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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43101/luigi-a-python-package-that-helps-you-build-complex-pipelines-of-batch-jobs</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 05:43:31 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43101/luigi-a-python-package-that-helps-you-build-complex-pipelines-of-batch-jobs</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Luigi: a Python package that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Luigi is a Python (3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 tested) package that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs. It handles dependency resolution, workflow management, visualization, handling failures, command line integration, and much more.</p>
<p>Run <code>pip install luigi</code> to install the latest stable version from <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/luigi">PyPI</a>. <a href="https://luigi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/">Documentation for the latest release</a> is hosted on readthedocs.</p>
<p>Run <code>pip install luigi[toml]</code> to install Luigi with <a href="https://luigi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/configuration.html">TOML-based configs</a> support.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/spotify/luigi" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/spotify/luigi</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Neel</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/35800/scikit-bio%E2%84%A2-is-an-open-source-bsd-licensed-python-package-providing-data-structures-algorithms-and-educational-resources-for-bioinformatics</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 04:29:47 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/35800/scikit-bio%E2%84%A2-is-an-open-source-bsd-licensed-python-package-providing-data-structures-algorithms-and-educational-resources-for-bioinformatics</link>
	<title><![CDATA[scikit-bio™ is an open-source, BSD-licensed, python package providing data structures, algorithms, and educational resources for bioinformatics.]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>scikit-bio is currently in beta. We are very actively developing it, and&nbsp;</span><strong>backward-incompatible interface changes can and will arise</strong><span>. To avoid these types of changes being a surprise to our users, our public APIs are decorated to make it clear to users when an API can be relied upon (stable) and when it may be subject to change (experimental). See the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/biocore/scikit-bio/blob/master/doc/source/user/api_stability.rst">API stability docs</a><span>&nbsp;for more details, including what we mean by&nbsp;</span><em>stable</em><span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><em>experimental</em><span>&nbsp;in this context.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://scikit-bio.org/" rel="nofollow">http://scikit-bio.org/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41487/tinycov-standalone-command-line-utility-written-in-python-to-plot-coverage-from-a-bam-file</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 06:22:08 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41487/tinycov-standalone-command-line-utility-written-in-python-to-plot-coverage-from-a-bam-file</link>
	<title><![CDATA[tinycov: standalone command line utility written in python to plot coverage from a BAM file]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Tinycov is a small standalone command line utility written in python to plot the coverage of a BAM file quickly. This software was inspired by&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/matted/genome_coverage_plotter">Matt Edwards' genome coverage plotter</a>.</p>
<p>To install the stable version:&nbsp;<code>pip3 install --user tinycov</code></p>
<p>To install the development version:</p>
<pre><code>git clone https://github.com/cmdoret/tinycov.git
cd tinycov
pip install .</code></pre><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/cmdoret/tinycov" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cmdoret/tinycov</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:35:34 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/view/119</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Which are the best statistical programming languages to study for a bioinformatician?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>In Bio-informatics based&nbsp;genome sequencing and predicting metabolic pathways&nbsp;research jobs&nbsp;I used Matlab, SAS, SPSS, R and several Bioconductor packages. Matlab had a lot of powerful tools and was easy to use, whereas SPSS is for non-programmers and R need programming skills. I am wondering what other people think is best? or there might not be one specific language but a few that lend themselves best to Bio-informatics work that is math heavy and deals with a large amount of data.</span></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jitendra Narayan</dc:creator>
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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/opportunity/view/1720/postdoctoral-associate-bioinformatics-at-duke-university-medical-center</guid>
  <pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:38:38 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Postdoctoral Associate - Bioinformatics  at Duke University Medical Center]]></title>
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<p>The Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University Medical Center is seeking a Postdoctoral Associate for a one year appointment to work on several high-dimensional research projects. The specific goals of the project are to identify genes or molecular markers that are predictive of clinical outcomes in renal and prostate cancer.</p>

<p>Candidates must have: a PhD degree in statistics, biostatistics or bioinformatics, extensive experience in analyzing high-dimensional data (microarray, SNP, CNVs) and of validation approaches. In addition, experience in penalized regression methods, data base manipulation; and strong programming skills in order to conduct Monte Carlo studies and applications (R). Candidate must have excellent communication skills (verbal, written and presentation), a strong proficiency in Linux system.</p>

<p>This position is available immediately and will be filled as soon as possible. Appointment could be extended beyond the first year based on additional funding.</p>

<p>For more information about the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, please visit our website: http://www.biostat.duke.edu.</p>

<p>For more info: http://biostat.duke.edu/sites/biostat.duke.edu/files/Halabi%20-%20Postdoc%20Job%20Posting%202013%20updated.pdf</p>

<p>Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.</p>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/5894/rna-seq-data-pathway-and-gene-set-analysis-workflows</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:00:48 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/5894/rna-seq-data-pathway-and-gene-set-analysis-workflows</link>
	<title><![CDATA[RNA-Seq Data Pathway and Gene-set Analysis Workflows]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>It describe the GAGE (Luo et al., 2009) /Pahview (Luo and Brouwer, 2013) workflows on&nbsp;RNA-Seq data pathway analysis and gene-set analysis.&nbsp;<span>The gage package (2.12.0) now includes a new tutorial, &ldquo;RNA-Seq Data Pathway and Gene-set Analysis Workflows&ldquo;.</span></p><p>First cover a full workflow from preparation, reads counting, data preprocessing, gene set test, to pathway visualization in about 40 lines of codes. The same workflow can be used for GO analysis or other types of gene set analysis too. We also describe joint workflows, i.e. to do gene-level analysis using one of the major RNA-Seq analysis tools, DEseq/DEseq2, edgeR, limma and Cufflinks, and feed the results into GAGE/Pahview for pathway analysis or visualization. All these workflows are implemented in R/Bioconductor.</p><p>The work ows cover the most common situations and issues for RNA-Seq data pathway analysis. Issues like&nbsp;data quality assessment are relevant for data analysis in general yet out the scope of this tutorial. Although we&nbsp;focus on RNA-Seq data here, but pathway analysis work ow remains similar for microarray, particularly step&nbsp;3-4 would be the same. Please check gage and pathview vigenttes for details.</p><p>Note: You need to update to current release versions of R(3.0.2)/ Bioconductor(2.13) to use all the features.&nbsp;</p><p>Reference:&nbsp;</p><p>Please check it out:<br /><a href="http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/gage.html">http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/gage.html</a><br /><a href="http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/gage/inst/doc/RNA-seqWorkflow.pdf">http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/gage/inst/doc/RNA-seqWorkflow.pdf</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:01:58 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/18738/surrogate-variable-analysis-sva</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Surrogate Variable Analysis (SVA)]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>The sva package contains functions for removing batch effects and other unwanted variation in high-throughput experiment. Specifically, the sva package contains functions for the identifying and building surrogate variables for high-dimensional data sets. Surrogate variables are covariates constructed directly from high-dimensional data (like gene expression/RNA sequencing/methylation/brain imaging data) that can be used in subsequent analyses to adjust for unknown, unmodeled, or latent sources of noise. The sva package can be used to remove artifacts in three ways:</p><p>(1) identifying and estimating surrogate variables for unknown sources of variation in high-throughput experiments (Leek and Storey 2007 PLoS Genetics,2008 PNAS),</p><p>(2) directly removing known batch effects using ComBat (Johnson et al. 2007 Biostatistics) and</p><p>(3) removing batch effects with known control probes (Leek 2014 biorXiv).</p><p>Removing batch effects and using surrogate variables in differential expression analysis have been shown to reduce dependence, stabilize error rate estimates, and improve reproducibility, see (Leek and Storey 2007 PLoS Genetics, 2008 PNAS or Leek et al. 2011 Nat. Reviews Genetics).</p><p>More at http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/sva.html</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:15:17 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/21241/pacman</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Pacman]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>The pacman package is an R package management tool that combines the functionality of base library related functions into intuitively named functions. This package is ideally added to .Rprofile to increase workflow by reducing time recalling obscurely named functions, reducing code and integrating functionality of base functions to simultaneously perform multiple actions.<br /><br />Function names in the pacman package follow the format of p_xxx where &lsquo;xxx&rsquo; is the task the function performs. For instance the p_load function allows the user to load one or more packages as a more generic substitute for the library or require functions and if the package isn&rsquo;t available locally it will install it for you.<br /><br /></span></p><p><strong>Installation</strong></p><p><span>To download the development version of pacman:</span></p><p><span>Download the </span><a href="https://github.com/trinker/pacman/zipball/master">zip ball</a><span> or </span><a href="https://github.com/trinker/pacman/tarball/master">tar ball</a><span>, decompress and run </span><code>R CMD INSTALL</code><span> on it, or use th</span><span>e </span><strong>devtools</strong><span> package to install the development version:</span></p><pre title="">## Make sure your current packages are up to date
update.packages()
## devtools is required
devtools::install_github("trinker/pacman")
</pre><p>Note: Windows users need <a href="http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/">Rtools</a> and <a href="http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=devtools">devtools</a> to install this way.</p><p>More at https://github.com/trinker/pacman</p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/21444/a-guide-for-complete-r-beginners-installing-r-packages</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:23:34 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/21444/a-guide-for-complete-r-beginners-installing-r-packages</link>
	<title><![CDATA[A guide for complete R beginners :- Installing R packages]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Part of the reason R has become so popular is the vast array of packages available at the <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/" target="_blank">cran</a> and <a href="http://www.bioconductor.org/" target="_blank">bioconductor</a> repositories. In the last few years, the number of packages has grown <a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2010/09/what-can-other-languages-learn-from-r.html" target="_blank">exponentially</a>!</p><p>This is a short post giving steps on how to actually install R packages. Let&rsquo;s suppose you want to install the <a href="http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/" target="_blank">ggplot2</a> package. Well nothing could be easier. We just fire up an R shell and type:<br /><code><br />&gt; install.packages("ggplot2")</code></p><p>In theory the package should just install, however:</p><ul>
<li>if you are using Linux and don&rsquo;t have root access, this command won&rsquo;t work.</li>
<li>you will be asked to select your local mirror, i.e. which server should you use to download the package.</li>
</ul><h4>Installing packages without root access</h4><p>First, you need to designate a directory where you will store the downloaded packages. On my machine, I use the directory <code>/data/Rpackages/</code> After creating a package directory, to install a package we use the command:<br /><code><br />&gt; install.packages("ggplot2"</code><code>, lib="/data/Rpackages/")<br />&gt; library(ggplot2, lib.loc="/data/Rpackages/")<br /></code></p><p>It&rsquo;s a bit of a pain having to type <code>/data/Rpackages/</code> all the time. To avoid this burden,&nbsp; we create a file <code>.Renviron</code> in our home area, and add the line <code>R_LIBS=/data/Rpackages/</code> to it. This means that whenever you start R, the directory <code>/data/Rpackages/</code> is added to the list of places to look for R packages and so:</p><p><code>&gt; install.packages("ggplot2"</code><code>)<br />&gt; library(ggplot2)</code></p><p>just works!</p><h4>Setting the repository</h4><p>Every time you install a R package, you are asked which repository R should use. To set the repository and avoid having to specify this at every package install, simply:</p><ul>
<li>create a file <code>.Rprofile</code> in your home area.</li>
<li>Add the following piece of code to it:</li>
</ul><p><code><br />cat(".Rprofile: Setting UK repositoryn")<br />r = getOption("repos") # hard code the UK repo for CRAN<br />r["CRAN"] = "http://cran.uk.r-project.org"<br />options(repos = r)<br />rm(r)<br /></code></p><p>I found this tip in a stackoverflow <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1189759/expert-r-users-whats-in-your-rprofile/1189826#1189826" target="_blank">answer </a>.</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Archana Malhotra</dc:creator>
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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/opportunity/view/24178/essentials-of-statistics-and-data-analysis-using-r</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2015 01:32:12 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Essentials of Statistics and Data Analysis using R]]></title>
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<p>Clinical Development Services Agency (CDSA) is an extramural unit of Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science &amp; Technology, Government of India. CDSA has a national mandate of strengthening capacity and capability building in the area of Clinical development and Translational Research.</p>

<p>CDSA is pleased to announce a 4 days hands-on training program on “Essentials of Statistics and Data Analysis using R” at ICGEB, Aruna Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi on December 1 – 4, 2015. This will involve developing and enhancing skills to understand basic principles of statistics for summarizing data and use of appropriate statistical tests as well as providing an understanding of data analysis using R. Didactic lectures with practical sessions will be delivered by experienced faculties from AIIMS and Novartis. Live classroom with power point presentations, case studies, mock exercise, practical sessions on R, group work with time for discussion and Q&amp;A sessions are added advantages of this workshop.</p>

<p>Please contact gayatrivishwakarma.cdsa@thsti.res.in or vineetabaloni.cdsa@thsti.res.in for program and registration details.</p>

<p>Please nominate personage or register yourself on or before November 6, 2015 along with the electronic transfer of registration fee.</p>
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