The symposium will focus on topics in the below mentioned areas.

Topics: Algorithms for biomolecular sequences / structures Bioinformatics databases and tools Protein function Structure based drug design Machine learning Deep learning Large scale data analysis Big Data NGS Analysis Protein interactions/network Molecular modelling/docking/screening Biomolecular structure and function More

Info: https://web.iitm.ac.in/bioinfo2/symposium2020/home

Adapter sequences:
Optimal enzymes for amplifying sequencing libraries.
Quail, M. a et al. Nat. Methods 9, 10-1 (2012).

GAGE:
GAGE: A critical evaluation of genome assemblies and assembly algorithms.
Salzberg, S. L. et al. Genome Res. 22, 557-67 (2012).

KMC:
Disk-based k-mer counting on a PC.
Deorowicz, S., Debudaj-Grabysz, A. & Grabowski, S. BMC Bioinformatics 14, 160 (2013).

Kraken:
Kraken: ultrafast metagenomic sequence classification using exact alignments.
Wood, D. E. & Salzberg, S. L. Genome Biol. 15, R46 (2014).

MUMmer:
Versatile and open software for comparing large genomes.
Kurtz, S. et al. Genome Biol. 5, R12 (2004).

R:
R: A language and environment for statistical computing.
R Core Team (2013). R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL http://www.R-project.org/.

RATT:
RATT: Rapid Annotation Transfer Tool.
Otto, T. D., Dillon, G. P., Degrave, W. S. & Berriman, M. Nucleic Acids Res. 39, e57 (2011).

SAMtools:
The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools.
Li, H. et al. Bioinformatics 25, 2078-9 (2009).

Trimmomatic:
Trimmomatic: A flexible trimmer for Illumina Sequence Data.
Bolger, A. M., Lohse, M. & Usadel, B. Bioinformatics 1-7 (2014).

Variant calling and/or genotyping

• DiscoSNP++ and discoSnpRAD: Reference-free small variant discovery (SNPs and indels)
• MindTheGap: Detection and assembly of large insertion variants
• TakeABreak: reference-free inversion discovery tool
• SVJedi: Structural Variant genotyper with long read data
• SVJedi-graph: Structural Variant genotyper with long read data using a variation graph

Sequence assembly

• MinYS: reference-guided genome assembly in metagenomics data
• MTG-link: local assembly tool for linked-read data
• Minia: De novo short read assembler
• de-novo pipeline: de-novo assembly pipeline (error correction / contigs / scaffolding) for genomes and meta-genomes
• Mapsembler2: Targeted assembly (not maintained)

Managing k-mers & indexation

• findere: simple strategy for speeding up queries and for reducing false positive calls from any Approximate Membership Query data structure.
  • fimpera extends findere adding the abundance information.
• kmtricks: modular tool suite for counting kmers, and constructing Bloom filters or kmer matrices, for large collections of sequencing data.
• kmindex is a tool for indexing and querying sequencing samples. It is built on top of kmtricks.
• back to sequences: Find sequences (reads, unitigs, genes) related to a set of kmers in large datasets, in a matter of seconds.
• Backpack Quotient Filter: k-mer indexing data structure with abundance
• short read connector: Detect similar reads from potentially large read set
• DSK: Count K-mer in sequences

Pangenome graph manipulation

• Pancat: Pangenome Comparison and Analysis Toolkit
• GFAGraphs: a Python library to handle pangenome graph files in GFA format.

Comparative metagenomics with k-mers

• Simka and SimkaMin: Comparative metagenomics for large-scale datasets
• Comparead & Commet: comparison of metagenomic datasets

Species and bacterial strains identification

• ORI: software using long nanopore reads to identify bacteria present in a sample at the strain level
• StrainFLAIR: STRAIN-level proFiLing using vArIation gRaph

General-purpose sequencing data manipulation

• GASSST: long read mapper
• Leon: short read compressor (now included in GATB-core)
• Bloocoo: short read corrector
• BCALM: Construct compacted de Bruijn graphs (unitigs)

 Protein Structure

• A_Purva: Contact Map Overlap solver
• MD-Jeep: Distance Geometry solver
• CSA: Comparative Structural Alignment

Workflow

• SLICEE: parallel execution of bioinformatics workflows

Comparative Genomics

• CASSIS: detection of rearrangement breakpoints
• PLAST: intensive bank-to-bank sequence comparison
• DRJBreakpointFinder: detection and precise localization of excision sites in proviral segments

Initial customers for the HiSeq X Ten System, which will ship in Q1 2014, include Macrogen, based in Seoul, South Korea and its CLIA laboratory in Rockville, Maryland, the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia.

“For the first time, it looks like it will be possible to deliver the $1,000 genome, which is tremendously exciting,” said Eric Lander, founding director of the Broad Institute and a professor of biology at MIT. “The HiSeq X Ten should give us the ability to analyze complete genomic information from huge sample populations. Over the next few years, we have an opportunity to learn as much about the genetics of human disease as we have learned in the history of medicine.”

“The HiSeq X Ten is an ideal platform for scientists and institutions focused on the discovery of genotypic variation to enable a deeper understanding of human biology and genetic disease,” Illumina stated. “It can sequence tens of thousands of samples annually with high-quality, high-coverage sequencing, delivering a comprehensive catalog of human variation within and outside coding regions.”

HiSeq X Ten utilizes a number of advanced design features to generate massive throughput. Patterned flow cells, which contain billions of nanowells at fixed locations, combined with a new clustering chemistry deliver a significant increase in data density (6 billion clusters per run). Using state-of-the art optics and faster chemistry, HiSeq X Ten can process sequencing flow cells more quickly than ever before — generating a 10x increase in daily throughput when compared to current HiSeq 2500 performance.

The HiSeq X Ten is sold as a set of 10 or more ultra-high throughput sequencing systems, each generating up to 1.8 terabases (Tb) of sequencing data in less than three days or up to 600 gigabases (Gb) per day, per system, providing the throughput to sequence tens of thousands of high-quality, high-coverage genomes per year. Illumina says the $1,000 includes typical instrument depreciation, DNA extraction, library preparation, and estimated labor.

https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/47/11/e63/5377471

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/linzhi2013/MitoZ

• Homology-based misassembly correction
• Homology-based assembly scaffolding and patching
• Scaffold merging

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/malonge/RagTag

Following are the list of standalone applications for network analysis:

Arena 3D

3D visualization of multi-layer networks

http://www.arena3d.org

Biana

Data integration and network management

http://sbi.imim.es/web/BIANA.php

BioLayout Express 3D 

2D/3D network visualization

http://www.biolayout.org/

BiologicalNetworks 

Efficient integrated multi-level analysis of microarray, sequence, regulatory and other data

http://www.biologicalnetworks.org

BioMiner

Modeling, analyzing and visualizing biochemical pathways and networks

http://www.zbi.uni-saarland.de/chair/projects/BioMiner

Cell Illustrator 

Petri nets for modeling and simulating biological networks

http://www.cellillustrator.com

COPASI

Analysis of biochemical networks and their dynamics

http://www.copasi.org/

Cytoscape 

Network visualization and analysis. Over 200 plugins [60]

http://www.cytoscape.org/

Dizzy

Chemical kinetics stochastic simulation software

http://magnet.systemsbiology.net/software/Dizzy/

DyCoNet

Gephi plugin that can be used to identify dynamic communities in networks

https://github.com/juliemkauffman/DyCoNet

GENeVis 

Network and pathway visualization

http://tinyurl.com/genevis/

GEPHI 

Interactive visualization and exploration for any network and complex system, dynamic and hierarchical graph.

https://gephi.org

Igraph

Collection of network analysis tools with the emphasis on efficiency, portability and ease of use

http://igraph.sourceforge.net

Medusa

Semantic and multi-edged simple networks

https://sites.google.com/site/medusa3visualization/

NAViGaTOR

Visualizing and analyzing protein-protein interaction networks

http://tinyurl.com/navigator1/

N-Browse

Interactive graphical browser for biological networks

http://www.gnetbrowse.org/

NeAT

Topological and clustering analysis of networks

http://rsat.ulb.ac.be/neat/

Ondex 

Data integration and visualization of large networks

http://www.ondex.org/

Osprey

Visualization and annotation of biological networks

http://biodata.mshri.on.ca/osprey/servlet/Index

Pajek 

Analysis and visualization of large networks and social network analysis

http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/

PathwayAssist 

Navigation and analysis of biological pathways, gene regulation networks and protein interaction maps.

http://www.ariadnegenomics.com/downloads/

PIVOT 

Layout algorithms for visualizing protein interactions and families

http://acgt.cs.tau.ac.il/pivot/

ProCope 

Prediction and evaluation of protein complexes from purification data experiments

http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/Complexes/ProCope/

ProViz 

Visualization and exploration of interaction networks. Gene Ontology and PSI-MI formats supported

http://cbi.labri.fr/eng/proviz.htm

SpectralNET 

Network analysis and visualizations. Scatter plots and dimensionality reduction algorithms

https://www.broadinstitute.org/software/spectralnet

Tulip 

Enables the development of algorithms, visual encodings, interaction techniques, data models and domain-specific visualizations

http://tulip.labri.fr/TulipDrupal/

VANESA 

Automatic reconstruction and analysis of biological networks and Petri nets based on life-science database information

http://agbi.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/vanesa/

VANTED 

Network reconstruction, data visualization, integration of various data types, network simulation

http://tinyurl.com/vanted/

yEd

Creation of diagrams manually and import external data

http://tinyurl.com/yEdGraph/

Web tools for network analysis

APID 

Unified protein-protein interactions from BIND, BioGRID, DIP, HPRD, IntAct and MINT

http://bioinfow.dep.usal.es/apid/

Arcadia 

Translates text-based descriptions of biological networks (SBML files) into standardized diagrams (Systems Biology Graphical Notation Process Description maps)

http://arcadiapathways.sourceforge.net/

AVIS 

Viewer for signaling networks

http://actin.pharm.mssm.edu/AVIS2

bioPIXIE 

Discovery of biological networks from diverse functional genomic data

http://pixie.princeton.edu/pixie

CellPublisher

Interactive representations of biochemical processes

http://cellpublisher.gobics.de/

Graphle

Distributed network exploration and visualization of interactive large, dense graphs

http://tinyurl.com/graphle/

GraphWeb 

Web server for graph-based analysis of biological networks

http://biit.cs.ut.ee/graphweb/

Hubba

Web-based service to explore the essential nodes in a network

http://hub.iis.sinica.edu.tw/Hubba

NetworkBLAST 

Analysis of protein interaction networks across species to infer protein complexes that are conserved in evolution

http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~bnet/networkblast.htm

Pathview 

Tool set for pathway-based data integration and visualization

http://Pathview.r-forge.r-project.org/

PINA 

Integrated platform for protein interaction network construction, filtering, analysis, visualization and management

http://cbg.garvan.unsw.edu.au/pina/home.do

ReMatch 

Web-based tool for integration of user-given stoichiometric metabolic models into a database collected from public data sources

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/sysfys/software/rematch/

SNOW 

Gene mapping on a reference or human protein-protein interaction network that SNOW hosts

http://snow.bioinfo.cipf.es

STITCH 

Resource to explore known and predicted interactions of chemicals and proteins

http://stitch.embl.de/

STRING

Protein interaction networks and integration of data such as genomic context, high-throughput experiments, conserved coexpression and previous knowledge derived from the literature

http://string-db.org

TVNViewer 

An interactive visualization tool for exploring networks that change over time or space

http://www.sailing.cs.cmu.edu/main/?page_id=545

tYNA 

System for managing, comparing and mining multiple networks

http://tyna.gersteinlab.org/tyna/

VisANT 

Visualization, mining, analysis and modeling of biological networks, metabolic networks and ecosystems

http://visant.bu.edu/

Biostrings

The Biostrings package from Bioconductor provides an advanced environment for efficient sequence management and analysis in R. It contains many speed and memory effective string containers, string matching algorithms, and other utilities, for fast manipulation of large sets of biological sequences. The objects and functions provided by Biostrings form the basis for many other sequence analysis packages. Documentation

Address of the bookmark: http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/content/2/1/15?utm_content=buffer25ee0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

De Bruijn Graphs for NGS Assembly
Algorithms for PacBio Reads
Software and Hardware Concepts for Bioinformatics
Finding us in Homolog.us (Search Algorithms)
NGS Genome and RNAseq Assembly - a Hands on Primer
Introduction to PERL, Python, R and C/C++ for Bioinformatics

Address of the bookmark: http://www.homolog.us/Tutorials/