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LAMSA: fast split read alignment with long approximate matches

Jit — Tue, 15 May 2018 04:44:42 -0500

LAMSA (Long Approximate Matches-based Split Aligner) is a novel split alignment approach with faster speed and good ability of handling SV events. It is well-suited to align long reads (over thousands of base-pairs). LAMSA takes takes the advantage of the rareness of SVs to implement a specifically designed two-step strategy. That is, LAMSA initially splits the read into relatively long fragments and co-linearly align them to solve the small variations or sequencing errors, and mitigate the effect of repeats. The alignments of the fragments are then used for implementing a sparse dynamic programming (SDP)-based split alignment approach to handle the large or non-co-linear variants. We benchmarked LAMSA with simulated and real datasets having various read lengths and sequencing error rates, the results demonstrate that it is substantially faster than the state-of-the-art long read aligners; mean-while, it also has good ability to handle various categories of SVs. LAMSA is open source and free for non-commercial use. LAMSA is mainly designed by Bo Liu & Yan Gao and developed by Yan Gao in Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/hitbc/LAMSA

FRODOCK 2.0: fast protein–protein docking server

Neel — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 04:31:30 -0500

frodock: a user-friendly protein–protein docking server based on an improved version of FRODOCK that includes a complementary knowledge-based potential. The web interface provides a very effective tool to explore and select protein–protein models and interactively screen them against experimental distance constraints. The competitive success rates and efficiency achieved allow the retrieval of reliable potential protein–protein binding conformations that can be further refined with more computationally demanding strategies.

Address of the bookmark: http://frodock.chaconlab.org/

Shouji: a fast and efficient pre-alignment filter for sequence alignment

Jit — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 07:09:45 -0600

The ability to generate massive amounts of sequencing data continues to overwhelm the processing capacity of existing algorithms and compute infrastructures. In this work, we explore the use of hardware/software co-design and hardware acceleration to significantly reduce the execution time of short sequence alignment, a crucial step in analyzing sequenced genomes.

We introduce Shouji, a highly parallel and accurate pre-alignment filter that remarkably reduces the need for computationally-costly dynamic programming algorithms. The first key idea of our proposed pre-alignment filter is to provide high filtering accuracy by correctly detecting all common subsequences shared between two given sequences. The second key idea is to design a hardware accelerator design that adopts modern FPGA (field-programmable gate array) architectures to further boost the performance of our algorithm.

More at https://github.com/CMU-SAFARI/Shouji

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/CMU-SAFARI/Shouji

RNA-Bloom: a fast and memory-efficient de novo transcript sequence assembler

LEGE — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 03:13:06 -0500

RNA-Bloom is a fast and memory-efficient de novo transcript sequence assembler. It is designed for the following sequencing data types:

single-end/paired-end bulk RNA-seq (strand-specific/agnostic)
paired-end single-cell RNA-seq (strand-specific/agnostic)
nanopore RNA-seq (PCR cDNA/direct cDNA/direct RNA)

Written by Ka Ming Nip ✉️

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/bcgsc/RNA-Bloom

fastv - detect virus

Jit — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:04:10 -0600

fastv is an ultra-fast tool for identification of SARS-CoV-2 and other microbes from sequencing data. It detects microbial sequences from FASTQ data, generates JSON reports and visualizes the result in HTML reports. This tool can be used to detect viral infectious diseases, like COVID-19. This tool supports both short reads (Illumina, BGI, etc.) and long reads (ONT, PacBio, etc.)

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/OpenGene/fastv

HELIANO: A fast and accurate tool for detection of Helitron-like elements

LEGE — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:16:34 -0500

Helitron-like elements (HLE1 and HLE2) are DNA transposons. They have been found in diverse species and seem to play significant roles in the evolution of host genomes. Although known for over twenty years, Helitron sequences are still challenging to identify. Here, we propose HELIANO (Helitron-like elements annotator) as an efficient solution for detecting Helitron-like elements.

https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkae679/7730539?login=true

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/Zhenlisme/heliano/

Genetic code - Amino Acid

Poonam Mahapatra — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 07:45:58 -0500

The genetic code consists of 64 triplets of nucleotides. These triplets are called codons.With three exceptions, each codon encodes for one of the 20 amino acids used in the synthesis of proteins. That produces some redundancy in the code: most of the amino acids being encoded by more than one codon.

The image summarise all in one.

More at http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/Codons.html

minimap2: A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences

Jit — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:55:29 -0500

git clone https://github.com/lh3/minimap2 cd minimap2 && make # long sequences against a reference genome ./minimap2 -a test/MT-human.fa test/MT-orang.fa > test.sam # create an index first and then map ./minimap2 -d MT-human.mmi test/MT-human.fa ./minimap2 -a MT-human.mmi test/MT-orang.fa > test.sam # use presets (no test data) ./minimap2 -ax map-pb ref.fa pacbio.fq.gz > aln.sam # PacBio genomic reads ./minimap2 -ax map-ont ref.fa ont.fq.gz > aln.sam # Oxford Nanopore genomic reads ./minimap2 -ax sr ref.fa read1.fa read2.fa > aln.sam # short genomic paired-end reads ./minimap2 -ax splice ref.fa rna-reads.fa > aln.sam # spliced long reads ./minimap2 -ax splice -k14 -uf ref.fa reads.fa > aln.sam # Nanopore Direct RNA-seq ./minimap2 -cx asm5 asm1.fa asm2.fa > aln.paf # intra-species asm-to-asm alignment ./minimap2 -x ava-pb reads.fa reads.fa > overlaps.paf # PacBio read overlap ./minimap2 -x ava-ont reads.fa reads.fa > overlaps.paf # Nanopore read overlap # man page for detailed command line options man ./minimap2.1

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/lh3/minimap2

Special Nucleotide Characters / Symbols !

Abhi — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 23:37:33 -0600

Nucleotide symbols

Nucleotide symbol	Full Name
A	Adenine
C	Cytosine
G	Guanine
T	Thymine
U	Uracil
R	Guanine / Adenine (purine)
Y	Cytosine / Thymine (pyrimidine)
K	Guanine / Thymine
M	Adenine / Cytosine
S	Guanine / Cytosine
W	Adenine / Thymine
B	Guanine / Thymine / Cytosine
D	Guanine / Adenine / Thymine
H	Adenine / Cytosine / Thymine
V	Guanine / Cytosine / Adenine
N	Adenine / Guanine / Cytosine / Thymine

GPOPSIM: a simulation tool for whole-genome genetic data

Jit — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 03:47:46 -0600

GPOPSIM is a simulation tool for pedigree, phenotypes, and genomic data, with a variety of population and genome structures and trait genetic architectures. It provides flexible parameter settings for a wide discipline of users, especially can simulate multiple genetically correlated traits with desired genetic parameters and underlying genetic architectures.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/SCAU-AnimalGenetics/GPOPSIM