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alluvial diagram

Jit — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 07:31:08 -0500

Alluvial diagram is a variant of a Parallel Coordinates Plot (PCP) but for categorical variables. Variables are assigned to vertical axes that are parallel. Values are represented with blocks on each axis. Observations are represented with alluvia (sing. “alluvium”) spanning across all the axes.

Address of the bookmark: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/alluvial/vignettes/alluvial.html

Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) tutorial

Neel — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:16:23 -0500

The Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) from the Broad Center allows you to view several types of data files involved in any NGS analysis that employs a reference genome, including how reads from a dataset are mapped, gene annotations, and predicted genetic variants.

http://www.broadinstitute.org/igv/

Address of the bookmark: https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/bioiteam/Integrative+Genomics+Viewer+%28IGV%29+tutorial

EFS: an ensemble feature selection tool implemented as R-package and web-application

Jit — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 05:12:23 -0600

The software EFS (Ensemble Feature Selection) makes use of multiple feature selection methods and combines their normalized outputs to a quantitative ensemble importance. Currently, eight different feature selection methods have been integrated in EFS, which can be used separately or combined in an ensemble.

https://biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13040-017-0142-8

Address of the bookmark: http://efs.heiderlab.de/

COSMOS, our workflow management system for NGS data

Jit — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:29:14 -0500

COSMOS, our Python-based management system for implementing large-scale parallel workflows focusing on, but not restricted to, large-scale short-read "NGS" sequencing data is open-access published via Advance Access in Bioinformatics (Gafni et al. 2014). It is also available for download for non-commercial academic and research purposes at:

http://cosmos.hms.harvard.edu/.

Address of the bookmark: https://cosmos.hms.harvard.edu/

Instructions for Creating Your Own R Package

Jit — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 01:22:48 -0600

The following is a step-by-step guide to creating your own R package. Even beyond this course, youmay find this useful for storing functions you create for your own research or for editing existingR packages to suit your needs.

This guide contains three different sets of instructions. If you use RStudio, you can follow the “Ba-sic Instructions” in Section 2 which involve using RStudio’s interface.

Address of the bookmark: http://web.mit.edu/insong/www/pdf/rpackage_instructions.pdf

National Center for Bioinformatics (NCB)

Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:10:49 -0500

NCB is offering M.Phil and Ph.D programs in the area of Bioinformatics. The major goal of NCB is to promote quality training and research in the area of Bioinformatics. Bioinformatics originated as a cross-disciplinary field as the need for computational sections to research problem raised in biomedicine.

More at http://ncb.qau.edu.pk/

PheWAS: R package is designed to provide an accessible interface to the phenome wide association study

BioStar — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 22:06:37 -0500

The PheWAS R package is designed to provide an accessible interface to the phenome wide association study. For a description of the methods available and some simple examples, please see the package vignette or the R documentation. For installation help, see below. ##Installing the PheWAS Package The PheWAS package can be installed using the devtools package. The following code when executed in R will get you started:

install.packages("devtools")
#It may be necessary to install required as not all package dependencies are installed by devtools:
install.packages(c("dplyr","tidyr","ggplot2","MASS","meta","ggrepel","DT"))
devtools::install_github("PheWAS/PheWAS")
library(PheWAS)

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/PheWAS/PheWAS

Senior Research Fellow at NIT, Rourkela

Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:53:13 -0500

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROURKELA – 769 008(ORISSA)
SPONSORED RESEARCH, INDUSTRIAL CONSULTANCY & CONTINUING EDUCATION

ADVERTISEMENT NO: NITR/SR/CH-BIF/2014/30

Applications are invited on prescribed format for the following assignment in a purely time bound research project undertaken in the Department of Biotechnology & Medical Engineering of the Institute.

1. Name of the Temporary Post : Senior Research Fellow-01
2. Name of the Research Project: “ Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF)”
3. Name of the Sponsoring Agency: DBT, Government of India, 4 Tenure of the Project : 12th Five year Plan
5 Tenure of the Assignment : 01 year [Likely to be extended for 04 more years]
6 Job Description : BIF Maintenance and Active Research in Bioinformatics
7. Consolidated monthly compensation / Fellowship: Rs.18,000/- P.M.

8. Essential Qualifications and experience: B.Tech with valid GATE Score or M.Tech degree in Biotechnology/Bioinformatics/Computer Science/Computational Biology
9. Desirable Qualifications/ Experiences: Experience of Programming in PERL,R, Python, Unix and Visual Studio + Knowledge in NGS data analysis work flows ,WGS and statistical packages such as CRAN-R,MATLAB etc.

10. Accommodation : Bachelor accommodation in the Institute may be provided subject to availability.
11. For technical information on the project, the candidate may contact the Principal Investigator at the following address:

Name : Prof. Mukesh K Gupta
Address : Dept. of Biotechnology & Medical Engineering,
N.I.T.Rourkela-769 008
Telephone No : 0661-2462294
E-mail : guptam@nitrkl.ac.in

Eligible persons may apply in the prescribed format (available in the Institute Website)affixed with coloured photographs to be submitted in duplicate along with photo copies of relevant certificates, grade/ mark sheets, publications etc., to Asst. Registrar, SRICCE,
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela–769 008 before 22.08.2014. The cover should be super- scribed clearly the post applied for & Name of the Project.

Mere possession of minimum qualification does not guarantee invitation to the interview.
Candidates will be short listed based on merit and need of the project.

http://www.nitrkl.ac.in/IntraWeb/Jobs_Tenders/Jobs/ProjectFellowship/2014/141707192838_1.pdf

Introduction to phylogenies in R

Abhi — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 02:27:21 -0500

R phylogenetics is built on the contributed packages for phylogenetics in R, and there are many such packages. Let's begin today by installing a few critical packages, such as ape, phangorn, phytools, and geiger. To get the most recent CRAN version of these packages, you will need to have R 3.3.x installed on your computer!

Address of the bookmark: http://www.phytools.org/Cordoba2017/ex/2/Intro-to-phylogenies.html

Studentship and Traineeship in Bioinformatics at Barkatullah University, Bhopal

Thu, 07 Aug 2014 16:57:00 -0500

Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Center
Barkatullah University, Bhopal – 462 026

Studentship and Traineeship in Bioinformatics

Applications are invited on plain paper from suitable candidates for Studentship and Traineeship (One each) at Bioinformatics Sub-Center as detailed below:

1. Studentship: Studentship is for those who have completed M. Sc. Degrees in Life Science.

Number of seats : One

Duration : Six months

Eligibility : Passed M.Sc. degree in Life Sciences.

Fellowship : Rs. 5000/- (Five thousand only) per month

2. Traineeship: Traineeship is for those who have completed M. Sc. Degrees in Life Science/Registered Ph. D. student in Life Sciences.

Number of seats : One

Duration : Six months

Eligibility : Passed M.Sc. degree in Life Sciences/ Registered Ph. D. student in Life Sciences

Fellowship : Rs. 5000/- (Five thousand only) per month

Preferences will be given to person who has experience in Bioinformatics and Computer
sciences. The application along with detailed bio-data should reach the undersigned, on or before 25th August 2014. Both, the studentship and the traineeship are temporary, will be discontinued after the six months from the date of Joining. It may be discontinued in-between without any notice, if the work is not found satisfactory.

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