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Stand-alone programs for Bioinformatician

Radha Agarkar — Sat, 21 May 2016 22:50:15 -0500

This directory contains applications for stand-alone use, built specifically for a Linux 64-bit machine.

For help on the bigBed and bigWig applications see:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bigBed.html
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bigWig.html

View the file 'FOOTER' to see the usage statement for each of the applications.

Address of the bookmark: http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/

VCFtools: perform common tasks with VCF files such as file validation, file merging, intersecting, complements

Rahul Nayak — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 10:01:46 -0500

VCFtools contains a Perl API (Vcf.pm) and a number of Perl scripts that can be used to perform common tasks with VCF files such as file validation, file merging, intersecting, complements, etc. The Perl tools support all versions of the VCF specification (3.2, 3.3, 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2), nevertheless, the users are encouraged to use the latest versions VCFv4.1 or VCFv4.2. The VCFtools in general have been used mainly with diploid data, but the Perl tools aim to support polyploid data as well. Run any of the Perl scripts with the --help switch to obtain more help.

Many of the Perl scripts require that the VCF files are compressed by bgzip and indexed by tabix (both tools are part of the tabix package, available for download here). The VCF files can be compressed and indexed using the following commands

bgzip my_file.vcf
tabix -p vcf my_file.vcf.gz

http://vcftools.sourceforge.net/perl_module.html

Address of the bookmark: http://vcftools.sourceforge.net/perl_module.html

Platanus

Jit — Fri, 13 May 2016 05:12:40 -0500

Platanus is a novel de novo sequence assembler that can reconstruct genomic sequences of
highly heterozygous diploids from massively parallel shotgun sequencing data.

The latest version is 1.2.4.

To cite Platanus, please use the following:

Kajitani R, Toshimoto K, Noguchi H, Toyoda A, Ogura Y, Okuno M, Yabana M, Harada M, Nagayasu E, Maruyama H, Kohara Y, Fujiyama A, Hayashi T, Itoh T, “Efficient de novo assembly of highly heterozygous genomes from whole-genome shotgun short reads”. Genome Res. 2014 Aug;24(8):1384-95. doi: 10.1101/gr.170720.113. [abstract | full text]

Address of the bookmark: http://platanus.bio.titech.ac.jp/

Samtools Primer !!

Jit — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:18:17 -0500

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

NovelSeq: Novel Sequence Insertion Detection

Neel — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 04:31:30 -0500

The NovelSeq framework is designed to detect novel sequence insertions using high throughput paired-end whole genome sequencing data.

http://novelseq.sourceforge.net/Home

Paper at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20385726

Address of the bookmark: http://novelseq.sourceforge.net/Home

BEAP: Blast Extension and Assembly Program

Shruti Paniwala — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 04:52:56 -0500

The Blast Extension and Assembly Program (BEAP) is a computer program that uses a short starting DNA fragment, often a EST or partial gene segment, as "primer", to recursively blast nucleotide databases in an attempt to obtain all sequences that overlaps, directly or indirectly, with the "primer" therefore help to "extend" the length of the original sequence for constructing a "full length" sequence for functional analysis, or at least to obtain neighboring regions of the segment for SNP discovery and linkage disequilibrium analysis. The confidence of assembling the resulting sequences is achieved by using a known genome, such as human genome, as a reference. https://www.animalgenome.org/tools/beap/

Address of the bookmark: https://www.animalgenome.org/tools/beap/

SeqFu: A Suite of Utilities for the Robust and Reproducible Manipulation of Sequence Files

Rahul Nayak — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 03:13:33 -0600

A general-purpose program to manipulate and parse information from FASTA/FASTQ files, supporting gzipped input files. Includes functions to interleave and de-interleave FASTQ files, to rename sequences and to count and print statistics on sequence lengths. SeqFu is available for Linux and MacOS.

A compiled program delivering high performance analyses
Supports FASTA/FASTQ files, also Gzip compressed
A growing collection of handy utilities, also for quick inspection of the datasets

Can be easily installed via conda:

conda install -c bioconda seqfu

Address of the bookmark: https://telatin.github.io/seqfu2/

Chemical Elements of Bioinformatics

Rahul Agarwal — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:35:39 -0500

You must be familiar with periodic table and colour pattern, but this time you are going to amaze by new elements table by Eagle genomics. Just check it out and have fun :)

http://elements.eaglegenomics.com/

Mulan: MUltiple sequence Local AligNment and conservation visualization tool

Rahul Nayak — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:02:32 -0500

Mulan performs multiple (2 or more) sequence alignments with an efficient and rapid "full local" alignment strategy that ensures a recapitulation of evolutionary sequence rearrangements (such as inversions and reshuffling) in any of the species. It combines refine and tba tools to align either "draft" or "finished" quality sequences. Mulan provides a dynamic graphical interface to align and visualize conservation profiles for evolutionarily distant and closely related species.

Input formats, automated data upload from the UCSC Genome Browser, gene annotation, annotation of repetitive elements, and progress report were previously described in the zPicture instructions and we refer the users to these materials for more details. This introduction is mainly focused on some novel features unique to the Mulan.

Address of the bookmark: https://mulan.dcode.org/mulanInstructions.php

Circoletto: visualizing sequence similarity with Circos

Jit — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:23:40 -0600

Circoletto, an online visualization tool based on Circos, which provides a fast, aesthetically pleasing and informative overview of sequence similarity search results.

Online version and downloadable software package for offline use (source code in PERL) freely available at http://bat.ina.certh.gr/tools/circoletto/

Contact:ndarz@certh.gr

Address of the bookmark: http://tools.bat.infspire.org/circoletto/