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Monitor running jobs on Linux server

Jitendra Narayan — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:18:43 -0500

You as a bioinformatican run lots of program on your servers. Sometime the shared server is also used by your colleague. If server is busy you sometime need to check the running programs and want to monitor the running programs as well. The "top" command will come in handy when you need to find out if things are still running, how long they’ve been running, or how much memory is being used.

‘top’ is very simple to run: type

%% top

You’ll get a screen that looks like this, and is updated regularly:

Simple, right? Heh.

First! Note that you can use ‘q’ or ‘CTRL-C’ to exit from ‘top’.

Now let’s read and understand at each line independently.

The first line:

top - 23:00:48 up 39 days, 2 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

The first line tells you the current time, how long the machine has been up, how many users are logged in, and the short/medium/long-term compute load on the machine. If you run something for a long time, you’ll see these numbers go up. Right now, the machine is basically just sitting there, so these are all close to 0.

The second line:

Tasks: 239 total,   1 running, 238 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie

This line tells you how many processes are running. If you are using laptops machines it’s not so interesting because you really are the only one using this machine.

Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st

This line contains the CPU load. The first two numbers are how busy the system is doing computation (“us” stands for “user”) and how busy the system is doing system-y things like accessing disks or network (“sy” stands for “system”). We’ll talk more about this later.

Mem:   49457320k total,    3492174k used, 14535596k free,    1435148k buffers

This should be easy to understand – how much memory you’re using!

Swap:   539356k total,   28332k used,   836562k free,    29862014k cached

Swap is just on-disk memory that can be used to “swap” out programs from main memory. Again, we’ll talk about this later.:

PID USER      PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+ COMMAND
1 root      39 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0   246:57.22 kipmi0
2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S 0.0 0.0   0:00.00 migration/0

And... finally! What’s actually running! The two most important numbers are the %CPU and %MEM towards the right, as well as the COMMAND. This tells you how compute- and memory-intensive your program is. Right now, nothing’s running so the numbers aren’t very interesting, but just wait until we run something...

A computational postdoc position and a bioinformatician position

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:29:42 -0600

A computational postdoc position and a bioinformatician position are available in Alessandro Romanel's Lab recently established at the Centre for Integrative Biology (CIBIO) in Trento, Italy. The positions are in the context of an AIRC grant and are immediately available.

Successful candidates will be involved in the design and implementation of strategies to study the role of inherited polymorphisms in combination with timedependent variables and somatic events on cancer genesis, progression and resistance.
The ideal postdoc candidate will have a PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or equivalent, experience in the analysis of next generation sequencing and high-density array data from human cells, strong analytical and quantitative background and programming skills. Background in cancer genomics is recommended.
The ideal bioinformatician candidate will have a four or five years degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics or equivalent, experience in the management of large datasets, implementation of processing pipelines and strong programming skills. Background in biology/genomics is a plus.
Highly motivated individuals are invited to send a detailed CV, a cover letter describing research interests and experience, and contact information for two references to Alessandro Romanel (alessandro.romanel@unitn.it).

Nextflow: Data-driven computational pipelines

BioStar — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:10:12 -0600

Nextflow enables scalable and reproducible scientific workflows using software containers. It allows the adaptation of pipelines written in the most common scripting languages.

Its fluent DSL simplifies the implementation and the deployment of complex parallel and reactive workflows on clouds and clusters.

More at https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow

Address of the bookmark: https://www.nextflow.io/

Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics at Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Institute

Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:54:15 -0500

Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Institute
Tathawade, Pune 411033.

Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics

Essential :
First Class Master’s Degree in the appropriate branch of Life Sciences / Technology (Tech.)
OR
Ph.D in Life Sciences or in the respective subject area of specialization
OR
Good Academic record with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent grade) at the Master’s Degree level, in the relevant subject or an equivalent degree from an Indian / Foreign University.
Besides fulfilling the above qualifications, candidates should have cleared the eligibility test (NET) for lecturers conducted by the UGC, CSIR or similar test accredited by the UGC and as per the requirements of UGC guidelines.

Desirable :
Teaching, research industrial and/or professional experience in a reputed organization.
Papers presented at Conferences and/or in refereed journals

Note : Application are invited in prescribed form Click here for Application Form
Kindly send your applications to “Registrar, Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Sant Tukaram Nagar, Pimpri, Pune – 411018., Maharashtra, India.” should reach in the University office within 15 days from the publication.

More Info: http://www.dpu.edu.in/BiotechResearchPositions.aspx

Reactome Pathway Database

BioStar — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 02:41:33 -0600

REACTOME is an open-source, open access, manually curated and peer-reviewed pathway database. Our goal is to provide intuitive bioinformatics tools for the visualization, interpretation and analysis of pathway knowledge to support basic and clinical research, genome analysis, modeling, systems biology and education. Founded in 2003, the Reactome project is led by Lincoln Stein of OICR, Peter D’Eustachio of NYULMC, Henning Hermjakob of EMBL-EBI, and Guanming Wu of OHSU.

Address of the bookmark: https://reactome.org/

Faculty post at Zhejiang University

Tue, 10 Jun 2014 03:40:40 -0500

Zhejiang University (ZJU) is seeking faculty candidates for its newly launched, highly competitive and well funded “Hundred Talents Program”. This search covers all colleges and departments at ZJU. Applicants, expected to be about 35 years old, should hold PhD degree, and postdoctoral experiences are preferred for applicants in most fields. Applicants should have demonstrated commitment to excellence in teaching and research at a level comparable to the academic achievement of assistant professor or associate professor in world-renowned universities. Successful candidates must work full-time and are expected to establish internationally competitive and independent research program in cutting-edge areas of the relevant field at ZJU.

As one of the leading research-intensive universities in China, ZJU is located in the beautiful city of Hangzhou. Successful candidates will be employed as Principal Investigators and are qualified to supervise doctoral students. ZJU will offer an internationally competitive salary and the opportunity to purchase university's apartment at a price much lower than the market price, and will provide office and laboratory spaces as well as internationally competitive research startup packages.

Qualified applicants are strongly encouraged to submit their applications electronically to tr@zju.edu.cn. Applicants should include the following materials in pdf format: a comprehensive CV, a statement of research and teaching plan, and a list of 3 to 5 references with detailed contact information.

Contact：Talents Office, ZJU

Tel：+86-571-88981345, +86-571-88981390

Fax：+86-571-88981976

E-mail:tr@zju.edu.cn

New BLAST Core Nucleotide Database (core_nt)

LEGE — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:12:53 -0500

The Core Nucleotide Database (core_nt) is now the default nucleotide BLAST database. Core_nt is also available on the command line. You get faster searches & more focused results.

Core_nt contains the same eukaryotic transcript and gene-related sequences as nt. The core_nt database is nt without most eukaryotic chromosome sequences. Most nucleotide BLAST searches with core_nt will be similar to the nt database. However, core_nt is better than nt for accomplishing your most common BLAST search goals, such as identifying gene-related sequences like transcript sequences and complete bacterial chromosomes. This is because, in recent years, nt has acquired more low-relevance, non-annotated, and non-gene content.

Learn more: https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2024/07/18/new-blast-core-nucleotide-database/

HTTDB - Horizontally transferred transposable elements database

Rahul Nayak — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:07:31 -0600

Transposons or Transposable elements (TEs) are "mobile genes" capable of mobilization from one genomic location to another through non-homologous recombination. As this movement is mediated by its own proteins and does not contribute to the survival of the host that it inhabits, they are known as selfish genomic parasites. Despite their capacity for transposition inside genomes, they can frequently transpose the species boundaries and consequently migrate from one species to another. Such phenomenon is called Horizontal Transposons Transfer. HTT was first discovered by Daniels et al. (1984) when analysing a P element that was transferred from Drosophila willistoni to D. melanogaster. Since then, many more cases have been documented in the literature. Moreover, in the last years, such discoveries have been boosted by the unprecedented amount of new genomes available. Despite the recognition of HTT as a common phenomenon in recent years, it is still difficult to draw major conclusions about HTT patterns, such as where in the tree of life these cases are more frequently found. This is mainly due to the historical bias and lack of studies in many taxa. To date, there has been no easy way to visualise each TE or host species, and should be further analysed in order to provide a more comprehensive view of such phenomena. Based on these concerns, we developed the HTT database to keep an updated repository of HTT events in all eukaryotes, allowing not only TE specialists to add new events and search the database, but also non-specialists. Moreover, we expanded the database to include Horizontal-Virus Transfer also known as endogenization events which is characterized by the stable integration a viral genomic fragment into the host genome.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29315358

Address of the bookmark: http://lpa.saogabriel.unipampa.edu.br:8080/httdatabase/

Faculty Positions at Central University of Punjab

Mon, 07 Jul 2014 23:33:33 -0500

Faculty Positions: Rolling/Open Advertisement Advt.No: T-10 (2013)

Pay Scale: Pay Band Rs.15600-39100 with AGP of Rs.6,000/-

Essential Qualifications for Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors: As per “UGC REGULATIONS ON MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS AND OTHER ACADEMIC STAFF IN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES AND MEASURES FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF STANDARDS IN HIGHER EDUCATION 2010“ and the 2nd Amendments to the regulation issued in June 2013.

For details: http://www.ugc.ac.in/oldpdf/regulations/revised_finalugcregulationfinal10.pdf http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/8539300_English.pdf and University rules.

Procedure to apply:

Application forms along with API form complete in all respect along with necessary documents and application fee of Rs. 500/-. (Rs. 250/- for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/Person with disabilities) should be sent to:

Registrar, Central University of Punjab, City Campus, Mansa Road, Bathinda-151001

For more info visit: http://www.centralunipunjab.com/Teaching/Final%20Details-t10-2013.pdf, http://www.centralunipunjab.com/Teaching/Advertisement-t10-2013.jpg

Last Apply Date: 31 Dec 2014

DEG 5.0: a database of essential genes in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes

Rahul Nayak — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:47:29 -0500

Essential genes are those indispensable for the survival of an organism, and their functions are therefore considered a foundation of life. Determination of a minimal gene set needed to sustain a life form, a fundamental question in biology, plays a key role in the emerging field, synthetic biology.

DEG is freely available at the website http://tubic.tju.edu.cn/deg or http://www.essentialgene.org.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.essentialgene.org/