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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/14024/grapher</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:02:17 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/14024/grapher</link>
	<title><![CDATA[GrapheR !!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>What a wonderful gem <em>GrapheR</em> is.... Oh yes it is. <em>GrapheR</em> is a GUI for base graphics in R by http://www.maximeherve.com/. The package provides a graphical user interface for creating base charts in R. It is ideal for beginners in R, as the user interface is very clear and the code is written along side into a text file, allowing users to recreate the charts directly in the console. <br /><br />Adding and changing legends? Messing around with the plotting window settings? It is much easier/quicker with this GUI than reading the help file and trying to understand the various parameters.<br />Here is a little example using the iris data set.<br /><br />library(GrapheR)<br />data(iris)<br />run.GrapheR()<br /><br />This will bring up a window that helps me to create the chart and tweak the various parameters.</p><p><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NbnCM1dPh3E/U9aW9YxJ9oI/AAAAAAAABgo/gEPzPhOpf2Y/s1600/GrapheR.png" alt="image" width="878" height="868" style="border: 0px; border: 0px;"><br /><br />Finally, I find the underlying R code in a file created by <em>GrapheR</em>. For more details read also the <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/GrapheR/index.html" target="_blank">package vignette</a>, which is available in <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/GrapheR/vignettes/manual_en.pdf" target="_blank">English</a>, <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/GrapheR/vignettes/manual_fr.pdf" target="_blank">French</a> and <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/GrapheR/vignettes/manual_de.pdf" target="_blank">German</a>!</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>John Parker</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/40715/mutatrix-a-population-genome-simulator-which-generates-simulated-genomes</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 04:06:58 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/40715/mutatrix-a-population-genome-simulator-which-generates-simulated-genomes</link>
	<title><![CDATA[mutatrix: a population genome simulator which generates simulated genomes.]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>genome simulation across a population with zeta-distributed allele frequency, snps, insertions, deletions, and multi-nucleotide polymorphisms</span></p>
<p><span>More at&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/ekg/mutatrix">https://github.com/ekg/mutatrix</a></span></p>
<pre>./mutatrix -S sample -P test/ -p 2 -n 10 reference.fasta</pre><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/ekg/mutatrix" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ekg/mutatrix</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/14186/pybedtools</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 01:03:41 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/14186/pybedtools</link>
	<title><![CDATA[pybedtools]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>pybedtools is a Python wrapper for Aaron Quinlan's BEDtools programs (https://github.com/arq5x/bedtools), which are widely used for genomic interval manipulation or "genome algebra". pybedtools extends BEDTools by offering feature-level manipulations from with Python. See full online documentation, including installation instructions, at http://pythonhosted.org/pybedtools/.</p><p>More at http://pythonhosted.org/pybedtools/</p><p>A powerful toolset for genome arithmetic.http://code.google.com/p/bedtools/</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Shruti Paniwala</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/1737/perl-in-a-day</guid>
	<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:14:03 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/1737/perl-in-a-day</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Perl in a day !!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>This pdf based tutorial in good resource to understand the basic of Perl in a day</p><p><a href="http://ritg.med.harvard.edu/training/perl/RC_Perl_Intro.pdf">http://ritg.med.harvard.edu/training/perl/RC_Perl_Intro.pdf</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jitendra Narayan</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/22454/one-page-r-survival-guide</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2015 21:10:12 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/22454/one-page-r-survival-guide</link>
	<title><![CDATA[One page R survival guide !!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-style: normal; color: #000000; float: none;">There any many of the documents have been developed and tested by scientist around the world. I found this one really useful. The data used is available for download as<span>&nbsp;</span></span><a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/data.zip">data.zip</a><span style="font-style: normal; color: #000000; float: none;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-style: normal; color: #000000; float: none;">Reference@http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/one-page-r-a-survival-guide-to-data-science-with-r</span></p><ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Templates for the Data Scientist<ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">A Template for Preparing Data:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/DataO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/DataO.R">R</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">A Template for Building Models:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/ModelsO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/ModelsO.R">R</a></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Getting Started as a Data Scientist<ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Getting Started with R and Rattle:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/StartL.pdf">Lecture</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/StartG.pdf">Laboratory</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Introducing and Interacting with R:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/IntroRL.pdf">Lecture</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/IntroRR.pdf">Laboratory</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">BasicR - OnePage(R) - Writing R scripts</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Dealing With Data<ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Read Data into R:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/ReadO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/ReadO.R">R</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Explore and Summarise Data:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/SummaryO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/SummaryO.R">R</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Transform Data:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/TransformO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/TransformO.R">R</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://togaware.com/onepager/DateTimeRB"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Dealing with Dates and Time:</span></a><span>&nbsp;</span>(<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/DateTimeR.pdf">PDF</a>,<span>&nbsp;</span><a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/DateTimeR.R">R</a>) Dates and Time</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Visualising Data with GGPlot2:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/GGPlot2O.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/GGPlot2O.R">R</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Visualising Data with Maps</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://togaware.com/onepager/MapsO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/MapsO.R">R</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Spatial<span>&nbsp;</span>(R) Spatial Analysis</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Handling Big Data</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/BigDataO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/BigData.R">R</a></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Descriptive Analytics<ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Cluster Analysis:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://togaware.com/onepager/ClustersL.pdf">Lecture</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/ClustersO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/Clusters.R">R</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Association Analysis:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://togaware.com/onepager/ARulesL.pdf">Lecture</a></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Predictive Analytics<ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Decision Trees:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://togaware.com/onepager/DTreesL.pdf">Lecture</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/DTreesO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/DTreesO.R">R</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/DTreesG.pdf">Rattle</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Ensembles of Decision Trees:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/EnsemblesL.pdf">Lecture</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/EnsemblesO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/EnsemblesO.R">R</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">SVM (R)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">KernLab (R)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">NeuralNetworks (R)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">NNet (R)</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Model Delivery<ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Evaluating Models:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/EvaluationO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/EvaluationO.R">R</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Evaluation (R)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Scoring (R)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">PMML (R) Exporting Models for Deployment</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Advanced Topics<ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Text Mining:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/TextMiningO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/TextMiningO.R">R</a></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Advanced R Topics<ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://togaware.com/onepager/PlotsB"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Plots</span></a><span>&nbsp;</span>(<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/Plots.pdf">PDF</a>,<span>&nbsp;</span><a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/Plots.R">R</a>) Miscellaneous Plots</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://togaware.com/onepager/FunctionsB"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Functions</span></a><span>&nbsp;</span>(<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/Functions.pdf">PDF</a>,<span>&nbsp;</span><a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/Functions.R">R</a>) Writing Functions in R</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://togaware.com/onepager/ParallelB"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Parallel</span></a><span>&nbsp;</span>(<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/Parallel.pdf">PDF</a>,<span>&nbsp;</span><a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/Parallel.R">R</a>) Parallel Execution</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Packaging (R) Pulling it Together into a Package</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Doing R with Style:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/StyleO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/StyleO.R">R</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none currentcolor; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Literate Data Mining with KnitR:</span><span>&nbsp;</span>*<a href="http://togaware.com/onepager/KnitRL.pdf">Lecture</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/KnitRO.pdf">OnePageR</a><span>&nbsp;</span>- *<a href="http://onepager.togaware.com/KnitRO.R"></a></li>
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	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 04:14:01 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bioinformatics JRF/SRF position at IARI]]></title>
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<p>DIVISION OF NEMATOLOGY<br />INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE<br />NEW DELHI 110012<br />Applications are invited for the posts of one Junior<br />Research Fellow and one RA in the DBT funded project entitled “ Plant parasitic nematode genome informatics - insilico resource development”. The project is for a period of three years. </p>

<p>Essential qualifications for JRF<br />: M. Sc. in Bioinformatics with experience in Proteomics, genomics and structural biology. Knowledge of programming language, pearl and database – HTML, CSS,php and Java script.<br />Essential qualifications for Research Associate:<br />MSc/MTech in Bioinformatics with three years experience or Ph.D in Bioinformatics with experience in proteomics, genomics and structural biology. Knowledge of programming language, perl and database<br />– HTML, CSS, Java script. NGS sequence assembly and analysis and algorithm designing.<br />Age limit : 35 years maximum (5 year relaxation for SC/ST and women candidates)<br />Emoluments:<br />JRF: 16,000 + 30% HRA<br />.<br />Res Assoc: Rs22,000 + 30% HRA<br />The post is purely temporary in nature and is co-terminus with the project. The appointment would be initially for one year and may be extended further upon satisfactory performance.<br />Interested candidates<br />should send the duly filled application forms (format in the following page ) so as to reach on or before 20.9.2014 along with all the relevant documents.</p>

<p>More at http://www.iari.res.in/files/JRF_RA-03092014-20140903-135319.pdf</p>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 01:31:45 -0500</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[SNP Analysis: Unlocking the Secrets in Our DNA]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most common type of genetic variation in humans&mdash;and many other organisms. A single base change in the DNA sequence (for example, an A instead of a G) can influence everything from our eye color to our risk of developing diseases. Analyzing these tiny changes has become central to modern genetics, medicine, agriculture, and evolutionary biology.</p><p><strong>What are SNPs?</strong><br />SNPs (pronounced "snips") are positions in the genome where individuals differ by a single nucleotide. For example:</p><p>Reference: ...A T G C A T G A...<br />Variant:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;...A T G T A T G A...</p><p>Here, the C in the reference genome has been replaced by a T in the variant.</p><p>SNPs occur roughly every 300&ndash;1,000 bases in the human genome, meaning there are millions of them scattered throughout our DNA. Most SNPs have no effect on health, but some are linked to disease susceptibility, drug response, and other traits.</p><p><strong>Why Do We Analyze SNPs?</strong><br />1. Medical Genetics</p><p>Identify disease-associated variants (e.g., BRCA1/2 in breast cancer).</p><p>Predict drug response (pharmacogenomics).</p><p>Enable precision medicine by tailoring treatments.</p><p>2. Population Genetics &amp; Ancestry</p><p>Trace human migration and ancestry.</p><p>Study genetic diversity within and between populations.</p><p>3. Agriculture &amp; Animal Breeding</p><p>Select for desirable traits (drought resistance, yield, disease resistance).</p><p>Improve breeding efficiency in livestock.</p><p>4. Evolutionary Biology</p><p>Track natural selection.</p><p>Study adaptation in wild populations.</p><p><strong>How is SNP Analysis Performed?</strong><br />SNP analysis can be broadly divided into three steps:</p><p>SNP Detection<br />Genotyping arrays: Chips that test hundreds of thousands of known SNP positions simultaneously. Fast and affordable, widely used in consumer ancestry testing.</p><p>Whole-genome or whole-exome sequencing: Can detect known and novel SNPs across the genome.</p><p>Targeted sequencing or PCR: For focused analysis of specific regions.</p><p>Variant Calling<br />Sequencing data is aligned to a reference genome. Bioinformatics tools (e.g., GATK, bcftools) identify positions where the sequenced sample differs from the reference.</p><p>Annotation and Interpretation<br />Tools (e.g., SnpEff, VEP) predict the functional impact of SNPs.</p><p>Are the SNPs in coding regions? Do they cause amino acid changes? Are they known to be pathogenic?</p><p>Databases like dbSNP, ClinVar, and GWAS Catalog provide information on known associations.</p><p>Common Tools for SNP Analysis<br />Alignment: BWA, Bowtie2</p><p>Variant Calling: GATK, FreeBayes</p><p>Visualization: IGV, UCSC Genome Browser</p><p>Annotation: SnpEff, VEP</p><p>Statistical Analysis: PLINK, SNPTEST</p><p><strong>Challenges in SNP Analysis</strong><br />False positives/negatives: Sequencing errors, alignment issues.</p><p>Population stratification: Confounding in association studies.</p><p>Interpretation: Many SNPs have unknown or complex effects.</p><p>Researchers address these with rigorous quality control, large datasets, and increasingly sophisticated statistical models.</p><p><strong>The Future of SNP Analysis</strong><br />With advances in sequencing technology and AI-driven analysis, SNP studies are expanding:</p><p>Polygenic risk scores predict disease risk based on thousands of SNPs.</p><p>Large-scale biobanks (e.g., UK Biobank, All of Us) enable powerful genome-wide association studies (GWAS).</p><p>CRISPR and functional assays help validate SNP effects in the lab.</p><p>SNP analysis is at the heart of the genomic revolution, promising insights into biology, health, and evolution at unprecedented scale.</p><p><strong>Conclusion</strong><br />From diagnosing rare diseases to designing better crops, SNP analysis is a foundational tool in modern science. As our ability to sequence and interpret genomes improves, so will our understanding of these tiny&mdash;but mighty&mdash;variations in DNA.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:24:29 -0600</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Single Cell RNAseq data analysis tutorial !!]]></title>
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<li>A major breakthrough (replaced microarrays) in the late 00&rsquo;s and has been widely used since</li>
<li>Measures the&nbsp;average expression level&nbsp;for each gene across a large population of input cells</li>
<li>Useful for comparative transcriptomics, e.g.&nbsp;samples of the same tissue from different species</li>
<li>Useful for quantifying expression signatures from ensembles, e.g.&nbsp;in disease studies</li>
<li>Insufficient&nbsp;for studying heterogeneous systems, e.g.&nbsp;early development studies, complex tissues (brain)</li>
<li>Does&nbsp;not&nbsp;provide insights into the stochastic nature of gene expression</li>
</ul><p>Following are the useful links:</p><p><a href="http://hemberg-lab.github.io/scRNA.seq.course/scRNA-seq-course.pdf" target="_blank">Single Cell RNAseq data analysis Tutorial</a></p><p><a href="https://f1000research.com/articles/5-2122/v2" target="_blank">A step-by-step workflow for low-level analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data</a></p><p><a href="https://www.bioconductor.org/help/workflows/simpleSingleCell/" target="_blank">A step-by-step workflow for low-level analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data with Bioconductor</a></p><p>SCell: single-cell RNA-seq analysis software</p><p><a href="https://github.com/diazlab/SCell">https://github.com/diazlab/SCell</a></p><p>Beta-Poisson model for single-cell RNA-seq data analyses</p><p><a href="https://github.com/nghiavtr/BPSC">https://github.com/nghiavtr/BPSC</a></p><p>Sincera: A Computational Pipeline for Single Cell RNA-Seq Profiling Analysis</p><p><a href="https://research.cchmc.org/pbge/sincera.html">https://research.cchmc.org/pbge/sincera.html</a></p><p>SC3 &ndash; consensus clustering of single-cell RNA-Seq data</p><p><a href="http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/02/036558">http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/02/036558</a></p><p>Citrus: A toolkit for single cell sequencing analysis</p><p><a href="http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/14/045070">http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/14/045070</a></p><p>Single-Cell Resolution of Temporal Gene Expression during Heart Development</p><p><a href="http://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807%2816%2930682-7">http://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807(16)30682-7</a></p><p>Scalable latent-factor models applied to single-cell RNA-seq data separate biological drivers from confounding effects</p><p><a href="http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/15/087775">http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/15/087775</a></p><p>Single cell transcriptomes identify human islet cell signatures and reveal cell-type-specific expression changes in type 2 diabetes</p><p><a href="http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2016/11/18/gr.212720.116.abstract">http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2016/11/18/gr.212720.116.abstract</a></p><p>SCODE: An efficient regulatory network inference algorithm from single-cell RNA-Seq during differentiation</p><p><a href="http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/21/088856">http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/21/088856</a></p><p>SCOUP is a probabilistic model to analyze single-cell expression data during differentiation</p><p><a href="https://github.com/hmatsu1226/SCOUP">https://github.com/hmatsu1226/SCOUP</a></p><p>scLVM is a modelling framework for single-cell RNA-seq data</p><p><a href="https://github.com/PMBio/scLVM">https://github.com/PMBio/scLVM</a></p><p>Selective Locally linear Inference of Cellular Expression Relationships (SLICER) algorithm for inferring cell trajectories</p><p><a href="https://github.com/jw156605/SLICER">https://github.com/jw156605/SLICER</a></p><p>SinQC: A Method and Tool to Control Single-cell RNA-seq Data Quality</p><p><a href="http://www.morgridge.net/SinQC.html">http://www.morgridge.net/SinQC.html</a></p><p>TSCAN: Pseudo-time reconstruction and evaluation in single-cell RNA-seq analysis</p><p><a href="https://github.com/zji90/TSCAN">https://github.com/zji90/TSCAN</a></p><p>Visualization and cellular hierarchy inference of single-cell data using SPADE</p><p><a href="http://www.nature.com/nprot/journal/v11/n7/full/nprot.2016.066.html">http://www.nature.com/nprot/journal/v11/n7/full/nprot.2016.066.html</a></p><p>OEFinder: Identify ordering effect genes in single cell RNA-seq data</p><p><a href="https://github.com/lengning/OEFinder">https://github.com/lengning/OEFinder</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Robert M Willioms</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2020 05:25:45 -0600</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Genome assembly training tutorial at Galaxy !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>In this tutorial we assemble and annotate the genome of <em>E. coli</em> strain <a href="http://cgsc2.biology.yale.edu/Strain.php?ID=8232">C-1</a>. This strain is routinely used in experimental evolution studies involving bacteriophages. For instance, now classic works by Holly Wichman and Jim Bull (<a href="https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/assembly/tutorials/unicycler-assembly/tutorial.html#Bull1997">Bull 1997</a>, <a href="https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/assembly/tutorials/unicycler-assembly/tutorial.html#Bull1998">Bull 1998</a>, <a href="https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/assembly/tutorials/unicycler-assembly/tutorial.html#Wichman1999">Wichman 1999</a>) have been performed using this strain and bacteriophage phiX174.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/assembly/tutorials/unicycler-assembly/tutorial.html" rel="nofollow">https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/assembly/tutorials/unicycler-assembly/tutorial.html</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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