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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/26852/awesome-bioinformatics-pipelines</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 21:50:41 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/26852/awesome-bioinformatics-pipelines</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Awesome bioinformatics pipelines !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>A curated list of awesome pipeline toolkits ...</span></p>
<p><span>https://github.com/pditommaso/awesome-pipeline</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/pditommaso/awesome-pipeline" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pditommaso/awesome-pipeline</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jitendra Prajapati</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43652/peregrine-shimmer-genome-assembly-toolkit</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2021 02:50:19 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43652/peregrine-shimmer-genome-assembly-toolkit</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Peregrine &amp; SHIMMER Genome Assembly Toolkit]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Peregrine is a fast genome assembler for accurate long reads (length &gt; 10kb, accuracy &gt; 99%). It can assemble a human genome from 30x reads within 20 cpu hours from reads to polished consensus. It uses Sparse HIereachical MimiMizER (SHIMMER) for fast read-to-read overlaping without quadratic comparisions used in other OLC assemblers.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/cschin/Peregrine" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cschin/Peregrine</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Abhi</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41207/blobtoolkit-a-toolkit-for-genome-assembly-qc</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:17:50 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41207/blobtoolkit-a-toolkit-for-genome-assembly-qc</link>
	<title><![CDATA[BlobToolKit: A toolkit for genome assembly QC]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Filtering raw genomic datasets is essential to avoid chimeric assemblies and to increase the validity of sequence-based biological inference. BlobToolKit extends the BlobTools<span>1</span>/Blobology<span>2</span>&nbsp;approach to simplify interactive and reproducible filtering.</p>
<p>BlobToolKit is comprised of four components:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/btk-viewer/">BlobToolKit Viewer</a>&nbsp;allows browser-based interactive visualisation and filtering of preliminary or published genomic datasets even for highly fragmented assemblies.</li>
<li><a href="https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/blobtools2/">BlobTools2</a>&nbsp;is a command-line program to convert assemblies and analysis results into datasets that can be further processed using&nbsp;<a href="https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/blobtools2/">BlobTools2</a>&nbsp;and/or visualised in the Viewer.</li>
<li>The&nbsp;<a href="https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/specification/">BlobToolKit Specification</a>&nbsp;features a formal schema and validator for the JSON-based BlobDir format used by&nbsp;<a href="https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/blobtools2/">BlobTools2</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/btk-viewer/">Viewer</a>.</li>
<li>The&nbsp;<a href="https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/pipeline/">BlobToolKit Pipeline</a>&nbsp;is a configurable Snakemake pipeline that automates all steps from retrieving public datasets through running analyses and generating a BlobDir dataset with&nbsp;<a href="https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/blobtools2/">BlobTools2</a>, ready for visualisation in the&nbsp;<a href="https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/btk-viewer/">Viewer</a>.</li>
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<p>Paper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/844852v1.full.pdf">https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/844852v1.full.pdf</a></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/" rel="nofollow">https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/45276/the-hidden-pages-of-our-dna</guid>
	<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:04:22 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/45276/the-hidden-pages-of-our-dna</link>
	<title><![CDATA[The Hidden Pages of Our DNA]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Imagine opening the instruction manual for life.</p><p>It is enormous, billions of letters long. Some of those letters are easy to understand because they contain instructions for building proteins, the tiny machines that keep our cells alive.</p><p>But what if some of the most important instructions aren't in those obvious chapters?</p><p>Scientists have long suspected that the mysterious stretches of DNA between protein-coding genes may contain some of life's most interesting secrets. These regions can act like switches, telling genes when, where, and how strongly to turn on. Among them are conserved non-coding elements, or CNEs DNA sequences that have remained remarkably similar across different species.</p><p>Think of a CNE as a sentence that nature has copied into several editions of the same book.</p><p>A mouse has it.</p><p>A bird has it.</p><p>A human has it.</p><p>And despite millions of years of evolution, much of the sentence remains almost unchanged.</p><p>That conservation is a clue: this piece of DNA probably matters.</p><p>But there was a problem. Finding these hidden sentences across enormous genomes is difficult. Researchers needed to compare many genomes, identify conserved regions, and then determine which of those regions might have evolved unusually quickly in particular branches of the evolutionary tree.</p><p>Enter CNEwrap.&nbsp;https://github.com/YanCCscu/CNEwrap</p><p>The researchers developed CNEwrap as a streamlined toolkit capable of handling large-scale genome comparisons, conserved-element detection, and evolutionary analysis. Inside it is a new algorithm called EvoAcc, designed to identify CNEs that show accelerated evolution in specific species or lineages.</p><p>Why does that matter?</p><p>Because evolution isn't just about what stays the same.</p><p>Sometimes, the most interesting story is hidden in what changed.</p><p>Imagine that nearly every species carries the same regulatory sentence, but one lineage suddenly has several unusual edits. Perhaps those changes helped shape a new body structure, a different adaptation, or another distinctive trait.</p><p>EvoAcc is designed to help researchers find these evolutionary clues. In the study's tests, it performed particularly well in scenarios involving two or three accelerated lineages and showed improved sensitivity to insertion and deletion mutations compared with several existing approaches.</p><p>The researchers also tested CNEwrap using functional genomic regions from mammals and found that EvoAcc could recover human-specific accelerated regions while identifying some signals that other methods missed.</p><p>So the story of CNEwrap is really a story about looking beyond the obvious.</p><p>For decades, scientists have often focused on the DNA that directly encodes proteins. But the genome is more like a vast library: the protein-coding genes are the main text, while non-coding regions may contain punctuation, instructions, switches, annotations, and editing notes that tell the cell how to read the book.</p><p>CNEwrap gives researchers a new way to search that hidden material.</p><p>And perhaps somewhere inside those billions of DNA letters is an evolutionary story we haven't read yet.</p><p>The exciting part is that we now have better tools to find it.</p><p>Read more about it&nbsp;https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/54/14/gkag709/8738333?</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>LEGE</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/31278/metapred2cs</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2017 05:15:07 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/31278/metapred2cs</link>
	<title><![CDATA[MetaPred2CS]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>MetaPred2CS Web server&nbsp;</strong>is a meta-predictor based on&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17160063">Support Vector Machine (SVM)</a>&nbsp;that combines 6 individual sequence based protein-protein interaction prediction methods to predict&nbsp;<strong>prokaryotic two-component system&nbsp;</strong>protein-protein interactions (PPIs). The methods implemented in MetaPred2CS are 2 co-evolutionary methods:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11933068">in-silico two hybrid (i2h)</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11707606">mirror tree (MT)</a>&nbsp;methods and 4 genomics context based methods:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15947018">phylogenetic profiling (PP)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10573422">gene fusion (GF)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.0030043">gene neighbourhood (GN)</a>&nbsp;and and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.0030043">gene operon methods (GO)</a>.</p>
<p>&nbsp;http://metapred2cs.ibers.aber.ac.uk/</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/martinjvickers/MetaPred2CS" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/martinjvickers/MetaPred2CS</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Manisha Mishra</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/28199/genome-workbench-2107</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2016 12:09:59 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/28199/genome-workbench-2107</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Genome Workbench 2.10.7]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Genome Workbench 2.10.7 is here! New features include added support for local custom BLAST databases and improvements to Tree View.</p><p>For the full list of features, improvements and fixes, see the release notes:<a href="https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/gbench/releasenotes" target="_blank">https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/gbench/releasenotes</a></p><p>New Features</p><ul>
<li>BLAST Tool: added support for local custom BLAST databases</li>
<li>Graphical Sequence View: added log scaling option for graph tracks</li>
<li>Generic Table View:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/gbench/tutorial17">new tutorial</a>&nbsp;added</li>
</ul><p>Bug Fixes and Improvements</p><ul>
<li>Project Tree View: Genomic Collections/Assemblies now show accessions, not just names</li>
<li>Tree View: layout updated to better accommodate nodes of different sizes</li>
<li>Table Import Dialog (MacOS): fixed issue with table visibility</li>
<li>Fixed bug where different molecules IDs in GenBank could resolve to the same sequence</li>
<li>Graphical Sequence View: fixed issue where sequence track was not shown for some sequences</li>
<li>Graphical Sequence View: fixed protein coloration methods</li>
<li>Graphical Sequence View: improved rendering of Markers to better indicate boundaries and produce higher quality PDF images</li>
<li>Create Gene Model tool: fixed scenario when gene model tool failed with local sequences</li>
<li>Search View: ORF Finder &ndash; fixed incorrect protein lengths</li>
<li>Fixed bug with not opening project file (.gbp) on a click</li>
<li>Fixed issues in GVF import</li>
<li>Fixed BLAST Search tool against NCBI databases not working</li>
<li>Fixed tblastn (protein BLAST) not working in standalone mode</li>
<li>Fixed GTF export failure</li>
</ul>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Gudiya Pal</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/31100/vaguevelvet-assembler-graphical-front-end</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:56:49 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/31100/vaguevelvet-assembler-graphical-front-end</link>
	<title><![CDATA[VAGUE:Velvet Assembler Graphical Front End]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>VAGUE is a vague acronym for "Velvet Assembler Graphical Front End", which means it is a GUI for the Velvet <em>de novo</em> assembler. The command line version of Velvet can be complicated for beginners to use, but VAGUE makes it clear and simple</p>
<p>More at&nbsp;http://www.vicbioinformatics.com/software.vague.shtml</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://www.vicbioinformatics.com/software.vague.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.vicbioinformatics.com/software.vague.shtml</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/29656/statistics-and-probability</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2016 07:34:25 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/29656/statistics-and-probability</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Statistics and probability]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<h3><span>Topics</span></h3>
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<div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/displaying-describing-data">Displaying and describing data</a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/modeling-distributions-of-data">Modeling distributions of data</a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/describing-relationships-quantitative-data">Describing relationships in quantitative data</a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/designing-studies">Designing studies</a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/probability-library">Probability</a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/random-variables-stats-library">Random variables</a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/sampling-distributions-library">Sampling distributions</a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/confidence-intervals-one-sample">Confidence intervals (one sample)</a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/significance-tests-one-sample">Significance tests (one sample)</a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/significance-tests-confidence-intervals-two-samples">Significance tests and confidence intervals (two samples)</a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/inference-categorical-data-chi-square-tests">Inference for categorical data (chi-square tests)</a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/advanced-regression-inference-transforming">Advanced regression (inference and tran</a></div>
</div><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability" rel="nofollow">https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30090/standardized-velvet-assembly-report</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 03:59:59 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30090/standardized-velvet-assembly-report</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Standardized velvet assembly report]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Requirements:</p>
<ul>
<li>velvet (velveth velvetg should be in your PATH)</li>
<li>R (with Sweave)</li>
<li>pdflatex (usually part of TeTeX)</li>
<li>ggplot2 (from R prompt type install.packages("ggplot2","proto","xtable"))</li>
<li>Perl</li>
</ul>
<p>Optional:</p>
<ul>
<li>BLAT or BLAST (to generate alignments against a reference genome). If using BLAT, add faToTwoBit,gfClient,gfServer to your PATH. If using BLAST, add blastall and formatdb.</li>
</ul>
<p>Edit permute.sh to your liking, paying particular attention to the kmer, cvCut, expCov, and other flags</p>
<p>To Run:</p>
<ol>
<li><code>perl fastaAllSize mysequences.fa &gt; mysequences.stat or gunzip -c mysequences.fa.gz | fastaAllSize &gt; mysequences.stat</code>&nbsp;Substitute fastqAllSize for fastq files.</li>
<li><code>./permute.sh mysequences</code>&nbsp;(leave out the .fa)</li>
</ol>
<p>https://github.com/leipzig/standardized-velvet-assembly-report</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/leipzig/standardized-velvet-assembly-report" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/leipzig/standardized-velvet-assembly-report</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Poonam Mahapatra</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30207/gam-ngs-genomic-assemblies-merger-for-next-generation-sequencing</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 06:07:05 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30207/gam-ngs-genomic-assemblies-merger-for-next-generation-sequencing</link>
	<title><![CDATA[GAM-NGS: genomic assemblies merger for next generation sequencing]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>GAM-NGS (Genomic Assemblies Merger for Next Generation Sequencing), whose primary goal is to merge two or more assemblies in order to enhance contiguity and correctness of both. GAM-NGS does not rely on global alignment: regions of the two assemblies representing the same genomic&nbsp;</span><em>locus</em><span>&nbsp;(called&nbsp;</span><em>blocks</em><span>) are identified through reads' alignments and stored in a&nbsp;</span><em>weighted</em><span>graph. The merging phase is carried out with the help of this weighted graph that allows an&nbsp;</span><em>optimal</em><span>&nbsp;resolution of&nbsp;</span><em>local</em><span>&nbsp;problematic regions.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/vice87/gam-ngs" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vice87/gam-ngs</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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