1. NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information):

   • NCBI provides various databases related to genetic information, including 16S rRNA sequences.
   • You can access the 16S ribosomal RNA sequences from NCBI's Nucleotide database (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/).
   • Perform a search using keywords like "16S rRNA" or specific bacterial names to find relevant sequences.
   • You can download sequences individually or in batches using the provided tools.

2. GreenGenes:

   • GreenGenes is a widely used 16S rRNA gene sequence database.
   • You can access it at http://greengenes.secondgenome.com/.
   • GreenGenes provides precompiled databases for various purposes, including classification, alignment, and phylogenetic analysis.

3. SILVA:

   • SILVA (https://www.arb-silva.de/) is another comprehensive database for ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences.
   • It covers not only 16S rRNA but also other ribosomal RNA sequences.
   • SILVA provides precompiled databases for various purposes, including taxonomic classification and alignment.

4. Ribosomal Database Project (RDP):

   • RDP (http://rdp.cme.msu.edu/) is a curated database that offers 16S rRNA sequences.
   • It provides tools for sequence analysis and classification.
   • You can download sequences and taxonomy information from their website.

5. QIIME (Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology):

   • QIIME (https://qiime2.org/) is a widely used bioinformatics platform for microbiome analysis.
   • It provides tools for analyzing microbial communities, including processing 16S rRNA sequences.
   • QIIME often includes its own preprocessed 16S rRNA databases that can be used for analysis within the platform.

Before downloading any database, make sure to read the terms of use and citation requirements, as some databases may have specific usage policies. Additionally, consider the compatibility of the database with your analysis pipeline and software tools.

NCBI 16s RNA database location ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/db/16SMicrobial.tar.gz

Address of the bookmark: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/index.htm

₹ 1,66,378 (Consolidated)

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Ph.D. in the area of Computational Biology/Bioinformatics/Biotechnology/Life Sciences with at least 6 years of relevant experience.
OR
M. Tech with 8 years of relevant experience.

The relevant experience shall be in the area of sequencing/genome assembly and annotation and high throughput genotyping for facilitating Genomic assisted Breeding
Age: Not exceeding 50 years

• The incumbent will assist the Programme Director of the Facility to discharge various activities of the NGGF

• Co-ordination with the service provider, DBT/academic institutions/anchoring institute (NIPGR) for execution of activities of the Facility.

• The incumbent will be expected to identify the requirements of Private Sector and Government laboratories in the area of Marker assisted selection and develop linkages to facilitate the same.

• Interact with multiple stake holders including Government and Private Sector in the area of agriculture Biotechnology.

• Oversee the establishment of relevant Standard Operational Procedures (SOP), Quality Accreditation of Genomics and Genotyping facility.

More at http://www.nipgr.ac.in/careers/vacancies_latest.php#vacancy2

More at http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000369

Address of the bookmark: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000369

More at https://www.igib.res.in/bdmg/ScientistRecruitmentAdvt2023.pdf

ICRISAT seeks applications from Indian nationals Visiting Scientist-Computational Genomics (2 positions), to be part of a team of Centre of Excellence in Genomics (CEG), (www.icrisat.org/ceg) to work on legume genomics projects. The positions will be based at ICRISAT’s Headquarters in Patancheru, Hyderabad, India.

ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi-arid tropics is home to over 2 billion people, with 650 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower those living in the semi-arid tropics, especially smallholder farmers, to overcome poverty, hunger, malnutrition and a degraded environment through more efficient and profitable agriculture. ICRISAT is headquartered in Greater Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India and belongs to the Consortium of Centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

The Job: Responsibilities for these positions include:

Analyzing and handling large-scale next generation sequencing DNA and RNA data
Data mining and development of pipelines and troubleshooting
Genome diversity analysis such as SNPs, Indels, Structural Variations, population structure
Genome wide association study (GWAS) related analysis- LD analysis, hapmap and trait mapping
Expression analysis based on RNA-Seq data, annotation, gene ontology and metabolic pathway analysis
Epigenome analysis, small RNA identification
Gene family analysis, sequence level protein analysis, orthology/paralogy and molecular modelling
Compiling and analysis of results, writing reports and research papers

The Person: Ph.D. or MSc/MTech/PGDCA with two years research experience in Biotechnology, Computational biology, Agricultural/ Plant Biotechnology, Genetics, Molecular Biology or related discipline. Good knowledge of programming/scripting in at least two of following languages: Perl, C, C++, R, Shell Scripting and Python is plus.

How to apply: Please apply latest by 20 July 2014. The application should include the name of the position applied for, a letter of motivation, a full Curriculum Vita (CV), and the names and contact information of three references that are knowledgeable of the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience. Technical details and more information about these positions can be obtained from R.K.VARSHNEY@CGIAR.ORG. All applications will be acknowledged, however only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Apply here https://recruit.zoho.com/ats/Portal.na?digest=T642sgLYWZOStExJ77cPrcM*sIMGZETWw4yPxngbmHA-

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/

Address of the bookmark: http://www.programmingr.com/category/stype/r-job-listings/

Qualification profile
PhD student candidates should have a degree in a relevant field and be highly motivated scientists. Please send by e-mail your curriculum vitae and contact information of references latest by end of February 2020.

Send application to
How to apply:
Please send your application as a single PDF by E-Mail.

Send application to
Prof. Dr. Said Hashemolhosseini
Institut für Biochemie
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Fahrstr. 17
91054 Erlangen, Germany
http://www.biochem.uni-erlangen.de