<![CDATA[BOL: Related items]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/related/32709?offset=230 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/researchlabs/view/26828/bioinfolab Fri, 25 Mar 2016 11:05:35 -0500 <![CDATA[BioinfoLab]]> Laboratory of Statistics and Computational tools for Bioinformatics

The Laboratory of Statistics and Computational tools for Bioinformatics (BioinfoLab) is hosted at the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone" - CNR . The laboratory has been officially opened in 2012 with the support of Programma Operativo Nazionale "Ricerca e Competitività" 2007-2013 (PON "R&C"), and it incorporates several expertise and research activities started since 2007, and supported by several CNR projects. Main interest of BioinfoLab is to develop novel statistical methods and computational tools for the analysis of high dimensional data arising from "Multi-omics" applications. In particular, current activities involve the analysis of ChIP-seq and RNA-seq experiments.

More at http://bioinfo.na.iac.cnr.it/BioinfoLab/index.html

]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/26409/ucsc-genome-browser-and-blat-software Thu, 18 Feb 2016 03:18:57 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/26409/ucsc-genome-browser-and-blat-software <![CDATA[UCSC Genome Browser and Blat software !]]> This directory contains Genome Browser and Blat application binaries built for standalone
command-line use on various supported Linux and UNIX platforms. To determine which set of binaries
to download, type "uname -a" on the command line to display your machine type. In most cases the
usage statement for the application can be viewed by running the binary with no arguments.

The UCSC Genome Browser and Blat software are free for academic, nonprofit, and personal use. A
license is required for commercial download and installation of these binaries, with the exception
of items built from the following source code directories, which are freely available for all uses:

 - kent/src/utils (includes big* tools)
 - kent/src/lib
 - kent/src/hg/autoSql
 - kent/src/hg/autoXml

For information about commercial licensing of the Genome Browser software, see
http://genome.ucsc.edu/license/. The Blat and In-Silico PCR software may be commercially
licensed through Kent Informatics (http://www.kentinformatics.com).

More at http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/

Address of the bookmark: http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/26573/efficient-genome-searching-with-biostrings-and-the-bsgenome-data-package Mon, 07 Mar 2016 05:18:06 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/26573/efficient-genome-searching-with-biostrings-and-the-bsgenome-data-package <![CDATA[Efficient genome searching with Biostrings and the BSgenome data package]]> Address of the bookmark: https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/3.3/bioc/vignettes/BSgenome/inst/doc/GenomeSearching.pdf

]]> Aasha https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/26968/scalce Fri, 15 Apr 2016 05:09:51 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/26968/scalce <![CDATA[SCALCE]]> SCALCE (/skeɪlz/, a.k.a. boosting Sequence Compression Algorithms using Locally ConsistentEncoding) is a tool for compressing FASTQ files. It is designed specifically for the Illumina-generated FASTQ files, but supports any valid FASTQ with consistent read lengths. 

More at http://sfu-compbio.github.io/scalce/

Address of the bookmark: http://sfu-compbio.github.io/scalce/

]]> Surabhi Chaudhary https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/27092/medea-comparative-genomic-visualization-with-adobe-flash Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:15:16 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/27092/medea-comparative-genomic-visualization-with-adobe-flash <![CDATA[MEDEA: Comparative Genomic Visualization with Adobe Flash]]> As the number of sequence and annotated genomes grows larger, the need to understand, compare, and contrast the data becomes increasingly important. Using the power of the human visual system to detect trends and spot outliers is necessary in such large and complex data sets.

More at http://www.broadinstitute.org/annotation/medea/

Address of the bookmark: http://www.broadinstitute.org/annotation/medea/

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/27099/rasttk-algorithm-for-building-custom-annotation-pipelines-and-annotating-batches-of-genomes Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:07:59 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/27099/rasttk-algorithm-for-building-custom-annotation-pipelines-and-annotating-batches-of-genomes <![CDATA[RASTtk : algorithm for building custom annotation pipelines and annotating batches of genomes]]> The RAST (Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology) annotation engine was built in 2008 to annotate bacterial and archaeal genomes. It works by offering a standard software pipeline for identifying genomic features (i.e., protein-encoding genes and RNA) and annotating their functions. Recently, in order to make RAST a more useful research tool and to keep pace with advancements in bioinformatics, it has become desirable to build a version of RAST that is both customizable and extensible. In this paper, we describe the RAST tool kit (RASTtk), a modular version of RAST that enables researchers to build custom annotation pipelines. RASTtk offers a choice of software for identifying and annotating genomic features as well as the ability to add custom features to an annotation job. RASTtk also accommodates the batch submission of genomes and the ability to customize annotation protocols for batch submissions. This is the first major software restructuring of RAST since its inception.

More at http://www.nature.com/articles/srep08365

Address of the bookmark: http://rast.nmpdr.org/

]]> Abhi https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/27333/satsuma-highly-sensitive-whole-genome-synteny-alignments Fri, 13 May 2016 05:25:26 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/27333/satsuma-highly-sensitive-whole-genome-synteny-alignments <![CDATA[SATSUMA : Highly sensitive whole-genome synteny alignments.]]> Satsuma is a whole-genome synteny alignment program. It takes two genomes, computes alignments, and then keeps only the parts that are orthologous, i.e. following the conserved order and orientation of features, such as protein coding genes, non-coding genes, or neutral sequences. Satsuma does not require any pre-processing, such as repeat masking, since it will automatically detect ambiguous mappings.

Satsuma has parallelization built-in and is designed to run on multi-core architectures. The run-time for aligning two bird-size genomes (~1.2 Gb) is around two days on 24 CPUs.

You can find the manual here.
Download the latest source code from here.
Stable versions can also be downloaded from the Broad Institute's web site.

An incomplete list of questions and answers (yes, these have really been asked by our users! Please feel free to add your own by e-mailing us) is here.

If you use Satsuma in your research, please cite:
Grabherr, M. G., Russell, P., Meyer, M., Mauceli, E., Alföldi, J., Di Palma, F., & Lindblad-Toh, K. (2010). Genome-wide synteny through highly sensitive sequence alignment: Satsuma. Bioinformatics, 26(9), 1145-51.

Tutorial at http://evomics.org/learning/genomics/satsuma/

Address of the bookmark: http://satsuma.sourceforge.net/

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/27463/bpipe-a-tool-for-running-and-managing-bioinformatics-pipelines Sat, 21 May 2016 22:42:16 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/27463/bpipe-a-tool-for-running-and-managing-bioinformatics-pipelines <![CDATA[Bpipe - a tool for running and managing bioinformatics pipelines]]> Bpipe provides a platform for running big bioinformatics jobs that consist of a series of processing stages - known as 'pipelines'.

Bpipe has been published in Bioinformatics! If you use Bpipe, please cite:

Sadedin S, Pope B & Oshlack A, Bpipe: A Tool for Running and Managing Bioinformatics Pipelines, Bioinformatics

Address of the bookmark: http://docs.bpipe.org/

]]> Radha Agarkar https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/27841/covcal-coverage-read-count-calculator Wed, 15 Jun 2016 18:08:13 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/27841/covcal-coverage-read-count-calculator <![CDATA[CovCal: Coverage / Read Count Calculator]]> Coverage / Read Count Calculator

Calculate how much sequencing you need to hit a target depth of coverage (or vice versa).

Instructions: set the read length/configuration and genome size, then select what you want to calculate.

Written by Stephen Turner, based on the Lander-Waterman formula, inspired by a similar calculator written by James Hadfield. Coverage is calculated as C=LN/G and reads as N=CG/L where C = Coverage (X),L = Read length (bp), G = Haploid genome size (bp), and N = Number of reads. Source code on GitHub.

Address of the bookmark: http://apps.bioconnector.virginia.edu/covcalc/

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/27971/samtools-primer Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:18:17 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/27971/samtools-primer <![CDATA[Samtools Primer !!]]> SAMtools: Primer / Tutorial by Ethan Cerami, Ph.D.

keywords: samtools, next-gen, next-generation, sequencing, bowtie, sam, bam, primer, tutorial, how-to, introduction
Revisions

    1.0: May 30, 2013: First public release on biobits.org.
    1.1: July 24, 2013: Updated with Disqus Comments / Feedback section.
    1.2: December 19, 2014: Multiple updates, including:
        Updated to use samtools 1.1 and bcftools 1.2.
        Updated usage for bcftools.

About

SAMtools is a popular open-source tool used in next-generation sequence analysis. This primer provides an introduction to SAMtools, and is geared towards those new to next-generation sequence analysis. The primer is also designed to be self-contained and hands-on, meaning that you only need to install SAMtools, and no other tools, and sample data sets are provided. Terms in bold are also explained in the glossary at the end of the document.

Address of the bookmark: http://biobits.org/samtools_primer.html

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