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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36905/d-genies-a-tool-for-dotplot-large-genomes-in-an-interactive-efficient-and-simple-way</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:41:22 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36905/d-genies-a-tool-for-dotplot-large-genomes-in-an-interactive-efficient-and-simple-way</link>
	<title><![CDATA[D-GENIES: A tool for Dotplot large Genomes in an Interactive, Efficient and Simple way]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[D-GENIES – for Dotplot large Genomes in an Interactive, Efficient and Simple way – is an online tool designed to compare two genomes. It supports large genome and you can interact with the dot plot to improve the visualisation.

We use minimap version 2 to align the two genomes. Then, the PAF file is parsed and plotted into an interactive plot written with d3.js library.

D-Genies also allows to display dot plots from other aligners by uploading their PAF or MAF alignment file.

http://dgenies.toulouse.inra.fr/<p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://dgenies.toulouse.inra.fr/" rel="nofollow">http://dgenies.toulouse.inra.fr/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/39872/miropeats-discovers-regions-of-sequence-similarity-amongst-any-set-of-dna-sequences</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:55:24 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/39872/miropeats-discovers-regions-of-sequence-similarity-amongst-any-set-of-dna-sequences</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Miropeats: discovers regions of sequence similarity amongst any set of DNA sequences]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Miropeats discovers regions of sequence similarity amongst any set of DNA sequences and then presents this similarity information graphically. Sequence similarity searching is a very general tool that forms the basis of many different biological sequence analyses but it is limited by the verbosity of traditional alignment presentation styles. Miropeats enhances the utility of conventional DNA sequence comparisons when looking at long lengths of sequence similarity by summarizing extensive large scale sequence similarities on a single page of graphics. The latest version of Miropeats can be used as a general pairwise alignment program or in its traditional role sorting out a big mess of overlapping or similar regions.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://www.littlest.co.uk/software/bioinf/old_packages/miropeats/" rel="nofollow">http://www.littlest.co.uk/software/bioinf/old_packages/miropeats/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Poonam Mahapatra</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/40865/dminda2-an-integrated-web-server-for-dna-motif-identification-and-analyses</guid>
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2020 14:26:01 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/40865/dminda2-an-integrated-web-server-for-dna-motif-identification-and-analyses</link>
	<title><![CDATA[DMINDA2: an integrated web server for DNA motif identification and analyses]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>DMINDA (</span><strong>D</strong><span>NA&nbsp;</span><strong>m</strong><span>otif&nbsp;</span><strong>i</strong><span>dentification a</span><strong>nd a</strong><span>nalyses) is an integrated web server for DNA motif identification and analyses</span></p>
<p><span>More at&nbsp;http://bmbl.sdstate.edu/DMINDA2/</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4086085/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4086085/</a></span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://bmbl.sdstate.edu/DMINDA2/" rel="nofollow">http://bmbl.sdstate.edu/DMINDA2/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44495/exrec-exclusion-of-recombined-dna</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:48:26 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44495/exrec-exclusion-of-recombined-dna</link>
	<title><![CDATA[ExRec: Exclusion of Recombined DNA]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>ExRec (Exclusion of Recombined DNA) is a Python pipeline that implements the four-gamete test to filter out recombined DNA sites from up to thousands of DNA sequence loci. The pipeline consists of five standalone applications: the first two convert folders of NEXUS or PHYLIP files into the standard input file for the main program that conducts the four-gamete filtering procedures. The pipeline outputs recombination-filtered data in concatenated NEXUS and PHYLIP formats and a tab-delimited table containing descriptive statistics for all loci and the results. This software also allows the user to output the longest non-recombined sequence blocks from loci (current best practice) or randomly select non-recombined blocks from loci (a newer approach). Two other applications in the package convert the recombination-filtered data into single-locus NEXUS or PHYLIP files. The ExRec package can thus facilitate species delimitation, species tree, and historical demography studies by providing loci that better meet the no-recombination assumption in coalescent-based analyses.</span></p>
<p><span>Link to the article:&nbsp;</span><a href="https://academic.oup.com/bioinformaticsadvances/article/3/1/vbad174/7455250?searchresult=1" target="_blank">https://academic.oup.com/bioinformaticsadvances/article/3/1/vbad174/7455250?searchresult=1</a><br><br><span>Link to the software:</span><br><a href="https://github.com/Sammccarthypotter/ExRec" target="_blank">https://github.com/Sammccarthypotter/ExRec</a></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/Sammccarthypotter/ExRec" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Sammccarthypotter/ExRec</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>LEGE</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/45244/the-ghost-ancestors-hidden-in-our-dna</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:16:24 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/45244/the-ghost-ancestors-hidden-in-our-dna</link>
	<title><![CDATA[The Ghost Ancestors Hidden in Our DNA]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Imagine standing in a museum of human evolution.</p><p>There are Neanderthal bones. Denisovan remains. Fossils from ancient relatives of our species. Each specimen gives us another piece of the story of how Homo sapiens came to be.</p><p>But now imagine that one of the most important characters in that story has left behind no fossil, no skull, no bone, and no genome.</p><p>Nothing that a paleontologist could put behind glass.</p><p>And yet, somehow, that ancient population is still speaking.</p><p>It is speaking through us.</p><p>A fascinating new study published in Science (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aef8874?) introduces a computational method called TRACE, which allows scientists to search modern human genomes for genetic traces of ancient populations that have never been directly identified.</p><p>For years, scientists have known that our ancestors interacted with Neanderthals and Denisovans. Their DNA still survives in modern human populations. But these may not have been the only ancient humans who crossed paths with our ancestors.</p><p>Using TRACE, researchers found evidence of an unknown archaic population that contributed DNA to the ancestors of modern humans before humans spread beyond Africa.</p><p>Even more surprisingly, they found evidence of a much older lineage&mdash;possibly around 1.8 million years old&mdash;whose genetic legacy may have reached some modern humans indirectly through Denisovans.</p><p>The extraordinary part is that researchers did not need DNA from these mysterious populations to detect them. Instead, they studied the ancestry of modern genomes and looked for genetic patterns that revealed unusually ancient branches of our family history.</p><p>It is almost like finding the footprints of someone who disappeared thousands of years ago&mdash;without ever finding the person themselves.</p><p>These discoveries suggest that human evolution was far more complicated than a simple family tree. Ancient human populations repeatedly separated, migrated, met and exchanged genes. Some eventually disappeared, but pieces of their genetic legacy survived.</p><p>And that means our DNA is more than a biological instruction manual.</p><p>It is also an archive of human history.</p><p>Some of the people recorded in that archive may never have a name or a fossil. But thanks to methods like TRACE, their genetic echoes are finally becoming visible.</p><p>The next big discovery about our ancient past may not come from a fossil in the ground.</p><p>It may already be inside us.</p><p>Reference: Zhang et al., &ldquo;Recovering signatures of archaic hominin introgression using ancestral recombination graphs,&rdquo; Science (2026), DOI: 10.1126/science.aef8874. Detail paper @&nbsp;https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aef8874?</p><p><br />The TRACE repository (https://github.com/YulinZhang9806/trace) contains the Python package and command-line tools used to infer archaic admixture tracts from ancestral recombination graphs.</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jitendra Narayan</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/42362/magic-a-tool-for-predicting-transcription-factors-and-cofactors-driving-gene-sets-using-encode-data</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2020 11:05:04 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/42362/magic-a-tool-for-predicting-transcription-factors-and-cofactors-driving-gene-sets-using-encode-data</link>
	<title><![CDATA[MAGIC: A tool for predicting transcription factors and cofactors driving gene sets using ENCODE data]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>The algorithm presented herein,&nbsp;</span><strong>M</strong><span>ining&nbsp;</span><strong>A</strong><span>lgorithm for&nbsp;</span><strong>G</strong><span>enet</span><strong>I</strong><span>c&nbsp;</span><strong>C</strong><span>ontrollers (MAGIC), uses ENCODE ChIP-seq data to look for statistical enrichment of TFs and cofactors in gene bodies and flanking regions in gene lists without an&nbsp;</span><em>a priori</em><span>&nbsp;binary classification of genes as targets or non-targets. When compared to other TF mining resources, MAGIC displayed favourable performance in predicting TFs and cofactors that drive gene changes in 4 settings: </span></p>
<p><span>1) A cell line expressing or lacking single TF, </span></p>
<p><span>2) Breast tumors divided along PAM50 designations </span></p>
<p><span>3) Whole brain samples from WT mice or mice lacking a single TF in a particular neuronal subtype </span></p>
<p><span>4) Single cell RNAseq analysis of neurons divided by Immediate Early Gene expression levels. </span></p>
<p><span>In summary, MAGIC is a standalone application that produces meaningful predictions of TFs and cofactors in transcriptomic experiments.</span></p>
<p><span>More at&nbsp;https://uwmadison.app.box.com/s/8j90e5h2rjrsz3bacaxnq8kor2o64vyg</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/asroopra/MAGIC" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/asroopra/MAGIC</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 07:24:02 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/4288/new-born-babies-get-ready-to-know-their-whole-genome-soon</link>
	<title><![CDATA[New born babies get ready to know their whole genome soon!!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>USA launch a pilot projects to examine medical information of newborn baby, which are being funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), both parts of the National Institutes of Health.</p><p>Awards of $5 million to four grantees have been made in fiscal year 2013 under the Genomic Sequencing and Newborn Screening Disorders research program. The program will be funded at $25 million over five years, as funds are made available.</p><p>"Hundreds of US babies will be pioneers in genomic medicine through a&nbsp;US$25-million programme to sequence their genomes&nbsp;soon after they are born."</p><p><strong>Source</strong>:</p><p><a href="http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/09/scientists-to-sequence-hundreds-of-newborns-genomes.html">http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/09/scientists-to-sequence-hundreds-of-newborns-genomes.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.genome.gov/27554919">http://www.genome.gov/27554919</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Agarwal</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34443/opera-an-optimal-genome-scaffolding-program</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:18:20 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34443/opera-an-optimal-genome-scaffolding-program</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Opera: An optimal genome scaffolding program]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Opera (Optimal Paired-End Read Assembler) is a sequence assembly program (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_assembly" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_assembly&nbsp;<img src="https://a.fsdn.com/con/img/icons/external_asset.png" alt="image" style="border: 0px;"></a><span>). It uses information from paired-end or long reads to optimally order and orient contigs assembled from shotgun-sequencing reads.</span><br><br><span>An updated version called OPERA-LG has been re-engineered with features for the assembly of large and complex genomes.</span><br><br><span>Song Gao, Denis Bertrand, Burton K. H. Chia and Niranjan Nagarajan. OPERA-LG: efficient and exact scaffolding of large, repeat-rich eukaryotic genomes with performance guarantees. Genome Biology, May 2016, doi: 10.1186/s13059-016-0951-y.</span><br><br><span>Song Gao, Wing-Kin Sung, Niranjan Nagarajan. Opera: reconstructing optimal genomic scaffolds with high-throughput paired-end sequences. Journal of Computational Biology, Sept. 2011, doi:10.1089/cmb.2011.0170.</span></p>
<p><span>https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-0951-y</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/operasf/" rel="nofollow">https://sourceforge.net/projects/operasf/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/34418/spades-hybrid-genome-assembly</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:05:40 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/34418/spades-hybrid-genome-assembly</link>
	<title><![CDATA[SPAdes hybrid genome assembly]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>When you have both Illumina and Nanopore data, then SPAdes remains a good option for hybrid assembly - SPAdes was used to produce the&nbsp;<a href="https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13742-015-0101-6">B fragilis assembly</a>&nbsp;by Mick Watson&rsquo;s group.</p><p>Again, running spades.py will show you the options:</p><div><pre><code>spades.py
</code></pre></div><p>This produces:</p><div><pre><code>SPAdes genome assembler v3.10.1

Usage: /usr/local/SPAdes-3.10.1-Linux/bin/spades.py [options] -o &lt;output_dir&gt;

Basic options:
-o      &lt;output_dir&gt;    directory to store all the resulting files (required)
--sc                    this flag is required for MDA (single-cell) data
--meta                  this flag is required for metagenomic sample data
--rna                   this flag is required for RNA-Seq data
--plasmid               runs plasmidSPAdes pipeline for plasmid detection
--iontorrent            this flag is required for IonTorrent data
--test                  runs SPAdes on toy dataset
-h/--help               prints this usage message
-v/--version            prints version

Input data:
--12    &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced forward and reverse paired-end reads
-1      &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward paired-end reads
-2      &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse paired-end reads
-s      &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads
--pe&lt;#&gt;-12      &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-1       &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-2       &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-s       &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-&lt;or&gt;    orientation of reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9; &lt;or&gt; = fr, rf, ff)
--s&lt;#&gt;          &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for single reads library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-12      &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-1       &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-2       &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-s       &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-&lt;or&gt;    orientation of reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9; &lt;or&gt; = fr, rf, ff)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-12    &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-1     &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-2     &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-s     &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-&lt;or&gt;  orientation of reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9; &lt;or&gt; = fr, rf, ff)
--nxmate&lt;#&gt;-1   &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for Lucigen NxMate library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--nxmate&lt;#&gt;-2   &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for Lucigen NxMate library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--sanger        &lt;filename&gt;      file with Sanger reads
--pacbio        &lt;filename&gt;      file with PacBio reads
--nanopore      &lt;filename&gt;      file with Nanopore reads
--tslr  &lt;filename&gt;      file with TSLR-contigs
--trusted-contigs       &lt;filename&gt;      file with trusted contigs
--untrusted-contigs     &lt;filename&gt;      file with untrusted contigs

Pipeline options:
--only-error-correction runs only read error correction (without assembling)
--only-assembler        runs only assembling (without read error correction)
--careful               tries to reduce number of mismatches and short indels
--continue              continue run from the last available check-point
--restart-from  &lt;cp&gt;    restart run with updated options and from the specified check-point ('ec', 'as', 'k&lt;int&gt;', 'mc')
--disable-gzip-output   forces error correction not to compress the corrected reads
--disable-rr            disables repeat resolution stage of assembling

Advanced options:
--dataset       &lt;filename&gt;      file with dataset description in YAML format
-t/--threads    &lt;int&gt;           number of threads
                                [default: 16]
-m/--memory     &lt;int&gt;           RAM limit for SPAdes in Gb (terminates if exceeded)
                                [default: 250]
--tmp-dir       &lt;dirname&gt;       directory for temporary files
                                [default: &lt;output_dir&gt;/tmp]
-k              &lt;int,int,...&gt;   comma-separated list of k-mer sizes (must be odd and
                                less than 128) [default: 'auto']
--cov-cutoff    &lt;float&gt;         coverage cutoff value (a positive float number, or 'auto', or 'off') [default: 'off']
--phred-offset  &lt;33 or 64&gt;      PHRED quality offset in the input reads (33 or 64)
                                [default: auto-detect]
</code></pre></div><p>As you can see this is also a &ldquo;pipeline&rdquo; of tools that can be switched on or off. SPAdes takes quite a long time, so for the purposes of this practical, something like this may suffice:</p><div><pre><code>spades.py -t 4 <span>\</span>
          -m 32 <span>\</span>
          -k 31,51,71 <span>\</span>
          --only-assembler <span>\</span>
          -1 miseq.1.fastq -2 miseq.2.fastq <span>\</span>
          --nanopore minion.fastq <span>\</span>
          -o hybrid_assembly
</code></pre></div><p>In turn, these parameters mean</p><ul>
<li>use 4 threads</li>
<li>max memory is 32Gb</li>
<li>use 3 kmer values to build the de bruijn graph(s) - 31, 51 and 71</li>
<li>only run the assembler, not the correction algorithm (for speed)</li>
<li>read 1 and read 2 of the MiSeq data</li>
<li>the nanopore data</li>
<li>put the output in folder &ldquo;hybrid_assembly&rdquo;</li>
</ul>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 02:08:14 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34528/cope-an-accurate-k-mer-based-pair-end-reads-connection-tool-to-facilitate-genome-assembly</link>
	<title><![CDATA[COPE: an accurate k-mer-based pair-end reads connection tool to facilitate genome assembly]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>An efficient tool called Connecting Overlapped Pair-End (COPE) reads, to connect overlapping pair-end reads using k-mer frequencies. We evaluated our tool on 30&times; simulated pair-end reads from Arabidopsis thaliana with 1% base error. COPE connected over 99% of reads with 98.8% accuracy, which is, respectively, 10 and 2% higher than the recently published tool FLASH. When COPE is applied to real reads for genome assembly, the resulting contigs are found to have fewer errors and give a 14-fold improvement in the N50 measurement when compared with the contigs produced using unconnected reads.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="ftp://ftp.genomics.org.cn/pub/cope" rel="nofollow">ftp://ftp.genomics.org.cn/pub/cope</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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