<![CDATA[BOL: Related items]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/related/39865?offset=60 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44711/blast-5-key-updates-and-enhancements-for-modern-bioinformatics Sat, 07 Dec 2024 22:37:48 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44711/blast-5-key-updates-and-enhancements-for-modern-bioinformatics <![CDATA[BLAST+ 5: Key Updates and Enhancements for Modern Bioinformatics]]> The BLAST+ 5 (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) update has introduced several key enhancements aimed at improving performance, user experience, and compatibility with evolving genomic data standards. Here are the major updates:

  1. Database Enhancements:

    • The BLAST databases have shifted fully to the version 5 (v5) format, which integrates built-in taxonomy information. This allows for more detailed and efficient sequence annotation and analysis.
    • Protein databases in v5 are now accession-based, supporting a broader range of sequences, including those from high-throughput projects and the Pathogen Detection Project. These databases also accommodate structural proteins with multi-character chain identifiers.

  2. Performance Improvements:

    • Adaptive Composition-Based Statistics (CBS) is available as an experimental feature, enhancing the detection of novel results in protein-protein comparisons.
    • Updated algorithms improve the stability of search results, especially when fewer hits are requested than the default output.

  3. Compatibility:

    • Support for the older v4 databases has been discontinued. The v5 format is now the default for all BLAST database updates, ensuring alignment with current standards in bioinformatics.

  4. User-Friendly Changes:

    • Naming conventions for databases have been simplified to enhance clarity and ease of use. For example, database names no longer include version tags like "_v5".

  5. Future-Proofing:

    • BLAST+ 5 aligns with current and upcoming data requirements, ensuring that researchers have access to the most comprehensive and modern resources for sequence alignment.

These updates reflect NCBI's commitment to maintaining BLAST as a leading tool for sequence analysis. For detailed release notes and additional guidance, refer to NCBI Insights here

]]> LEGE https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/24264/cancer-research-database Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:36:31 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/24264/cancer-research-database <![CDATA[Cancer research database]]> Researchers in Andhra Pradesh have developed a database to identify genes that are common in tumours to provide their colleagues with easy access to insights into the genetic alterations in cancer.
 
The database, hosted at the Sri Venkateswara University (SVU) in Tirupati, will integrate information on cancer genes and markers with experimental data.
 
The Cancer Gene Markers Database (CGMD) is meant to help scientists better understand tumour genes and markers at a molecular level by combining data with literature on treatment regimen and recent advances in cancer therapy.

The database is free to access, and already includes 309 genes and 206 markers that correspond to 40 different human cancers. Accompanying literature comes from databases such as the United States’ National Center for Biotechnology Information and the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes. It also includes experimental data from PubMed.

In a paper published last month in Nature Scientific Reports, the researchers from SVU’s department of animal biotechnology, describes the need for a database for different genes and markers along with their molecular characteristics and pathway associations.

]]> Neel https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30168/gene-synteny-database Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:09:39 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/30168/gene-synteny-database <![CDATA[Gene Synteny Database]]> Comparative genomics remains a pivotal strategy to study the evolution of gene organization, and this primacy is reinforced by the growing number of full genome sequences available in public repositories. Despite this growth, bioinformatic tools available to visualize and compare genomes and to infer evolutionary events remain restricted to two or three genomes at a time, thus limiting the breadth and the nature of the question that can be investigated. Here we present Genomicus, a new synteny browser that can represent and compare unlimited numbers of genomes in a broad phylogenetic view. In addition, Genomicus includes reconstructed ancestral gene organization, thus greatly facilitating the interpretation of the data.

Availability: Genomicus is freely available for online use at http://www.dyogen.ens.fr/genomicus while data can be downloaded at ftp://ftp.biologie.ens.fr/pub/dyogen/genomicus

Contact: rf.sne.eigoloib@crh

Address of the bookmark: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2853686/

]]> Jit https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44545/amr-database Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:37:21 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44545/amr-database <![CDATA[AMR Database !]]>
  • ARG-ANNOT. PMID: 24145532
  • CARD. PMID: 23650175
  • MEGARes PMID: 27899569
  • NCBI BioProject: PRJNA313047
  • plasmidfinder PMID: 24777092
  • resfinder. PMID: 22782487
  • VFDB. PMID: 26578559
  • SRST2's version of ARG-ANNOT. PMID: 25422674.
  • VirulenceFinder PMID: 24574290.

    • Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/sanger-pathogens/ariba/wiki/Task%3A-getref

    ]]>     LEGE     https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/4209/enzyme-portal Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:06:06 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/4209/enzyme-portal <![CDATA[Enzyme Portal]]> Enzyme Portal- To look for information about the biology of a protein with enzymatic activity.

    The enzyme portal integrates many resources, most of them hosted by EBI and also external ones such as BioPortal. Its main goal is to provide information about enzymes in a suitable format, with a usable interface designed for intended users. Instead of reinventing the wheel, it makes use of available and reliable resources to that end.

    Related Literature:

    http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/41/D1/D773.full

    http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/14/103

    Address of the bookmark: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/enzymeportal/

    ]]>     Rahul Agarwal     https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/39281/humcfs-a-database-of-fragile-sites-in-human-chromosomes Sun, 21 Apr 2019 20:17:29 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/39281/humcfs-a-database-of-fragile-sites-in-human-chromosomes <![CDATA[HumCFS: a database of fragile sites in human chromosomes]]> Fragile sites are specific chromosomal region that exhibit an increased frequency of chromosdomal breakge when cells are exposed to replicative stress. Since from the discovery of chromosomal fragile sites/regions (CFS), several line of evidence suggests their involvement in human pathologies and they have been recognized as a preferential site for integration of exogenous oncogenic DNA viruses and hotspots for chromosomal re-arrangement. There is large gap in our knowledge of human CFS region as knowledge about CFS are unequally distributed in literature, which impose a problem in studying these region. In order to address these issues, we develop this platform HumCFS, which provides comprehensive information about experimentally identified CFS at a single source.

    https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186/s12864-018-5330-5?author_access_token=ICASEpyMAQaxLlKw--fyCG_BpE1tBhCbnbw3BuzI2RMA57KLmXk5bZabRUiDQzRFHXd6hjm4kWSiLV3mU5XVMitqXUwFMSo4x5vbfty0EDQ9PW1sd1h923_TYXkvJ5niSwAyZ7BklJ0ujFAFhcKtjw%3D%3D

    Address of the bookmark: https://webs.iiitd.edu.in/raghava/humcfs/

    ]]>     Abhimanyu Singh     https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/42621/busco-datasets Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:44:33 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/42621/busco-datasets <![CDATA[BUSCO datasets !]]> The BUSCO software now directly downloads the necessary datasets, specified by the user or automatically selected.

    To display all available datasets

    busco --list-datasets

    You can also download them manually and see a list with the number of marker genes.

    Earlier versions: v3, v2, v1

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enterobacterales_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz           16-Oct-2020 13:19     11M
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microsporidia_odb10.2020-08-05.tar.gz              16-Oct-2020 13:20     26M
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neisseriales_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz               16-Oct-2020 13:19     16M
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polyporales_odb10.2020-08-05.tar.gz                16-Oct-2020 13:20    206M
primates_odb10.2020-08-05.tar.gz                   16-Oct-2020 13:19    451M
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rickettsiales_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz              16-Oct-2020 13:19      8M
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solanales_odb10.2020-08-05.tar.gz                  16-Oct-2020 13:19    196M
sordariomycetes_odb10.2020-08-05.tar.gz            16-Oct-2020 13:19    206M
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spirochaetia_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz               16-Oct-2020 13:19      6M
stramenopiles_odb10.2020-08-05.tar.gz              16-Oct-2020 13:19      5M
streptomycetales_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz           16-Oct-2020 13:20     31M
streptosporangiales_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz        16-Oct-2020 13:19     22M
sulfolobales_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz               16-Oct-2020 13:19     22M
synechococcales_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz            16-Oct-2020 13:19     16M
synergistetes_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz              16-Oct-2020 13:19     14M
tenericutes_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz                16-Oct-2020 13:20      4M
tetrapoda_odb10.2020-09-10.tar.gz                  16-Oct-2020 13:19    561M
thaumarchaeota_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz             16-Oct-2020 13:20     13M
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thermoplasmata_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz             16-Oct-2020 13:20      7M
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thermotogae_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz                16-Oct-2020 13:19     16M
thiotrichales_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz              16-Oct-2020 13:20     11M
tissierellales_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz             16-Oct-2020 13:19      9M
tissierellia_odb10.2020-03-06.tar.gz               16-Oct-2020 13:19      8M
tremellomycetes_odb10.2020-08-05.tar.gz            16-Oct-2020 13:19    210M
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    Address of the bookmark: https://busco-data.ezlab.org/v4/data/lineages/

    ]]>     Jit     https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/33219/dbcan-a-web-server-and-database-for-automated-carbohydrate-active-enzyme-annotation Mon, 29 May 2017 05:39:29 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/33219/dbcan-a-web-server-and-database-for-automated-carbohydrate-active-enzyme-annotation <![CDATA[dbCAN: a web server and DataBase for automated Carbohydrate-active enzyme ANnotation]]> dbCAN is a web server and DataBase for automated Carbohydrate-active enzyme ANnotation, funded by the BioEnergy Science Center of the DOE. Similar resources on the web include CAZy database and CAT. All data in dbCAN are generated based on the family classification from CAZy database while it has the following unique features compared with CAZy database and CAT:

    • dbCAN provides the capability of automated and comprehensive CAZyme annotation of a given genome submitted by the user;
    • dbCAN provides an explicitly defined signature domain for each and every CAZyme family along with its location in all the relevant full-length CAZyme proteins in all sequenced genomes;
    • dbCAN provides the most complete set of metagenomic CAZyme genes published so far and represents the first step towards discovering novel CAZyme catalysts in metagenomes;
    • dbCAN provides a subfamily classification of the existing CAZyme families based on sequence similarities;
    • dbCAN make all pre-computed data freely available to the public, including sequence alignments, hidden markov models (HMMs) and phylogenies of the signature domain regions in each and every CAZyme family and subfamily.

    dbCAN is updated regularly when CAZy database created new families based on latest literature.

    Address of the bookmark: http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/dbCAN/index.php

    ]]>     Jit     https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/5887/pubmed-opens-for-comment Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:40:17 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/5887/pubmed-opens-for-comment <![CDATA[PubMed opens for comment]]> The informal conversations that researchers have at scientific meetings look set to move online, if a new initiative by the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has its way. On 22 October, the NCBI of Bethesda, Maryland, launched the pilot phase of a programme called PubMed Commons. This will allow users to comment on published abstracts on the PubMed website, which indexes some 22 million papers.

    For now, only a select group of researchers and their invited guests can use the system. But the NCBI's director David Lipman, who helped to develop the programme, says that soon any PubMed author will be allowed to comment under his or her real name and anyone will be able to read the comments.

    More @ http://www.nature.com/news/pubmed-opens-for-comment-1.14023

    News source Nature.

    ]]>     Rahul Nayak     https://bioinformaticsonline.com/videolist/watch/16685/webinar-blast-in-the-cloud Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:29:32 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/videolist/watch/16685/webinar-blast-in-the-cloud <![CDATA[Webinar: BLAST in the Cloud]]> Presented July 30, 2014 and covering: an NCBI BLAST AMI at Amazon Web Services; introduction to AWS and setting up an instance; running command line BLAST and using the BLAST URL API via the AMI; and answers to attendee questions.]]>