<![CDATA[BOL: Related items]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/related/32633?offset=660 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30550/genomering-alignment-visualization-based-on-supergenome-coordinates Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:24:10 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30550/genomering-alignment-visualization-based-on-supergenome-coordinates <![CDATA[GenomeRing: alignment visualization based on SuperGenome coordinates]]> The number of completely sequenced genomes is continuously rising, allowing for comparative analyses of genomic variation. Such analyses are often based on whole-genome alignments to elucidate structural differences arising from insertions, deletions or from rearrangement events. Computational tools that can visualize genome alignments in a meaningful manner are needed to help researchers gain new insights into the underlying data. Such visualizations typically are either realized in a linear fashion as in genome browsers or by using a circular approach, where relationships between genomic regions are indicated by arcs. Both methods allow for the integration of additional information such as experimental data or annotations. However, providing a visualization that still allows for a quick and comprehensive interpretation of all important genomic variations together with various supplemental data, which may be highly heterogeneous, remains a challenge.

More at https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/28/12/i7/268598/GenomeRing-alignment-visualization-based-on

Address of the bookmark: http://it.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/?page_id=185

]]> Neel https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30680/easybuild Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:00:43 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30680/easybuild <![CDATA[EasyBuild]]> EasyBuild is a software build and installation framework that allows you to manage (scientific) software on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems in an efficient way.
A full list of supported software packages is available here.

Address of the bookmark: https://hpcugent.github.io/easybuild/

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/opportunity/view/30747/11th-international-joint-conference-on-biomedical-engineering-systems-and-technologies Wed, 01 Feb 2017 17:39:27 -0600 <![CDATA[11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies]]> BIOSTEC, the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies.
Registration to BIOINFORMATICS allows free access to all other BIOSTEC conferences.

Upcoming Deadlines
Regular Paper Submission: July 31, 2017
Regular Paper Authors Notification: October 16, 2017
Regular Paper Camera Ready and Registration: October 30, 2017

The purpose of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of computational systems, algorithmic concepts and information technologies to address challenging problems in Biomedical research with a particular focus on the emerging problems in Bioinformatics and computational biology. There is a tremendous need to explore how mathematical, statistical and computational models can be used to better understand biological processes and systems, while developing new methodologies and tools to analysis the massive currently-available biological data. Areas of interest to this community include systems biology, sequence analysis, biostatistics, image analysis, network and graph models, scientific data management and data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational evolutionary biology, computational genomics and proteomics, and related areas.

]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/30874/important-journals-blogs-and-forums-for-bioinformaticians Wed, 08 Feb 2017 09:15:31 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/30874/important-journals-blogs-and-forums-for-bioinformaticians <![CDATA[Important Journals, Blogs and Forums for Bioinformaticians]]> Journals. Most journals have RSS feeds for their current updates.

Blogs. Some of these blogs are very relevant to bioinfo jobs. Others are more personal interest.

  • Variance Explained: David Robinson’s blog (Data Scientist at Stack Overflow, works in R and Python).
  • Global Biodefense: News on pathogens, outbreaks, and preparedness, with periodic posts on genomics and bioinformatics-related developments and funding opportunities.
  • In between lines of code: Lex Nederbragt’s blog on biology, sequencing, bioinformatics, …
  • Simply Statistics: A statistics blog by Rafa Irizarry, Roger Peng, and Jeff Leek.
  • Bits of DNA: Reviews and commentary on computational biology by Lior Pachter (fair warning: dialogue here can get a bit heated!).
  • Blue Collar Bioinformatics: articles related tool validation and the open source bioinformatics community.
  • Microbiome Digest – Bik’s Picks: A daily digest of scientific microbiome papers, by Elisabeth Bik, Science Editor at uBiome.
  • Living in an Ivory Basement: Titus Brown’s blog on metagenomics, open science, testing, reproducibility, and programming.
  • Enseqlopedia: James Hadfield’s blog on all things NGS.
  • Epistasis Blog: Jason Moore’s computational biology blog.
  • RStudio Blog: announcements about new RStudio functionality, updates about the tidyverse, and more.
  • nextgenseek.com: Next-Gen Sequencing Blog covering new developments in NGS data & analysis.
  • RNA-Seq Blog: Transcriptome Research & Industry News.
  • The Allium: We all need a little humor in our lives. Like The Onion, but for science.

Forums.

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/opportunity/view/30928/jrf-bioinformatics-job-vacancies-in-tezpur-university Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:40:26 -0600 <![CDATA[JRF Bioinformatics job vacancies in Tezpur University]]> Memo No. DoRD/CSE/SSS/20-295/112-A Date: 01/02/2017

Project Title : “Integrating genome scale metabolic analysis of model plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum with RNAseq and fluxomics”

Essential qualification : M.Tech. in CSE/IT (With specialization in Computational Biology/Bioinformatics) or M.Sc. in Bioinformatics/Biosciences/Molecular Biology Biotechnology preferably with NET/GATE/BET. Candidates should have minimum 55 % mark both in 10th and 10+2 Science examinations and mathematics at 10+2 Science. Desirable: Preference will be given to the candidates having experience in computational analysis of genome sequences or similar projects.

No. of Post : 01

Remuneration : Rs. 25,000/- for the 1st two years and Rs. 28,000/- for the 3rd year for SRF and applicable to the candidate having post graduate degree in Basic Science with NET/GATE/BET qualification or post graduate degree in professional course. Rs. 12,000/- for the 1st two years and Rs. 14,000/- for the 3 rd year for SRF,

Age : 28 years

Duration : Three (03) years or till completion of the project or until further order, whichever is earlier.

Hiring Process : Walk - In
Job Role: Research/JRF/SRF

Walk-in-interview will be held on 17th February, 2017, 11.15 a.m. at the office of the Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tezpur University.

Interested candidates may appear before the interview board with original documents from 10th standard onwards and photocopies of mark sheets, certificates, testimonials, caste certificate (if applicable), experience certificate certificates of NET/GATE/BET or similar examination qualifications, any other testimonials and a copy of recent curriculum vitae (CV) on the day of interview.

More at http://www.tezu.ernet.in/ProjectWalkin/Advt-DoRD-CSE-SSS-20-295-112-A.pdf

]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/opportunity/view/32227/postdoctoral-research-position-in-bioinformatics-in-milan Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:53:12 -0500 <![CDATA[Postdoctoral Research Position in Bioinformatics in Milan]]> The lab of Immunobiology of Neurological Disorders has a main interest in the biological processes associated with multiple sclerosis, an inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. The projects of interest for this application involve research on translational bioinformatics in complex human neurological disorders.

You have a PhD in Computational Science, Bioinformatics, or equivalent, and expertise in analysis and modeling of human RNA-seq data, statistics, data mining and machine learning. Excellent communication skills in English (written and oral) is a must. Flexibility and willingness to work across multiple projects and technologies in a rapidly evolving scientific context is required.
Salary will depend on qualification and experience. Starting date: immediate.

Interested candidates should send to farina.cinthia@hsr.it:

1. CV (please show evidences of relevant titles, projects, courses, references, etc.)
2. One page with a list of research topics (i.e. ongoing projects)
3. earliest availability

4. 2-3 contact names

]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/opportunity/view/31258/bioinformatics-walk-in-interview-at-tezpur-university Thu, 02 Mar 2017 04:24:46 -0600 <![CDATA[Bioinformatics walk-in-interview at Tezpur University]]> A walk-in-interview will be held on 09 March, 2017, 11.15 a.m. at the office of the Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tezpur University for one (01) temporary position of Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in the DBT, Govt. of India sponsored project entitled “Integrating genome scale metabolic analysis of model plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum with RNAseq and fluxomics” under Dr. Siddhartha Sankar Satapathy (ssankar@tezu.ernet.in), Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tezpur University.

Interested candidates may appear before the interview board with original documents from 10th standard onwards and photocopies of mark sheets, certificates, testimonials, caste certificate (if applicable), experience certificate certificates of NET/GATE/BET or similar examination qualifications, any other testimonials and a copy of recent curriculum vitae (CV) on the day of interview.

Essential qualification: M.Tech. in CSE/IT (With specialization in Computational Biology/Bioinformatics) or M.Sc. in Bioinformatics/Biosciences/Molecular Biology Biotechnology preferably with NET/GATE/BET.

Candidates should have minimum 55 % mark both in 10th and 10+2 Science examinations and mathematics at 10+2 Science.

Desirable: Preference will be given to the candidates having experience in computational analysis of genome sequences or similar projects.

Remuneration: Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees twenty five thousand) only + HRA as admissible per month for the 1st two years and Rs. 28,000/- (Rupees twenty eight thousand) only + HRA as admissible per month for the 3rd year for SRF and applicable to the candidate having post graduate degree in Basic Science with NET/GATE/BET qualification or post graduate degree in professional course. Rs. 12,000/- (Rupees twelve thousand) only + HRA as admissible per month for the 1st two years and Rs. 14,000/- (Rupees fourteen thousand) only + HRA as admissible per month for the 3 rd year for SRF, for the candidate without NET/GATE/BET qualification. HRA will not be provided if campus accommodation is availed.

Age: Candidate shall not be more than 28 years of age on the date of interview. Upper age limit may be relaxed up to 5 years in the case of candidate belonging to SC/ST/ OBC/Women/Differently abled.

Duration: Three (03) years or till completion of the project or until further order, whichever is earlier.

N.B. No TA/DA will be paid to the candidates for attending the interview. For further details please contact: Dr. S. S. Satapathy Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Tezpur University, Napaam-784028 Email: ssankar@tezu.ernet.in Contact no.: +91-9435979648

More Info: www.tezu.ernet.in/ProjectWalkin/Advt-DoRD-CSE-SSS-20-295-188-A.pdf

]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/31564/htslib Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:38:05 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/31564/htslib <![CDATA[HTSlib]]> Samtools is a suite of programs for interacting with high-throughput sequencing data. It consists of three separate repositories:

Samtools
Reading/writing/editing/indexing/viewing SAM/BAM/CRAM format
BCFtools
Reading/writing BCF2/VCF/gVCF files and calling/filtering/summarising SNP and short indel sequence variants
HTSlib
A C library for reading/writing high-throughput sequencing data

Samtools and BCFtools both use HTSlib internally, but these source packages contain their own copies of htslib so they can be built independently.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.htslib.org/

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/31881/gbtools-interactive-visualization-of-metagenome-bins-in-r Sun, 26 Mar 2017 15:41:31 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/31881/gbtools-interactive-visualization-of-metagenome-bins-in-r <![CDATA[gbtools: Interactive Visualization of Metagenome Bins in R]]> We have developed gbtools, a software package that allows users to visualize metagenomic assemblies by plotting coverage (sequencing depth) and GC values of contigs, and also to annotate the plots with taxonomic information. Different sets of annotations, including taxonomic assignments from conserved marker genes or SSU rRNA genes, can be imported simultaneously; users can choose which annotations to plot. Bins can be manually defined from plots, or be imported from third-party binning tools and overlaid onto plots, such that results from different methods can be compared side-by-side. gbtools reports summary statistics of bins including marker gene completeness, and allows the user to add or subtract bins with each other. 

Tool at https://github.com/kbseah/genome-bin-tools

Address of the bookmark: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01451/full

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/32048/json Tue, 04 Apr 2017 08:02:39 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/32048/json <![CDATA[JSON]]> JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language.

JSON is built on two structures:

  • A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or associative array.
  • An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an array, vector, list, or sequence.

These are universal data structures. Virtually all modern programming languages support them in one form or another. It makes sense that a data format that is interchangeable with programming languages also be based on these structures.

Address of the bookmark: http://json.org/

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