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DNA Replication Process [3D Animation]

Sat, 10 May 2014 04:41:22 -0500

See an organised list of all the animations: http://doctorprodigious.wordpress.com/hd-animations/

Computational Biology Summer Research Programme

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 23:38:44 -0600

IMSc has a limited programme for highly motivated bachelors and masters students interested in research in the areas of Theoretical Physics, Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science and Computational Biology to visit the Institute over their summer vacation. In addition, IMSc also accepts students through the summer program organized by the joint Indian Academies of Science.
General Structure
This is a limited programme, depending on the availability of infrastructure and faculty advisors. We typically select about 25 students across disciplines although this number varies a bit from year to year. These visits typically span 6-8 weeks during the summer (May-July). There is also a provision for a 4-6 month visit, typically during January-April or August-November for extended project work.

Qualifications
Students currently in their pre-final or final year of BSc/BE/BTech or first year MSc/ME/MTech or equivalent with a good academic record are encouraged to apply through IMSc's formal application process.

To apply through the summer program jointly organized by the Academies of Science, please check the Indian Academy of Sciences for their application process: http://web-japps.ias.ac.in:8080/fellowship2018/index.html.
Stipend
Selected students will be paid 2nd class round trip train fare plus Rs.200 per diem. Accommodation will be provided in the hostel during summer, subject to availability. Since our ability to provide accomodation is often limited, we suggest that students also explore alternative possibilities for stay in Chennai. Accommodation will not be provided for longer visits.

Application Process
To apply for our summer programs please follow the instructions for the respective fields:
Theoretical Physics
Mathematics
Theoretical Computer Science
Computational Biology

Other information
If you have more questions about our application procedures, about your eligibility or simply about life and work at IMSc, do write to any of the faculty members listed on our home page.

Bio related lectures from internationally renowned scientists!!!

Rahul Agarwal — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:08:11 -0500

"iBiology.org was developed to bring the best biology to people throughout the world for free. Started in 2006 by University of California – San Francisco and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Professor Ron Vale, iBiology has grown to include over 300 seminars and short talks by the world’s leading scientists. Our collection includes talks by many Nobel Laureates and members of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 2013, we released our first full-length course in Light Microscopy and expanded the educational resources we offer. iBiology is funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and supported by the American Society for Cell Biology and the University of California, San Francisco." - See more at: http://www.ibiology.org/about-us.html#sthash.SaCerc1m.dpuf

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

A Brief Bioinformatics Tutorial

Jit — Wed, 21 May 2014 12:50:09 -0500

This is about how to use a computer to find what is known about a gene of interest and also how to get new insights about it.

The tutorial is divided in three main parts:

In the Sequence part, you will see how to look efficiently for a particular protein sequence, how to blast it against the database of your choice to find homologues, how to perform a multiple alignment of the homologues you've selected and how to edit this alignment.
The Structure part is about molecular visualization, homology modeling and structural domain prediction.
In the Function part, you will be introduced to you 3 useful servers to investigate the function of a protein. i.e. finding interactors, co-expressed genes, see a phylogenetic profile, easily access papers citing your gene etc ...

During all the three parts, we will use the S. cerevisiae VPS36 protein as an example.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/rlw/text/bioinfo_tuto/introduction.html

phyloXML: XML for evolutionary biology and comparative genomics

Jit — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 09:41:18 -0600

phyloXML (example) is an XML language designed to describe phylogenetic trees (or networks) and associated data. PhyloXML provides elements for commonly used features, such as taxonomic information, gene names and identifiers, branch lengths, support values, and gene duplication and speciation events. Using these standardized elements allows interoperability between various applications and databases. Furthermore, both due to extensible nature of XML itself and the provision of elements by phyloXML, extensibility as well as domain specific applications are ensured. The structure of phyloXML is described by XML Schema Definition (XSD) language.

http://www.phyloxml.org/archaeopteryx-js/adh.html

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

Ten quick tips for deep learning in biology

Neel — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:35:12 -0500

By taking a comprehensive and careful approach to deep learning based on critical thinking about research questions, planning to maintain rigor, and discerning how work might have far-reaching consequences with ethical dimensions, the life science community can advance reproducible, interpretable, and high-quality science that is enriching and beneficial for both scientists and society.

Address of the bookmark: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009803

Bioinformatics JRF vacancy at ICGEB, New Delhi

Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:07:15 -0500

Junior Research Fellow for a DBT sponsored project entitled "Computational and experimental characterization of stage specific arginine methylation in P. falciparum proteome".

Candidates should have a 1st class MSc/MTech/BTech degree in Bioinformatics. Please send complete CV, quoting Application for RMETH-JRF-2014, by email to Dr. Dinesh Gupta: dinesh@icgeb.res.in

Closing date for applications: 6 August 2014

More at http://www.icgeb.org/tl_files/Vacancies/JRF.pdf

Linux Sort Commands for Bioinformatics

Rahul Nayak — Sat, 31 May 2014 15:41:16 -0500

Almost all the scripting languages such as Perl, Python etc have built-in sort, but unfortunately none of them are as flexible as sort command. But one when it come to space efficiency GNU sort stands at the top. It can sort a 20Gb file with less than 2Gb memory. It is not trivial to implement so powerful a sort by yourself.

sort a space-delimited file based on its first column, then the second if the first is the same, and so on:
sort input.txt

sort a huge file (GNU sort ONLY):
sort -S 1500M -t $HOME/tmp input.txt > sorted.txt

sort starting from the third column, skipping the first two columns:
sort +2 input.txt

sort the second column as numbers, descending order; if identical, sort the 3rd as strings, ascending order:
sort -k2,2nr -k3,3 input.txt

sort starting from the 4th character at column 2, as numbers:
sort -k2.4n input.txt

More Linxu sort command information

If you have any sort commands you'd like to share, please add them to our comments section below. For more help, you can also type:

man sort

or

sort --help

on your Unix/Linux system.

Does anyone have Nanopore latest updates?

Poonam Mahapatra — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:19:29 -0500

There was a lot of buzz about Oxford Nanopore Technologies® is developing the GridION™ system and miniaturised MinION™ device. These are a new generation of electronic molecular analysis system for use in scientific research, personalised medicine, crop science, security/defence and more. The platform technology uses nanopores to analyse single molecules including DNA/RNA and proteins. With a broad patent portfolio, the Oxford Nanopore pipeline includes biological nanopores and solid-state nanopores.

Is this available, or still under trial mode?

https://www.nanoporetech.com/

https://www.nanoporetech.com/technology/the-minion-device-a-miniaturised-sensing-system/the-minion-device-a-miniaturised-sensing-system

A powerful, yet simple, gene set analysis tool for interpreting RNA-seq and NGS results.

Shani — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:19:29 -0500

LifeMap Sciences is introducing GeneAnalytics, our new gene set analysis tool, which is applicable for NGS results and differentially expressed gene lists from variable sources. GeneAnalytics provides gene associations with tissues & cells, diseases, pathways, GO terms and compounds.

Our main advantages over other similar tools are:

GeneAnalytics is very simple and intuitive to use.
GeneAnalytics is based on our proprietary databases – GeneCards, MalaCards, PathCards and LifeMap Discovery, each of them integrates information from a very large number of resources.
GeneAnalytics supplies links for extensive background information on each of the matched results.

I invite you to try it out for free at geneanalytics.genecards.org, and would be happy to hear your comments and thoughts on how we can improve.

Yours,

Shani Ben-Ari Fuchs

LifeMap Sciences Team