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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43806/genomicus-genome-browser-that-enables-users-to-navigate-in-genomes-in-several-dimensions</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:27:37 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43806/genomicus-genome-browser-that-enables-users-to-navigate-in-genomes-in-several-dimensions</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Genomicus: genome browser that enables users to navigate in genomes in several dimensions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Genomicus is a genome browser that enables users to navigate in genomes in several dimensions: linearly along chromosome axes, transversaly across different species, and chronologicaly along evolutionary time.</p>
<p>Once a query gene has been entered, it is displayed in its genomic context in parallel to the genomic context of all its orthologous and paralogous copies in all the other sequenced metazoan genomes. Moreover, Genomicus stores and displays the predicted ancestral genome structure in all the ancestral species within the phylogenetic range of interest.</p>
<p>All the data on extant species displayed in this browser are from&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ensembl.org/">Ensembl</a>.</p>
<p><br><strong>Summary statistics of Genomicus version 105.01:</strong><span>&nbsp;(view species tree in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.genomicus.bio.ens.psl.eu/genomicus-105.01/data/SpeciesTree.pdf">pdf</a><span>&nbsp;or&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.genomicus.bio.ens.psl.eu/genomicus-105.01/data/SpeciesTree.nwk">newick</a><span>)</span><br><br></p>
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<tr><th>Number of extant species</th>
<td>200</td>
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<tr><th>Number of extant genes</th>
<td>4303993</td>
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<tr><th>Number of ancestral species</th>
<td>196</td>
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<tr><th>Number of ancestral genes</th>
<td>4624213</td>
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<tr><th>Number of ancestral synteny blocks</th>
<td>83342<br><br></td>
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</table><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://www.genomicus.bio.ens.psl.eu/genomicus-105.01/cgi-bin/search.pl" rel="nofollow">https://www.genomicus.bio.ens.psl.eu/genomicus-105.01/cgi-bin/search.pl</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41493/coronavirus-resources</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:11:33 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41493/coronavirus-resources</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Coronavirus Resources !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>2019nCoVR features comprehensive integration of genomic and proteomic sequences as well as their metadata information from the GISAID, NCBI, NMDC and CNCB/NGDC. It also incorporates a wide range of relevant information including scientific literatures, news, and popular articles for science dissemination, and provides visualization functionalities for genome variation analysis results based on all collected 2019-nCoV strains.</span></p>
<p><span>Annotation</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://bigd.big.ac.cn/ncov/variation/annotation">https://bigd.big.ac.cn/ncov/variation/annotation</a></span></p>
<p><span>Genome wharehouse&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://bigd.big.ac.cn/gwh/browse/index">https://bigd.big.ac.cn/gwh/browse/index</a></span></p>
<p>Released Genome</p>
<p><a href="https://bigd.big.ac.cn/ncov/release_genome">https://bigd.big.ac.cn/ncov/release_genome</a></p>
<p>Download data&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="ftp://download.big.ac.cn/Genome/Viruses/Coronaviridae/">ftp://download.big.ac.cn/Genome/Viruses/Coronaviridae/</a></p>
<p>Raw data</p>
<p><a href="https://bigd.big.ac.cn/gsa/browse/run/?tag=Coronaviridae">https://bigd.big.ac.cn/gsa/browse/run/?tag=Coronaviridae</a></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://bigd.big.ac.cn/ncov/about" rel="nofollow">https://bigd.big.ac.cn/ncov/about</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Neel</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36594/fragscaff-genome-assembly-with-contiguity-preserving-transposition</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2018 04:28:14 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36594/fragscaff-genome-assembly-with-contiguity-preserving-transposition</link>
	<title><![CDATA[fragScaff: Genome Assembly with Contiguity Preserving Transposition]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Contiguity preserving transposition and sequencing (CPT-seq) is an entirely in vitro means of generating libraries comprised of 9216 indexed pools, each of which contains thousands of sparsely sequenced long fragments ranging from 5 kilobases to &gt;1 megabase. This software, fragScaff, leverages coincidences between the content of different pools as a source of contiguity information for scaffolding de novo genome assemblies. FragScaff is complementary to Lachesis, providing midrange contiguity to support robust, accurate chromosome-scale de novo genome assemblies without the need for laborious in vivo cloning steps.</p>
<p>Further information about fragScaff, including source code, is available at:<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/fragscaff/files/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/fragscaff/files</a>.</p>
<p>Manuscript describing fragScaff was published as: Adey A, Kitzman JO, Burton JN, Daza R, Kumar A, Christiansen L, Ronaghi M, Amini S, L Gunderson K, Steemers FJ, Shendure J#.&nbsp;<em>In vitro, long-range sequence information for de novo genome assembly via transposase contiguity.</em>&nbsp;Genome Research 2014 Dec;24(12):2041-9. doi:&nbsp;<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.178319.114">10.1101/gr.178319.114</a>. PubMed PMID:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25327137">25327137</a>.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/fragscaff/files/" rel="nofollow">https://sourceforge.net/projects/fragscaff/files/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/researchlabs/view/35125/eugene-v-koonin-lab</guid>
  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:01:15 -0600</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Eugene V. Koonin Lab]]></title>
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<p>Interested in understanding the evolution of life. To obtain glimpses of such understanding, we employ existing and new methods of computational biology to perform research in several major areas.</p>

<p>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/groups/koonin/</p>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:00:07 -0600</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Edanchin Lab]]></title>
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<p>My main topics of interest are:</p>

<p>The impact of non tree-like evolution such as horizontal gene transfers and hybridization on species biology<br />Evolution and adaptation of animals in the absence of sexual reproduction and the underlying mechanisms<br />Genomic signatures of adaptation to a parasitic life-style</p>

<p>More at https://edanchin.org/</p>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:00:36 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/45306/the-genes-that-travel-together-a-genomic-detective-story</link>
	<title><![CDATA[The Genes That Travel Together: A Genomic Detective Story]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Imagine looking through thousands of microbial genomes and discovering two genes that repeatedly appear together. The obvious conclusion is that they must somehow be connected&mdash;that perhaps they work together, participate in the same pathway, or depend on each other. But evolution has a way of leaving misleading clues. What if these two genes are found together simply because they were inherited from the same ancient ancestor? In that case, their apparent association may have little to do with their biological function; it may simply be a reflection of shared evolutionary history. This is the intriguing problem addressed by CORGIAS (https://github.com/ynishimuraLv/corgias), a computational framework developed to distinguish genuine gene associations from correlations created by common ancestry.</p><p>Instead of asking only whether two genes occur together across genomes, CORGIAS asks a deeper question: did these genes actually evolve together, repeatedly gaining or losing their presence in concert, or are they merely travelling together because of their inherited history? The framework introduces two complementary approaches, Ancestral State Adjustment (ASA) and the Simultaneous EVolution test (SEV), which incorporate evolutionary information into the search for gene associations. This distinction becomes increasingly important as genome sequencing continues to uncover enormous numbers of microbial genomes, many from organisms that have never been cultured and whose genes remain functionally mysterious. In this growing genomic landscape, simply finding a gene is no longer enough&mdash;we need clues about what that gene might be doing. CORGIAS approaches this problem almost like a genomic detective: rather than treating every association as evidence, it reconstructs the evolutionary story behind the association and asks whether the evidence survives that history. By doing so, it offers a way to separate coincidence from biological connection and potentially uncover functional relationships hidden within the vast microbial genomic landscape. The broader message is beautifully simple: genes do not evolve in isolation, and understanding what they do may require us to look beyond where they are today and reconstruct how they arrived there. Sometimes, the most important clue in a genome is not the gene itself, but the evolutionary journey it has taken.</p><p>More at&nbsp;https://academic.oup.com/nargab/article/7/4/lqaf182/8377910?</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:12:36 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44773/genetic-basis-of-tail-loss-evolution</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Genetic basis of tail-loss evolution]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>The paper <em>"On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07095-8)"</em>, published in <em>Nature</em>, investigates the genetic mechanisms that led to the loss of tails in humans and apes. The study suggests that a specific genetic mutation, involving the insertion of an <em>Alu</em> element (a type of transposable DNA sequence), played a critical role in the evolutionary transition from tailed primates to tailless hominoids.</p><h3><strong>Key Findings of the Study:</strong></h3><ol>
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<p><strong>Alu Insertion and Tail Loss:</strong><br /> The researchers discovered an <em>Alu</em>-mediated genetic change in a common ancestor of modern apes and humans. This change disrupted the normal function of a gene involved in tail development, leading to the suppression of tail formation.</p>
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<p><strong>Gene Disruption Mechanism:</strong><br /> The <em>Alu</em> insertion was found within a regulatory region of the <em>TBXT</em> gene (also known as <em>T</em> or <em>Brachyury</em>), which is crucial for tail development in vertebrates. This insertion likely altered the gene's expression patterns, leading to tail reduction over evolutionary time.</p>
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<p><strong>Functional Evidence from Model Organisms:</strong><br /> To test their hypothesis, the researchers introduced similar genetic modifications in mice. The modified mice exhibited shortened or absent tails, supporting the idea that the identified mutation played a role in tail loss in hominoids.</p>
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<p><strong>Evolutionary Implications:</strong><br /> The findings suggest that small, random genomic changes&mdash;such as transposable element insertions&mdash;can have profound effects on body morphology. This study provides evidence that mobile DNA elements (like <em>Alu</em>) can drive major evolutionary transitions.</p>
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<p><strong>Relevance to Human Evolution:</strong><br /> Understanding the genetic basis of tail loss helps in reconstructing the evolutionary history of hominins (the lineage that includes humans and our extinct relatives). It also sheds light on how genetic variations contribute to anatomical diversity among primates.</p>
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</ol><h3><strong>Significance of the Study:</strong></h3><p>This research highlights the role of transposable elements in shaping evolutionary traits and provides a concrete genetic explanation for a defining characteristic of humans and great apes. It also demonstrates how mutations in regulatory regions of developmental genes can lead to significant anatomical changes.</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>LEGE</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:26:16 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34328/dfast-a-flexible-prokaryotic-genome-annotation-pipeline-for-faster-genome-publication</link>
	<title><![CDATA[DFAST: a flexible prokaryotic genome annotation pipeline for faster genome publication]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>We developed a prokaryotic genome annotation pipeline, DFAST, that also supports genome submission to public sequence databases. DFAST was originally started as an on-line annotation server, and to date, over 7,000 jobs have been processed since its first launch in 2016. Here, we present a newly implemented background annotation engine for DFAST, which is also available as a standalone command-line program. The new engine can annotate a typical-sized bacterial genome within 10 minutes, with rich information such as pseudogenes, translation exceptions, and orthologous gene assignment between given reference genomes. In addition, the modular framework of DFAST allows users to customize the annotation workflow easily and will also facilitate extensions for new functions and incorporation of new tools in the future.</p>
<div>Availability and Implementation</div>
<p>The software is implemented in Python 3 and runs in both Python 2.7 and 3.4&ndash; on Macintosh and Linux systems. It is freely available at&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/nigyta/dfast_core/" target="">https://github.com/nigyta/dfast_core/</a>&nbsp;under the GPLv3 license with external binaries bundled in the software distribution. An on-line version is also available at&nbsp;<a href="https://dfast.nig.ac.jp/" target="">https://dfast.nig.ac.jp/</a>.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://dfast.nig.ac.jp/" rel="nofollow">https://dfast.nig.ac.jp/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34567/jobtree-based-python-wrapper-to-run-the-genome-simulation-tool-suite-evolver</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:26:32 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34567/jobtree-based-python-wrapper-to-run-the-genome-simulation-tool-suite-evolver</link>
	<title><![CDATA[jobTree based python wrapper to run the genome simulation tool suite Evolver]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>evolverSimControl</span><span>&nbsp;(</span><span>eSC</span><span>) can be used to simulate multi-chromosome genome evolution on an arbitrary phylogeny (</span><a href="http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/newicktree.html">Newick format</a><span>). In addition to simply running evolver,&nbsp;</span><span>eSC</span><span>&nbsp;also automatically creates statistical summaries of the simulation as it runs including text and image files. Also included are convenience scripts to: check on a running simulation and see detailed status and logging information; extract fasta sequence files from the leaf nodes of a completed simulation; extract pairwise multiple alignment files (</span><a href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html#format5">.maf</a><span>) from leaf and branch nodes from a completed simulation and with the help of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/dentearl/mafTools/">mafJoin</a><span>, join them together into a single maf covering the entire simulation.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/dentearl/evolverSimControl" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dentearl/evolverSimControl</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2018 04:48:01 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36954/mscaffolder-a-comparative-genome-scaffolding-tool</link>
	<title><![CDATA[mScaffolder: A comparative genome scaffolding tool]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>A comparative genome scaffolding tool based on MUMmer</p>
<p>mScaffolder scaffolds a genome using an existing high quality genome as the reference. It aligns the two genomes using nucmer utility from MUMmer and then orders and orients the contigs of the candidate genome guided by their alignments to the reference genome. Please send your questions and comments to&nbsp;<a href="mailto:mchakrab@uci.edu">mchakrab@uci.edu</a>.</p>
<p><span>Citation</span><span>&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-017-0010-y">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-017-0010-y</a></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/mahulchak/mscaffolder" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mahulchak/mscaffolder</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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