UPARSE >
OTU clustering for 16S and other marker genes. Highly accurate OTU sequences and improved diversity measures. UCHIME >
Chimeric sequence detection. PILER >
De novo genome repeat finder. PILER-CR >
Detection of CRISPR repeats in bacterial genomes. QSCORE >
Compare two multiple alignments for benchmarking. PALS >
Whole-genome alignment. PREFAB >
Protein Reference Alignment Database. MSA benchmark collection >
Selected multiple alignment benchmarks in a standardized FASTA format.

Address of the bookmark: http://drive5.com/software.html

MEGAN6 is a comprehensive toolbox for interactively analyzing microbiome data. All the interactive tools you need in one application.

• Taxonomic analysis using the NCBI taxonomy or a customized taxonomy such as SILVA
• Functional analysis using InterPro2GO, SEED, eggNOG or KEGG
• Bar charts, word clouds, Voronoi tree maps and many other charts
• PCoA, clustering and networks
• Supports metadata
• MEGAN parses many different types of input

Why use MEGAN6?

Address of the bookmark: https://ab.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/software/megan6

The Ensembl comparative genomics resources are one such reference set that facilitates comprehensive and reproducible analysis of chordate genome data. Ensembl computes pairwise and multiple whole-genome alignments from which large-scale synteny, per-base conservation scores and constrained elements are obtained. Gene alignments are used to define Ensembl Protein Families, GeneTrees and homologies for both protein-coding and non-coding RNA genes. These resources are updated frequently and have a consistent informatics infrastructure and data presentation across all supported species. Specialized web-based visualizations are also available including synteny displays, collapsible gene tree plots, a gene family locator and different alignment views. The Ensembl comparative genomics infrastructure is extensively reused for the analysis of non-vertebrate species by other projects including Ensembl Genomes and Gramene and much of the information here is relevant to these projects. The consistency of the annotation across species and the focus on vertebrates makes Ensembl an ideal system to perform and support vertebrate comparative genomic analyses. We use robust software and pipelines to produce reference comparative data and make it freely available.

Database URL: http://www.ensembl.org.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4761110/

Biostatistics is the application of statistics to a wide range of topics in biology. The science of biostatistics encompasses the design of biological experiments, especially in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture and fishery; the collection, summarization, and analysis of data from those experiments; and the interpretation of, and inference from, the results. A major branch of this is medical biostatistics, which is exclusively concerned with medicine and health.

We present methods for the identification of protein-coding genes based on their patterns of nucleotide conservation across related species. We observed the pressure to conserve the reading frame of functional proteins and developed a test for gene identification with high sensitivity and specificity. We used this test to revisit the genome of S. cerevisiae, reducing the overall gene count by 500 genes (10% of previously annotated genes) and refining the gene structure of hundreds of genes. We present novel methods for the systematic de novo identification of regulatory motifs. The methods do not rely on previous knowledge of gene function and in that way differ from the current literature on computational motif discovery. Based on the genome-wide conservation patterns of known motifs, we developed three conservation criteria that we used to discover novel motifs. We used an enumeration approach to select strongly conserved motif cores, which we extended and collapsed into a small number of candidate regulatory motifs. These include most previously known regulatory motifs as well as several noteworthy novel motifs. The majority of discovered motifs are enriched in functionally related genes, allowing us to infer a candidate function for novel motifs.

Our results demonstrate the power of comparative genomics to further our understanding of any species. Our methods are validated by the extensive experimental knowledge in yeast, and will be invaluable in the study of complex genomes like that of human.

Address of the bookmark: http://web.mit.edu/manoli/www/publications/Kellis_JCB_04.pdf

Access Spines here.

Address of the bookmark: https://www.broadinstitute.org/genome-sequencing-and-analysis/spines

Availability: Genomicus is freely available for online use at http://www.dyogen.ens.fr/genomicus while data can be downloaded at ftp://ftp.biologie.ens.fr/pub/dyogen/genomicus

Contact: rf.sne.eigoloib@crh

Address of the bookmark: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2853686/

The MEME Suite allows the biologist to discover novel motifs in collections of unaligned nucleotide or protein sequences, and to perform a wide variety of other motif-based analyses.

The MEME Suite supports motif-based analysis of DNA, RNA and protein sequences. It provides motif discovery algorithms using both probabilistic (MEME) and discrete models (MEME), which have complementary strengths. It also allows discovery of motifs with arbitrary insertions and deletions (GLAM2). In addition to motif discovery, the MEME Suite provides tools for scanning sequences for matches to motifs (FIMO, MAST and GLAM2Scan), scanning for clusters of motifs (MCAST), comparing motifs to known motifs (Tomtom), finding preferred spacings between motifs (SpaMo), predicting the biological roles of motifs (GOMo), measuring the positional enrichment of sequences for known motifs (CentriMo), and analyzing ChIP-seq and other large datasets (MEME-ChIP).

The MEME Suite is comprised of a collection of tools that work together, as shown below. Not all the tools are available as webservices, so to get the full power of the MEME Suite you will need to download and install a local copy of the software. To see what has changed recently you can peruse the release notes.

http://meme-suite.org/

Address of the bookmark: http://meme-suite.org/

Address of the bookmark: http://www.ub.edu/dnasp/

https://academic.oup.com/nar/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/nar/gkw377

Address of the bookmark: http://amp.pharm.mssm.edu/Enrichr/