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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/40248/industrial-training-in-computer-aided-drug-designing-cadd</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 05:00:44 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/40248/industrial-training-in-computer-aided-drug-designing-cadd</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Industrial Training in Computer Aided Drug Designing (CADD)]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Learn More about&nbsp; Computer Aided Drug Designing (CADD)!!!</p><p>#rasalsi #rasa In our Industrial program you will get Knowledge on RNA Seq, CHIP Seq,</p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Batch Starts From 18<sup>th</sup> November 2019</strong></h2><p>#hurryup #registernow #enquirenow The primary goal of the industrial training program is to provide students with necessary skills making with employable. RASA LSI trains students with the enhanced skills required for them to excel in jobs in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, BioIT and related industry sectors. At Rasa you will&nbsp; learn from industry leaders&nbsp;how to apply these skills in life science &amp; have a command over software developing process &nbsp;by using various methodologies. For Registration visit us on: https://www.rasalsi.com/index.php/front-page/industrial-training/</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>RASA Life Sciences</dc:creator>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 06:53:40 -0600</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Scientist Bioinformatics Positions]]></title>
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<p>Bioinformatics-Multi_Omics_Integration</p>

<p>https://www.researchgate.net/job/939073_Senior_Scientist_Bioinformatics-Multi_Omics_Integration</p>

<p> <br />Senior_Scientist_Bioinformatics-Transcriptomics_Analysis     </p>

<p>https://www.researchgate.net/job/939075_Senior_Scientist_Bioinformatics-Transcriptomics_Analysis-Belgium_France_Switzerland_The_Netherlands</p>

<p>Senior Scientist Bioinformatics - Network Analytics</p>

<p>https://www.researchgate.net/job/939070_Senior_Scientist_Bioinformatics-Network_Analytics_Belgium_France_Switzerland_the_Netherlands</p>

<p>Team Leader Bioinformatics Data Sciences - Mechelen, Belgium</p>

<p>https://www.researchgate.net/job/938787_Team_Leader_Bioinformatics_Data_Sciences-Mechelen_Belgium</p>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41730/parliament2-runs-a-combination-of-tools-to-generate-structural-variant-calls-on-whole-genome-sequencing-data</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 21:57:03 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41730/parliament2-runs-a-combination-of-tools-to-generate-structural-variant-calls-on-whole-genome-sequencing-data</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Parliament2: Runs a combination of tools to generate structural variant calls on whole-genome sequencing data]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Parliament2 identifies structural variants in a given sample relative to a reference genome. These structural variants cover large deletion events that are called as Deletions of a region, Insertions of a sequence into a region, Duplications of a region, Inversions of a region, or Translocations between two regions in the genome.</p>
<p>Parliament2 runs a combination of tools to generate structural variant calls on whole-genome sequencing data. It can run the following callers: Breakdancer, Breakseq2, CNVnator, Delly2, Manta, and Lumpy. Because of synergies in how the programs use computational resources, these are all run in parallel. Parliament2 will produce the outputs of each of the tools for subsequent investigation.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/dnanexus/parliament2" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dnanexus/parliament2</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/opportunity/view/43227/project-associate-i-project-associate-ii-senior-project-associate-igib</guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 16:11:32 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Project Associate-I | Project Associate-II | Senior Project Associate @ IGIB]]></title>
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<p>Experience in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) application and interest in Genomics/ Clinical / Translational Applications. OR Good computational programming skills and deep interest in working on interface of Genomics and Clinical application. </p>

<p>Project Scientist-I <br />Experimental / Computation analysis experience in highthroughput genomics/ clinical application.</p>

<p>Project Manager <br />Experience in handling large biological projects involving high-throughput genomics/ clinical application.</p>

<p>Scientific Administrative Assistant <br />Lab Work. </p>

<p>More at https://vinodscaria.genomes.in/positionsopen</p>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:11:07 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44758/the-ifs-and-buts-of-ngs-quality-control-and-trimming</link>
	<title><![CDATA[The &quot;Ifs&quot; and &quot;Buts&quot; of NGS Quality Control and Trimming]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized biological research, providing vast amounts of data for a wide range of applications. However, the reliability of NGS analyses heavily depends on the quality of raw sequencing data. Quality control (QC) and trimming are critical preprocessing steps that can make or break your downstream analyses. In this blog, we explore the "ifs" (why you should perform QC and trimming) and the "buts" (challenges or considerations) of this vital step in NGS workflows.</p><h3><strong>The "Ifs" of NGS QC and Trimming</strong></h3><ol>
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<p><strong>Ensures Data Integrity</strong><br />If you want to minimize errors in downstream analyses, QC and trimming remove low-quality reads and bases, ensuring high-confidence data. This step is essential for reliable variant calling, assembly, and other applications.</p>
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<p><strong>Removes Contaminants</strong><br />If adapter sequences or contaminants are present in the raw reads, trimming can eliminate them. This prevents issues like misalignment or incorrect biological interpretations, ensuring cleaner data for analysis.</p>
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<p><strong>Improves Mapping and Assembly</strong><br />If your goal is better alignment to a reference genome or improved de novo assembly, trimming low-quality bases and adapters is critical. High-quality reads map more efficiently and generate more accurate assemblies.</p>
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<p><strong>Reduces Computational Load</strong><br />If you want to save computational resources, trimming reduces the dataset size, which speeds up processing and analysis. Clean datasets mean less computational time spent on processing low-quality data.</p>
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<p><strong>Prepares for Standardized Analyses</strong><br />If your project involves multiple datasets, QC and trimming ensure uniformity across them. This standardization makes comparisons valid and reproducible, particularly in large collaborative studies.</p>
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</ol><h3><strong>The "Buts" of NGS QC and Trimming</strong></h3><ol>
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<p><strong>Risk of Over-Trimming</strong><br />But excessive trimming can lead to the loss of informative sequences, reducing read depth and potentially discarding biologically relevant data. This is especially critical in studies with limited sequencing depth.</p>
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<p><strong>Bias Introduction</strong><br />But trimming algorithms might introduce biases, especially if they inadvertently remove sequences with specific biological patterns. This can skew results and compromise biological insights.</p>
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<p><strong>Loss of Context in Paired-End Reads</strong><br />But trimming one read in a pair more than the other can lead to loss of pairing information. This complicates downstream analyses that rely on paired-end data, such as structural variant detection.</p>
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<p><strong>Time and Resource Intensive</strong><br />But running QC and trimming for large datasets can be computationally expensive and time-consuming. As sequencing depth increases, preprocessing becomes a bottleneck in the analysis pipeline.</p>
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<p><strong>Variable Standards</strong><br />But the criteria for trimming (e.g., quality threshold, minimum read length) can vary between tools and datasets. This variability may affect reproducibility and comparability of results across studies.</p>
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</ol><h3><strong>Balancing the "Ifs" and "Buts"</strong></h3><p>To maximize the benefits of QC and trimming while mitigating the challenges, consider the following best practices:</p><ul>
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<p><strong>Use QC Tools Wisely:</strong> Start with tools like <strong>FastQC</strong> to identify quality issues in your raw data. Visualizing quality metrics helps tailor your trimming parameters.</p>
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<p><strong>Choose Reliable Trimming Tools:</strong> Tools like <strong>Trimmomatic</strong>, <strong>Cutadapt</strong>, and <strong>BBduk</strong> offer adaptive and customizable trimming options. Select one that aligns with your dataset and project goals.</p>
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<p><strong>Set Reasonable Parameters:</strong> Avoid over-trimming by setting quality thresholds and minimum read lengths that balance data retention and quality improvement.</p>
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<p><strong>Test Downstream Effects:</strong> Validate the impact of QC and trimming on downstream analyses, such as alignment efficiency, variant calling accuracy, or assembly quality.</p>
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<p><strong>Document Your Workflow:</strong> Maintain detailed records of the parameters and tools used for QC and trimming. This ensures reproducibility and enables better troubleshooting.</p>
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</ul><h3><strong>Conclusion</strong></h3><p>NGS quality control and trimming are essential steps to ensure reliable and accurate data for analysis. While the "ifs" highlight the clear benefits of these steps, the "buts" remind us of the potential pitfalls. By adopting best practices and carefully balancing these considerations, you can optimize your preprocessing workflow and unlock the full potential of your sequencing data.</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:30:44 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/37835/variantbam-filtering-and-profiling-of-next-generational-sequencing-data-using-region-specific-rules</link>
	<title><![CDATA[VariantBam: Filtering and profiling of next-generational sequencing data using region-specific rules]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>VariantBam is a tool to extract/count specific sets of sequencing reads from next-generational sequencing files. To save money, disk space and I/O, one may not want to store an entire BAM on disk. In many cases, it would be more efficient to store only those read-pairs or reads who intersect some region around the variant locations. Alternatively, if your scientific question is focused on only one aspect of the data (e.g. breakpoints), many reads can be removed without losing the information relevant to the problem.</p>
<h5>&nbsp;</h5><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/broadinstitute/VariantBam" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/broadinstitute/VariantBam</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 23:14:00 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/40544/ngs-bits-short-read-sequencing-tools</link>
	<title><![CDATA[ngs-bits - Short-read sequencing tools]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Binaries of&nbsp;<em>ngs-bits</em>&nbsp;are available via Bioconda. Alternatively,&nbsp;<em>ngs-bits</em>&nbsp;can be built from sources:</p>
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<li><span>Binaries</span>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/imgag/ngs-bits/blob/master/doc/install_bioconda.md">Linux/macOS</a></li>
<li>From&nbsp;<span>sources</span>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/imgag/ngs-bits/blob/master/doc/install_unix.md">Linux/macOS</a></li>
<li>From&nbsp;<span>sources</span>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/imgag/ngs-bits/blob/master/doc/install_win.md">Windows</a></li>
</ul><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/imgag/ngs-bits" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/imgag/ngs-bits</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Neel</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2017 04:16:09 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/32129/lordec-a-hybrid-error-correction-program-for-long-pacbio-reads</link>
	<title><![CDATA[LoRDEC: a hybrid error correction program for long, PacBio reads]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>LoRDEC is a program to correct sequencing errors in long reads from 3rd generation sequencing with high error rate, and is especially intended for PacBio reads. It uses a hybrid strategy, meaning that it uses two sets of reads: the reference read set, whose error rate is assumed to be small, and the PacBio read set, which is then corrected using the reference set. Typically, the reference set contains Illumina reads.</p>
<p><br> Usually, errors in PacBio reads include many insertions and deletions, and comparatively less substitutions. LoRDEC can correct errors of all these types.<br> After correction, a larger portion of the sequence of PacBio reads is usable for detection of region of similarity with other sequences, for aligning them to the contigs of an assembly, etc.</p>
<p>Why is LoRDEC different?</p>
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<li>It is efficient and can process large read data sets, included from eukaryotic or vertebrate species, on a usual computing server, and even works on desktop/laptop computers.</li>
<li>It adopts a novel graph based approach: it builds a succinct De Bruijn Graph (DBG) representing the short reads, and seeks a corrective sequence for each erroneous region of a long read by traversing chosen paths in the graph.</li>
</ul><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://www.atgc-montpellier.fr/lordec/" rel="nofollow">http://www.atgc-montpellier.fr/lordec/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36755/minialign-fast-and-accurate-alignment-tool-for-pacbio-and-nanopore-long-reads</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 08:33:26 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36755/minialign-fast-and-accurate-alignment-tool-for-pacbio-and-nanopore-long-reads</link>
	<title><![CDATA[minialign: fast and accurate alignment tool for PacBio and Nanopore long reads]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Minialign is a little bit fast and moderately accurate nucleotide sequence alignment tool designed for PacBio and Nanopore long reads. It is built on three key algorithms, minimizer-based index of the minimap overlapper, array-based seed chaining, and SIMD-parallel Smith-Waterman-Gotoh extension.<p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/ocxtal/minialign" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ocxtal/minialign</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/37962/wtdbg2-a-de-novo-sequence-assembler-for-long-noisy-reads-produced-by-pacbio-or-oxford-nanopore</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 08:48:43 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/37962/wtdbg2-a-de-novo-sequence-assembler-for-long-noisy-reads-produced-by-pacbio-or-oxford-nanopore</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Wtdbg2: a de novo sequence assembler for long noisy reads produced by PacBio or Oxford Nanopore]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Wtdbg2 is a&nbsp;</span><em>de novo</em><span>&nbsp;sequence assembler for long noisy reads produced by PacBio or Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). It assembles raw reads without error correction and then builds the consensus from intermediate assembly output. Wtdbg2 is able to assemble the human and even the 32Gb&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25458">Axolotl</a><span>&nbsp;genome at a speed tens of times faster than&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/marbl/canu">CANU</a><span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/FALCON">FALCON</a><span>while producing contigs of comparable base accuracy.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/ruanjue/wtdbg2" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ruanjue/wtdbg2</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Neel</dc:creator>
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