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https://www.rplumber.io/ - plumber allows you to create a REST API by merely decorating your existing R source code with special comments. Take a look at an example. # plumber.R #* Echo back the input #* @param msg The message to echo #* @get /echo function(msg=""){...

NCBI BLAST have added new columns to the Descriptions Table for web BLAST output.

Major web resources for cancer genomics research

Dr. Rob Edwards describes some of the problems, challenges, and approches in genome annotation, with a particular emphasis on how the Fellowship for the Interpretation of Genomes (FIG) developed subsystems using the SEED database available at...

http://busco.ezlab.org/ - Assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs More at http://busco.ezlab.org/

cbio.ensmp.fr - Although centromeres are essential for life and are the subject of extensive research, centromere locations in yeast genomes are difficult to infer, and in most species they are still unknown. Recently, the chromatin conformation assay Hi-C has been...

bioinf.uni-greifswald.de - Gene finding in eukaryotic genomes is notoriously difficult to automate. The task is to design a work flow with a minimal set of tools that would reach state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of species. GeneMark-ET is a gene prediction...

A new “Download assemblies” button is now available in the Assembly database. This makes it easy to download data for multiple genomes without having to write scripts.

sourceforge.net - DIY Genomics is an open source bioinformatics consortium intended to bring a collection of tools and libraries into the hands of small scale genomics labs for the process of sequence assembly and annotation. Projects include DIYA, MGAP, CRISPR, and...

cran.r-project.org - Provides interactive, configurable and elegant graphics visualization of the chromosomes or chromosome regions of any living organism allowing users to map chromosome elements (like genes, SNPs etc.) on the chromosome plot. It introduces a special...