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11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

Wed, 01 Feb 2017 17:39:27 -0600

BIOSTEC, the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies.
Registration to BIOINFORMATICS allows free access to all other BIOSTEC conferences.

Upcoming Deadlines
Regular Paper Submission: July 31, 2017
Regular Paper Authors Notification: October 16, 2017
Regular Paper Camera Ready and Registration: October 30, 2017

The purpose of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of computational systems, algorithmic concepts and information technologies to address challenging problems in Biomedical research with a particular focus on the emerging problems in Bioinformatics and computational biology. There is a tremendous need to explore how mathematical, statistical and computational models can be used to better understand biological processes and systems, while developing new methodologies and tools to analysis the massive currently-available biological data. Areas of interest to this community include systems biology, sequence analysis, biostatistics, image analysis, network and graph models, scientific data management and data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational evolutionary biology, computational genomics and proteomics, and related areas.

CrusView

Jit — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:22:03 -0500

CrusView is a java based tool for karyotype/genome visualization and comparison of crucifer Species. It also integrates an binary version of KGBassembler and a post-modification step for its assembling result.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.cmbb.arizona.edu/?page_id=250

DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data

Jit — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 04:45:37 -0600

DnaSP is a software package for a comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data. Version 5 implements a number of new features and analytical methods allowing extensive DNA polymorphism analyses on large datasets. Among other features, the newly implemented methods allow for: (i) analyses on multiple data files; (ii) haplotype phasing; (iii) analyses on insertion/deletion polymorphism data; (iv) visualizing sliding window results integrated with available genome annotations in the UCSC browser.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.ub.edu/dnasp/

MACSE: Multiple Alignment of Coding SEquences Accounting for Frameshifts and Stop Codons

Jit — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 04:21:50 -0600

MACSE aligns coding NT sequences with respect to their AA translation while allowing NT sequences to contain multiple frameshifts and/or stop codons. MACSE is hence the first automatic solution to align protein-coding gene datasets containing non-functional sequences (pseudogenes) without disrupting the underlying codon structure. It has also proved useful in detecting undocumented frameshifts in public database sequences and in aligning next-generation sequencing reads/contigs against a reference coding sequence.

For further details about the underlying algorithm see the original publication:
MACSE: Multiple Alignment of Coding SEquences accounting for frameshifts and stop codons.
Vincent Ranwez, Sébastien Harispe, Frédéric Delsuc, Emmanuel JP Douzery
PLoS One 2011, 6(9): e22594.

Address of the bookmark: https://bioweb.supagro.inra.fr/macse/index.php?menu=releases

Ideoplot

Shruti Paniwala — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 09:47:32 -0600

Simple ideogram plotting and annotation in R.

Basic usage:

Rscript Ideoplot.R --heatmap hm.bed --annotate annotations.bed --out ideogram.pdf
-or-
Rscript Ideoplot.R --annotate annotations.bed

Options
  --ideobed, i      A bed file of reference contig lengths/chromosome names
  --heatmap, -h     Fill chromosomes with normalized heatmap
                   (described below)
  --annotate, -a    Add character annotations.
  --out, -o         PDF output name.
  --stripes, -s     Specify a file containing the layout of the
                    annotations (description below)
  --bars, -b        Add track annotations
  --reference, -f   Either hg19, or hg38
  --topdown, r      Flag, when set, flips the orientation (P arms
                    drawn on top).

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/mchaisso/Ideoplot

Elastic BLAST !

Abhi — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:14:57 -0500

ElasticBLAST is a new way to BLAST large numbers of queries, faster and on the cloud. Here are the top three reasons you should use ElasticBLAST:

1. ElasticBLAST can handle much LARGER queries!

ElasticBLAST can search query sets that have hundreds to millions of sequences and against BLAST databases of all sizes.

2. ElasticBLAST is FASTER

ElasticBLAST distributes your searches across multiple cloud instances to process them simultaneously. The ability to scale resources in this way allows you to process large numbers of queries in a shorter time than you could with BLAST+.

3. ElasticBLAST is EASY to run on the cloud

ElasticBLAST is easy to set up using our step-by-step instructions (Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP)) and allows you to leverage the power of the cloud. Once configured, it manages the software and database installation, handles partitioning of the BLAST workload among the various instances, and deallocates cloud resources when the searches are done.

ElasticBLAST also selects the instance (i.e., machine) type for you based on database size. Of course, you can also choose the instance type manually if you prefer.

Address of the bookmark: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/doc/elastic-blast/

ABACAS

Surabhi Chaudhary — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:15:55 -0600

ABACAS is intended to rapidly contiguate (align, order, orientate) , visualize and design primers to close gaps on shotgun assembled contigs based on a reference sequence. It uses MUMmer to find alignment positions and identify syntenies of assembly contigs against the reference. The output is then processed to generate a pseudomolecule taking overlaping contigs and gaps in to account. MUMmer's alignment generating programs, Nucmer and Promer are used followed by the 'delta-filter' utility function. Users could also run tblastx on contigs that are not used to generate the pseudomolecule.

Address of the bookmark: http://abacas.sourceforge.net/Manual.html#9._Colour_code

Nucl2Vec: Local alignment of DNA sequences using Distributed Vector Representation

Jit — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 05:45:44 -0500

We demonstrate a novel approach forlocal alignment of DNA reads with respect to reference genome.For this process we have used Skip-gram model for creatingencoding(Nucl2Vec) and k-nearest neighbor for the alignment.With our new approach we have reduced computation cost forlocal alignment , while achieving accuracy comparable to existingdefacto standard BWA-MEM tool.

https://prakharg24.github.io/papers/401851.full.pdf

Address of the bookmark: https://prakharg24.github.io/papers/401851.full.pdf

Postdoctoral Research Position in Bioinformatics in Milan

Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:53:12 -0500

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.

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.
Salary will depend on qualification and experience. Starting date: immediate.

Interested candidates should send to farina.cinthia@hsr.it:

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

4. 2-3 contact names

Harvest: a suite of core-genome alignment and visualization tools

Jit — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 07:16:03 -0600

Harvest is a suite of core-genome alignment and visualization tools for quickly analyzing thousands of intraspecific microbial genomes, including variant calls, recombination detection, and phylogenetic trees.

Tools

Parsnp - Core-genome alignment and analysis
Gingr - Interactive visualization of alignments, trees and variants
HarvestTools - Archiving and postprocessing

Address of the bookmark: https://harvest.readthedocs.io/en/latest/