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Linux Cheat Sheet

Jitendra Narayan — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:30:04 -0500

In an attempt to find a good Linux reference for bioinformatician and BOL readers, I was unsuccessful at finding a decent one on the Internet. So, we decided to make a cheat sheet for biological programmers.

List of GOI approved peer reviewed bioinformatics and computational biology journals

Jit — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 05:03:27 -0500

Unfortunately, we now live in a world where the integrity of peer-reviewed journals is being threatened by the rise of the academic version of fake news – something many call “predatory publishing". Mostly in academic publishing world, "predatory open access publishing" is an exploitative open-access publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals (open access or not).

Nearly 20% of the such journals have a flashy impact factor and quick publication time, which are quick give-aways. Interestingly, under contact address, some journal websites do not even provide any address to contact. All of this has led to the emergence of a new and dark market of deceptive publishers that exploit the concept of open access and provide channels for “scientific journal” publication with little or no peer review. For a fee, they will publish almost anything – even if the study was fatally flawed. And these journals provide a forum that can be used as a channel to publish fraudulent “advocacy research.” You can find list of certain such publishers at "Beall's List" http://beallslist.weebly.com/

Keeping all these in mind, Government of India (GOI) decided to approved certain bioinformatics and computational biology journals for your research publication.

Following are the list of GOI validated and peer reviewed bioinformatics and computational biology journals:

NOTE:Each journal details are in following order Tittle\nSource\nSubject.
Point to remember: The list of journals are NOT sorted in any ascending or descending order.

If I missed any other GOI validated bioinformatics journal, then please report me in comment section.

Open Bioinformatics Journal
Scopus
Computer Science; Engineering; Medicine

PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS
WoS
BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry
Scopus
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Chemistry; Computer Science

Advances in Bioinformatics
Scopus
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Computer Science; Engineering

Applied Bioinformatics
Scopus
Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Computer Science

BIOINFORMATICS
WoS & Scopus
COMPUTER SCIENCE

Bioinformatics and Biology Insights
Scopus
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Computer Science; Mathematics

BMC BIOINFORMATICS
WoS & Scopus
COMPUTER SCIENCE

BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
WoS & Scopus
COMPUTER SCIENCE

Computational systems bioinformatics / Life Sciences Society. Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference
Scopus
Medicine

Current Bioinformatics
WoS & Scopus
COMPUTER SCIENCE

Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
Scopus
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN BIOINFORMATICS
ICI
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Journal of integrative bioinformatics
Scopus
Medicine

Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics
Scopus
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Computer Science

Mathematical Biology and Bioinformatics
Scopus
Engineering; Mathematics

Trends in Bioinfprmatics
Scopus
Computer Science

Eurasip Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Scopus
General; Computer Science; Mathematics; Medicine

Evolutionary Bioinformatics
WoS & Scopus
COMPUTER SCIENCE

Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
Scopus
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology;Mathematics

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Scopus
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology;Mathematics

IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
WoS
COMPUTER SCIENCE

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Application
Scopus
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Medicine, Health

International Journal o f Data M ining and Bioinformatics
WoS & Scopus
COMPUTER SCIENCE

IPSJ Transactions on Bioinformatics
Scopus
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology;Computer Science

Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
WoS & Scopus
COMPUTER SCIENCE

Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics
Scopus
Medicine

PLoS Computational Biology
WoS & Scopus
BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Reviews in Computational Chemistry
WoS & Scopus
CHEMISTRY

RSC Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Series
Scopus
Chemistry; Computer Science

Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry
Scopus
Chemistry; Mathematics

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
Scopus
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Computer Science

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
WoS & Scopus
CHEMISTRY

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY
WoS & Scopus
COMPUTER SCIENCE

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
WoS
CHEMISTRY

Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
Scopus
Chemistry; Computer Science

Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
Scopus
Chemistry

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science
Scopus
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology;Chemistry; Computer Science; Materials Science; Mathematics

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews- Computational Molecular Science
WoS
CHEMISTRY

Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
Scopus
Medicine

Interdisciplinary Sciences-Computational Life Science
WoS
Biology and Biochemistry

International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design
Scopus
Computer Science; Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

Linux for bioinformatician !!!

Rahul Nayak — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:59:26 -0500

Linux, free operating system for computers, provides several powerful admin tools and utilities which will help you to manage your systems effectively and handle huge amount of genomic/biological data with an ease. The field of bioinformatics relies heavily on Linux-based computers and software. Although most bioinformatics programs can be compiled to run. If you don’t know what these no so user-friendly tools are and how to use them, you could be spending lot of time trying to perform even the basic admin tasks. The focus of this linux series is to help you understand system admin as well as basic tools, which will help you to become an effective bioinformatician and computational biologist.

For knowledge about Linux and their importance amongst bioinformatician plesae read this article "An introduction to Linux for bioinformatics" by Paul Stothard.

Linux cheat sheet at http://bioinformaticsonline.com/file/view/87/linux-cheat-sheet

Please browse for futher useful linux pages on right hand side ...

Check the Size of a directory & Free disk space.

Jitendra Narayan — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 02:35:32 -0500

The amount of databases we bioinformatician deal are just HUGE … In such cases, we always need to check our server for free spaces etc. I planned this article to explains 2 simple commands that most bioinformatician want to know when they start using Linux / BioLinux. First: Size of a directory (du) and and second: free disk space that exists on your machine (df).

'du' – Check the size of a directory

$ du
This command ( du) gives you a list of directories that exist in the current working directory along with their sizes in kilobytes (default). The last line of the output gives you the total size of the current directory including its subdirectories.

$ du /home/jin1
The above command would give you the directory size of the directory /home/david

$ du -h
The same “du”command with some flag gives you a better output than the default one. The option '-h' stands for human readable format. Therefore, in order to print the sizes of the files / directories in your desire notation use this time suffixed with a 'k' if its kilobytes and 'M' if its Megabytes and 'G' if its Gigabytes.

$ du -ah
If you are interested in checking everything present in a folder use above mentioned command. It gives us not only the directories but also all the files that are present in the current directory. The “-a” flag displays the filenames along with the directory names in the output.

$ du -c
This gives you a grand total as the last line of the output. So if your directory occupies 30MB the last 2 lines of the output would be 30M.

$ du -s
Use this command to displays a summary of the directory size. It is the simplest way to know the total size of the current directory.

$ du -S
This would display the size of the current directory excluding the size of the subdirectories that exist within that directory. So it basically shows you the total size of all the files that exist in the current directory.

$ du --exculde=mp3
Several times it required to exclude some directory in our size calculation. In such cases the above command would display the size of the current directory along with all its subdirectories, but it would exclude all the files having the given pattern present in their filenames.

'df' - finding the disk free space / disk usage

$ df
Hmmm … now “df” command is really useful, and I guess you are going to use it over time. Typing the above command, outputs a table consisting of 6 columns. All the columns are very easy to understand. Remember that the 'Size', 'Used' and 'Avail' columns use kilobytes as the unit. The 'Use%' column shows the usage as a percentage which is also very useful.

$ df -h
Displays the same output as the previous command but the '-h' indicates human readable format. Hence instead of kilobytes as the unit the output would have 'M' for Megabytes and 'G' for Gigabytes.

Example: Linux installed on /dev/hda1
$ df -h | grep /dev/hda1

All right, this is not the only option to check the sizes and free spaces but there are a few more options that can be used with 'du' and 'df' . I will discuss it later.

3 PhD positions available in the area of Bioinformatics/Computational Biology at ulster.ac.uk

Thu, 02 Jan 2020 12:41:10 -0600

3 PhD positions available in the area of Bioinformatics/Computational Biology, Machine Learning (ML)/Artificial Intelligence (AI), Biomarker Discovery, Stratified/Personalized Medicine in Mental Health, Diabetes and Multimorbidity. Please see details (weblinks) below:

1. https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/510894
2. https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/511458
3. https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/512618

Looking for students with good computational/programming skills (preferable in Linux/Shell, Python and/or R) and knowledge in computational biology and statistics. However, students from more biology oriented background but strong interest to learn bioinformatics and programming are also encouraged to apply.

Informal inquiries are welcomed at: p.shukla@ulster.ac.uk

Dr Priyank Shukla PhD FHEA FCHERP
Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Stratified Medicine (Bioinformatics)

Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine
Biomedical Sciences Research Institute
University of Ulster (Magee Campus)
C-TRIC Building, Altnagelvin Area Hospital
Glenshane Road, Derry/Londonderry
BT47 6SB, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

T: +44 28 7167 5690
E: p.shukla@ulster.ac.uk
W: https://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/p-shukla

Liu Lab

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:27:02 -0600

Shirley is a computational biologist with expertise in cancer epigenetics. Her research focuses on algorithm development and integrative mining from big data generated on microarrays, massively parallel sequencing, and other high throughput techniques to model the specificity and function of transcription factors, chromatin regulators and lncRNAs in tumor development, progression, drug response and resistance.

https://liulab-dfci.github.io/software/

Troyanskaya Lab

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:40:36 -0600

The goal of our research is to interpret and distill this complexity through accurate analysis and modeling of molecular pathways, particularly those in which malfunctions lead to the manifestation of disease. We are inventing integrative methods for systems-level pathway modeling through integrative analysis of genome-scale datasets. We apply these approaches in studying challenging biological problems, such as how pathways function in diverse cell types and how they change dynamically.

https://function.princeton.edu/

SRF/JRF Bioinformatics at CIARI

Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:10:09 -0600

Realizing the importance of Island Agriculture to meet the requirements of local population and tourists, Indian Council of Agricultural research (ICAR) established Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair on June 23rd, 1978 by merging different regional research stations of ICAR institutes located in Islands. The ultimate aim of CIARI is the developments of island agricultural production technologies which utilizes the strengths of the island and convert the constraints in opportunities, without causing any ill effect to the fragile ecosystem of the island.The institute has made tremendous progress in the Agriculture development of the islands during the last three decades. Keeping in view the natural resources of the islands diversity, fragile ecosystem, research program would be designed to maximize the productivity without disturbing to the islands ecosystem to provide better and decent livelihood and as a source of revenue and resource generation. Research and development in Agriculture sector should cover all disciplines in order to have a balanced progress in all disciplines for the overall benefits of the farmers of these islands.

Position I

Job Title : Junior Research Fellow

No. of Posts : One

Project : Establishment of sub distributed information centre

Qualification : M.Sc in Basic Science with NET or B.Sc in professional course with NET or M.Sc in professional course

Desired Experience : Experience in Bioinformatics and molecular biology

Payscale : Rs. 25000 per month

Age Limit : Upto 35 for men and 40 for women with 5 years relaxation to SC/ST and 3 years relaxation for OBC.

Position II

Job Title : Traineeship

No. of Posts : One

Project : Establishment of sub distributed information centre

Qualification : B.Sc Bioinformatics /Biotechnology / Life Science / Computer Science

Desired Experience : Experience in Bioinformatics and molecular biology

Payscale : Rs. 8000 per month

Age Limit : Upto 35 for men and 40 for women with 5 years relaxation to SC/ST and 3 years relaxation for OBC.

Position III

Job Title : Studentship

No. of Posts : Two

Project : Establishment of sub distributed information centre

Qualification : B.Sc Bioinformatics /Biotechnology / Life Science / Computer Science

Desired Experience : Experience in Bioinformatics and molecular biology

Payscale : Rs. 8000 per month

Age Limit : Upto 35 for men and 40 for women with 5 years relaxation to SC/ST and 3 years relaxation for OBC.

How to Apply : Candidates who meet the requirements can attend the walk in interview at CIARI,Port Blair on 09.12.2015 10.30AM.

http://icar-ciari.res.in/employment/9-12-15.pdf

Post-doc position at LABGeM - Evry, France

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 06:24:00 -0600

The LABGeM team (CEA/Genoscope, CNRS UMR 8030, France, Dir. Claudine Médigue) is developing integrated approaches which combines bioinformatics methods based (i) on genomic and metabolic contexts, (ii) on an orignal metabolic network representation and (iii) on a structural classification of active sites for the discovery of new metabolic enzymatic activities.

We are hiring a post-doctoral fellow for the development of innovative bioinformatics methods to explore metabolic networks and enzyme families. These methods will be based on protein family analysis and graph approaches combining genomic and metabolic contexts.

For more details, please see this link : http://goo.gl/tHQOqk

Qualifications:
PhD degree in bioinformatics or computational biology
- Previous experience in network or protein family analysis
- Programming skills (C/C++, Python, Java) and in common biostatistical analyses
- Team player, innovative and creative thinking, good oral and written communication skills

24 months, Post Doctoral position
Start: from March 2016
Place: CEA, Genoscope UMR8030, LABGeM (Laboratory of Bioinformatics Analyses for Genomics and Metabolism), Evry, France
Contact: David Vallenet, vallenet@genoscope.cns.fr
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rJNPLSAAAAAJ
Remuneration per month: from 2,850 €

Interested candidates should send their CV, statement of research interests, and contact information of at least 2 references to David Vallenet (vallenet@genoscope.cns.fr).

Project Assistant at IISER Mohali

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:04:27 -0600

Project Assistant Job position in Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) Mohali

Title : In silico understanding of molecular basis of recognition, binding, and regulation of mRNA by STAR family of transcriptional regulators.

No. of Post : 01

Department : Science and Technology

Qualifications : M.Sc./B.Tech in computational life sciences, computational chemistry, computational natural sciences or allied areas. Working experience in MD simulations, bioinformatics, molecular modeling, and drug designing is desirable and plus

Emoluments : As per DST norms
How to apply

Applicants are requested to send application along with bio-data and a summary of previous projects (if any) as a PDF file with the e-mail to Dr. Monika Sharma, Email: mnsharma@iisermohali.ac.in. Last date of applications is 17:00 IST. Feb 15, 2016. Shortlisted candidates will be called for interview on Feb 22, 2016.

More at http://14.139.227.202/tenders/tenderinvite/index.php/iiserm-project-openings/554-applications-are-invited-to-work-as-project-assistant-in-a-dst-inspire-research-project-funded-by-department-of-science-and-technology-india