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Eugene V. Koonin Lab

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:01:15 -0600

Interested in understanding the evolution of life. To obtain glimpses of such understanding, we employ existing and new methods of computational biology to perform research in several major areas.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/groups/koonin/

GRAbB: Selective Assembly of Genomic Regions, a New Niche for Genomic Research

Rahul Nayak — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 18:58:16 -0600

GRAbB is shown to be more efficient than MITObim in terms of speed, memory and disk usage. The other functionalities (handling multiple targets simultaneously and extracting homologous regions) of the new program are not matched by other programs. The program is available with explanatory documentation at https://github.com/b-brankovics/grabb. GRAbB has been tested on Ubuntu (12.04 and 14.04), Fedora (23), CentOS (7.1.1503) and Mac OS X (10.7). Furthermore, GRAbB is available as a docker repository: brankovics/grabb (https://hub.docker.com/r/brankovics/grabb/).

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/b-brankovics/grabb

Bioinformatics postdoctoral position at inStem

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 03:18:54 -0600

One postdoctoral position is available in the area of Bioinformatics. This position is available through a highly collaborative project involving multiple labs.

The primary focus here would be to analyse and integrate high throughput data from various aspects of translation regulation including non-coding RNAs, mRNAs and modification of ribosomal RNA. We request the interested candidates to approach either

Dasaradhi Palakodeti (dasaradhip@instem.res.in)
Or
Ravi Muddashetty (ravism@instem.res.in)

Consed--A Finishing Package (BAM File Viewer, Assembly Editor, Autofinish, Autoreport, Autoedit, and Align Reads To Reference Sequence)

Neel — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 07:16:22 -0600

Supports Illumina, 454, other Next-Gen and Sanger Reads and allows mixtures of these read types
Consed includes BamScape which can view bam files with unlimited numbers of reads. BamScape can bring up consed to edit reads and the reference sequence in targeted regions.
Consed is compatible with Newbler, Cross_match, Phrap, MIRA, Velvet and PCAP output.
Quickly takes the user to each variant site for viewing (also available as an automated report)
Overview of assembly can help detect and fix misassemblies
Editing time reduced by the program's ability to pin-point problem areas
Editing is guided by error probabilities

Address of the bookmark: http://www.phrap.org/consed/consed.html

Bioinformatics postdoctoral position at CSIR - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur (H.P.)

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 06:57:17 -0500

Walk-in-Interview is scheduled to be held on the date as mentioned below for selection of Suitable candidates in the following areas under the DBT sponsored projecT on purely temporary basis for the duration of the project(s) or till completion of projects whichever is earlier:

Project Title:
"Exploration of RBP-RNA interactions to reveal the post-transcriptional regulatory impact, and development of related tools and resource server".

Position: Research Associate (1 position)
Age : 35 years as on 02.05.2018
Salary : Rs.36,000/- P.M. + H.R.A.

as per the funds provisions in the respective projects.

Eligibility Criteria :
Essential Qualifications: Ph.D. in any area of Bioinformatics/ Computational Biology/ Life Sciences.
Desirable: Candidate having experience in Bioinformatics will be preferred.

Essential Qualifications: M.Tech. in Bioinformatics/ Computation Biology/ Computer Science or any related area with 3 years of research experience.

Selection Procedure : Walk In Interview

Date : 02 May, 2018
Time : 9:30 A.M.
Venue : CSIR-IHBT Palampur (H.P.)

For more info refer to following doc:

http://ihbt.res.in/components/com_chronoforms5/chronoforms/uploads/Recruitment/20180404125233_AdvtNo11_2018.pdf

Protocol for De novo Genome Assembly using Illumina Reads

BioStar — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 21:42:11 -0600

In this protocol, we address and describe the de novo assembly method for small to medium-sized genomes.

What is de novo genome assembly?
The method of taking a large number of short DNA sequences and placing them back together to create a reflection of the original chromosomes from which the DNA originated relates to genome assembly. No previous knowledge of the source DNA sequence length, structure or composition is inferred by De novo genome assemblies. The DNA of the target organism is split up into millions of tiny parts and read on a sequencing computer in a genome sequencing experiment. Depending on the sequencing system used, these "reads" range from 20 to 1000 nucleotide base pairs (bp) in length. Usually, length reads of 36 - 150 bp are produced for Illumina style short read sequencing. These reads can be either “single ended” as described above or “paired end.”

Why genome assembly?
In basic research into why and how they live, as well as in applied topics, identifying the DNA sequence of an organism is useful. Awareness of a DNA sequence may be useful in virtually any biological research because of the relevance of DNA to living things. For example, it may be used in medicine to classify, diagnose and eventually improve genetic disorder therapies. Similarly, pathogens study can lead to treatments for infectious diseases.

Raw NGS data
Reads can be saved as a Fasta file as text or in a FastQ file with their attributes. FastQ is the most common read file format since this is what the Illumina sequencing pipeline creates. This will henceforth be the subject of our conversation.

In a nutshell the protocol:
Get the sequence file(s) read from the sequencing machine (s).
Look at the readings - have an idea of what you have and what the standard is like.
If required, raw data cleanup/quality trimming.
Choose an adequate parameter set for assembly.
Assemble the data into scaffolds/contigs.
Examine the assembly performance and determine the efficiency of the assembly.

Read Quality Control:
Check the qualiy with fastQC.
Script
https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/42540/install-fastqc-using-conda

Quality trimming/cleanup of read files.
This function trims adapters, barcodes and other contaminants from the reads.
Script
https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/42542/trimmomatic-command

Genome Assembly:
The object of this portion of the protocol is to explain the method of assembling the reads trimmed by quality into draft contigs.

spades.py -1 illumina_R1.fastq.gz -2 illumina_R2.fastq.gz --careful --cov-cutoff auto -o result_of_spades_assembly_all_illumina

A significant range of short-read assemblers are available. Everyone with strengths and disadvantages of their own.
Some of the assemblers available include:
Velvet
SOAP-denovo
MIRA
ALLPATHS

Next step is to assess the suitability and what to do with a draft package of contiguous details for the remainder of the study now. Few stuff you can note about the contigs you just created: They're the draft Contigs. Any mis-assemblies can occur.

Mis-assembly checking and assembly metric tools:
QUAST - Quality assessment tool for genome assembly http://bioinf.spbau.ru/quast
Mauve assembly metrics - http://code.google.com/p/ngopt/wiki/How_To_Score_Genome_Assemblies_with_Mauve
InGAP-SV - https://sites.google.com/site/nextgengenomics/ingap and http://ingap.sourceforge.net/
inGAP is also useful for finding structural variants between genomes from read mappings.

Genome finishing tools:
Semi-automated gap fillers:
Gap filler - http://www.baseclear.com/landingpages/basetools-a-wide-range-of-bioinformatics-solutions/gapfiller/

IMAGE (V2) - http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/image2/index.php?title=Main_Page

Genome visualisers and editors:
Artemis - http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/artemis/
IGV - http://www.broadinstitute.org/igv/

Automated and semi automated annotation tools:
Prokka - https://github.com/tseemann/prokka
RAST - http://www.nmpdr.org/FIG/wiki/view.cgi/FIG/RapidAnnotationServer
JCVI Annotation Service - http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/annotation-service/

Frequent command use for the analysis are at:

https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/38765/list-of-tools-frequently-used-while-genome-assembly
https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/42275/frequent-parameters-for-bioinformatics-tools

Bioinformatics Project Assistant Level II position at CSIR - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur (H.P.)

Thu, 17 May 2018 01:53:17 -0500

Walk-in-Interview is scheduled to be held on the date as mentioned below for selection of Suitable candidates in the following areas under the DBT sponsored project on purely temporary basis for the duration of the project(s) or till completion of projects whichever is earlier:

Project Title:
"Exploration of RBP-RNA interactions to reveal the post-transcriptional regulatory impact, and development of related tools and resource server".

Position: Project Assistant Level II (1 position)
Age : 28 years as on 14.06.2018
Salary : Rs.25,000/- P.M.

as per the funds provisions in the respective projects.

Eligibility Criteria :
Essential Qualifications: M.Sc. in Bioinformatics / Computational Biology or any area of Bioinformatics with 55% marks.

Essential Qualifications: M.Sc. in any area of Life Sciences with 55% marks with Diploma in any area of Bloinformatics.

Essential Qualifications: B.Tech. / M.Tech. in Bioinformatics / Computer Science with 55% marks.

Selection Procedure : Walk In Interview

Date : 14 June, 2018
Time : 9:30 A.M.
Venue : CSIR-IHBT Palampur (H.P.)

For more info refer to following doc:

http://ihbt.res.in/components/com_chronoforms5/chronoforms/uploads/Recruitment/20180516114701_Advt15_2018.pdf

Senior Bioinformatician (Assembly) Moore Aquatic Symbiosis Project Tree of Life

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 00:28:30 -0500

You will have some previous experience with genome bioinformatics or other large scale scientific data analysis, or a newly qualified graduate student with data science skills interested in DNA sequence data. While desirable, previous experience with DNA sequencing data is not strictly necessary for the position. We have a strong publication record and culture of producing open data resources and open source software development. This role requires an investigative and solution-oriented mindset and excellent communication skills to work effectively within large national and international consortia.

More at https://jobs.sanger.ac.uk/vacancy/senior-bioinformatician-assembly-moore-aquatic-symbiosis-project-tree-of-life-458923.html

Applied Statistics for Bioinformatics using R

Neel — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 03:45:39 -0500

The purpose of this book is to give an introduction into statistics in order to solve some problems of bioinformatics. Statistics provides procedures to explore and visualize data as well as to test biological hypotheses. The book intends to be introductory in explaining and programming elementary statistical concepts, thereby bridging the gap between high school levels and the specialized statistical literature

NCBI Datasets pages

BioStar — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 06:29:31 -0500

Update! Assembly and Genome record pages now redirect to new NCBI Datasets pages. NCBI Datasets is a new resource that makes it easier to find and download genome data. Learn more: https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2023/07/11/ncbi-datasets-genome-assembly-pages/ #NCBICGR

Effective July 10, 2023, NCBI’s Assembly and Genome record pages now redirect to new NCBI Datasets pages. As previously announced, these updates are part of our ongoing effort to modernize and improve your user experience. NCBI Datasets is a new resource that makes it easier to find and download genome data.  

The following pages have been updated:

The NCBI Assembly record pages now redirect to the new NCBI Datasets Genome record pages that describe assembled genomes and provide links to related NCBI tools such as Genome Data Viewer and BLAST. 
The NCBI Genome record pages now redirect to the NCBI Datasets Taxonomy record pages that provide a taxonomy-focused portal to genes, genomes, and additional NCBI resources.

During this transition, you will have the option to return to the legacy Genome and Assembly record pages. We will remove the legacy pages in early 2024. 