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AutoGluon: AutoML for Text, Image, and Tabular Data

Jit — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 05:33:17 -0600

AutoGluon automates machine learning tasks enabling you to easily achieve strong predictive performance in your applications. With just a few lines of code, you can train and deploy high-accuracy machine learning and deep learning models on text, image, and tabular data.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/awslabs/autogluon

NASA Open Science Data Repository

Abhi — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:54:47 -0600

The NASA Open Science Data Repository (OSDR) enables access to space-related data from experiments and missions that investigate biological and health responses of terrestrial life to spaceflight. The goal of OSDR is to enable multi-modal and multi-hierarchical fundamental space life science data be reused toward basic science, applied science, and operational outcomes for space exploration and knowledge discovery. These data include ‘omics, phenotypic, physiological, behavioral, hardware, environmental telemetry; raw, processed; tabular, text, code, bioimaging, and video.

https://www.nasa.gov/reference/osdr-data-processing/

Address of the bookmark: https://www.nasa.gov/osdr/

Integration Of Speciation Research : Workshop Announcement

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:07:57 -0500

We are excited to share that the ESEB- funded special topic network Integration Of Speciation Research (IOS - https://speciation-network.pages.ist.ac.at/) is hosting a second in-person workshop from 7â€“11 December 2026 at the Scottish Centre for Ecology & the Natural Environment (Glasgow, UK - https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/scene/).

This workshop is aimed at bringing together ~40 diverse speciation researchers:

- to collaborate on populating a database of published reproductive barriers based on a standardized RIO framework (https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/10083/). This will involve working through papers during the workshop to extract RI measures and other metadata and entering them into a draft database (some preparatory work before the workshop may be requested to facilitate these steps during the workshop)

- to start working towards a manuscript using this database to answer an outstanding question in speciation

- to network, learn about reproductive isolation, and have fun!

If you are interested in applying to participate in the workshop, please fill out the form in the link below by ** May 20th **. Room & board will be covered by the organizers; all other travel costs are the responsibility of the attendee.

Application link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenAMqSdZjeRmKEDtBNa5tpjPn7IukPyT5BzfZ4JMpIk2YOEw/viewform

The previous IOS workshop was held in Finland in 2023 (see more details at https://speciation-network.pages.ist.ac.at/workshops) and resulted in new interactions between speciation researchers and the successful publication of an Integration of Speciation research manuscript (https://academic.oup.com/evolinnean/article/3/1/kzae001/7609448).

We look forward to seeing you in Glasgow!

Lifemap

Jit — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 05:42:37 -0500

Lifemap is an interactive tool to explore the WHOLE NCBI TAXONOMY. The concept used in Lifemap is similar to the one used in cartography with tools like Google Maps© or Open Street Maps: exploring is done by zooming and panning.

The current tree contains ALL species present in NCBI taxonomy as of October 18th, 2016: 1,135,169 species including 10,545 Archaea, 418,777 Bacteria and 705,847 Eukaryotes. The Lifemap tree is updated every two weeks.

All the nodes in the tree are clickable. This displays various information and options:

The species name (and the associated common name if there is one)
The rank (kingdom, family, class, species...)
Ability to go to the corresponding node/species on NCBI web site (displayed in a new window)
Possibility to download the corresponding subtree in newick extended format
Possibilty to get the whole lineage from the current node/tip to the root of the tree.

Address of the bookmark: http://lifemap-ncbi.univ-lyon1.fr/

Dot, an interactive viewer for genome-genome comparison

Jit — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:57:34 -0600

Dot, an interactive dot plot viewer that allows genome scientists to visualize genome-genome alignments in order to evaluate new assemblies and perform exploratory comparative genomics.

Dot supports the output of MUMmer’s nucmer aligner the most commonly used software method for aligning genome assemblies. A quick script called DotPrep.py converts the delta file to a more streamlined coordinates file with an index that enables Dot to read in more alignments in certain regions on demand.

Dot, an interactive viewer for genome-genome comparison

https://dnanexus.github.io/dot/

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/dnanexus/dot

Leaflet: JavaScript libraries for interactive maps

Jit — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 01:35:07 -0600

Leaflet is one of the most popular open-source JavaScript libraries for interactive maps.

Features

Interactive panning/zooming
Compose maps using arbitrary combinations of:
- Map tiles
- Markers
- Polygons
- Lines
- Popups
- GeoJSON
Create maps right from the R console or RStudio
Embed maps in knitr/R Markdown documents and Shiny apps
Easily render spatial objects from the sp or sf packages, or data frames with latitude/longitude columns
Use map bounds and mouse events to drive Shiny logic
Display maps in non spherical mercator projections
Augment map features using chosen plugins from leaflet plugins repository

https://rstudio.github.io/leaflet/

Address of the bookmark: https://rstudio.github.io/leaflet/

Termal: a fast and interactive terminal-based viewer for multiple sequence alignments

LEGE — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:51:02 -0500

termal, a fast, interactive, terminal-based viewer for multiple sequence alignments (MSAs), designed for use on remote systems such as high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.

https://academic.oup.com/bioinformaticsadvances/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf208/8257678?login=true

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/sib-swiss/termal

3 days intensive course on Understanding 'omics data in Basel, Switzerland, 19-21st November

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:46:57 -0500

Benefits for the participants

- Plan more efficient experiments
- Correctly interpret results
- Communicate results in publications more effectively

The course focus is on methodologies, not on particular software tools. After the course participants should be able to apply the methods in their respective environment. However, during the course, hands-on sessions will be performed using the Genedata Expressionist® software, which enables participants to quickly apply the discussed methods and visualize results. No previous knowledge on Expressionist® is required; access to the software is free of charge during the course.

More @ http://www.dixa-fp7.eu/dixa-training/dixa-training-agenda/genedata-academy#!

clusterProfiler

Jit — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:57:03 -0500

statistical analysis and visulization of functional profiles for genes and gene clusters

Bioconductor version: Release (3.3)

This package implements methods to analyze and visualize functional profiles (GO and KEGG) of gene and gene clusters.

Author: Guangchuang Yu with contributions from Li-Gen Wang and Giovanni Dall'Olio.

Maintainer: Guangchuang Yu

Citation (from within R, enter citation("clusterProfiler")):

Yu G, Wang L, Han Y and He Q (2012). “clusterProfiler: an R package for comparing biological themes among gene clusters.” OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, 16(5), pp. 284-287.
Installation

To install this package, start R and enter:

## try http:// if https:// URLs are not supported
source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("clusterProfiler")

https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/vignettes/clusterProfiler/inst/doc/clusterProfiler.html

Address of the bookmark: https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/vignettes/clusterProfiler/inst/doc/clusterProfiler.html

Grinder / Biogrinder - A versatile omics shotgun and amplicon sequencing read simulator

Jit — Wed, 24 May 2017 08:41:41 -0500

Grinder is a versatile program to create random shotgun and amplicon sequence libraries based on DNA, RNA or proteic reference sequences provided in a FASTA file.

Grinder can produce genomic, metagenomic, transcriptomic, metatranscriptomic, proteomic, metaproteomic shotgun and amplicon datasets from current sequencing technologies such as Sanger, 454, Illumina. These simulated datasets can be used to test the accuracy of bioinformatic tools under specific hypothesis, e.g. with or without sequencing errors, or with low or high community diversity. Grinder may also be used to help decide between alternative sequencing methods for a sequence-based project, e.g. should the library be paired-end or not, how many reads should be sequenced.

Address of the bookmark: https://sourceforge.net/projects/biogrinder/files/biogrinder/