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DISCOVAR

Abhimanyu Singh — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:59:16 -0500

DISCOVAR is a new variant caller and DISCOVAR de novo a new genome assembler, both designed for state-of-the-art data. Their inputs are chosen to optimize quality while keeping costs low. Currently it takes as input Illumina reads of length 250 or longer — produced on MiSeq or HiSeq 2500 — and from a single PCR-free library. These data enable a level of completeness and continuity that was not previously possible.

DISCOVAR can call variants on a region by region basis, potentially tiling an entire large genome. DISCOVAR variant calling is under active development and transitioning to VCF.

DISCOVAR de novo can generate de novo assemblies for both large and small genomes. It currently does not call variants.

More at https://www.broadinstitute.org/software/discovar/blog/?page_id=14

Address of the bookmark: https://www.broadinstitute.org/software/discovar/blog/

Blobology

Jit — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 10:18:33 -0500

Tools for making blobplots or Taxon-Annotated-GC-Coverage plots (TAGC plots) to visualise the contents of genome assembly data sets as a QC step

Blaxter Lab, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh

Goal: To create blobplots or Taxon-Annotated-GC-Coverage plots (TAGC plots) to visualise the contents of genome assembly data sets as a QC step.

This repository accompanies the paper:
Blobology: exploring raw genome data for contaminants, symbionts and parasites using taxon-annotated GC-coverage plots. Sujai Kumar, Martin Jones, Georgios Koutsovoulos, Michael Clarke, Mark Blaxter
(submitted 2013-10-01 to Frontiers in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology special issue : Quality assessment and control of high-throughput sequencing data).

It contains bash/perl/R scripts for running the analysis presented in the paper to create a preliminary assembly, and to create and collate GC content, read coverage and taxon annotation for the preliminary assembly, which can be visualised, such as Figure 2a from the paper showing TAGC plots/blobplots for Caenorhabditis sp. 5:

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/blaxterlab/blobology

SWALO

Jit — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:06:05 -0600

SWALO (scaffolding with assembly likelihood optimization) is a method for scaffolding based on likelihood of genome assemblies computed using generative models for sequencing.

Download

Git repository of SWALO is at https://github.com/atifrahman/SWALO.

Address of the bookmark: https://atifrahman.github.io/SWALO/

Pollard Lab

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 20:20:50 -0500

We are a bioinformatics research lab focused on developing novel methods and using them to study genome evolution, organization, and regulation. Our mission is to decode biomedical knowledge that is missed without rigorous statistical approaches.

http://docpollard.org/

Tools

http://docpollard.org/resources/software/

Rectangle Graph for Repeat Resolution in Genome Assembly

Rahul Nayak — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 09:43:03 -0600

Ultimate tool for resolving repeats in genome assemblies.

Though the specific implementation of the idea of the rectangle graph approach is already included into the current SPAdes distribution, we're also releasing the Rectangle Graph Module (RGM) as the separate code which can be run independently of SPAdes. Although RGM differs from the current implementation of the rectangle graph approach in SPAdes, in the future we plan to integrate RGM in SPAdes. RGM can be run with other genome assemblers if they use the graph format as SPAdes files.

For more details see: Nikolay Vyahhi, Son K. Pham, Pavel Pevzner. From de Bruijn Graphs to Rectangle Graphs for Genome Assembly, Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 7534 (2012), pp. 249-261.

Address of the bookmark: http://bioinf.spbau.ru/en/rectangles

The MARVEL assembler

Jit — Fri, 04 May 2018 19:18:41 -0500

MARVEL consists of a set of tools that facilitate the overlapping, patching, correction and assembly of noisy (not so noisy ones as well) long reads.

The assembly process can be summarized as follows:

overlap
patch reads
overlap (again)
scrubbing
assembly graph construction and touring
optional read correction
fasta file creation

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/schloi/MARVEL

Bioinfo Lab

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:17:00 -0600

The Institute of Bioinformatics conducts internationally renowned research and provides profound education in bioinformatics. Its research focuses on development and application of machine learning and statistical methods in biology and medicine.

Contact:
Computer Science Building (Science Park 3)
Altenberger Str. 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria
Tel. +43 732 2468 4520 / Fax +43 732 2468 4539
E-mail secretary@bioinf.jku.at

http://www.bioinf.jku.at/

BAUM – Improving Genome Assembly by Adaptive Unique Mapping and Local Overlap-Layout-Consensus

Jit — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 23:35:09 -0500

BAUM, breaks the whole genome into regions by adaptive unique mapping; then the local OLC is used to assemble each region in parallel. BAUM can: (1) perform reference-assisted assembly based on the genome of a close species; (2) or improve the results of existing assemblies that are obtained based on short or long sequencing reads.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.zhanyuwang.xin/wordpress/index.php/2017/07/21/baum-improving-genome-assembly-by-adaptive-unique-mapping-and-local-overlap-layout-consensus/

Rotifers Lab

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 23:23:14 -0600

For scientists in the MBL’s Gribble Lab, the rotifer (Brachionus manjavacas) is used as a model organism to study evolution, stress responses, the biology of aging, and maternal effects. Rotifers are small, easy to grow in the lab, have a short lifespan, and share many of their genes with humans. That makes them ideal specimens in which to address questions relevant to human health as well as understand basic biological and evolutionary processes. Brachionus rotifers produces eggs that can be completely dried and frozen for decades, then hatch within a day when exposed to water and light.

https://www.mbl.edu/research/research-organisms/rotifer
https://gribblebiolab.org/

Virus Bioinformatics Tools

LEGE — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:19:55 -0500

Bioinformatics tools play a crucial role in studying viruses, enabling researchers to analyze their genetic makeup, structure, function, and evolution. Here are some commonly used bioinformatics tools for virus research

https://evirusbioinfc.notion.site/18e21bc49827484b8a2f84463cb40b8d?v=92e7eb6703be4720abf17a901bc9a947

Address of the bookmark: https://evirusbioinfc.notion.site/18e21bc49827484b8a2f84463cb40b8d?v=92e7eb6703be4720abf17a901bc9a947