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LTR_retriever: accurately identifies and annotates LTR retrotransposons and use LAI to evaluates the continuity of genome assemblies.

Neel — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 07:14:31 -0600

LTR_retriever is a command line program (in Perl) for accurate identification of LTR retrotransposons (LTR-RTs) from outputs of LTRharvest, LTR_FINDER, and/or MGEScan-LTR and generating non-redundant LTR-RT library for genome annotations.

By default, the program will generate whole-genome LTR-RT annotation and the LTR Assembly Index (LAI) for evaluations of the assembly continuity of the input genome. Users can also run LAI separately (see Usage).

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/oushujun/LTR_retriever

Google Genomics

Reshma Khatun — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 02:14:14 -0500

Google Genomics provides an API to store, process, explore, and share DNA sequence reads, reference-based alignments, and variant calls, using Google's cloud infrastructure.

Store alignments and variant calls for one genome or a million.
Process genomic data in batch by running principal component analysis or Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, in minutes or hours, by using parallel computing frameworks like MapReduce.
Explore data by slicing alignments and variants by genomic range across one or multiple samples -- for your own algorithms or for visualization; or interactively process entire cohorts to find transition/transversion ratios, allelic frequency, genome-wide association and more using BigQuery.
Share genomic data with your research group, collaborators, the broader community, or the public. You decide.

Google Genomics is implementing the API defined by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health for visualization, analysis and more. Compliant software can access Google Genomics, local servers, or any other implementation.

Address of the bookmark: https://cloud.google.com/genomics/

GMASS: a novel measure for genomeassembly structural similarity

Abhimanyu Singh — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 20:35:40 -0500

The GMASS score is a novel measure for representing structural similarity between two assemblies. It will contribute to the understanding of assembly output and developing de novo assemblers.

https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-019-2710-z

Address of the bookmark: http://bioinfo.konkuk.ac.kr/GMASS/htdocs/syncircos.php

Research Scientist – National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:26:46 -0500

The following post is to be filled up on purely temporary basis under the project entitled "Second phase of Task Force Biomedical Informatics Center of ICMR" under Dr. Santasabuj Das, Scientist 'D' of this Institute:-

01. Scientist II 01
Essential: Ph.D. degree in Life Sciences from a recognized university along with a minimum of 2 years of research experience in Bioinformatics as evidenced by publications in the peer reviewed journals.

OR
Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics from a recognized university.

OR
M.Sc. in Bioinformatics from a recognized university along with a minimum of 3 years of research experience in Bioinformatics as evidenced by publications in the peer reviewed journals.

Desirable:
Thorough Knowledge about In silico genome analysis and comparative genomics.
Experience with in silico identification of novel virulence factors of pathogens, host-pathogen interactions and Systems Biology.
Additional Postdoctoral research experience in relevant subjects from a recognized institutions.

Rs. 44,000/- p.m. (consolidated) plus 30% HRA

Below 40 years

Applications along with Bio-Data containing detail work experience and full list of publications may be sent via email tosantasabujdas@yahoo.com latest by October 27, 2014.

Short-listed candidates will be called via email for an interview to be held at the institute in the second week of November, 2014.

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Integrative Meta-Assembly Pipeline (IMAP): Chromosome-level genome assembler combining multiple de novo assemblies

Jit — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 11:30:41 -0500

Chromosome-level genome assembler combining multiple de novo assemblies

https://github.com/jkimlab/IMAP

Address of the bookmark: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221858

Celebrating Crystallography - An animated adventure

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:59:00 -0500

NEW: Now with French or Spanish subtitles (click on the 'Captions' icon to select). Plus... Watch the French language version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvLu7BOsJhM X-ray crystallography is arguably one of the greatest innovations of the twentieth century, but not that many people know what it is or how it came about. Join us on an animated journey through the 100 year history of crystallography -- from the pioneering work of William and Lawrence Bragg in 1913 to the surface of Mars! Narrated by structural biologist Stephen Curry and produced by animation company 12foot6, the film explores the extraordinary history of crystallography. To date 28 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to projects related to the field and X-ray crystallography remains the foremost technique in determining the structures of a huge range of complex molecules. This film was produced in celebration of the Bragg Centenary and was funded by STFC. Watch more science videos on the amazing Ri Channel: http://richannel.org Watch more animations from 12foot6: http://12foot6.com/ The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://richannel.org/newsletter

Postdoctoral fellowship in Bioinformatics

Sat, 08 Nov 2014 14:41:14 -0600

A two-year post-doctoral position is available in the Biocomputing group of the Sapienza University led by Anna Tramontano to work on either genomics research or structural bioinformatics, focusing on the study of relevant biomedical problems.
The ideal candidate should be motivated and talented, hold a PhD degree, have good programming skills, a grasp of statistical methods and an understanding of biology.
Experience in the development of computational biology methods would be an added value.

Good communication skills and fluency in spoken and written English are required.
Please apply sending a curriculum vitae, the names of at least two referees and a letter of motivation describing past experience and future goals to anna.tramontano@uniroma1.it with subject: “Application for post-doctoral position November 2014 YOUR LAST NAME”

Deadline: No later than November 28th, 2014.
Duration: 2 years

Salary on grant: Commeasured to the experience of the candidate
Contact Person (Referent): Anna Tramontano
Ref. E-Mail: anna.tramontano@uniroma1.it
Group Web Page: http:/www.biocomputing.it

Complete genome sequence of Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus is out !

Jit — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 02:36:59 -0600

Wuhan-Hu-1 claimed at least 40 lives and infected at least 1300 others in China. Cases are now being reported from Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Nepal, France, Australia and even as far as the US. On Jan 10 2020, while news of the first fatality was barely trickling in, the 29,903 letters constituting the viral genome from an affected individual in Wuhan had already been elucidated (even though a few corrections were made subsequently). All the viral genome sequences from affected individuals are very very close to each other. Several are identical and none has more than 5 differences (99.983% similarity). This strongly suggests that transmission into humans came from a single pointed source and happened very recently, between Sep-Dec 2019.

Check out the detail at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN908947

Centre for Systems Biology & Bioinformatics, Panjab University vacancy of Research Fellow

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 06:18:54 -0600

Applications are invited along with complete bio-data and attested copies of certificates of qualifications, experience etc. for the one post of
Research Fellow and one post of Program Assistant under PURSE Grant of the University in Centre for Systems Biology & Bioinformatics, UIEAST, Panjab University, Chandigarh which is tenable till the period of the project

Essential Qualification
For Research Fellow:-
M.Sc. in Systems Biology and Bioinformatics / Life
Sciences with minimum 55% marks.
Preference will be given to NET/GATE/ICMR qualified candidates without fellowship however, candidates who have cleared the Panjab University Ph.D. entrance test in Systems Biology & Bioinformatics will also be eligible.

Applications should be reach on or before 19-11-2014 in the office of the undersigned. Interview will be held on 21-11-2014 in the office of the Coordinator, Centre for Systems Biology & Bioinformatics, South Campus, Block-3, Sector-25, Panjab University, Chandigarh. No TA/DA will be paid.

more at http://jobs.puchd.ac.in/includes/jobs/2014/20141110143634-Advertisement.pdf

BlobToolKit: A toolkit for genome assembly QC

Jit — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:17:50 -0600

Filtering raw genomic datasets is essential to avoid chimeric assemblies and to increase the validity of sequence-based biological inference. BlobToolKit extends the BlobTools1/Blobology2 approach to simplify interactive and reproducible filtering.

BlobToolKit is comprised of four components:

BlobToolKit Viewer allows browser-based interactive visualisation and filtering of preliminary or published genomic datasets even for highly fragmented assemblies.
BlobTools2 is a command-line program to convert assemblies and analysis results into datasets that can be further processed using BlobTools2 and/or visualised in the Viewer.
The BlobToolKit Specification features a formal schema and validator for the JSON-based BlobDir format used by BlobTools2 and the Viewer.
The BlobToolKit Pipeline is a configurable Snakemake pipeline that automates all steps from retrieving public datasets through running analyses and generating a BlobDir dataset with BlobTools2, ready for visualisation in the Viewer.

Paper https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/844852v1.full.pdf

Address of the bookmark: https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/