomics/Comparative%20Genomics%20Proj.html">Genomics and Comparative Genomics</a><a href="http://www.igd.cornell.edu/Comparative%20Genomics/Comparative%20Genomics%20Proj.html">&nbsp;Learning Module:</a></p><p><a href="http://psb.stanford.edu/psb10/conference-materials/tutorials/compgen-notes.pdf">Computational Challenges in Comparative Genomics</a></p><p><a href="http://psb.stanford.edu/psb10/conference-materials/tutorials/compgen-notes.pdf">A Tutorial:</a></p><p><a href="http://gramene.agrinome.org/tutorials/modules_tutorial.pdf">A Comparative Genomics Resource for Grains</a>:</p><p><a href="http://www.plantcell.org/cgi/content/full/21/12/3718">PLAZA: A Comparative Genomics Resource to Study Gene and Genome Evolution in Plants:</a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VISTA_(comparative_genomics)">VISTA</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VISTA_(comparative_genomics)">:</a></p><p>Software for Genomics</p><ol>
<li><strong>Artemis</strong>&nbsp;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.</li>
<li><strong>Chromas&nbsp;</strong>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.</li>
<li><strong>Glimmer</strong>&nbsp;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</li>
<li><strong>Glimmer</strong>&nbsp;HMM&nbsp;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.</li>
<li><strong>Glimmer</strong>&nbsp;M&nbsp;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</li>
<li><strong>MUMmer</strong>&nbsp;MUMmer is a system for rapidly aligning entire genomes, whether in complete or draft form.</li>
<li><strong>pDRAW</strong>&nbsp;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.</li>
<li><strong>Sequin</strong>&nbsp;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</li>
<li><strong>Staden&nbsp;</strong>The Staden Package consists of a series of tools for DNA sequence preparation (pregap4), assembly (gap4), editing (gap4) and DNA/protein sequence analysis (spin).</li>
</ol><p>For more software @&nbsp;<a href="http://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/926/list-of-popular-bioinformatics-softwaretools">http://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/926/list-of-popular-bioinformatics-softwaretools</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jitendra Narayan</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2021 21:13:47 -0600</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Bioinformatics in Africa: Part5 - Nigeria]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Covenant University (CU)&shy;Ota:<br />Covenant University (with her enriching and growing state&shy;of&shy;the&shy;art laboratories in the area of &nbsp;science and technology, arts, business and social sciences) is presently the Best University in &nbsp;Nigeria (Private University category), based on the recent over&shy;all rating just concluded by the &nbsp;Nigeria &nbsp; University &nbsp; Commission &nbsp; (NUC). &nbsp; Recently, &nbsp; Covenant &nbsp; University &nbsp; has &nbsp; initiated &nbsp; the &nbsp;establishment of a Centre for Applied Biotech, Bio&shy;Informatics and Microbiology (CBBM) to be &nbsp;situated at the University. The institute has been designed to be a Public&shy;Private Partnership for a productive synergy b/w Academia, Industry and Government. The whole concept is still evolving &nbsp;and more details will be release soon. As regards CBBM, a dedicated computing lab is in plan, but even our computing capacity is &nbsp;presently enormous. In the department of Computer and Information Sciences, we have more than &nbsp;250 Pentium 4 PCs set aside for teaching and research purposes. Furthermore, we have several &nbsp;moderate speed PCs at the Postgraduate research lab and our engineering departments and units. &nbsp;Our wet lab facilities is presently minimal (basic for teaching), the Centre requirement as it touches &nbsp;the wet&shy;laboratories is also set to upgrade this to basic tools expected at an international centre of learning.</p><p>University&nbsp;of&nbsp;Ibadan&nbsp;(UIB)&shy;Ibadan:<br />There&nbsp;has&nbsp;been&nbsp;significant&nbsp;increase&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;number&nbsp;of&nbsp;bioinformatics&nbsp;activities&nbsp;in&nbsp;Nigeria&nbsp;(and&nbsp;West Africa)&nbsp;since&nbsp;2003&nbsp;when&nbsp;the&nbsp;program&nbsp;was&nbsp;initiated&nbsp;by&nbsp;the&nbsp;West&nbsp;African&nbsp;Biotechnology&nbsp;Workshops Series&nbsp;(WABWS,&nbsp;http://www.wabw.org)&nbsp;at&nbsp;the&nbsp;University&nbsp;of&nbsp;Ibadan,&nbsp;Nigeria&nbsp;(in&nbsp;collaboration&nbsp;with&nbsp; the&nbsp;South&nbsp;African&nbsp;National&nbsp;Bioinformatics&nbsp;Institute&nbsp;(SANBI,&nbsp;http:/www.sanbi.ac.za).&nbsp;Workshops&nbsp; that&nbsp;were&nbsp;open&nbsp;to&nbsp;scientists&nbsp;from&nbsp;all&nbsp;African&nbsp;countries&nbsp;have&nbsp;seen&nbsp;a&nbsp;very&nbsp;high&nbsp;number&nbsp;of&nbsp;applications&nbsp; from&nbsp;scientists&nbsp;based&nbsp;in&nbsp;West&nbsp;Africa.&nbsp;The&nbsp;encouraging&nbsp;desire&nbsp;to&nbsp;acquire&nbsp;cutting&shy;edge&nbsp;skills&nbsp;to&nbsp; computational&nbsp;process&nbsp;data&nbsp;and&nbsp;extract&nbsp;useful&nbsp;knowledge&nbsp;from&nbsp;genome&nbsp;projects&nbsp;led&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;interest&nbsp;of&nbsp; the&nbsp;West&nbsp;African&nbsp;Biotechnology&nbsp;Workshops&nbsp;(WABW)&nbsp;to&nbsp;develop&nbsp;an&nbsp;agenda&nbsp;to&nbsp;address&nbsp;the&nbsp; bioinformatics&nbsp;skills&nbsp;gap&nbsp;among&nbsp;scientists&nbsp;in&nbsp;West&nbsp;Africa.&nbsp;An&nbsp;increased&nbsp;commitment&nbsp;from&nbsp;agencies&nbsp; like&nbsp;NEPAD&nbsp;would&nbsp;be&nbsp;required&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;provision&nbsp;of&nbsp;infrastructure&nbsp;to&nbsp;establish&nbsp;and&nbsp;sustain&nbsp;regional&nbsp; and&nbsp;national&nbsp;networks.</p><p>University&nbsp;of&nbsp;Ilorin&nbsp;(UIL)&shy;Ilorin:<br />The&nbsp;University&nbsp;of&nbsp;Ilorin&nbsp;was&nbsp;established&nbsp;in&nbsp;1976&nbsp;by&nbsp;the&nbsp;Federal&nbsp;Government&nbsp;of&nbsp;Nigeria.&nbsp; Bioinformatics&nbsp;activities&nbsp;started&nbsp;at&nbsp;the&nbsp;University&nbsp;in&nbsp;February&nbsp;2003&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;establishment&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp; West&nbsp;African&nbsp;Bioinformatics&nbsp;Research&nbsp;Initiative&nbsp;(WABRI).&nbsp;However,&nbsp;progress&nbsp;has&nbsp;been&nbsp;rather&nbsp;slow&nbsp; due&nbsp;to&nbsp;inadequate&nbsp;funding.&nbsp;We&nbsp;are&nbsp;mainly&nbsp;engaged&nbsp;in&nbsp;Bioinformatics&nbsp;training&nbsp;at&nbsp;the&nbsp;introductory&nbsp; level&nbsp;and&nbsp;proteomics&nbsp;studies&nbsp;on&nbsp;various&nbsp;species&nbsp;of&nbsp;malaria&nbsp;parasites.&nbsp;Recently,&nbsp;we&nbsp;became&nbsp;interested&nbsp; in&nbsp;comparative&nbsp;genome&nbsp;analysis&nbsp;of&nbsp;various&nbsp;species&nbsp;of &nbsp;Plasmodium&nbsp; and&nbsp;the&nbsp;comparison&nbsp;of&nbsp; chloroquine&nbsp;sensitive&nbsp;and&nbsp;chloroquine&nbsp;resistant&nbsp;strains&nbsp;of&nbsp;Plasmodium&nbsp;falciparum.&nbsp;Other&nbsp;activities&nbsp; and&nbsp;areas&nbsp;of&nbsp;interest&nbsp;can&nbsp;be&nbsp;seen&nbsp;on&nbsp;our&nbsp;website,&nbsp;http://www.wabri.org,&nbsp;although&nbsp;not&nbsp;all&nbsp;our&nbsp; proposed&nbsp;interests&nbsp;have&nbsp;been&nbsp;fully&nbsp;implemented&nbsp;due&nbsp;to&nbsp;our&nbsp;level&nbsp;of&nbsp;funding.</p><p>Training:<br />The&nbsp;University&nbsp;of&nbsp;Ilorin&nbsp;has&nbsp;introduced&nbsp;M.Sc.&nbsp;and&nbsp;Ph.D.&nbsp;programmes&nbsp;in&nbsp;Computer&nbsp;Science&nbsp;(with&nbsp; options&nbsp;in&nbsp;Bioinformatics).&nbsp;The&nbsp;programme&nbsp;is&nbsp;based&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Department&nbsp;of&nbsp;Computer&nbsp;Science&nbsp;and&nbsp; emphasis&nbsp;is&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;development&nbsp;of&nbsp;algorithms&nbsp;to&nbsp;solve&nbsp;problems&nbsp;in&nbsp;bioinformatics. The&nbsp;Covenant&nbsp;University&nbsp;offers&nbsp;M.Sc.&nbsp;and&nbsp;Ph.D&nbsp;in&nbsp;Computer&nbsp;Science&nbsp;with&nbsp;option&nbsp;in&nbsp;Bioinformatics&nbsp; (Computational&nbsp;Biology).&nbsp;Furthermore,&nbsp;through&nbsp;affiliated&nbsp;departments,&nbsp;the&nbsp;CBBM&nbsp;is&nbsp;been&nbsp;design&nbsp;to&nbsp;award&nbsp;Diploma&nbsp;and&nbsp;Degree&nbsp;certificates&nbsp;in&nbsp;Biotechnology.</p><p>Web&nbsp;sites&nbsp;and&nbsp;links: http://www.covenantuniversity.com http://www.run.edu.ng http://www.uniben.edu http://www.wabri.org http://www.wabw.org http://www.unilorin.edu.ng http://www.wabri.org http://www.asopah.org</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:13:36 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/file/view/2780/life-of-bi</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Life of BI !!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Hmm .. Don't worry you read it right .. this is not pi but bi ... "life of Bioinformatician(BI)".&nbsp;</p><p><span>Disclaimer:</span>&nbsp;This cartoon is solely designed to create humour and fun, not to offend any PI, supervisor or student.</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jitendra Narayan</dc:creator>
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