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20th International BioInformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME)

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 01:39:45 -0600

20th International BioInformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME)
9 - 14 August 2015 St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Organiser: Christine Carrington (University of the West Indies - UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago)
Co-organisers: Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Philippe Lemey (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), Marco Salemi, Mattia Prosperi (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA) and Karen E. Nelson (J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, USA)

Requests for information directly to:
Christine Carrington
Department of Preclinical Sciences
Faculty of Medical Sciences
University of the West Indies (UWI)
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
Telephone: +1-868-6452640 ext. 5009, +1-868-6848803
Fax: +1-868-6621873
E-mail: veme2015@sta.uwi.edu

Deadline for receipt of applications by local organiser: 15 March 2015
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN
http://www.icgeb.org/course-application-trinidad-and-tobago-2015.html

http://rega.kuleuven.be/cev/veme-workshop/2015

Genetic code - Amino Acid

Poonam Mahapatra — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 07:45:58 -0500

The genetic code consists of 64 triplets of nucleotides. These triplets are called codons.With three exceptions, each codon encodes for one of the 20 amino acids used in the synthesis of proteins. That produces some redundancy in the code: most of the amino acids being encoded by more than one codon.

The image summarise all in one.

More at http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/Codons.html

WuXi has acquired NextCODE Health

Pranjali Yadav — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:17:35 -0600

Shanghai, China-headquartered pharmatech company WuXi (NYSE: WX) has acquired NextCODE Health, a genomic analysis and bioinformatics company based in the USA.

The acquisition was made for $65 million in cash, and WuXi plans to merge its genome center with NextCODE Health to form a new company, WuXi NextCODE Genomics. The business will be headquartered in Shanghai and have operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Reykjavik, Iceland.

With the huge unmet medical needs in diseases with a genetic component and the rapid advances in genomics and bioinformatics, now is the right time for WuXi to make a strategic investment in this field, and NextCODE is the right partner. This new venture of WuXi NextCODE Genomics will create important new genomic and bioinformatic products and services to help make personalized treatment and medicine a reality. It will also enable doctors to provide better treatments to patients.

SIMBA: a web tool for managing bacterial genome assembly generated by Ion PGM sequencing technology

Abhimanyu Singh — Tue, 23 May 2017 05:28:56 -0500

SIMBA, SImple Manager for Bacterial Assemblies, is a Web interface for managing assembly projects of bacterial genomes. SIMBA was created to assist bioinformaticians to assemble bacterial genomes sequenced with NextGeneration Sequencing (NGS) platforms quickly, easily and effectively. SIMBA also is open source tool, i.e., can be freely downloaded, shared and modified.

https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-016-1344-7

Address of the bookmark: http://ufmg-simba.sourceforge.net/

RA Bioinformatics at CIBA

Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:23:18 -0600

Recruitment The following posts are to be filled purely on temporary basis under CIBA Component of “Centre for Agricultural Bioinformatics (CABin)” project at this Institute.

Posts Research Associate

Date & Time of Interview 18th Feb 2015 at 10.00 a.m.

Project Name “Centre for Agricultural Bioinformatics (CABin)”

Duration 12th Plan (2012-2017) / co-terminus with the project 12th Plan (2012-2017) / co-terminus with the project

Essential Qualification Ph.d / M.Sc./ M.Phil (Bioinformatics) With 1st division or 60% marks or equivalent overall grade point average with at least two years of research experience in the relevant subject.

Technician

B.Tech. or Master degree in computer science/Computer Engineering /MCA or equivalent. Desirable qualification: Experience in Java/ C++/ PHP/ PERL/ Python etc. based application development using Linux, Apache and MySQL/Oracle.

Emoluments Rs.24000/- p.m. + 30% HRA for Ph.D holders / Rs.23000/- p.m. + 30% HRA for Master Degree holders A consolidated pay Rs.25000/- per month.

Age Limit Maximum 40 years for men and 45 years for women as on date of interview.

Age limits are relaxable for SC / ST / OBC candidates as per rules.

Maximum 40 years for men and 45 years for women as on date of interview.

Age limits are relaxable for SC / ST / OBC candidates as per rules.

Eligible Candidates may send their Curriculum Vitae along with the contact numbers to ashok@ciba.res.in on or before 13-02-2015.

Candidates selected after initial screening will be called for interview.

Advertisement: www.ciba.res.in/attachments/jobs/CABin-3006.pdf

Meraculous: De Novo Genome Assembly with Short Paired-End Reads

Jit — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 04:36:10 -0600

We describe a new algorithm, meraculous, for whole genome assembly of deep paired-end short reads, and apply it to the assembly of a dataset of paired 75-bp Illumina reads derived from the 15.4 megabase genome of the haploid yeast Pichia stipitis. More than 95% of the genome is recovered, with no errors; half the assembled sequence is in contigs longer than 101 kilobases and in scaffolds longer than 269 kilobases. Incorporating fosmid ends recovers entire chromosomes. Meraculous relies on an efficient and conservative traversal of the subgraph of the k-mer (deBruijn) graph of oligonucleotides with unique high quality extensions in the dataset, avoiding an explicit error correction step as used in other short-read assemblers. A novel memory-efficient hashing scheme is introduced. The resulting contigs are ordered and oriented using paired reads separated by ∼280 bp or ∼3.2 kbp, and many gaps between contigs can be closed using paired-end placements. Practical issues with the dataset are described, and prospects for assembling larger genomes are discussed.

Address of the bookmark: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3158087/

Postdoctoral Researcher at Department of Biotechnology, Catholic University of Daegu, Kyungsan, Kyungbuk, South Korea.

Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:11:16 -0600

Applications are invited from Indian nationals for a Post Doctoral position at Molecular Medical Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Catholic University of Daegu, Kyungsan, Kyungbuk, South Korea.

Qualification required: PhD in Life Sciences/ Molecular Biology/ Bioinformatics or related discipline.

Desirable Qualification:

1. Candidates having experience in molecular biology techniques and must be well versed with bioinformatics tool or expert in relevant fields will be preferred.
2. The candidate should have good communication skill, knowledge about designing experiments and analyzing data.
3. Sense of initiative, autonomy, organization and thoroughness, good relation qualities.
Remuneration: 2000USD per month.

Last date of submitting the complete applications furnishing Bio-data is 10th February, 2015.

Interested candidates should send their resume including all personal as well as academic details to the principal investigator Prof Seung-Won Park (email:microsw@cu.ac.kr)

The shortlisted candidates will be intimated within February 2015.

funannotate: Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline

Jit — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 07:47:22 -0500

Funannotate is a genome prediction, annotation, and comparison software package. It was originally written to annotate fungal genomes (small eukaryotes ~ 30 Mb genomes), but has evolved over time to accomodate larger genomes. The impetus for this software package was to be able to accurately and easily annotate a genome for submission to NCBI GenBank. Existing tools (such as Maker) require significant manually editing to comply with GenBank submission rules, thus funannotate is aimed at simplifying the genome submission process.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/nextgenusfs/funannotate

Research Associate NBFGR - Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Thu, 28 May 2015 19:37:22 -0500

NBFGR, Lucknow is recruiting Bioinformatics experts for the post of Research Associate

Name of Position : Research Associate
No of Post : One
Desired candidate Profile : Candidate should be PhD in Bioinformatics or equivalent or Post-Graduation Bioinformatics with 1st division or 60% marks. Preference will be given to candidates having experience in server management
Remuneration : Rs 24000/- pm + HRA for PhD holders
Age requirement- 40 years (5 years relaxation for SC/ST/women candidates and 3 years for OBC candidates) as on date of interview.

How to apply- Interested candidates can walk -in-interview on 30.05.2015 at 10:00 hrs at National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow.

Ref- http://www.nbfgr.res.in/PDF/News%20&%20Events/Walk%20in%20interview%20on%2030.05.2015.pdf

Earth BioGenome Project

Jit — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 07:48:56 -0500

The central goal of the Earth BioGenome Project is to understand the evolution and organization of life on our planet by sequencing and functionally annotating the genomes of 1.5 million known species of eukaryotes, a massive group that includes plants, animals, fungi and other organisms whose cells have a nucleus that houses their chromosomal DNA. To date, the genomes of less than 0.2 percent of eukaryotic species have been sequenced.

More at https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/earth-biogenome-project-aims-sequence-dna-all-complex-life