<![CDATA[BOL: Related items]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/related/27328?offset=1460 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30829/mercator Mon, 06 Feb 2017 04:20:36 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30829/mercator <![CDATA[Mercator]]> Our basic strategy in building homology maps is to use exons that are orthologous in multiple genomes as map "anchors." Given K genomes, the steps in the map construction are as follows:

  • For each genome, obtain a set of exon annotations. These annotations can be a combination of both exon predictions (e.g. Genscan) and annotations that have been experimentally verified (e.g. RefSeq). Ideally, we would like to have these annotations be as sensitive as possible. Specificity is not a concern, as incorrect annotations are not likely not have significant alignments with other gene annotations.
  • Compare all exons against all exons in other genomes and record significant alignments between exons. Currently, we use BLAT to do this all-vs-all comparison with alignments being performed in protein space.
  • Construct a graph with each vertex corresponding to a exon and edges between vertices whose corresponding exons have significant alignments.
  • Identify cliques in this graph. These cliques are potential anchors to be used in the map.
  • Starting with the largest cliques (those that have exons in all or most of the genomes), join neighboring (adjacent in genomic coordinates, in each genome) cliques to form runs. Smaller cliques that are inconsistent with runs formed by larger cliques are filtered out. After the smallest cliques have been considered, cliques that are not part of a run are discarded.
  • The extents of each run in each genome are outputted as orthologous segments. The cliques from each run are used to output the exact genomic coordinates of anchors within each orthologous segment. These anchors can be used by genomic alignment programs (such as MAVID) to do a detailed alignment of each orthologous segment.

https://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~cdewey/mercator/

Address of the bookmark: https://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~cdewey/mercator/

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/opportunity/view/30889/phd-program-in-computer-science-at-university-of-essex Sat, 11 Feb 2017 13:11:36 -0600 <![CDATA[PhD program in Computer Science at University of Essex]]> As part of the PhD program in Computer Science at University of Essex, I am looking for a PhD student in computational and synthetic biology.
The ideal candidate is interested in designing new biological design automation methods for genome scale projects and/or network modelling of genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data.
Candidates interested in developing optimization algorithms for biological problems are encouraged to apply as well.
A summary of the research work in the lab can be found on o this page.

Candidates interested in the position should contact me in advance by email to: g.stracquadanio@essex.ac.uk

The deadline for the application is 28/02/2017; info about the application can be found on the Essex CSEE website.

]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30966/maftools Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:16:01 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30966/maftools <![CDATA[MafTools]]> maftools - An R package to summarize, analyze and visualize MAF files. Introduction.

With advances in Cancer Genomics, Mutation Annotation Format (MAF) is being widley accepted and used to store variants detected. The Cancer Genome Atlas Project has seqenced over 30 different cancers with sample size of each cancer type being over 200. The resulting data consisting of genetic variants is stored in the form of Mutation Annotation Format. This package attempts to summarize, analyze, annotate and visualize MAF files in an efficient manner either from TCGA sources or any in-house studies as long as the data is in MAF format. Maftools can also handle ICGC Simple Somatic Mutation format.

maftools is on :point_right: bioRxiv :bowtie:

Please cite the below if you find this tool useful for you.

Mayakonda, A. and H.P. Koeffler, Maftools: Efficient analysis, visualization and summarization of MAF files from large-scale cohort based cancer studies. bioRxiv, 2016. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/052662

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/PoisonAlien/maftools

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/31209/dial Wed, 01 Mar 2017 08:42:28 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/31209/dial <![CDATA[DIAL]]> A computational pipeline for identifying single-base substitutions between two closely related genomes without the help of a reference genome. DIAL works even when the depth of coverage is insufficient for de novo assembly, and it can be extended to determine small insertions/deletions. Our main motivation is to use this tool to survey the genetic diversity of endangered species as the identified sequence differences can be used to design genotyping arrays to assist in the species' management.

http://www.bx.psu.edu/~ratan/

Address of the bookmark: http://www.bx.psu.edu/miller_lab/

]]> Abhimanyu Singh https://bioinformaticsonline.com/opportunity/view/31520/research-associate-openings-at-iasri-india Fri, 10 Mar 2017 03:53:03 -0600 <![CDATA[Research Associate openings at IASRI, India]]> Research Associate (RA) Two (2)

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics/ Agricultural Statistics/ Statistics/ Computer Science/ Computer Application or equivalent or Master’s in Bioinformatics/ Agricultural Statistics/ Statistics/ Computer Science/ Computer Application or equivalent with 4 years or 5 years of Bachelor’s degree having 1st Division or 60% marks or equivalent overall grade point average, with at least two years of research experience as evidenced from fellowship/ associateship/ training/ other engagements.

Knowledge in System Biology/ Statistical and computational Genomics/ Bioinformatics
Knowledge in computer programming, LINUX OS.
Expertise in use of R/other Bioinformatics software

More at http://iasri.res.in/employment/2017/cabin_advertisement_RA_SRF_YP_Mar2017.pdf

Phenomics of Moisture Deficit Stress Tolerance and Nitrogen Use December 31, 2019

Research Associate (RA) Two (2)

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics/ Agricultural Statistics/ Statistics/ Computer Science/ Computer Application or equivalent or System Administrator/ Computer expert for database development, development of phenome data bank and virtual phenomics facility, data archiving and Efficiency in Rice and Wheat-Phase II (Funded by National Agricultural Science Fund, ICAR) Master’s in Bioinformatics/ Agricultural Statistics/ Statistics/ Computer Science/ Computer Application or equivalent with 4 years or 5 years of Bachelor’s degree having 1st Division or 60% marks or equivalent overall grade point average, with at least two years of research experience as evidenced from fellowship/ associateship/ training/ other engagements. maintenance; Development of image analysis algorithms, APIs and IAPs.

Knowledge in System Biology/ Statistical and computational Genomics/ Bioinformatics
Knowledge of programming in LINUX/R/Perl/JAVA/PHP/JSP and use of various software & tools.
December 31, 2019

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics/ Agricultural Statistics/ Statistics/ Computer Science / Computer Application or equivalent or Master’s in Bioinformatics/ Agricultural Statistics/ Statistics/ Computer Science/ Computer Application or equivalent with 4 years or 5 years of Bachelor’s degree having 1st Division or 60% marks or equivalent overall grade point average, with at least two years of research experience as evidenced from fellowship/ associateship/ training/ other engagements.

Knowledge of Statistical and Computational Genomics/ Bioinformatics.
Knowledge of programming in LINUX/R/Perl/JAVA/PHP/JSP and use of various software & tools.
March 31, 2020

]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/32131/wgs-celera-assembler-version-83rc2 Mon, 10 Apr 2017 04:45:40 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/32131/wgs-celera-assembler-version-83rc2 <![CDATA[WGS Celera Assembler version 8.3rc2]]> These are release notes for Celera Assembler version 8.3rc2, which was released on May 24, 2015.

This distribution package provides a stable, tested, documented version of the software.  The distribution is usable on most Unix-like platforms, and some platforms have pre-compiled binary distributions ready for installation.

The source code package includes full source code (revision 4627), Makefiles, and scripts.  A subset of the kmer package (http://kmer.sourceforge.net/, version r1994), used by some modules of Celera Assembler, is included.  This distribution includes [http://samtools.sourceforge.net/ SAMtools], [http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/jellyfish/ Jellyfish 2.0], [https://github.com/pbjd/pbutgcns PBUTGCNS], [https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/pbdagcon PBDAGCON], [https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/BLASR BLASR], and parts of the [https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/FALCON/tree/v0.1.3 Falcon assembler].

Full documentation can be found online at http://wgs-assembler.sourceforge.net/.

Interesting scripts within it

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Address of the bookmark: http://wgs-assembler.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/32184/metagenomics-assembly-workshop Tue, 18 Apr 2017 04:28:19 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/32184/metagenomics-assembly-workshop <![CDATA[Metagenomics assembly workshop !!]]>
Next 

 

Address of the bookmark: http://denbi-metagenomics-workshop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/32376/diamond Thu, 27 Apr 2017 04:21:54 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/32376/diamond <![CDATA[DIAMOND]]> DIAMOND is a sequence aligner for protein and translated DNA searches and functions as a drop-in replacement for the NCBI BLAST software tools. It is suitable for protein-protein search as well as DNA-protein search on short reads and longer sequences including contigs and assemblies, providing a speedup of BLAST ranging up to x20,000.

More at file:///home/urbe/Downloads/diamond_manual.pdf

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v12/n1/full/nmeth.3176.html

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/bbuchfink/diamond

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/32465/tetra-nucleotide-analysis Thu, 04 May 2017 05:07:41 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/32465/tetra-nucleotide-analysis <![CDATA[Tetra-Nucleotide Analysis]]> A tetra-nucleotide is a fragment of DNA sequence with 4 bases (e.g. AGTC or TTGG). Pride et al. (2003) showed that the frequency of tetra-nucleotides in bacterial genomes contain useful, albeit weak, phylogenetic signals. Even though tetra-nucleotide analysis (TNA) utilizes the information of whole genome, it is evident that it cannot replace other alignment-based phylogenetic methods such as OrthoANI or 16S rRNA phylogeny. However, TNA can be useful for phylogenetic characterization when whole genome or 16S rRNA gene information is not available. For example, a partial genomic fragment obtained from a metagenome can be identified by TNA (Teeling et al., 2004). TNA is also fast enough that it can be used as a search engine against a large genome database.

Address of the bookmark: https://chunlab.wordpress.com/tetra-nucleotide-analysis/

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/32587/ten-international-scholarships-for-indian-biotechnology-and-bioinformatics-students Wed, 10 May 2017 04:51:02 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/32587/ten-international-scholarships-for-indian-biotechnology-and-bioinformatics-students <![CDATA[Ten International Scholarships for Indian Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Students]]> Wherever you go around the world, Indian students are in demand. With countries such as Canada and Australia providing huge incentives to Indian students to lure them to their shores, there are many institutions around the world that offer scholarships exclusively to Indian students. Historically these scholarships tend to be aimed towards Masters and PhD programmes however on the rise are scholarships for undergraduate students. Student World Online takes a look at ten international scholarships for Indian undergraduate students abroad.


1. TATA SCHOLARSHIP - Cornell University, New York State, USA
Tata, the Indian multinational conglomerate company, have a foundation known as the Tata Education & Development Trust which has endowed a multi million dollar sum to Cornell University to provide undergraduate scholarships to 20 Indian students every year.  In another example of supporting American universities, the Tata group also pledged US$50 million to Harvard University in recent years, whose executive management programme Ratan Tata attended in the 1970s.  Read more...  

2. BRADMAN FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP - University of Wollongong, Australia.
Named after Australia's cricket legend Donald Bradman, the UOW Bradman Foundation Scholarship was launched in 2012, with the help of Adam Gilchrist no less, to offer one successful Indian student each year a 50% reduction in tuition fees.  Read more...  

3. HUAWEI MAITREE SCHOLARSHIPS - Various Universities, China
Along with Tata, Huawei are the other huge corporation to be featured.  China's massive telecoms equipment vendor are involved in these scholarships offered to Indian students studying in China.  In 2013 there are 10 generous scholarships available which provide full tuition fees and living expenses.  The courses on which the scholarships are offered include Science and Technology courses, Social Sciences and Culture and Development courses.  Read more...

4. DR. MANMOHAN SINGH SCHOLARSHIPS - Cambridge University, England, UK
These scholarships have been designed to help budding Indian minds follow in the footsteps of Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh by studying at the prestigious Cambridge University.  The scholarships can be applied to any undergarduate course (with the two exceptions of medicine and veterinary science) and cover everything, i.e. tuition and college fees, living expenses and an additional grant to go towards travel expenses.  Read more...

5. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY OF INDIA - Oxford & Cambridge Universities, England, UK
As the name might suggest, these are scholarships available for students wishing to study at Oxford or Cambridge (cleverly known together as Oxbridge).  It is only available for applicants who are completing or have completed a degree at an Indian university, however these scholarships are for both undergraduate and graduate students.  Read more...

6. EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY - Scotland, UK
This one applies to all countries in the Indian subcontinent and is for both undergraduate and graduate courses. Edinburgh Napier University offers a merit based discount of £2,000 Pounds.  Read more...

7. SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY - Sheffield, UK
Provides merit-based scholarships for undergraduate and graduate programmes across all subjects. Read more...

8. INDIA 4EU II - Several Universities across Europe
Pioneered by the European Union and involving partner universities in France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, the India 4EU II initiative is aimed at encouraging Indian students to study, work and live in Europe.  The initiative is well funded and allows the successful students tuition fees, expenses for living and travel costs as well as insurance during their time at one of the partner universities.  Read more...

9. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN - Ireland
Valid for undergraduate courses in the faculties of Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Computer Science or Engineering, the Trinity College Dublin offers Indian students scholarships to the tune of €9,000 per annum over a year degree course.  Read more...

10. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN - Ireland
Another of Ireland and Dublin's finest, the UCD awards one Global Excellence Undergraduate Scholarship which provides the worthy student a substantial 50% towards their tuition fees and is valid for all courses save medicine, radiography and veterinary medicine.  UCD also offers a Global Undergraduate Scholarship scheme for undergrads accepted on science, social sciences, arts and business courses.  This is all thanks to a €250,000 fund that will allow for 57 Indian students to benefit from scholarships at UCD.  Read more...

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