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Comparative genomics scripts

Jit — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 15:20:45 -0600

Comparative genomics educational material and papers bookmarks

https://github.com/iansealy/coursera-comparinggenomes

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/iansealy/coursera-comparinggenomes

Epiviz: an interactive visualization tool for functional genomics data.

Jit — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 05:27:39 -0500

Epiviz is an interactive visualization tool for functional genomics data. It supports genome navigation like other genome browsers, but allows multiple visualizations of data within genomic regions using scatterplots, heatmaps and other user-supplied visualizations. It also includes data from the Gene Expression Barcode project for transcriptome visualization. It has a flexible plugin framework so users can addd3 visualizations. You can see a video tour here.

https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/epivizr.html

https://github.com/epiviz

https://github.com/epiviz/epiviz

Address of the bookmark: https://epiviz.github.io/

NAAB Doak Graduate Fellowship bovine genomics course

Thu, 28 Nov 2019 21:45:35 -0600

This is a reminder for all that seek a fully funded MSc in bovine genetics, or those that know talented BSc students who want to progress their education.

The deadline for the NAAB Doak Graduate Fellowship is less than a month away.

Applications are accepted until the 1st of December.

Please check the attachment or visit our website for further details:

https://www.naab-css.org/news/-naab-doak-graduate-fellowship

Sophie Eaglen
NAAB

genomics public data links !

Jit — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:20:00 -0600

List of publically available databases on google server.

More at https://software.broadinstitute.org/gatk/download/bundle

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/organisms/human_9606/VCF/GATK/.

ftp://ftp.broadinstitute.org/bundle/hg38/hg38bundle/

Address of the bookmark: https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/genomics-public-data/resources/broad/hg38/v0?pli=1

Sibelia: A comparative genomics tool

BioStar — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 02:49:00 -0500

Sibelia: A comparative genomics tool: It assists biologists in analysing the genomic variations that correlate with pathogens, or the genomic changes that help microorganisms adapt in different environments. Sibelia will also be helpful for the evolutionary and genome rearrangement studies for multiple strains of microorganisms.

Sibelia is useful in finding: (1) shared regions, (2) regions that present in one group of genomes but not in others, (3) rearrangements that transform one genome to other genomes.

More at http://bioinf.spbau.ru/sibelia

Sibelia docs http://gensoft.pasteur.fr/docs/Sibelia/3.0.7/SIBELIA.md

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/bioinf/Sibelia

postdoctoral fellow for a large-scale microbial comparative genomics !

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 08:44:53 -0500

Asaf Levy hiring a postdoctoral fellow for a large-scale microbial comparative genomics project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel).
The project is a continuation of Levy Asaf et al. Nature Genetics 2018 paper.
Requirements:
1.Experience with programming in at least one programming language, preferably Python.
2.A PhD in bioinformatics/computational biology
3.At least one first authorship publication in a good journal, preferably more.
4.Good communication skills in English
5.Ability to enter and study in Israel (not applicable for Pakistani people, for example).
6.Ability to work in a team.
Please send CV to alevy@mail.huji.ac.il

Pevzner Lab !

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 05:39:26 -0500

The laboratory works on genome sequencing, immunoproteogenomics, antibiotics sequencing, and comparative genomics - computational technologies that enabled new applications and allowed scientists to attack biological problems that remained beyond the reach of previous techniques.

https://bioalgorithms.ucsd.edu/research4.html

The Best Free Crash Course on Large Language Models (LLMs) I've Come Across

Neel — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:57:00 -0500

Stanford CME 295: Transformers & Large Language Models course by Afshine Amidi and Shervine Amidi. The official course website contains the syllabus, slides, and links to all lecture recordings.

Official course

Stanford CME 295 – Transformers & Large Language Models

Official YouTube playlist

Stanford Online – CME 295 Playlist

Course schedule

Transformer – Tokenization, embeddings, attention, Transformer architecture
Transformer-Based Models & Tricks – RoPE, MQA/GQA, BERT variants
Large Language Models – GPT, MoE, prompting, Chain-of-Thought
LLM Training – Pretraining, SFT, LoRA, optimization
LLM Tuning – RLHF, DPO, preference tuning
LLM Reasoning – Reasoning models, GRPO, scaling
Agentic LLMs – RAG, tool calling, ReAct, agents
LLM Evaluation – LLM-as-a-Judge, benchmarks, biases
Current Trends & Recap – Vision Transformers, diffusion-based LLMs, future directions

If you're looking for a research-level understanding of LLMs (beyond prompt engineering), this is one of the best freely available university courses currently available. It pairs particularly well with:

Fiona Brinkman Laboratory

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:46:31 -0500

Infectious disease control needs to be made more “sustainable”. We need to reduce selective pressure on pathogens to evolve antibiotic resistance. We need to control infectious disease outbreaks and associated immune disorders with a better understanding of the genetic, environmental and social factors that impact disease spread and severity.

Research Area

Investigating the role in disease of both the microbe and its host (i.e immune system failure), using genomics and systems biology-based approaches
Using genomics and network analysis to characterize disease outbreaks and their environmental/social/genetic causes, and
Identifying new anti-infective and immune modulating therapies/biomarkers.

Link @ http://www.brinkman.mbb.sfu.ca/

BioProgramming

Jitendra Narayan — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:29:53 -0500

The completion of the first human genome drafts was just a start of the modern DNA sequencing era which resulted in further invention, improved development toward new advanced strategies of high-throughput DNA sequencing, so called the “high-throughput next generation sequencing” (HT-NGS). The decreasing genome sequencing cost and desire to explore and understand biological machanism at genomic level, speed up the genomic sequencing projects. In the fast growing HT-NGS technologies, the main challenge is to cope with the analysis of vast production of sequencing database through advanced bioinformatics tools. In oder to develope sotware/tools bioinformatician/ biological programmers need to expertise in any one one the programming language. However, sometime one language are not enough to handle all sort of biological needs, which compel us to learn new biologically suitable language to handle ever growing genome or protein sequences.

The next step after reading genetic code is writing a script to analyse and explore the hidden information. This tutorial is aimed to introduce you new biological programming languages with their packages/libraries, and assist in your scripting work.

Navigate the sub-section of this page [ see right hand side of the page for it ]