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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36026/mmseqs20-ultra-fast-and-sensitive-protein-search-and-clustering-suite</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:40:51 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36026/mmseqs20-ultra-fast-and-sensitive-protein-search-and-clustering-suite</link>
	<title><![CDATA[MMseqs2.0: ultra fast and sensitive protein search and clustering suite]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>MMseqs2 (Many-against-Many sequence searching) is a software suite to search and cluster huge protein sequence sets. MMseqs2 is open source GPL-licensed software implemented in C++ for Linux, MacOS, and (as beta version, via cygwin) Windows. The software is designed to run on multiple cores and servers and exhibits very good scalability. MMseqs2 can run 10000 times faster than BLAST. At 100 times its speed it achieves almost the same sensitivity. It can perform profile searches with the same sensitivity as PSI-BLAST at over 400 times its speed.</p>
<p>The MMseqs2 user guide is available as&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/soedinglab/mmseqs2/wiki">Github Wiki</a>&nbsp;or as&nbsp;<a href="https://mmseqs.com/latest/userguide.pdf">PDF file</a>&nbsp;(Thanks to&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/jgm/pandoc">pandoc</a>!)</p>
<p>Please cite:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nbt.3988.html">Steinegger M and Soeding J. MMseqs2 enables sensitive protein sequence searching for the analysis of massive data sets. Nature Biotechnology, doi: 10.1038/nbt.3988 (2017)</a>.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/soedinglab/MMseqs2" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/soedinglab/MMseqs2</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/researchlabs/view/4546/sowdhamini-lab</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:19:12 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[SOWDHAMINI Lab]]></title>
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<p>Genome sequencing projects have enormous potential for benefiting human endeavors. However, just as acquiring a language's vocabulary does not enable one to speak it, databases that list the amino acid composition of proteins do not directly tell us much about these proteins' higher-level structure and function. The most productive way to indirectly exploit these databases has been to start with the small number of proteins that are fully-characterised and to assume that other "similar" proteins will have a related structure and function. Proteins with very similar amino acid sequence are "no-brainers", but the real test, which our group largely focuses on, is to detect the "essential" similarity in proteins whose non-critical sections have experienced random rearrangements during evolution. In such cases functionally similar proteins may have less than 25% sequence overlap.</p>

<p>More @ http://www.ncbs.res.in/sowdhamini/groups_sowdhamini.htm</p>
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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/researchlabs/view/5220/paolo-ruggerone-lab</guid>
  <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:15:53 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Paolo Ruggerone Lab]]></title>
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<p>Efflux pumps (RND family)</p>

<p>Functioning of efflux systems in Gram-negative bacteria<br />Determinants of the compound-efflux system interactions<br />Action of inhibitors on efflux systems<br />Structural and dynamical features of the efflux systems</p>

<p>TatA<br />Assembly of the TatA system<br />Study of the dynamical features of the charge zipper</p>

<p>Methods<br />Setup of a kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) scheme to study the flux of antibiotics through porins and efflux systems<br />Setup of protocol to integrate MD results in a ligand-based approach</p>

<p>Viral inhibitors<br />Interactions of selected compounds with RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRps) of HCV and BVDV<br />Assessment of the role of mutations in RdRps<br />Antimicrobial peptides</p>

<p>Interactions of antimicrobial peptides with membranes: structure and dynamics<br />Interactions between antimicrobial peptides in the presence of different membranes<br />Protein-protein interactions<br />Effects of mutations</p>

<p>Lab Page<br />http://www.dsf.unica.it/~paolo/Site/Home.html</p>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:31:13 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/10260/%E2%80%9Con%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Coff%E2%80%9D-the-neuron</link>
	<title><![CDATA[“On” and “Off” the neuron !!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Optogenetics is a recent innovation in neuroscience that gives researchers the ability to control the activity of neurons with light. With this powerful tool, researchers are teasing apart the biological basis of memory, behavior, and disease (see &ldquo;<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517226/scientists-make-mice-remember-things-that-didnt-happen/"><span>Scientists Make Mice &lsquo;Remember&rsquo; Things That Didn&rsquo;t Happen</span></a>&rdquo; and &ldquo;<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/423254/an-on-off-switch-for-anxiety/"><span>An On-Off Switch for Anxiety</span></a>,&rdquo;). But for the first several years of this technology&rsquo;s existence, the proteins that scientists added to neurons to make them react to light were only good at activating neurons. That limited researchers&rsquo; ability to understand neuronal circuits, sets of interconnected neurons that are thought to control behavior and, when misfiring, to underlie many brain conditions. Problems can arise from any imbalance in circuit activity, whether too much or too little.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span>Now, two research groups have engineered new optogenetic proteins that can be used to efficiently silence neurons.&nbsp;<span><span>One of the two new proteins comes from the lab of<span>&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/dlab/about_pi.html" target="_blank">Karl Deisseroth</a>, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Stanford University who helped develop optogenetics as a research tool.&nbsp;His group&rsquo;s new &ldquo;off&rdquo; switch for neurons was created by changing 10 of the 333 amino acids in an existing optogenetic protein, which itself had been engineered by combining natural proteins from<span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><a href="http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Chlre3/Chlre3.home.html" target="_blank"><span>green algae</span></a><span><span>. That advance&nbsp;</span><span>&ldquo;creates a powerful tool that allows neuroscientists to apply a brake in any specific circuit with millisecond precision,&rdquo; said Thomas&nbsp;Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, in a released statement.&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6182/409" target="_blank"><span>The other new silencing protein</span></a>, developed by scientists at the H</span><span>umboldt University of Berlin and collaborators, was created by changing amino acids in the same existing optogenetic protein.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p><span><span>Some researchers are also looking to optogenetics as a potential treatment for patients with a variety of conditions (see &ldquo;</span></span><span><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/524771/for-mice-and-maybe-men-pain-is-gone-in-a-flash/"><span>For Mice, and Maybe Men, Pain Is Gone in a Flash</span></a><span><span>,&rdquo; and &ldquo;</span></span><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506981/flipping-on-the-lights-to-halt-seizures/"><span>Flipping on the Lights to Halt Seizures</span></a><span><span>&rdquo;) but there are huge challenges to overcome. The method requires genetic modification of cells to make them light-sensitive. It also requires implanted light sources for all but the shallowest of nerve endings. <br /></span></span></span></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:08:54 -0500</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[MEGADOCK 4.0]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>An ultra&ndash;high-performance protein&ndash;protein docking software for heterogeneous supercomputers</p>
<p id="p-4"><strong>Summary:</strong> The application of protein&ndash;protein docking in large-scale interactome analysis is a major challenge in structural bioinformatics and requires huge computing resources. In this work, we present MEGADOCK 4.0, an FFT-based docking software that makes extensive use of recent heterogeneous supercomputers and shows powerful, scalable performance of over 97% strong scaling.</p>
<p id="p-5"><strong>Availability and Implementation:</strong> MEGADOCK 4.0 is written in C++ with OpenMPI and NVIDIA CUDA 5.0 (or later) and is freely available to all academic and non-profit users at: <a href="http://www.bi.cs.titech.ac.jp/megadock">http://www.bi.cs.titech.ac.jp/megadock</a>.</p>
<p id="p-6"><strong>Contact:</strong> <a href="mailto:akiyama@cs.titech.ac.jp">akiyama@cs.titech.ac.jp</a></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/08/06/bioinformatics.btu532.short" rel="nofollow">http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/08/06/bioinformatics.btu532.short</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Suleman Khan</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2014 14:54:28 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/19087/dcgor</link>
	<title><![CDATA[dcGOR]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>An R package for analysing ontologies and protein domain annotations has been published in PLoS Computational Biology (http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003929). The package is distributed as part of CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org/package=dcGOR), and also at GitHub for version control.<br /><br />The dedicated website is available in http://supfam.org/dcGOR, from which several demos are also provided:<br /><br />1. Analysing SCOP domains: http://supfam.org/dcGOR/demo-Fang.html<br /><br />2. Analysing Pfam domains: http://supfam.org/dcGOR/demo-Basu.html<br /><br />3. Analysing InterPro domains: http://supfam.org/dcGOR/demo-Customisation.html<br /><br />&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Martin Jones</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2016 13:34:09 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/27713/mutabind</link>
	<title><![CDATA[MutaBind]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>MutaBind is a new computational method and server created through NCBI research efforts that maps mutations on a protein structural complex, calculates changes in binding affinity, identifies deleterious mutations and produces a downloadable mutant structural model.&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/mutabind/index.fcgi/" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/mutabind/index.fcgi/</a></p><p><img src="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/mutabind/prj-sunddg/static/myimgs/CirclesDiamondBlueThiner.png" width="471" height="258" alt="image" style="border: 0px;"></p><p><span>MutaBind guides you through this process, step by step, starting with selecting a protein complex and inputting PDB code or uploading PDB files. You can also retrieve results with a job ID number, view help documents, and review the MutaBind method and references.</span></p><p><span>More at&nbsp;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/mutabind/index.fcgi/</span></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2018 04:53:20 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/36392/protein-protein-interaction-sites-predictions</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Protein-Protein Interaction Sites Predictions !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>The study of Protein&ndash;Protein Interactions (PPIs) has a crucial role in biology, medicine and the pharmaceutical industry. PPIs can be investigated from two aspects: The interaction partners of a specific protein and the amino acid residues participating in a given PPI. Information about a protein&rsquo;s interaction partners allows scientists to construct protein interaction networks, such as signaling pathways, which in turn facilitate the understanding of many biological and clinical observations.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span>Following are the list of tools commonly used to PPIs predictions:</span></p><p>Protein-Protein Interaction Sites</p><p><a href="http://pipe.scs.fsu.edu/ppisp.html" target="_blank">PPISP</a></p><p>A consensus neural network method for predicting protein-protein interaction sites</p><p><a href="http://biunit.naist.jp/homcos/" target="_blank">HOMCOS</a></p><p>A server to predict interacting protein pairs and interacting sites by homology modeling of complex structures</p><p><a href="http://prism.ccbb.ku.edu.tr/hotpoint/" target="_blank">HotPOINT</a></p><p>Prediction of protein interfaces using an empirical model</p><p><a href="http://cubic.bioc.columbia.edu/services/isis/" target="_blank">ISIS</a></p><p>Prediction of interaction hotspots from sequence</p><p><a href="http://kfc.mitchell-lab.org/" target="_blank">KFC server</a></p><p>Automated decision-tree approach to predicting protein-protein interaction hot spots</p><p><a href="http://pipe.scs.fsu.edu/meta-ppisp.html" target="_blank">meta-PPISP</a></p><p>A meta server for predicting protein-protein interaction sites. meta-PPISP is built on three individual web servers:&nbsp;<a href="https://bip.weizmann.ac.il/toolbox/structure/binding.htm#cons">cons-PPISP</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://bip.weizmann.ac.il/toolbox/structure/binding.htm#pin">PINUP</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://bip.weizmann.ac.il/toolbox/structure/binding.htm#pro">Promate</a></p><p><a href="http://www.molsoft.com/oda.html" target="_blank">ODA</a></p><p>Identification of optimal surface patches with the lowest docking desolvation energy values</p><p><a href="http://sparks.informatics.iupui.edu/PINUP/" target="_blank">PINUP</a></p><p>Protein binding site prediction with an empirical scoring function</p><p>Other Sites (DNA, RNA, Metals)</p><p><a href="http://ligin.weizmann.ac.il/~lpgerzon/mbs4/mbs.cgi" target="_blank">CHED</a>&nbsp;</p><p>Web server for predicting soft metal binding sites in proteins</p><p><a href="http://cssb.biology.gatech.edu/skolnick/webservice/DBD-Hunter/" target="_blank">DBD-Hunter</a></p><p>A knowledge-based method for the prediction of DNA-protein interactions</p><p><a href="http://pipe.scs.fsu.edu/displar.html" target="_blank">DISPLAR</a></p><p>Given the structure of a protein known to bind DNA, the method predicts residues that contact DNA using neural network method</p><p><a href="http://idbps.tau.ac.il/" target="_blank">iDBPs</a></p><p>Predicts DNA binding proteins for proteins with known 3D structure.</p><p><a href="http://pfp.technion.ac.il/" target="_blank">PFplus</a></p><div style="text-align: left;">A tool for extracting and displaying positive electrostatic patches on protein surfaces which can be indicative of nucleic acid binding interfaces.</div>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Poonam Mahapatra</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:06:20 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/39302/understanding-reads-mapping-and-flags</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Understanding reads mapping and flags !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Linear Alignment:</strong>&nbsp;An alignment of a read to a single reference sequence that may&nbsp;<q>include insertions, deletions, skips and clipping</q>,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">but may not include direction changes</span>&nbsp;(i.e. one portion of the alignment on forward strand and another portion of alignment on reverse strand).<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="https://yulijia.net/en/bioinformatics/2015/12/21/Linear-Chimeric-Supplementary-Primary-and-Secondary-Alignments.html#fn:1"><br /></a></sup></p><p><strong>Chimeric Alignment:</strong>&nbsp;An alignment of a read that cannot be represented as a linear alignment. Typically, one of the linear alignments in a chimeric alignment is considered the &ldquo;representative&rdquo; alignment, and the others are called &ldquo;supplementary&rdquo; and are distinguished by the supplementary alignment flag.<sup id="fnref:1:1"><a href="https://yulijia.net/en/bioinformatics/2015/12/21/Linear-Chimeric-Supplementary-Primary-and-Secondary-Alignments.html#fn:1"><br /></a></sup></p><p>Chimeric reads are indicative of structural variation in DNA-seq and it may indicate the presence of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimeric_gene">chimeric genes</a>&nbsp;in RNA-seq.<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="https://yulijia.net/en/bioinformatics/2015/12/21/Linear-Chimeric-Supplementary-Primary-and-Secondary-Alignments.html#fn:2"><br /></a></sup></p><p>In short, chimeric reads can be split in to two or more parts, each part would be mapped to reference(it&rsquo;s not&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biostars.org/p/119537/">hard-clipped</a>), the total length of the mapped part is longger than read length.<sup id="fnref:3"><a href="https://yulijia.net/en/bioinformatics/2015/12/21/Linear-Chimeric-Supplementary-Primary-and-Secondary-Alignments.html#fn:3"><br /></a></sup></p><p><strong>Representative alignment:</strong>&nbsp;A chimeric alignment that is represented as a set of linear alignments that do not have large overlaps typically has one linear alignment that is considered the representative alignment.<sup id="fnref:4"><a href="https://yulijia.net/en/bioinformatics/2015/12/21/Linear-Chimeric-Supplementary-Primary-and-Secondary-Alignments.html#fn:4"><br /></a></sup></p><p>One read can align to multiple positions, we can find one alignmnet position which sequence do not have large overlaps, it called representative alighment, for other alignment positions, we called them supplementary alignment.</p><p>It seems that GATK can realignment those representative reads to the correctly position via&nbsp;<q>RealignerTargetCreator and IndelRealigner</q>. (WARNING: I am not quite sure if I understand this correctly. If someone could help me, please leave me a message below, thanks, thanks.)</p><p><strong>Supplementary Alignment:</strong>&nbsp;A chimeric reads but not a representative reads.</p><p><strong>Primary Alignment and Secondary Alignment:</strong>&nbsp;A read may map ambiguously to multiple locations, e.g. due to repeats.&nbsp;<strong>Only one of the multiple read alignments is considered primary</strong>,<span style="text-decoration: underline;">&nbsp;and this decision may be arbitrary</span>. All other alignments have the secondary alignment flag.<sup id="fnref:5"><a href="https://yulijia.net/en/bioinformatics/2015/12/21/Linear-Chimeric-Supplementary-Primary-and-Secondary-Alignments.html#fn:5"><br /></a></sup></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2021 21:25:00 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43057/hapsolo-an-optimization-approach-for-removing-secondary-haplotigs-during-diploid-genome-assembly-and-scaffolding</link>
	<title><![CDATA[HapSolo: An optimization approach for removing secondary haplotigs during diploid genome assembly and scaffolding]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>HapSolo, that identifies secondary contigs and defines a primary assembly based on multiple pairwise contig alignment metrics. HapSolo evaluates candidate primary assemblies using BUSCO scores and then distinguishes among candidate assemblies using a cost function. The cost function can be defined by the user but by default considers the number of missing, duplicated and single BUSCO genes within the assembly. HapSolo performs hill climbing to minimize cost over thousands of candidate assemblies.&nbsp;</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/esolares/HapSolo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/esolares/HapSolo</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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