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  <pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:42:42 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Murray Cox's Genomicus Lab]]></title>
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<p>This group interested in modeling genome dynamics in following topics:</p>

<p>---how genetic variation is distributed within and between individuals, <br />---determining how this diversity changes over evolutionary time.</p>

<p>Hence, Cox group work at the interface between biology, statistics and computer science to address questions of outstanding biological importance through intrepretation of large genetic datasets.</p>

<p>Profile:<br />Associate Professor Murray Cox, <br />Inaugural Rutherford Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand,  Principal Investigator in the BioProtection Research Center and Associate Investigator in the Allan Wilson Center for Molecular Ecology and Evolution<br />Email : m.p.cox@massey.ac.nz<br />Webpage: http://massey.genomicus.com/index.html</p>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:05:40 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/34418/spades-hybrid-genome-assembly</link>
	<title><![CDATA[SPAdes hybrid genome assembly]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>When you have both Illumina and Nanopore data, then SPAdes remains a good option for hybrid assembly - SPAdes was used to produce the&nbsp;<a href="https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13742-015-0101-6">B fragilis assembly</a>&nbsp;by Mick Watson&rsquo;s group.</p><p>Again, running spades.py will show you the options:</p><div><pre><code>spades.py
</code></pre></div><p>This produces:</p><div><pre><code>SPAdes genome assembler v3.10.1

Usage: /usr/local/SPAdes-3.10.1-Linux/bin/spades.py [options] -o &lt;output_dir&gt;

Basic options:
-o      &lt;output_dir&gt;    directory to store all the resulting files (required)
--sc                    this flag is required for MDA (single-cell) data
--meta                  this flag is required for metagenomic sample data
--rna                   this flag is required for RNA-Seq data
--plasmid               runs plasmidSPAdes pipeline for plasmid detection
--iontorrent            this flag is required for IonTorrent data
--test                  runs SPAdes on toy dataset
-h/--help               prints this usage message
-v/--version            prints version

Input data:
--12    &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced forward and reverse paired-end reads
-1      &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward paired-end reads
-2      &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse paired-end reads
-s      &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads
--pe&lt;#&gt;-12      &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-1       &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-2       &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-s       &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-&lt;or&gt;    orientation of reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9; &lt;or&gt; = fr, rf, ff)
--s&lt;#&gt;          &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for single reads library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-12      &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-1       &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-2       &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-s       &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-&lt;or&gt;    orientation of reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9; &lt;or&gt; = fr, rf, ff)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-12    &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-1     &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-2     &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-s     &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-&lt;or&gt;  orientation of reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9; &lt;or&gt; = fr, rf, ff)
--nxmate&lt;#&gt;-1   &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for Lucigen NxMate library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--nxmate&lt;#&gt;-2   &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for Lucigen NxMate library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--sanger        &lt;filename&gt;      file with Sanger reads
--pacbio        &lt;filename&gt;      file with PacBio reads
--nanopore      &lt;filename&gt;      file with Nanopore reads
--tslr  &lt;filename&gt;      file with TSLR-contigs
--trusted-contigs       &lt;filename&gt;      file with trusted contigs
--untrusted-contigs     &lt;filename&gt;      file with untrusted contigs

Pipeline options:
--only-error-correction runs only read error correction (without assembling)
--only-assembler        runs only assembling (without read error correction)
--careful               tries to reduce number of mismatches and short indels
--continue              continue run from the last available check-point
--restart-from  &lt;cp&gt;    restart run with updated options and from the specified check-point ('ec', 'as', 'k&lt;int&gt;', 'mc')
--disable-gzip-output   forces error correction not to compress the corrected reads
--disable-rr            disables repeat resolution stage of assembling

Advanced options:
--dataset       &lt;filename&gt;      file with dataset description in YAML format
-t/--threads    &lt;int&gt;           number of threads
                                [default: 16]
-m/--memory     &lt;int&gt;           RAM limit for SPAdes in Gb (terminates if exceeded)
                                [default: 250]
--tmp-dir       &lt;dirname&gt;       directory for temporary files
                                [default: &lt;output_dir&gt;/tmp]
-k              &lt;int,int,...&gt;   comma-separated list of k-mer sizes (must be odd and
                                less than 128) [default: 'auto']
--cov-cutoff    &lt;float&gt;         coverage cutoff value (a positive float number, or 'auto', or 'off') [default: 'off']
--phred-offset  &lt;33 or 64&gt;      PHRED quality offset in the input reads (33 or 64)
                                [default: auto-detect]
</code></pre></div><p>As you can see this is also a &ldquo;pipeline&rdquo; of tools that can be switched on or off. SPAdes takes quite a long time, so for the purposes of this practical, something like this may suffice:</p><div><pre><code>spades.py -t 4 <span>\</span>
          -m 32 <span>\</span>
          -k 31,51,71 <span>\</span>
          --only-assembler <span>\</span>
          -1 miseq.1.fastq -2 miseq.2.fastq <span>\</span>
          --nanopore minion.fastq <span>\</span>
          -o hybrid_assembly
</code></pre></div><p>In turn, these parameters mean</p><ul>
<li>use 4 threads</li>
<li>max memory is 32Gb</li>
<li>use 3 kmer values to build the de bruijn graph(s) - 31, 51 and 71</li>
<li>only run the assembler, not the correction algorithm (for speed)</li>
<li>read 1 and read 2 of the MiSeq data</li>
<li>the nanopore data</li>
<li>put the output in folder &ldquo;hybrid_assembly&rdquo;</li>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/videolist/watch/5380/04-informatics-approach-to-cancer-interview-with-dr-joel-saltz</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:35:43 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/videolist/watch/5380/04-informatics-approach-to-cancer-interview-with-dr-joel-saltz</link>
	<title><![CDATA[04- Informatics Approach to Cancer - Interview with Dr. Joel Saltz]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<iframe width="" height="" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8Kf5EP4LY7k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>For additional information visit http://www.cancerquest.org/joel-saltz-interview.

Dr. Joel Saltz is a Professor in the Departments of Pathology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and Mathematics and Computer Science at
Emory University. Dr. Saltz's research on bioinformatics spans several disciplines.  One project involves applying computer analysis to medical imaging to yield better results for patients.  As an example, a computer program may able to help doctors detect small cancers in a CT scan or mammogram. 

In this interview segment, Dr. Saltz  discusses the informatics approach to cancer.

To learn more about cancer and watch additional interviews, please visit the CancerQuest website at http://www.cancerquest.org.]]></description>
	
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	<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:26:32 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34567/jobtree-based-python-wrapper-to-run-the-genome-simulation-tool-suite-evolver</link>
	<title><![CDATA[jobTree based python wrapper to run the genome simulation tool suite Evolver]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>evolverSimControl</span><span>&nbsp;(</span><span>eSC</span><span>) can be used to simulate multi-chromosome genome evolution on an arbitrary phylogeny (</span><a href="http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/newicktree.html">Newick format</a><span>). In addition to simply running evolver,&nbsp;</span><span>eSC</span><span>&nbsp;also automatically creates statistical summaries of the simulation as it runs including text and image files. Also included are convenience scripts to: check on a running simulation and see detailed status and logging information; extract fasta sequence files from the leaf nodes of a completed simulation; extract pairwise multiple alignment files (</span><a href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html#format5">.maf</a><span>) from leaf and branch nodes from a completed simulation and with the help of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/dentearl/mafTools/">mafJoin</a><span>, join them together into a single maf covering the entire simulation.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/dentearl/evolverSimControl" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dentearl/evolverSimControl</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:28:49 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/videolist/watch/4959/evolution-and-cancer</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Evolution and Cancer]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<iframe width="" height="" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/j3uKOcNwYBw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Air date:  Wednesday, January 04, 2012, 3:00:00 PM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local  
 
Category:  Wednesday Afternoon Lectures  
Description:  There is a broad consensus that cancer is the result of somatic cells having serially gained, by a series of mutations, the ability to grow independently, to recruit resources from the circulation and the stroma, to invade local tissues, and to found anatomically distant metastases, ultimately killing the host. From the point of view of the cancer-causing somatic cell population, this is evolution driven by mutation and selection. Genomics has resulted in a parallel consensus that the central functions of all eukaryotes are highly conserved, not only at the level of individual protein functions, but also complex biological pathways and systems. These ideas motivated a comparison between results of molecular genetic studies of experimental evolution in yeast and the molecular genetic phenomena associated with tumorigenesis and tumor progression. We find some very striking similarities, including recurring genomic rearrangements, alterations of the regulation of specific growth-promoting genes, population-genetic features that affect the fitness trajectories of growth rate variants in evolving populations, and physiological and metabolic similarities derived from the conservation of the basic plan of growth and cell multiplication among all eukaryotes. It is hoped that some of the insights from yeast will aid the interpretation of sequence changes found in tumors, especially in the urgent necessity to distinguish 'driver' from 'passenger' mutations." 

David Botstein's fundamental contributions to modern genetics include the development of genetic methods for understanding biological functions and the discovery of the functions of many yeast and bacterial genes. In 1980, Botstein and three colleagues proposed a method for mapping human genes that laid the groundwork for the Human Genome Project. The basic principle of the mapping scheme was to develop, by recombinant DNA techniques, random single-copy DNA probes capable of detecting DNA sequence polymorphisms when hybridized to restriction digests, or specific fragments, of an individual's DNA. The method was used in subsequent years to identify several human disease genes, such as Huntington's and BRCA1. Variations of this method enabled the sequencing phase of the Human Genome Project. 

In the 1990s Botstein, having moved to Stanford University School of Medicine, collaborated with Patrick O. Brown of Stanford in exploiting DNA microarrays to study genome-wide gene expression patterns in yeast and in human cancers. This required developing a new statistical method and graphical interface, widely used today to interpret genomic data. Botstein also has helped to create, with Michael Ashburner and Gerald Rubin, a bioinformatics initiative to unify the representation of gene and gene product attributes across all species, called Gene Ontology. He graduated from Harvard College and earned his doctorate from the University of Michigan. He worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1967 to 1988; served as vice president for science at Genentech from 1988 to 1990; chaired the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine from 1990 to 2003; and joined the Princeton University faculty in 2003. He has sat on numerous editorial boards and was the founding editor of Molecular Biology of the Cell. Among recent major awards, Bostein won the Peter Gruber Foundation Prize in Genetics in 2003, the Apple Science Innovator Award in 2008, and the Albany Medical Center Prize in 2010. 

The NIH Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series includes weekly scientific talks by some of the top researchers in the biomedical sciences worldwide. 

For more information, visit: The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series  
Author:  Dr. David Botstein, Princeton University  
Runtime:  00:59:58  

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	<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2017 22:23:39 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34867/magic-blast-a-tool-for-mapping-large-next-generation-rna-or-dna-sequencing-runs-against-a-whole-genome-or-transcriptome</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Magic-BLAST: a tool for mapping large next-generation RNA or DNA sequencing runs against a whole genome or transcriptome.]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Magic-BLAST is a tool for mapping large next-generation RNA or DNA sequencing runs against a whole genome or transcriptome. Each alignment optimizes a composite score, taking into account simultaneously the two reads of a pair, and in case of RNA-seq, locating the candidate introns and adding up the score of all exons. This is very different from other versions of BLAST, where each exon is scored as a separate hit and read-pairing is ignored.</p>
<p>Magic-BLAST incorporates within the NCBI BLAST code framework ideas developed in the NCBI Magic pipeline, in particular hit extensions by local walk and jump&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26109056">(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26109056)</a>, and recursive clipping of mismatches near the edges of the reads, which avoids accumulating artefactual mismatches near splice sites and is needed to distinguish short indels from substitutions near the edges.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://ncbi.github.io/magicblast/" rel="nofollow">https://ncbi.github.io/magicblast/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/opportunity/view/5253/pre-or-postdoctoral-research-fellowship-in-structural-bioinformatics-in-padova</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:12:22 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pre- or postdoctoral research fellowship in Structural Bioinformatics in Padova]]></title>
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<p>University of Padova (URL: http://protein.bio.unipd.it/)</p>

<p>A research fellowship is available at the BioComputing Laboratory, University of Padova (URL: http://protein.bio.unipd.it/). A highly motivated and creative candidate is sought to work on structural bioinformatics. Specifically, the project entails the development of novel methods, tools and databases for the analysis of protein structures. The BioComputing Laboratory is a group of a dozen people working on several aspects of prediction of protein structure &amp; function employing techniques at the intersection between biology, medicine, chemistry, physics &amp; computer science. Our aim is to integrate the development of novel methods and their application to biologically relevant problems. We are looking for candidates with a solid Bioinformatics background, programming experience (Python, Perl, C++ and/or Java) and good knowledge of molecular biology (protein structure/function, signalling pathways). Candidates should have a degree with top marks, optionally hold a PhD, and be highly motivated to work on interdisciplinary research. Good knowledge of English, an open-minded spirit, being collaborative and creative are crucial. The fellowship, which should start in late 2013, is initially for one year. It will be commensurate to experience, can be extended depending on performance and may lead to a PhD degree. The successful candidate will be located at the BioComputing Laboratory, University of Padova. Travel support for conferences and/or research visits abroad may be provided. To apply, please send your CV, a brief description of your research background and the names of two (or more) references to Prof. Silvio Tosatto (Email: silvio.tosatto@unipd.it). </p>

<p>Contact Person (Referent): Silvio Tosatto<br />Ref. E-Mail: silvio.tosatto@unipd.it<br />Tel: +39 049 827 6269<br />Fax: +39 049 827 6260<br />Group Web Page: http://protein.bio.unipd.it/</p>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 07:43:32 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41158/carefully-opt-for-human-reference-genome</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Carefully opt for human reference genome]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://lh3.github.io/2017/11/13/which-human-reference-genome-to-use" target="_blank">Heng Li posted several issues with the human reference genomes given in these resources</a> and suggests the following compressed FASTA file to be used as hg38/GRCh38 human reference genome.</p>
<p>if you map reads to GRCh38 or hg38, use the following:</p>
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<pre><code>ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCA/000/001/405/GCA_000001405.15_GRCh38/seqs_for_alignment_pipelines.ucsc_ids/GCA_000001405.15_GRCh38_no_alt_analysis_set.fna.gz
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<p>There are several other versions of GRCh37/GRCh38. What&rsquo;s wrong with them? Here are a collection of potential issues:</p>
<p>More at http://lh3.github.io/2017/11/13/which-human-reference-genome-to-use</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://lh3.github.io/2017/11/13/which-human-reference-genome-to-use" rel="nofollow">http://lh3.github.io/2017/11/13/which-human-reference-genome-to-use</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>biogeek</dc:creator>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:46:52 -0600</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Contract Faculty-Bioinformatics at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology]]></title>
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<p>Contract Faculty-Bioinformatics at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology</p>

<p>Job Description:F.No.11/10(1)/929 Qualifications: Candidates should have Ph.D. degree. If Ph.D. candidates are not available at least Post Graduate degree with GATE/NET qualification is a must. Walk-in-Interview on 19.12.2013 at 2.30 P.M. to 5.30 P.M .. at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology: Bhopal For more details,please visit website:http://www.manit.ac.in/manitbhopal/Year2013/Recruitment/Contract_faculty/contract%20faculty%202013-2014.pdf</p>

<p>For more @ http://www.manit.ac.in/manitbhopal/Year2013/Recruitment/Contract_faculty/contract%20faculty%202013-2014.pdf</p>

<p>Web address @ :http://www.manit.ac.in</p>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2018 04:52:33 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36516/metassembler-merging-and-optimizing-de-novo-genome-assemblies</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Metassembler: merging and optimizing de novo genome assemblies]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Metassembler combines multiple whole genome de novo assemblies into a combined consensus assembly using the best segments of the individual assemblies.</span></p>
<p><span><span>Genome assembly projects typically run multiple algorithms in an attempt to find the single best assembly, although those assemblies often have complementary, if untapped, strengths and weaknesses. We present our metassembler algorithm that merges multiple assemblies of a genome into a single superior sequence.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/metassembler/?source=directory" rel="nofollow">https://sourceforge.net/projects/metassembler/?source=directory</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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