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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/38765/list-of-tools-frequently-used-while-genome-assembly</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:39:02 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/38765/list-of-tools-frequently-used-while-genome-assembly</link>
	<title><![CDATA[List of tools frequently used while genome assembly]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<h4>List of tools frequently used while genome assembly:</h4><p>I have used the following assemblers</p><ul>
<li><a href="http://bioinf.spbau.ru/spades">Spades</a>&nbsp;(v. 3.10.1)</li>
<li><a href="http://canu.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html">CANU</a>&nbsp;(v. 1.6)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/rrwick/Unicycler">Unicycler&nbsp;</a>(v. v0.4.1)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/lh3/miniasm">Miniasm</a>&nbsp;(v. 0.2-r137-dirty)</li>
</ul><p>I have used the following mappers</p><ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/lh3/minimap2">minimap2</a>&nbsp;(v.&nbsp;2.0rc1-r232)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/lh3/minimap">minimap&nbsp;</a>(v. 0.2-r124-dirty)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/lh3/bwa">bwa</a>&nbsp;(v.&nbsp;0.7.12-r1039)</li>
</ul><p>I have used the following polishing tools</p><ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/isovic/racon">Racon</a>&nbsp;(v. not available)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/broadinstitute/pilon">Pilon</a>&nbsp;(v. 1.18)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jts/nanopolish">Nanopolish</a>&nbsp;(v. 0.8.3)</li>
</ul><p>I have used the following tools to assess genome assembly characteristics</p><ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/chjp/ANI">ANI.pl</a>&nbsp;(https://github.com/chjp/ANI)</li>
<li><a href="http://ecogenomics.github.io/CheckM/">CheckM</a>&nbsp;(v. 1.0.7)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/tseemann/prokka">Prokka</a>&nbsp;(v. 1.12)</li>
<li><a href="http://bioinf.spbau.ru/en/quast">QUAST</a>&nbsp;(v. 2.3)</li>
<li><a href="http://mummer.sourceforge.net/">mummer&nbsp;</a>(v. not available)</li>
</ul><p>If you have any ideas or superior tools we have missed please let us know in the comments.</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41559/dahak-benchmarking-and-containerization-of-tools-for-analysis-of-complex-non-clinical-metagenomes</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 04:56:09 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41559/dahak-benchmarking-and-containerization-of-tools-for-analysis-of-complex-non-clinical-metagenomes</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Dahak: benchmarking and containerization of tools for analysis of complex non-clinical metagenomes.]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Dahak is a software suite that integrates state-of-the-art open source tools for metagenomic analyses. Tools in the dahak software suite will perform various steps in metagenomic analysis workflows including data pre-processing, metagenome assembly, taxonomic and functional classification, genome binning, and gene assignment. We aim to deliver the analytical framework as a robust and reliable containerized workflow system, which will be free from dependency, installation, and execution problems typically associated with other open-source bioinformatics solutions. This will maximize the transparency, data provenance (i.e., the process of tracing the origins of data and its movement through the workflow), and reproducibility.</span></p>
<p><span>More at&nbsp;<a href="https://dahak-metagenomics.github.io/dahak/">https://dahak-metagenomics.github.io/dahak/</a></span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/dahak-metagenomics/dahak" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dahak-metagenomics/dahak</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/42275/frequent-parameters-for-bioinformatics-tools</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 19:42:32 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/42275/frequent-parameters-for-bioinformatics-tools</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Frequent parameters for bioinformatics tools !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<div><div>Third party executable parameters and options.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Trimmomatic</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&ldquo;ILLUMINACLIP:...:2:30:10&rdquo;</div><div>&ldquo;LEADING:15&rdquo;</div><div>&ldquo;TRAILING:15&rdquo;</div><div>&ldquo;SLIDINGWINDOW:4:20&rdquo;</div><div>&ldquo;MINLEN:20&rdquo;</div><div>&ldquo;TOPHRED33&rdquo;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Filtlong</div><div>--min_length 500</div><div>--min_mean_q 85</div><div>--min_window_q 65</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>FastQ Screen</div><div>--aligner bowtie2' (bwa for PacBio)</div><div>--subset 1000 (for PacBio)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>SPAdes</div><div>--careful</div><div>--disable-gzip-output</div><div>--cov-cutoff auto</div><div>--phred-offset 33</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>HGAP</div><div>Pbalign.task_options.min_accuracy: 70</div><div>Pbalign.task_options.no_split_subreads: false</div><div>Genomic_consensus.task_options.min_confidence: 40</div><div>falcon_ns.task_options.HGAP_GenomeLength_str:</div><div>6000000</div><div>Pbcoretools.task_options.read_length: 0</div><div>Genomic_consensus.task_options.use_score: 0</div><div>Pbalign.task_options.min_length: 50</div><div>Pbalign.task_options.algorithm_options: --minMatch 12</div><div>--bestn 10 --minPctSimilarity 70.0</div><div>Pbalign.task_options.hit_policy: randombest</div><div>Pbcoretools.task_options.other_filters: rq &gt;= 0.7</div><div>Pbalign.task_options.concordant: false</div><div>Genomic_consensus.task_options.min_coverage: 5</div><div>falcon_ns.task_options.HGAP_SeedCoverage_str: 30</div><div>falcon_ns.task_options.HGAP_AggressiveAsm_bool: false</div><div>Genomic_consensus.task_options.algorithm: best</div><div>falcon_ns.task_options.HGAP_SeedLengthCutoff_str: -1</div><div>Genomic_consensus.task_options.diploid: false</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>MeDuSa</div><div>-random 100</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Prokka</div><div>--usegenus</div><div>--force</div><div>--addgenes</div><div>--rfam</div><div>--rawproduct</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>cmsearch (taxonomy, 16S)</div><div>--rfam</div><div>--noali</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>blastn (taxonomy, 16S)</div><div>-evalue 1E-10</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>blastn (MLST)</div><div>-ungapped</div></div><div><div>-dust no</div><div>-evalue 1E-20</div><div>-word_size 32</div><div>-culling_limit 2</div><div>-perc_identity 95</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>blastp (VF)</div><div>-culling_limit 2</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>RGI (ABR)</div><div>--input_type contig</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>bowtie2 (mapping)</div><div>--sensitive</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>minimap2 (mapping)</div><div>-a</div><div>-x map-ont</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>samtools mpileup (SNP&nbsp;detection)</div><div>-uRI</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>bcftools call (SNP detection)</div><div>--variants-only</div><div>--skip-variants indels</div><div>--output-type v</div><div>--ploidy 1</div><div>-c</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>SNPsift filter (SNP detection)</div><div>"( QUAL &gt;= 30 ) &amp; (( na FILTER ) | (FILTER = 'PASS')) &amp;</div><div>( DP &gt;= 20 ) &amp; ( MQ &gt;= 20 )"</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>SNPeff ann (SNP detection)</div><div>-nodownload</div><div>-no-intron</div><div>-no-downstream</div><div>-no SPLICE_SITE_REGION</div><div>-upDownStreamLen 250</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>bcftools consensus</div><div>(phylogenetic tree)</div><div>--haplotype 1</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>fasttreemp</div><div>-nt</div><div>-boot 100</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>roary</div><div>-e</div><div>-n</div><div>-cd 100</div><div>-g 100000</div></div>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/43260/bioinformatics-tools-for-telomere-to-telomere-assembly</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:17:09 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/43260/bioinformatics-tools-for-telomere-to-telomere-assembly</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Bioinformatics tools for telomere to telomere assembly !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>●&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/arangrhie/merfin" target="_blank">Merfin</a>&nbsp;&ndash; k-mer-based assembly and variant calling evaluation for improved consensus accuracy (Arang Rhie)<br />●&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.11.378133v1" target="_blank">PanGenie</a>&nbsp;&ndash; algorithm that leverages a pangenome reference built from haplotype-resolved genome assemblies in conjunction with k-mer count information from raw, short-read sequencing data to genotype a wide spectrum of genetic variation (Tobias Marschall)<br />●&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/ConesaLab/SQANTI3" target="_blank">SQANTI3</a>&nbsp;&ndash; an automated pipeline for the classification of long-read transcripts that can assess the quality of data and the preprocessing pipeline (Roc&iacute;o Amor&iacute;n de Heged&uuml;s&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/rocioadh" target="_blank">@rocioadh</a>)<br />●&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/GenomeRIK/tama" target="_blank">tama</a>&nbsp;(Transcriptome Annotation by Modular Algorithms) &ndash; software designed for processing Iso-Seq data and other long-read transcriptome data (Richard Kuo&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/GenomeRIK" target="_blank">@GenomeRIK</a>)<br />●&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/pbAA" target="_blank">pbaa</a>&nbsp;(PacBio Amplicon Analysis) &ndash; separates complex mixtures of amplicon targets from genomic samples to cluster and generate high-quality consensus sequences from HiFi reads (Zev Kronenberg&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/zevkronenberg" target="_blank">@zevkronenberg</a>)<br />●&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/yuanyuan929/bellerophon" target="_blank">bellerophon</a>&nbsp;&ndash; analyzes MHC typing and other low-complexity gene amplicon data; performs allele calling while detecting polymorphic sites within the sequences and removing potential chimeric sequence variants (Yuanyuan Cheng&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/Yuanyuan929" target="_blank">@Yuanyuan929</a>)<br />●&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/amwenger/svpack" target="_blank">svpack</a>&nbsp;&ndash; tools for filtering, comparing, and annotating structural variant (SV) calls in VCF format (Aaron Wenger)<br />●&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/AntonBankevich/jumboDB" target="_blank">JumboDB</a>&nbsp;&ndash; tool for de Bruijn graph construction (Anton Bankevich&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AntonBankevich" target="_blank">@AntonBankevich</a>)<br />●&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/ksahlin/ultra" target="_blank">uLTRA</a>&nbsp;&ndash; tool for splice alignment of long transcriptomic reads to a genome, guided by a database of exon annotations. (Kristoffer Sahlin&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/krsahlin" target="_blank">@krsahlin</a>)<br />●&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.25.428044v1.full.pdf" target="_blank">LeafGo</a>&nbsp;&ndash; workflow to rapidly produce high-quality de novo plant genomes (Luca Ermini&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ermini_luca" target="_blank">@ermini_luca</a>)</p><p>Reference:</p><p>https://www.pacb.com/blog/young-investigators-share-stellar-science-career-advice-and-bioinformatics-tools-at-smrt-leiden-2021/</p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43791/comparative-genomics-visualisation-tools</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 05:37:55 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43791/comparative-genomics-visualisation-tools</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Comparative genomics visualisation tools !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Comparative genomics visualisation tools !</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://cmdcolin.github.io/awesome-genome-visualization/?latest=true&amp;selected=%23BRIG&amp;tag=Comparative" rel="nofollow">https://cmdcolin.github.io/awesome-genome-visualization/?latest=true&amp;selected=%23BRIG&amp;tag=Comparative</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Neel</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44551/bioinformatic-tools-for-pathogens-informatics-at-cvr</guid>
	<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2024 15:59:46 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44551/bioinformatic-tools-for-pathogens-informatics-at-cvr</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Bioinformatic tools for pathogens informatics at CVR]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<div><div><div><div><div><p>Novel sequencing and analytical approaches focused on studying viruses and virus-host interactions. Below you will find summaries and links to a number of bioinformatic tools that have been developed @ CVR.</p></div><div><h3><a href="http://giffordlabcvr.github.io/DIGS-tool/" target="_blank" title="DIGS">DIGS</a></h3></div><div><p>The database-integrated genome-screening (DIGS) tool provides a framework for implementing automated in silico screening of sequence databases using BLAST in combination with a relational database (MySQL).</p></div><div><h3><a href="https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/software/discvr/" target="" title="DisCVR">DisCVR</a></h3></div><div><p>DisCVR is a Diagnostic tool for detecting known human viruses in clinical samples from Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. The tool uses a simple and straightforward Graphical User Interface and is optimized on Windows OS without compromising speed and accuracy.</p></div><div><h3><a href="http://josephhughes.github.io/DiversiTools/" target="_blank" title="DiversiTools">DiversiTools</a></h3></div><div><p>DiversiTools is a computational tool that is specifically tailored towards viral HTS data sets and the analysis of the underlying viral populations that they represent. It was initially developed in collaboration with a number of virologists interested in characterising the intra-host diversity of viral populations and studying their evolution across transmission chains at the micro-evolutionary scale.</p></div><div><h3><a href="http://glue-tools.cvr.gla.ac.uk/" target="_blank" title="GLUE">GLUE</a></h3></div><div><p>GLUE is a flexible data-centric bioinformatics environment for virus sequence data, with a focus on virus evolution and genomic variation. GLUE has been applied to a range of viruses. A GLUE-based resource focused on Hepatitis C virus is HCV-GLUE.</p></div><div><h3><a href="https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/tanoti/" target="_blank" title="Tanoti">Tanoti</a></h3></div><div><p>Tanoti is a BLAST guided reference based short read aligner. It is developed for maximising alignment in highly variable next generation sequence data sets (Illumina).</p></div><div><h3><a href="https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/victree/" target="_blank" title="VicTREE">ViCTree</a></h3></div><div><p>ViCTree is a bioinformatic framework that automatically selects new candidate virus sequences from GenBank, generates multiple sequence alignments, calculates a maximum likelihood phylogeny and integrates the sequences into the existing phylogenetic trees.&nbsp;<span>For more information click&nbsp;</span><a href="https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/victree_web/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><h3><a href="https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/software/viral-host-predictor/" target="" title="Viral Host Predictor">Viral Host Predictor</a></h3></div><div><p>Viral Host Predictor provides a fast and simple way to predict the hosts and vectors of RNA viruses from viral sequences.</p></div><div><h3><a href="https://github.com/salvocamiolo/GRACy/releases/tag/v0.4.4" target="_blank" title="GRACy">GRACy</a></h3></div><div><p>GRACy is a bioinformatic tool designed for the analysis of Illumina data originated from Human cytomegalovirus samples. GRACy can be used to perform read quality filtering, genotyping, de novo assembly, variant detection, annotation and data submission to public database.</p></div><div><h3><a href="https://github.com/salvocamiolo/LoReTTA/releases/tag/v0.1" target="_blank" title="LoReTTA">LoReTTA</a></h3></div><div><p>LoReTTA (Long Read Template Targeted Assembler) is a reference assisted de novo assembler specifically designed to deal with PacBio reads generated from viral genomes.&nbsp;</p></div><div><h3><a href="https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/software/bingleseq/" target="" title="BingleSeq">BingleSeq</a></h3></div><div><p>BingleSeq is a R-package enables the user-friendly analysis of count tables obtained by both Bulk RNA-Seq and single-cell RNA-Seq protocols. The development of BingleSeq focused on providing a flexible and intuitive user experience.</p></div></div></div></div></div>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Abhi</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/34864/installing-perl-environment-on-linux</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2017 21:21:50 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/34864/installing-perl-environment-on-linux</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Installing Perl environment on Linux]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>By using&nbsp;<code>plenv</code>, you can easily install and switch among different version of Perl. This will be installed under your home directory in<code>~/.plenv</code>.</p><h4>Install latest Perl (with supporting multithreading) and CPANMinus.</h4><pre><code> $ cd
 $ git clone git://github.com/tokuhirom/plenv.git ~/.plenv
 $ git clone git://github.com/tokuhirom/Perl-Build.git ~/.plenv/plugins/perl-build/
 $ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.plenv/bin:$PATH"' &gt;&gt; ~/.bashrc
 $ echo 'eval "$(plenv init -)"' &gt;&gt; ~/.bashrc
 $ source ~/.bashrc
 $ plenv install 5.18.1 -Dusethreads
 $ plenv rehash
 $ plenv global 5.18.1
 $ plenv install-cpanm
</code></pre><ul>
<li><code>git</code>&nbsp;is a distributed revision control and source code management software which can help you to download files from GitHub server.</li>
<li><code>echo</code>&nbsp;means "print".</li>
<li><code>&gt;&gt;</code>&nbsp;means adding the output into the end of the file, while&nbsp;<code>&gt;</code>&nbsp;means adding the output by overwriting the whole file. Please use<code>&gt;</code>&nbsp;with additional cares.</li>
<li>In Linux system, there are two types of outputs when you execute a command. One is called standard output (or sometimes STDOUT for short), and the other is a standard error (STDERR).&nbsp;<code>1&gt;</code>&nbsp;is for STDOUT only,&nbsp;<code>2&gt;</code>&nbsp;is for STDERR only, and&nbsp;<code>&amp;&gt;</code>means for both. In default&nbsp;<code>&gt;</code>&nbsp;is the same to&nbsp;<code>1&gt;</code>.</li>
<li><code>exec</code>&nbsp;is execution.</li>
<li>Remember to install Perl in supporting multithreading (with option&nbsp;<code>-Dusethreads</code>), which is important for many NGS analysis packages (e.g. Trinity). In this setting, you can use multiple CPU for Perl software.</li>
<li>Install the CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) manager software, CPANMinus, by&nbsp;<code>install-cpanm</code>.</li>
</ul><p>You can use&nbsp;<code>plenv global</code>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<code>plenv local</code>&nbsp;to change the different version of Perl to fulfil different needs of your Perl software.</p><p>For example, if the&nbsp;specific version of Perl is not compatible with your script, you can switch to the different version by:</p><pre><code> $ plenv local 
</code></pre><ul>
<li>It is similar to set the local version of your script language when you use&nbsp;<code>pyenv</code>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<code>rbenv</code>&nbsp;as the following.</li>
</ul><p>Put the following path into&nbsp;<code>~/.bashrc file</code>.</p><pre><code>export PERL5LIB="$HOME/.plenv/build/perl-5.18.1/lib"
</code></pre><h4>Install BioPerl and PerlIO::gzip</h4><p>CPANMinus is a very good Perl module manager, use&nbsp;<code>cpanm</code>&nbsp;to install BioPerl can save you a lot of time. Here are some useful modules:</p><pre><code>$ cpanm Bio::Perl
$ cpanm Bio::SearchIO
$ cpanm PerlIO::gzip<br /></code></pre><p><span>For more information, please visit:&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/tokuhirom/plenv">https://github.com/tokuhirom/plenv</a></p><pre><code>&nbsp;</code></pre>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>biogeek</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/37677/installing-blat-on-linux</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:17:35 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/37677/installing-blat-on-linux</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Installing BLAT on Linux !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>It's been a while since I last installed BLAT and when I went to the download directory at UCSC:&nbsp;</span><a href="http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent/src/">http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent/src/</a><span>&nbsp;I found that the latest blast is now version 35 and that the code to download was:&nbsp;</span><a href="http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent/src/blatSrc35.zip">blatSrc35.zip</a><span>. However, you can also get pre-compiled binaries at:&nbsp;</span><a href="http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/">http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/</a><span>&nbsp;and that there was a linux x86_64 executable for my architecture available at:&nbsp;</span><a href="http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/blat/">http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/blat/</a><span>. Though YYMV, BLAT can be a little bit of a tricky beast to get going, so I decided to download the source code and compile that.</span><br /><br /><span>I will be compiling this code as 'root' as a system tool in&nbsp;</span><code>/usr/local/src</code><span>, so do not scream at me for that.</span><br /><br /><span>First I created an /usr/local/src/blat directory and I copied the blatSrc35.zip file into that.</span><br /><br /><span>Next I used</span></p><pre><code>unzip blatSrc35.zip</code></pre><p><span>to unpack the archive. This gives a directory blatSrc now move into that directory.</span></p><pre><code>#cd blatSrc</code></pre><p><span>before you begin read the README file that comes with the source code.</span><br /><br /><span>One thing about building blat is that you need to set the MACHTYPE variable so that the BLAT sources know what type of machine you are compiling the software on.</span><br /><br /><span>on most *nix machines, typing</span></p><pre><code>echo $MACHTYPE</code></pre><p><span>will return the machine architecture type.</span><br /><br /><span>On my CentOS 6 based system this gave:</span></p><pre><code>x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu</code></pre><p><span>However, what BLAT requires is the 'short value' (ie the first part of the MACHTYPE). To correct this, in the bash shell type (change this to the correct MACHTYPE for your system)</span></p><pre><code>MACHTYPE=x86_64
export MACHTYPE</code></pre><p><span>now running the command:</span></p><pre><code>echo $MACHTYPE</code></pre><p><span>should give the correct short form of the MACHTYPE:</span></p><pre><code>x86_64</code></pre><p><span>now create the directory lib/$MACHTYPE in the source tree. ie:</span></p><pre><code>mkdir lib/$MACHTYPE</code></pre><p><span>For my machine, lib/x86_64 already existed, so I did not have to do this, but this is not the case for all architectures.</span><br /><br /><span>The BLAT code assumes that you are compiling BLAT as a non-privileged (ie non-root) user. As a result, you must create the directory for the executables to go into:</span><br /><br /><span>mkdir ~/bin/$MACHTYPE</span><br /><br /><span>If you are installing as a normal user, edit your .bashrc to add the following (change the x86_64 to be your MACHTYPE):</span><br /><br /><span>export PATH=~/bin/x86_64::$PATH</span><br /><br /><span>For me, though, this was not good enough. I wanted the executables in /usr/local/bin where all my other code goes. As a result I did some hackery...</span><br /><br /><span>There is a master make template in the&nbsp;</span><code>inc</code><span>&nbsp;directory called&nbsp;</span><code>common.mk</code><span>&nbsp;and I edited this file with the command:</span><br /><br /><span>vi inc/common.mk</span><br /><br /><span>I replaced the line</span></p><pre><code>    BINDIR=${HOME}/bin/${MACHTYPE}</code></pre><p><span>with</span></p><pre><code>    BINDIR=/usr/local/bin</code></pre><p><span>saved and quit (as this is in my path, I do not need to do anything else)</span><br /><br /><span>All the preparation is now done and you can create the blat executables by going into the toplevel of the blat source tree (for me it was&nbsp;</span><code>/usr/local/src/blat/blatSrc</code><span>, but change to wherever you unpacked blat into).</span><br /><br /><span>Now simply run the command:</span></p><pre><code>make</code></pre><p><span>to compile the code.</span><br /><br /><span>Blat installed cleanly and the executables were all neatly placed in /usr/local/bin/x86_64, just like I wanted.</span><br /><br /><span>now simply running the command:</span></p><pre><code>blat</code></pre><p><span>on the command line gives me information on blat and sample usage.</span><br /><br /><span>Blat is installed and it's installed properly in my system code tree!!!</span></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:43:02 -0500</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p>Orange Bioinformatics extends <a href="http://orange.biolab.si/">Orange</a>, a data mining software package, with common functionality for bioinformatics. The provided functionality can be accessed as a Python library or through a visual programming interface (Orange Canvas). The latter is also suitable for non-programmers.</p>
<p>Orange Bioinformatics provides access to publicly available data, like GEO data sets, Biomart, GO, KEGG, Atlas, ArrayExpress, and PIPAx database. As for the analytics, there is gene selection, quality control, scoring distances between experiments with multiple factors. All features can be combined with powerful visualization, network exploration and data mining techniques from the Orange data mining framework.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Orange-Bioinformatics/2.5.34" rel="nofollow">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Orange-Bioinformatics/2.5.34</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Robert M Willioms</dc:creator>
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