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	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:35:39 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/fun/view/4196/chemical-elements-of-bioinformatics</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Chemical Elements of Bioinformatics]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>You must be familiar with periodic table and colour pattern, but this time you are going to amaze by new elements table by Eagle genomics. Just check it out and have fun :)</p><p><a href="http://elements.eaglegenomics.com/">http://elements.eaglegenomics.com/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Agarwal</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/34221/alignment-free-sequence-comparison-tools-available-for-next-generation-sequencing-data-analysis</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2017 05:33:33 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/34221/alignment-free-sequence-comparison-tools-available-for-next-generation-sequencing-data-analysis</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Alignment-free sequence comparison tools available for next-generation sequencing data analysis]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<div><p><span>kallisto</span></p></div><div><p>Transcript abundance quantification from RNA-seq data (uses pseudoalignment for rapid determination of read compatibility with targets)</p><p>Software (C++)</p><p><a href="https://pachterlab.github.io/kallisto/">https://pachterlab.github.io/kallisto/</a></p><p>Sailfish</p><p>Estimation of isoform abundances from reference sequences and RNA-seq data (<em>k</em>-mer based)</p><p>Software (C++)</p><p><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckingsf/software/sailfish/">http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckingsf/software/sailfish/</a></p><p>Salmon</p><p>Quantification of the expression of transcripts using RNA-seq data (uses&nbsp;<em>k</em>-mers)</p><p><a href="https://combine-lab.github.io/salmon/">https://combine-lab.github.io/salmon/</a></p><p>RNA-Skim</p><p>RNA-seq quantification at transcript-level (partitions the transcriptome into disjoint transcript clusters; uses&nbsp;<em>sig</em>-mers, a special type of&nbsp;<em>k</em>-mers)</p><p>Software (C++)</p><p><a href="http://www.csbio.unc.edu/rs/">http://www.csbio.unc.edu/rs/</a></p><p>Variant calling</p><p>ChimeRScope</p><p>Fusion transcript prediction using gene&nbsp;<em>k</em>-mers profiles of the RNA-seq paired-end reads</p><p>Software (Java)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/ChimeRScope/ChimeRScope/wiki">https://github.com/ChimeRScope/ChimeRScope/wiki</a></p><p>FastGT</p><p>Genotyping of known SNV/SNP variants directly from raw NGS sequence reads by counting unique&nbsp;<em>k</em>-mers</p><p>Software (C)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/bioinfo-ut/GenomeTester4/">https://github.com/bioinfo-ut/GenomeTester4/</a></p><p>Phy-Mer</p><p>Reference-independent mitochondrial haplogroup classifier from NGS data (<em>k</em>-mer based)</p><p>Software (Python)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/danielnavarrogomez/phy-mer">https://github.com/danielnavarrogomez/phy-mer</a></p><p>LAVA</p><p>Genotyping of known SNPs (dbSNP and Affymetrix's Genome-Wide Human SNP Array) from raw NGS reads (<em>k</em>-mer based)</p><p>Software (C)</p><p><a href="http://lava.csail.mit.edu/">http://lava.csail.mit.edu/</a></p><p>MICADo</p><p>Detection of mutations in targeted third-generation NGS data (can distinguish patients&rsquo; specific mutations; algorithm uses&nbsp;<em>k</em>-mers and is based on colored de Bruijn graphs)</p><p>Software (Python)</p><p><a href="http://github.com/cbib/MICADo">http://github.com/cbib/MICADo</a></p><p>General mapper</p><p>Minimap</p><p>Lightweight and fast read mapper and read overlap detector (uses the concept of &ldquo;minimazers&rdquo;, a special type of&nbsp;<em>k</em>-mers)</p><p>Software (C)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/lh3/minimap">https://github.com/lh3/minimap</a></p><p>Assembly</p><p>De novo genome assembly</p><p>MHAP</p><p>Produces highly continuous assembly (fully resolved chromosome arms) from third-generation long and noisy reads (10 kbp) using a dimensionality reduction technique MinHash</p><p>Software (Java)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/marbl/MHAP">https://github.com/marbl/MHAP</a></p><p>Miniasm</p><p>Assembler of long noisy reads (SMRT, ONT) using the Overlap-Layout Consensus (OLC) approach without the necessity of an error correction stage (uses minimap)</p><p>Software (C)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/lh3/miniasm">https://github.com/lh3/miniasm</a></p><p>LINKS</p><p>Scaffolding genome assembly with error-containing long sequence (e.g., ONT or PacBio reads, draft genomes)</p><p>Software (Perl)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/warrenlr/LINKS/">https://github.com/warrenlr/LINKS/</a></p><p>Read clustering</p><p>afcluster</p><p>Clustering of reads from different genes and different species based on&nbsp;<em>k</em>-mer counts</p><p>Software (C++)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/luscinius/afcluster">https://github.com/luscinius/afcluster</a></p><p>QCluster</p><p>Clustering of reads with alignment-free measures (<em>k</em>-mer based) and quality values</p><p>Software (C++)</p><p><a href="http://www.dei.unipd.it/~ciompin/main/qcluster.html">http://www.dei.unipd.it/~ciompin/main/qcluster.html</a></p><p>Reads error correction</p><p>Lighter</p><p>Correction of sequencing errors in raw, whole genome sequencing reads (<em>k</em>-mer based)</p><p>Software (C++)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/mourisl/Lighter">https://github.com/mourisl/Lighter</a></p><p>QuorUM</p><p>Error corrector for Illumina reads using k-mers</p><p>Software (C++)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/gmarcais/Quorum">https://github.com/gmarcais/Quorum</a></p><p>Trowel</p><p>Software (C++)</p><p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/trowel-ec/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/trowel-ec/</a></p><p>Metagenomics</p><p>Assembly-free phylogenomics</p><p>AAF</p><p>Phylogeny reconstruction directly from unassembled raw sequence data from whole genome sequencing projects; provides bootstrap support to assess uncertainty in the tree topology (<em>k</em>-mer based)</p><p>Software (Python)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/fanhuan/AAF">https://github.com/fanhuan/AAF</a></p><p>kSNP v3</p><p>Reference-free SNP identification and estimation of phylogenetic trees using SNPs (based on&nbsp;<em>k</em>-mer analysis)</p><p>Software (C)</p><p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ksnp/files/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/ksnp/files/</a></p><p>NGS-MC</p><p>Phylogeny of species based on NGS reads using alignment-free sequence dissimilarity measures d2* and d2&nbsp;S&nbsp;under different Markov chain models (using&nbsp;<em>k</em>-words)</p><p>R package</p><p><a href="http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~fsun/Programs/NGS-MC/NGS-MC.html">http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~fsun/Programs/NGS-MC/NGS-MC.html</a></p><p>Species identification/taxonomic profiling</p><p>CLARK</p><p>Taxonomic classification of metagenomic reads to known bacterial genomes using&nbsp;<em>k</em>-mer search and LCA assignment</p><p>Software (C++)</p><p><a href="http://clark.cs.ucr.edu/">http://clark.cs.ucr.edu/</a></p><p>FOCUS</p><p>Reports organisms present in metagenomic samples and profiles their abundances (uses composition-based approach and non-negative least squares for prediction)</p><p>Web service Software (Python)</p><p><a href="http://edwards.sdsu.edu/FOCUS/">http://edwards.sdsu.edu/FOCUS/</a></p><p>GSM</p><p>Estimation of abundances of microbial genomes in metagenomic samples (<em>k</em>-mer based)</p><p>Software (Go)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/pdtrang/GSM">https://github.com/pdtrang/GSM</a></p><p>Mash</p><p>Species identification using assembled or unassembled Illumina, PacBio, and ONT data (based on MinHash dimensionality-reduction technique)</p><p>Software (C++)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/marbl/mash">https://github.com/marbl/mash</a></p><p>Kraken</p><p>Taxonomic assignment in metagenome analysis by exact&nbsp;<em>k</em>-mer search; LCA assignment of short reads based on a comprehensive sequence database</p><p>Software (C++)</p><p><a href="https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/kraken/">https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/kraken/</a></p><p>LMAT</p><p>Assignment of taxonomic labels to reads by&nbsp;<em>k</em>-mers searches in precomputed database</p><p>Software (C++/Python)</p><p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmat/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmat/</a></p><p>stringMLST</p><p><em>k</em>-mer-based tool for MLST directly from the genome sequencing reads</p><p>Software (Python)</p><p><a href="http://jordan.biology.gatech.edu/page/software/stringMLST">http://jordan.biology.gatech.edu/page/software/stringMLST</a></p><p>Taxonomer</p><p><em>k</em>-mer-based ultrafast metagenomics tool for assigning taxonomy to sequencing reads from clinical and environmental samples</p><p>Web service</p><p><a href="http://taxonomer.iobio.io/">http://taxonomer.iobio.io/</a></p><p>Other</p><p>d2-tools</p><p>Word-based (<em>k</em>-tuple) comparison (pairwise dissimilarity matrix using d2S measure) of metatranscriptomic samples from NGS reads</p><p>Software (Python/R)</p><p><a href="https://code.google.com/p/d2-tools/">https://code.google.com/p/d2-tools/</a></p><p>VirHostMatcher</p><p>Prediction of hosts from metagenomic viral sequences based on ONF using various distance measures (e.g., d2)</p><p>Software (C++)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/jessieren/VirHostMatcher">https://github.com/jessieren/VirHostMatcher</a></p><p>MetaFast</p><p>Statistics calculation of metagenome sequences and the distances between them based on assembly using de Bruijn graphs and Bray&ndash;Curtis dissimilarity measure</p><p>Software (Java)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/ctlab/metafast">https://github.com/ctlab/metafast</a></p></div>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Abhimanyu Singh</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/35386/list-of-visualization-tools-for-network-biology</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2018 05:12:24 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/35386/list-of-visualization-tools-for-network-biology</link>
	<title><![CDATA[List of visualization tools for network biology]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Network analysis&nbsp;is any structured technique used to mathematically analyze a circuit (a &ldquo;network&rdquo; of interconnected components). The&nbsp;<span>Network analysis provides the ability to quantify associations between individuals, which makes it possible to infer details about the network as a whole at the species and/or population level.&nbsp;</span>Few tools published in BMC are listed here https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/sections/networks-analysis.</p><p><img src="https://www.dropbox.com/pri/get/Public/Link%20to%20network.gif?_subject_uid=85115969&amp;raw=1&amp;revision_id=BBqs9eYx7G_faj5J33ExdjmtF8nXK2xrN5dUBsKyTLZQ9RB_hGM-YFmWZMBzbQZfRvjYzfs65HbQYrHRyoikxsQscSFTn1Nud2QeJ8KGfVI5wv4Kzp6froKOmPZu8ZygfKo&amp;size=1280x960&amp;size_mode=3&amp;w=AABQaErsFIz5ZjVZSxXvKaSVUkY5ob1Yjk0x7dghy0X7zw" alt="image" style="border: 0px; border: 0px;"></p><p>Following are the list of standalone applications for network analysis:</p><p>Arena 3D</p><p>3D visualization of multi-layer networks</p><p>http://www.arena3d.org</p><p>Biana</p><p>Data integration and network management</p><p>http://sbi.imim.es/web/BIANA.php</p><p>BioLayout Express 3D&nbsp;</p><p>2D/3D network visualization</p><p>http://www.biolayout.org/</p><p>BiologicalNetworks&nbsp;</p><p>Efficient integrated multi-level analysis of microarray, sequence, regulatory and other data</p><p>http://www.biologicalnetworks.org</p><p>BioMiner</p><p>Modeling, analyzing and visualizing biochemical pathways and networks</p><p>http://www.zbi.uni-saarland.de/chair/projects/BioMiner</p><p>Cell Illustrator&nbsp;</p><p>Petri nets for modeling and simulating biological networks</p><p>http://www.cellillustrator.com</p><p>COPASI</p><p>Analysis of biochemical networks and their dynamics</p><p>http://www.copasi.org/</p><p>Cytoscape&nbsp;</p><p>Network visualization and analysis. Over 200 plugins [60]</p><p>http://www.cytoscape.org/</p><p>Dizzy</p><p>Chemical kinetics stochastic simulation software</p><p>http://magnet.systemsbiology.net/software/Dizzy/</p><p>DyCoNet</p><p>Gephi plugin that can be used to identify dynamic communities in networks</p><p>https://github.com/juliemkauffman/DyCoNet</p><p>GENeVis&nbsp;</p><p>Network and pathway visualization</p><p>http://tinyurl.com/genevis/</p><p>GEPHI&nbsp;</p><p>Interactive visualization and exploration for any network and complex system, dynamic and hierarchical graph.</p><p>https://gephi.org</p><p>Igraph</p><p>Collection of network analysis tools with the emphasis on efficiency, portability and ease of use</p><p>http://igraph.sourceforge.net</p><p>Medusa</p><p>Semantic and multi-edged simple networks</p><p>https://sites.google.com/site/medusa3visualization/</p><p>NAViGaTOR</p><p>Visualizing and analyzing protein-protein interaction networks</p><p>http://tinyurl.com/navigator1/</p><p>N-Browse</p><p>Interactive graphical browser for biological networks</p><p>http://www.gnetbrowse.org/</p><p>NeAT</p><p>Topological and clustering analysis of networks</p><p>http://rsat.ulb.ac.be/neat/</p><p>Ondex&nbsp;</p><p>Data integration and visualization of large networks</p><p>http://www.ondex.org/</p><p>Osprey</p><p>Visualization and annotation of biological networks</p><p>http://biodata.mshri.on.ca/osprey/servlet/Index</p><p>Pajek&nbsp;</p><p>Analysis and visualization of large networks and social network analysis</p><p>http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/</p><p>PathwayAssist&nbsp;</p><p>Navigation and analysis of biological pathways, gene regulation networks and protein interaction maps.</p><p>http://www.ariadnegenomics.com/downloads/</p><p>PIVOT&nbsp;</p><p>Layout algorithms for visualizing protein interactions and families</p><p>http://acgt.cs.tau.ac.il/pivot/</p><p>ProCope&nbsp;</p><p>Prediction and evaluation of protein complexes from purification data experiments</p><p>http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/Complexes/ProCope/</p><p>ProViz&nbsp;</p><p>Visualization and exploration of interaction networks. Gene Ontology and PSI-MI formats supported</p><p>http://cbi.labri.fr/eng/proviz.htm</p><p>SpectralNET&nbsp;</p><p>Network analysis and visualizations. Scatter plots and dimensionality reduction algorithms</p><p>https://www.broadinstitute.org/software/spectralnet</p><p>Tulip&nbsp;</p><p>Enables the development of algorithms, visual encodings, interaction techniques, data models and domain-specific visualizations</p><p>http://tulip.labri.fr/TulipDrupal/</p><p>VANESA&nbsp;</p><p>Automatic reconstruction and analysis of biological networks and Petri nets based on life-science database information</p><p>http://agbi.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/vanesa/</p><p>VANTED&nbsp;</p><p>Network reconstruction, data visualization, integration of various data types, network simulation</p><p>http://tinyurl.com/vanted/</p><p>yEd</p><p>Creation of diagrams manually and import external data</p><p>http://tinyurl.com/yEdGraph/</p><p>Web tools for network analysis</p><p>APID&nbsp;</p><p>Unified protein-protein interactions from BIND, BioGRID, DIP, HPRD, IntAct and MINT</p><p>http://bioinfow.dep.usal.es/apid/</p><p>Arcadia&nbsp;</p><p>Translates text-based descriptions of biological networks (SBML files) into standardized diagrams (Systems Biology Graphical Notation Process Description maps)</p><p>http://arcadiapathways.sourceforge.net/</p><p>AVIS&nbsp;</p><p>Viewer for signaling networks</p><p>http://actin.pharm.mssm.edu/AVIS2</p><p>bioPIXIE&nbsp;</p><p>Discovery of biological networks from diverse functional genomic data</p><p>http://pixie.princeton.edu/pixie</p><p>CellPublisher</p><p>Interactive representations of biochemical processes</p><p>http://cellpublisher.gobics.de/</p><p>Graphle</p><p>Distributed network exploration and visualization of interactive large, dense graphs</p><p>http://tinyurl.com/graphle/</p><p>GraphWeb&nbsp;</p><p>Web server for graph-based analysis of biological networks</p><p>http://biit.cs.ut.ee/graphweb/</p><p>Hubba</p><p>Web-based service to explore the essential nodes in a network</p><p>http://hub.iis.sinica.edu.tw/Hubba</p><p>NetworkBLAST&nbsp;</p><p>Analysis of protein interaction networks across species to infer protein complexes that are conserved in evolution</p><p>http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~bnet/networkblast.htm</p><p>Pathview&nbsp;</p><p>Tool set for pathway-based data integration and visualization</p><p>http://Pathview.r-forge.r-project.org/</p><p>PINA&nbsp;</p><p>Integrated platform for protein interaction network construction, filtering, analysis, visualization and management</p><p>http://cbg.garvan.unsw.edu.au/pina/home.do</p><p>ReMatch&nbsp;</p><p>Web-based tool for integration of user-given stoichiometric metabolic models into a database collected from public data sources</p><p>http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/sysfys/software/rematch/</p><p>SNOW&nbsp;</p><p>Gene mapping on a reference or human protein-protein interaction network that SNOW hosts</p><p>http://snow.bioinfo.cipf.es</p><p>STITCH&nbsp;</p><p>Resource to explore known and predicted interactions of chemicals and proteins</p><p>http://stitch.embl.de/</p><p>STRING</p><p>Protein interaction networks and integration of data such as genomic context, high-throughput experiments, conserved coexpression and previous knowledge derived from the literature</p><p>http://string-db.org</p><p>TVNViewer&nbsp;</p><p>An interactive visualization tool for exploring networks that change over time or space</p><p>http://www.sailing.cs.cmu.edu/main/?page_id=545</p><p>tYNA&nbsp;</p><p>System for managing, comparing and mining multiple networks</p><p>http://tyna.gersteinlab.org/tyna/</p><p>VisANT&nbsp;</p><p>Visualization, mining, analysis and modeling of biological networks, metabolic networks and ecosystems</p><p>http://visant.bu.edu/</p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2018 07:26:59 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36583/eugi-a-novel-resource-for-studying-genomic-islands-to-facilitate-horizontal-gene-transfer-detection-in-eukaryotes</link>
	<title><![CDATA[EuGI: a novel resource for studying genomic islands to facilitate horizontal gene transfer detection in eukaryotes]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>SWGIS v2.0 along with the EuGI database, which houses GIs identified in 66 different eukaryotic species, and the EuGI web-resource, provide the first comprehensive resource for studying HGT in eukaryotes.</span></p>
<p>https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-018-4724-8</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-018-4724-8" rel="nofollow">https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-018-4724-8</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Surabhi Chaudhary</dc:creator>
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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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	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2021 19:49:21 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/42570/breeding-insight</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Breeding Insight]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span><span>Breeding Insight&nbsp;at Cornell University will leverage recent improvements in genomics and open source informatics components, and in&nbsp;partnership with small breeding programs, will enable these programs to harness&nbsp;&nbsp;powerful digital tools to accelerate their genetic gains</span></span></p>
<p><span>Breeding Insight is funded by&nbsp;the&nbsp;</span><span><a href="https://www.ars.usda.gov/about-ars/" target="_blank">U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS)</a></span><span>&nbsp;through Cornell University. The USDA ARS delivers scientific solutions to national and global agricultural challenges. As a global leader&nbsp;in agricultural discovery through scientific excellence, ARS is committed to delivering cutting-edge, scientific tools and innovative solutions for American farmers, producers, industry, and communities to support the nourishment and well-being of all people; sustaining our nation&rsquo;s agroecosystems and natural resources; and ensuring the economic competitiveness and excellence of our agriculture.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://www.breedinginsight.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.breedinginsight.org/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:28:14 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43364/ragtag-a-collection-of-software-tools-for-scaffolding-and-improving-modern-genome-assemblies</link>
	<title><![CDATA[RagTag: a collection of software tools for scaffolding and improving modern genome assemblies]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>RagTag is a collection of software tools for scaffolding and improving modern genome assemblies. Tasks include:</p>
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<li>Homology-based misassembly&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/malonge/RagTag/wiki/correct">correction</a></li>
<li>Homology-based assembly&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/malonge/RagTag/wiki/scaffold">scaffolding</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/malonge/RagTag/wiki/patch">patching</a></li>
<li>Scaffold&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/malonge/RagTag/wiki/merge">merging</a></li>
</ul><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/malonge/RagTag" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/malonge/RagTag</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:04:26 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/44352/bioinformatics-tools-for-genome-assembly</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Bioinformatics tools for genome assembly !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>There are numerous genome assembly tools available, each with its strengths and weaknesses. Here is a list of some widely used genome assembly tools as of my last update in September 2021:</p><ol>
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<p><span>SPAdes:</span> An assembler specifically designed for single-cell and multi-cell bacterial genomes, as well as small eukaryotic genomes.</p>
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<p><span>ABySS:</span> A parallelized assembler for large genomes that uses de Bruijn graphs.</p>
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<p><span>Velvet:</span> Another de Bruijn graph-based assembler optimized for short-read sequencing data.</p>
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<p><span>SOAPdenovo:</span> A de Bruijn graph-based assembler designed for short reads, widely used for assembling large and complex genomes.</p>
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<p><span>MaSuRCA:</span> A hybrid assembler that combines data from multiple sequencing technologies, such as Illumina and PacBio.</p>
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<p><span>Canu:</span> A long-read assembler optimized for PacBio and Oxford Nanopore sequencing data.</p>
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<p><span>Flye:</span> A long-read assembler suitable for bacterial and small eukaryotic genomes.</p>
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<p><span>SMARTdenovo:</span> An assembler designed for long reads, particularly suited for PacBio data.</p>
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<p><span>SPAdes Long Read (SPAdesLR):</span> An extension of SPAdes for long-read data, such as those from PacBio or Nanopore.</p>
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<p><span>Minia:</span> An assembler optimized for low memory consumption, suitable for small and medium-sized genomes.</p>
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<p><span>Unicycler:</span> A hybrid assembler that combines short and long reads for circular bacterial genome assembly.</p>
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<p><span>wtdbg2:</span> A de Bruijn graph assembler for long reads, efficient for very large genomes.</p>
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<p><span>Shasta:</span> A long-read assembler that uses the Overlap-Layout-Consensus approach, suitable for PacBio and Nanopore data.</p>
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<p><span>Sparc:</span> An assembler designed to handle noisy long reads from Nanopore sequencing.</p>
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<p><span>CANA:</span> An assembler for metagenomic data, particularly for complex and diverse microbial communities.</p>
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<p><span>Ra</span> Assembler: A metagenome assembler for long reads, designed for highly complex metagenomic samples.</p>
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</ol><p>Please note that the field of bioinformatics is constantly evolving, and new assembly tools may have emerged since my last update. Additionally, the performance of these tools can vary depending on the characteristics of the sequencing data and the genome being assembled. When selecting an assembly tool, consider the specific requirements of your project, the available data types, and the computational resources at your disposal. Always refer to the respective tool's documentation and publications for the most up-to-date information and recommendations.</p>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 02:45:06 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/44672/libraries-or-management-tools-for-high-throughput-sequencing-data</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Libraries or management tools for high throughput sequencing data]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<ul>
<li><a href="http://gatb.inria.fr/"><span>GATB</span></a>&nbsp;Library.&nbsp;The&nbsp;<span>Genome Analysis Toolbox with de-Bruijn graph.&nbsp;</span>A large part of tools developed by the GenScale team are based on this library.<br />These methods enable the analysis of data sets of any size on multi-core desktop computers, including very huge amount of reads data coming from any kind of organisms such as bacteria, plants, animals and even complex samples (<em>e.g.</em>&nbsp;metagenomes). Among them are (the full is available here:&nbsp;<a href="https://gatb.inria.fr/software/">https://gatb.inria.fr/software/</a>):</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/morispi/LRez"><span>LRez</span></a>: C++ Library and toolkit for the barcode-based management and indexation of linked-read datasets.</li>
</ul><h2>Variant calling and/or genotyping</h2><ul>
<li><a href="https://gatb.inria.fr/software/discosnp/" title="DiscoSNP">DiscoSNP++ and&nbsp;discoSnpRAD</a>: Reference-free small variant discovery (SNPs and indels)</li>
<li><a href="https://gatb.inria.fr/software/mind-the-gap/" title="MindTheGap">MindTheGap</a>: Detection and assembly of large insertion variants</li>
<li><a href="https://gatb.inria.fr/software/takeabreak/" title="TakeABreak">TakeABreak</a>:&nbsp;reference-free inversion discovery tool</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/llecompte/SVJedi">SVJedi</a>: Structural Variant genotyper with long read data</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/SandraLouise/SVJedi-graph">SVJedi-graph</a>: Structural Variant genotyper with long read data using a variation graph</li>
</ul><h2>Sequence assembly</h2><ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/cguyomar/MinYS">MinYS</a>: reference-guided genome assembly in metagenomics data</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/anne-gcd/MTG-Link">MTG-link</a>: local assembly tool for linked-read data</li>
<li><a href="https://gatb.inria.fr/software/minia/" title="Minia">Minia</a>: De novo short read assembler</li>
<li><a href="https://gatb.inria.fr/de-novo-genome-assembly/">de-novo pipeline</a>:&nbsp;<em>de-novo</em>&nbsp;assembly pipeline (error correction / contigs / scaffolding) for genomes and meta-genomes</li>
<li><a href="https://gatb.inria.fr/software/mapsembler/" title="Mapsembler2">Mapsembler2</a>: Targeted assembly (not maintained)</li>
</ul><h2>Managing k-mers &amp; indexation</h2><ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/lrobidou/findere">findere</a>:&nbsp;simple strategy for speeding up queries and for reducing false positive calls from any Approximate Membership Query data structure.
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<li><a href="https://github.com/lrobidou/fimpera">fimpera</a>&nbsp;extends findere adding the abundance information.</li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/tlemane/kmtricks">kmtricks</a>:&nbsp;modular tool suite for counting kmers, and constructing Bloom filters or kmer matrices, for large collections of sequencing data.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/tlemane/kmindex">kmindex&nbsp;</a>is a tool for indexing and querying sequencing samples. It is built on top of kmtricks.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/pierrepeterlongo/back_to_sequences">back to sequences</a>: Find sequences (reads, unitigs, genes) related to a set of kmers in large datasets, in a matter of seconds.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/vicLeva/bqf">Backpack Quotient Filter</a>:&nbsp;k-mer indexing data structure with abundance</li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/GATB/rconnector">short read connector</a>:&nbsp;Detect similar reads from potentially large read set</li>
<li><a href="https://gatb.inria.fr/software/dsk/" title="DSK">DSK</a>:&nbsp;Count K-mer in sequences</li>
</ul><h2>Pangenome graph manipulation</h2><ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Tharos-ux/pancat">Pancat</a>: Pangenome Comparison and Analysis Toolkit</li>
<li><a href="https://pypi.org/project/gfagraphs/">GFAGraphs</a>: a Python library to handle pangenome graph files in GFA format.</li>
</ul><h2>Comparative metagenomics with k-mers</h2><ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/GATB/simka">Simka and SimkaMin</a>:&nbsp;Comparative metagenomics for large-scale datasets</li>
<li><a href="https://team.inria.fr/genscale/high-throughput-sequence-analysis/compreads-metagenomic-data-analysis/">Comparead &amp; Commet</a>:&nbsp;comparison of metagenomic datasets</li>
</ul><h2>Species and bacterial strains identification</h2><ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/gsiekaniec/ORI">ORI</a>: software using long nanopore reads to identify bacteria present in a sample at the strain level</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/kevsilva/StrainFLAIR">StrainFLAIR</a>:&nbsp;STRAIN-level proFiLing using vArIation gRaph</li>
</ul><h2>General-purpose sequencing data manipulation</h2><ul>
<li><a href="https://team.inria.fr/genscale/ngs-software/gassst/">GASSST</a>:&nbsp;long read mapper</li>
<li><a href="https://gatb.inria.fr/software/leon/" title="Leon">Leon</a>: short read compressor (now included in GATB-core)</li>
<li><a href="https://gatb.inria.fr/software/bloocoo/" title="Bloocoo">Bloocoo</a>:&nbsp;short read corrector</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/GATB/bcalm">BCALM</a>:&nbsp;Construct compacted de Bruijn graphs (unitigs)</li>
</ul><h2>&nbsp;Protein Structure</h2><ul>
<li><a href="https://team.inria.fr/genscale/protein-structure/a-purva-contact-map-overlap-solver/">A_Purva</a>:&nbsp;Contact Map Overlap solver</li>
<li><a href="https://team.inria.fr/genscale/protein-structure/md-jeep-distance-geomtry-solver/">MD-Jeep</a>:&nbsp;Distance Geometry solver</li>
<li><a href="https://team.inria.fr/genscale/csa-comparative-structural-alignment/">CSA</a>:&nbsp;Comparative Structural Alignment</li>
</ul><h2>Workflow</h2><ul>
<li><a href="https://team.inria.fr/genscale/workflows/slicee/">SLICEE</a>:&nbsp;parallel execution of bioinformatics workflows</li>
</ul><h3>Comparative Genomics</h3><ul>
<li><a href="https://team.inria.fr/genscale/comparative-genomics/cassis/">CASSIS</a>:&nbsp;detection of rearrangement breakpoints</li>
<li><a href="https://team.inria.fr/genscale/high-throughput-sequence-analysis/plast-intensive-sequence-comparison/">PLAST</a>:&nbsp;intensive bank-to-bank sequence comparison</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/stephanierobin/DrjBreakpointFinder">DRJBreakpointFinder</a>: detection and precise localization of excision sites in proviral segments</li>
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	<dc:creator>LEGE</dc:creator>
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