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HIV PhD and MSc Research Positions

Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:55:44 -0500

SANBI are looking to recruit two MSc students and a PhD student who are interested in implementing a computational biology approach to explore HIV’s glycan shield. Successful candidates for the MSc should hold an honours degree in physics, computer science or biological sciences while PhD applicants should hold an honours degree and a MSc in one or more of physics, computer science or biological sciences.

As these positions are funded by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) priority will be given to South African citizens and permanent residents however exceptional applicants who do not fulfil these criteria may be considered.

Applications including a CV outlining your experience together with a cover letter detailing why you are a suitable candidate should be sent to simon_at_sanbi.ac.za by 30th September 2013.

More @ http://www.sanbi.ac.za/hiv-phd-and-msc-research-positions/

Giovanni Parmigiani Lab

Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:21:41 -0500

Scientific Interests:

Models and software for predicting who is at risk of carrying genetic variants that confer susceptibility to cancer. Application to breast, ovarian, colorectal, pancreatic and skin cancer.

Statistical methods for the analysis of high throughput genomic data: analysis of cancer genome sequencing projects; integration of genomic information across technologies; cross-study validation of genomics results.

Statistical methods for comparative effectiveness research: comprehensive models for lifetime history of chronic disease outcomes; Bayesian meta-analysis; Bayesian causal inference; decision analysis.

Bayesian modeling and computation: multilevel models; decision theoretic approaches to inference; sequential experimental design and their application to adaptive and multistage studies in clinical and epidemiological research.

http://bcb.dfci.harvard.edu/~gp/index.html

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OlpYP3UAAAAJ&hl=en

My commonly used commands in Bioinformatics

Rahul Nayak — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 04:58:45 -0500

FYI, I've found it useful to use MUMmer to extract the specific changes that Racon makes, so I can evaluate them individually:

minimap -t 24 assembly.fasta long_reads.fastq.gz | racon -t 24 long_reads.fastq.gz - assembly.fasta racon_assembly.fasta
nucmer -p nucmer assembly.fasta racon_assembly.fasta
show-snps -C -T -r nucmer.delta

This reports Racon's changes in a table. You can exclude indels with the -I option in show-snps.

This process (Racon -> MUMmer -> SNP table) solves the problem I originally raised in this issue. So as far as I'm concerned, you can close this issue (or keep it open if you still want to implement some kind of variant table).

Sundar Lab

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:10:16 -0500

Area of interest

Understanding DNA-protein interactions, genome engineering
Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics
Secondary metabolite biosynthesis, metabolic engineering

Ongoing Projects:

"Betraying the parasite’s redox system: Studies on spermidine synthase of Leishmania donovani "

"Towards modifying nature's DNA-recognition system"

"Yield enhancement strategies for production of therapeutic compounds by cell and tissue cultures of Tinospora cordifolia (willd.) Miers ex Hook. F. & Thoms"

"Program support for Computational Genomics"

More at http://web.iitd.ac.in/~sundar/

Scribl : HTML5 canvas genomics graphic library

Jit — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 09:38:53 -0500

Scribl is a javascript, Canvas-based graphics library that easily generates biological visuals of genomic regions, alignments, and assembly data. Scribl can also be used in conventional offline pipelines, since everything needed to generate charts can be contained in a single html file.

Address of the bookmark: http://chmille4.github.io/Scribl/

Sandelin group

Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:12:58 -0500

Sandelin group have a deep interest in most biology, but focus on gene regulation and the many areas that are connected with this, including transcriptomics, epigenetics and technological and informatics aspects.

The group is both computational and experimental.

We ask biological questions to large datasets made using novel genomics techniques, with the help of computers. One of the strengths in the group are the many connections to high-profile experimental laboratories which supply data to be analyzed.

Lab webpage @ http://people.binf.ku.dk/albin/Sandelin_group_at_the_Bioinformatic_Centre/The_Sandelin_group.html

pyGenomeTracks: Standalone program and library to plot beautiful genome browser tracks

Neel — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 12:34:23 -0600

pyGenomeTracks aims to produce high-quality genome browser tracks that are highly customizable. Currently, it is possible to plot:

bigwig
bed (many options)
bedgraph
links (represented as arcs)
Hi-C matrices (if HiCExplorer is installed)

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/deeptools/pyGenomeTracks

National Training on Bioinformatics Computational Tools for Microbial Research Nov 19 to 30, 2013

Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:49:34 -0500

Agricultural research in modern scientific arena is being represented by proper integration among various research fields of biological, chemical and physical sciences, because this field encompasses many more complexities of biology in nature. In the era of fast accumulating biological data coming out from the research on many crop plants, live stocks and microbes and the impact of changing climate, habitat and other interrelations on these biological entities, bioinformatics has come forward across the globe to solve the problems of analysis, prediction, storage, management, pattern recognition, submission, retrieval and storage of the data to find out a fruitful outcome. This area is becoming increasingly important in the context of systems biology approach where a holistic approach is required to understand the biology and chemistry of the biological entities and their behavior during environmental interactions to resolve the harmful impact of biotic or abiotic causes on crop plants, animals, fishes, livestock sector, beneficial insects as well as microbes. The National Training program on ‘Computational Tools for Microbial Research” is an initiative for the capacity building of NARS scientists/researchers in this most emerging area and fast developing area of i.e. agricultural bioinformatics.

Contact The Director, National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Kusmaur, Maunath Bhanjan-275101 (U.P.); Phone: 0547-2530080, Fax: 0547-2530358, e mail: nbaimicar@gmail.com; website: www.nbaim.org.in OR

Dr. Dhananjaya P. Singh, Senior Scientist & CCPI, NABG project, NBAIM, Maunath Bhanjan, 275101; Mob.- 09415291703; e mail - dpsfarm@rediffmail.com, nabg.nbaim@gmail.com

More at http://www.nbaim.org.in/Announc.aspx?cd=36

Merqury: reference-free quality and phasing assessment for genome assemblies

Jit — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 05:38:34 -0500

Often, genome assembly projects have illumina whole genome sequencing reads available for the assembled individual. The k-mer spectrum of this read set can be used for independently evaluating assembly quality without the need of a high quality reference. Merqury provides a set of tools for this purpose.

https://github.com/marbl/meryl

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/marbl/merqury

EMBL Postdoc position in Bacterial Gene Gain Loss

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:09:21 -0500

A post-doctoral fellowship is available in the research groups of Nick Goldman (EBI) and John Welch (Genetics Department, Cambridge University) under the EMBL-EBI / Cambridge Computational Biomedical Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme.

The project is on bacterial gene gain and loss and emerging pathogenicity, and is described in full here: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/postdocs/ebpods/projects/goldman-welch-2015 . The EMBL-EBI / Cambridge Computational Biomedical Postdoctoral (“EBPOD”)

The closing date for applications is 3 September 2015. Nick Goldman EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute Nick Goldman

More at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/postdocs/ebpods/projects/goldman-welch-2015