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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41397/svaba-structural-variation-and-indel-detection-by-local-assembly</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 07:52:15 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41397/svaba-structural-variation-and-indel-detection-by-local-assembly</link>
	<title><![CDATA[SvABA: Structural variation and indel detection by local assembly]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>SvABA is a method for detecting structural variants in sequencing data using genome-wide local assembly. Under the hood, SvABA uses a custom implementation of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/jts/sga">SGA</a><span>&nbsp;(String Graph Assembler) by Jared Simpson, and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/lh3/bwa">BWA-MEM</a><span>&nbsp;by Heng Li. Contigs are assembled for every 25kb window (with some small overlap) for every region in the genome. The default is to use only clipped, discordant, unmapped and indel reads, although this can be customized to any set of reads at the command line using&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/walaj/VariantBam">VariantBam</a><span>&nbsp;rules. These contigs are then immediately aligned to the reference with BWA-MEM and parsed to identify variants. Sequencing reads are then realigned to the contigs with BWA-MEM, and variants are scored by their read support.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/walaj/svaba" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/walaj/svaba</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44641/heliano-a-fast-and-accurate-tool-for-detection-of-helitron-like-elements</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:16:34 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44641/heliano-a-fast-and-accurate-tool-for-detection-of-helitron-like-elements</link>
	<title><![CDATA[HELIANO: A fast and accurate tool for detection of Helitron-like elements]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Helitron-like elements (HLE1 and HLE2) are DNA transposons. They have been found in diverse species and seem to play significant roles in the evolution of host genomes. Although known for over twenty years, Helitron sequences are still challenging to identify. Here, we propose HELIANO (Helitron-like elements annotator) as an efficient solution for detecting Helitron-like elements.</span></p>
<p>https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkae679/7730539?login=true</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/Zhenlisme/heliano/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Zhenlisme/heliano/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>LEGE</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:00:38 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/4208/latest-paper-on-comparison-of-mapping-tools</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Latest paper on comparison of mapping tools]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>A. Hatem, D. Bozdag, A. E. Toland, U. V. Catalyurek "Benchmarking short sequence mapping tools" BMC Bioinformatics, 14(1):184, 2013.</p>
<p>http://bmi.osu.edu/hpc/software/benchmark/</p>
<p><a href="http://bmi.osu.edu/hpc/software/pmap/pmap.html">http://bmi.osu.edu/hpc/software/pmap/pmap.html</a></p>
<p>Other similiar papers:</p>
<p><a href="http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/cmb.2012.0022">http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/cmb.2012.0022</a></p>
<p><a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/24/3169">http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/24/3169</a></p>
<p>Some new Mapping tool links:<a href="http://bmi.osu.edu/hpc/software/benchmark/"></a></p>
<p><strong>GSNAP</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://research-pub.gene.com/gmap/"></a><a href="http://research-pub.gene.com/gmap/">http://research-pub.gene.com/gmap/</a></p>
<p><strong>RMAP</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://rulai.cshl.edu/rmap/"></a><a href="http://rulai.cshl.edu/rmap/">http://rulai.cshl.edu/rmap/</a></p>
<p><strong>mrsFAST</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://mrsfast.sourceforge.net/Home"></a><a href="http://mrsfast.sourceforge.net/Home">http://mrsfast.sourceforge.net/Home</a></p>
<p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mrsfast/files/mrsfast-ultra-3.1.0/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/mrsfast/files/mrsfast-ultra-3.1.0/</a></p>
<p><strong>BFAST</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bfast/index.php?title=Main_Page">http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bfast/index.php?title=Main_Page</a></p>
<p><strong>SHRiMP (for&nbsp;AB SOLiD color-space reads)</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://compbio.cs.toronto.edu/shrimp/">http://compbio.cs.toronto.edu/shrimp/</a></p>
<p><strong>RazerA 3</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.seqan.de/projects/razers/">http://www.seqan.de/projects/razers/</a></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/14/184" rel="nofollow">http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/14/184</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Agarwal</dc:creator>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:17:55 -0600</pubDate>
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<p>REU at Fordham University- Summer 2016</p>

<p>An NSF-funded REU to study Y-chromosome diversity and sex-biased dispersal in wild brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) is available in the Munshi-South Lab at Fordham University. Our lab is currently investigating rat evolution at scales ranging from landscape genetics of individual cities to global patterns of diversity. Development of resources for investigating Y-chromosome diversity will support many of these studies. The REU student will work with the lab to bioinformatically identify Y-chromosome SNPs, design SNPtype assays,<br />extract DNA, genotype samples, and analyze data.</p>

<p>We seek applicants interested in bioinformatics, evolutionary biology, and related disciplines.  Applicants must have taken a college-level genetics course.  This REU will require attention to detail, reliability, independence, and critical thinking.</p>

<p>This position is based at Fordham University's field station, the Louis Calder Center, in Armonk, NY. The Calder Center is located approximately 25 miles north of New York City in a protected woodland area. Housing<br />will be provided at the Calder Center for the duration of the REU (May 23 to Aug 12, 2016). Additionally, the student will receive a $6,000 stipend. The selected student will participate in professional development activities through the Calder Centers REU program, including presentation of results at a research colloquium at the end of the summer.</p>

<p>To apply, please send a one page personal statement about your scientific interests and how this REU will support your professional goals, unofficial transcripts including a list of Spring 2016 courses, and names of two professional references (including title, address, phone number, and email address) as a single pdf (with your last name in the file name) to Dr. Jason Munshi-South (jmunshisouth@fordham.edu).</p>

<p>Applications are due March 4th, 2016.</p>

<p>Jason Munshi-South</p>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/40703/%CF%80-cyc-a-reference-free-snp-discovery-application-using-parallel-graph-search</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:34:23 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/40703/%CF%80-cyc-a-reference-free-snp-discovery-application-using-parallel-graph-search</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Π-cyc: A Reference-free SNP Discovery Application using Parallel Graph Search]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Reference free SNP search for comparative population genomics: multiple samples run simultanously. **experimental phase, compiles and runs with OpenMPI-1.8.8 with Intel Compiler only</p>
<p><span>Cycles enumeration (aka Bubbles) as part of de novo de bruijn graphs assembly using colours can be unpractical for large error prone genomes which makes the assembly process produce an excessive number of false positive cycles.&nbsp; Our solution is to search the graph in multicores shared memory parallel mode using graph decomposition then use filtering method to generate good quality SNPs.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06700">https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06700</a></p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/redayounsi/2KP2P">https://github.com/redayounsi/2KP2P</a></p>
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<p>/2kp2omp/bin/main_2kp2_K63_C2 -i fastq_files.txt -o fungus_bub.fasta -r stat_fungus.txt -c cov_fungus_hash.txt -k 63 -h 20 -b 100 -g 600 -l 100 -f 16 -t 5.0 -x 1 -v 0 -p 1 -y 1 -u 1</p>
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</blockquote><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/redayounsi/2KP2P" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/redayounsi/2KP2P</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 01:31:45 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44865/snp-analysis-unlocking-the-secrets-in-our-dna</link>
	<title><![CDATA[SNP Analysis: Unlocking the Secrets in Our DNA]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most common type of genetic variation in humans&mdash;and many other organisms. A single base change in the DNA sequence (for example, an A instead of a G) can influence everything from our eye color to our risk of developing diseases. Analyzing these tiny changes has become central to modern genetics, medicine, agriculture, and evolutionary biology.</p><p><strong>What are SNPs?</strong><br />SNPs (pronounced "snips") are positions in the genome where individuals differ by a single nucleotide. For example:</p><p>Reference: ...A T G C A T G A...<br />Variant:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;...A T G T A T G A...</p><p>Here, the C in the reference genome has been replaced by a T in the variant.</p><p>SNPs occur roughly every 300&ndash;1,000 bases in the human genome, meaning there are millions of them scattered throughout our DNA. Most SNPs have no effect on health, but some are linked to disease susceptibility, drug response, and other traits.</p><p><strong>Why Do We Analyze SNPs?</strong><br />1. Medical Genetics</p><p>Identify disease-associated variants (e.g., BRCA1/2 in breast cancer).</p><p>Predict drug response (pharmacogenomics).</p><p>Enable precision medicine by tailoring treatments.</p><p>2. Population Genetics &amp; Ancestry</p><p>Trace human migration and ancestry.</p><p>Study genetic diversity within and between populations.</p><p>3. Agriculture &amp; Animal Breeding</p><p>Select for desirable traits (drought resistance, yield, disease resistance).</p><p>Improve breeding efficiency in livestock.</p><p>4. Evolutionary Biology</p><p>Track natural selection.</p><p>Study adaptation in wild populations.</p><p><strong>How is SNP Analysis Performed?</strong><br />SNP analysis can be broadly divided into three steps:</p><p>SNP Detection<br />Genotyping arrays: Chips that test hundreds of thousands of known SNP positions simultaneously. Fast and affordable, widely used in consumer ancestry testing.</p><p>Whole-genome or whole-exome sequencing: Can detect known and novel SNPs across the genome.</p><p>Targeted sequencing or PCR: For focused analysis of specific regions.</p><p>Variant Calling<br />Sequencing data is aligned to a reference genome. Bioinformatics tools (e.g., GATK, bcftools) identify positions where the sequenced sample differs from the reference.</p><p>Annotation and Interpretation<br />Tools (e.g., SnpEff, VEP) predict the functional impact of SNPs.</p><p>Are the SNPs in coding regions? Do they cause amino acid changes? Are they known to be pathogenic?</p><p>Databases like dbSNP, ClinVar, and GWAS Catalog provide information on known associations.</p><p>Common Tools for SNP Analysis<br />Alignment: BWA, Bowtie2</p><p>Variant Calling: GATK, FreeBayes</p><p>Visualization: IGV, UCSC Genome Browser</p><p>Annotation: SnpEff, VEP</p><p>Statistical Analysis: PLINK, SNPTEST</p><p><strong>Challenges in SNP Analysis</strong><br />False positives/negatives: Sequencing errors, alignment issues.</p><p>Population stratification: Confounding in association studies.</p><p>Interpretation: Many SNPs have unknown or complex effects.</p><p>Researchers address these with rigorous quality control, large datasets, and increasingly sophisticated statistical models.</p><p><strong>The Future of SNP Analysis</strong><br />With advances in sequencing technology and AI-driven analysis, SNP studies are expanding:</p><p>Polygenic risk scores predict disease risk based on thousands of SNPs.</p><p>Large-scale biobanks (e.g., UK Biobank, All of Us) enable powerful genome-wide association studies (GWAS).</p><p>CRISPR and functional assays help validate SNP effects in the lab.</p><p>SNP analysis is at the heart of the genomic revolution, promising insights into biology, health, and evolution at unprecedented scale.</p><p><strong>Conclusion</strong><br />From diagnosing rare diseases to designing better crops, SNP analysis is a foundational tool in modern science. As our ability to sequence and interpret genomes improves, so will our understanding of these tiny&mdash;but mighty&mdash;variations in DNA.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Abhi</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2021 15:37:49 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43112/calling-variants-in-non-diploid-systems</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Calling variants in non-diploid systems]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>The main challenge associated with non-diploid variant calling is the difficulty in distinguishing between the sequencing noise (abundant in all NGS platforms) and true low frequency variants. Some of the early attempts to do this well have been accomplished on human mitochondrial&nbsp;</span><span>DNA</span><span>&nbsp;although the same approaches will work equally good on viral and bacterial genomes (</span><a href="https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/variant-analysis/tutorials/non-dip/tutorial.html#Rebolledo-Jaramillo2014">Rebolledo-Jaramillo&nbsp;<em>et al.</em>&nbsp;2014</a><span>,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/variant-analysis/tutorials/non-dip/tutorial.html#Li2015">Li&nbsp;<em>et al.</em>&nbsp;2015</a><span>).</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/variant-analysis/tutorials/non-dip/tutorial.html" rel="nofollow">https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/variant-analysis/tutorials/non-dip/tutorial.html</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Neel</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/36373/tools-to-predict-the-impact-of-missense-variants</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:57:33 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/36373/tools-to-predict-the-impact-of-missense-variants</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Tools to Predict the Impact of Missense Variants !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Prioritizing missense variants for further experimental investigation is a key challenge in current sequencing studies for exploring complex and Mendelian diseases. A large number of&nbsp;</span><em>in silico</em><span>&nbsp;tools have been employed for the task of pathogenicity prediction, including PolyPhen‐2, SIFT, FatHMM, MutationTaster‐2, MutationAssessor, Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion, LRT, phyloP, and GERP++, as well as optimized methods of combining tool scores, such as Condel and Logit. Due to the wealth of these methods, an important practical question to answer is which of these tools generalize best, that is, correctly predict the pathogenic character of new variants. </span></p><p><span>Study of 10 tools on five datasets that such a comparative evaluation of these tools is hindered by two types of circularity: they arise due to (1) the same variants or (2) different variants from the same protein occurring both in the datasets used for training and for evaluation of these tools, which may lead to overly optimistic results. Comparative evaluations of predictors that do not address these types of circularity may erroneously conclude that circularity confounded tools are most accurate among all tools, and may even outperform optimized combinations of tools.</span></p><p><span>Following tools are useful for mis sense muation detection ...&nbsp;</span></p><p>PolyPhen‐2 (PP2)<br />&ldquo;Predicts possible impact of an amino acid substitution on the structure and function of a human protein using straightforward physical and comparative considerations&rdquo;</p><p>MutationTaster‐2 (MT2)<br />&ldquo;Evaluation of the disease‐causing potential of DNA sequence alterations&rdquo;</p><p>MutationAssessor (MASS)<br />&ldquo;Predicts the functional impact of amino acid substitutions in proteins, such as mutations discovered in cancer or missense polymorphisms&rdquo;</p><p>LRT<br />&ldquo;Identify a subset of deleterious mutations that disrupt highly conserved amino acids within protein‐coding sequences, which are likely to be unconditionally deleterious&rdquo;</p><p>SIFT<br />&ldquo;Predicts whether an amino acid substitution affects protein function&rdquo;</p><p>GERP++<br />&ldquo;Identifies constrained elements in multiple alignments by quantifying substitution deficits. These deficits represent substitutions that would have occurred if the element were neutral DNA, but did not occur because the element has been under functional constraint. We refer to these deficits as &ldquo;rejected substitutions.&rdquo; Rejected substitutions are a natural measure of constraint that reflects the strength of past purifying selection on the element&rdquo;</p><p>phyloP<br />&ldquo;Compute conservation or acceleration P values based on an alignment and a model of neutral evolution&rdquo;</p><p>FatHMM unweighted (FatHMM‐U)<br />Predicts &ldquo;functional consequences of both coding variants, that is, nonsynonymous single‐nucleotide variants, and noncoding variants&rdquo;</p><p>FatHMM weighted (FatHMM‐W)<br />Predicts &ldquo;functional consequences of both coding variants, that is, nonsynonymous single‐nucleotide variants, and noncoding variants&rdquo; and its weighting scheme attributes higher tolerance scores to SNVs in proteins, related proteins, or domains that already include a high fraction of pathogenic variantsh</p><p>Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion (CADD)<br />&ldquo;CADD is a tool for scoring the deleteriousness of single‐nucleotide variants as well as insertion/deletions variants in the human genome&rdquo;</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2015 12:47:34 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/23253/resolving-the-complexity-of-the-human-genome-using-single-molecule-sequencing</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Resolving the complexity of the human genome using single-molecule sequencing]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>The human genome is arguably the most complete mammalian reference assembly yet more than 160 euchromatic gaps remain and aspects of its structural variation remain poorly understood ten years after its completion. The results in this paper https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/team-uses-single-molecule-sequencing-close-gaps-chart-complexity-human-reference suggest a greater complexity of the human genome in the form of variation of longer and more complex repetitive DNA that can now be largely resolved with the application of this longer-read sequencing technology.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v517/n7536/full/nature13907.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v517/n7536/full/nature13907.html</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Agarwal</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2019 07:23:37 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/39236/causel-an-epigenome-and-genome-editing-pipeline-for-establishing-function-of-noncoding-gwas-variants</link>
	<title><![CDATA[CAUSEL: an epigenome- and genome-editing pipeline for establishing function of noncoding GWAS variants]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Validated a widely accessible approach that can be used to establish functional causality for noncoding sequence variants identified by GWASs.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3975">https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3975</a></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3975" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3975</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioJoker</dc:creator>
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