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BINC 2016

Jit — Wed, 11 May 2016 07:15:03 -0500

Bioinformatics National Certification (BINC) Examination 2016

Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi & Pondicherry University, Puducherry

Starting of online submission of application : April 13, 2016

Last date for submission of application : May 13, 2016

Examination consists of two parts:

Part - I (Paper - I) : June 12, 2016 (10 AM -12 PM)
Part - II (Paper • II & III) : June 26, 2016 (9 AM • 12 PM & 2 PM • 4 PM)

Objective: Pondicherry University, on behalf of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT),
Government of India, will conduct the Bioinformatics National Certification (BING) examination. The objective of this examination is to identify Bioinformatics professionals
for further studies as well as to help potential employers in recruitment of candidates having exceptionally good Bioinformatics skills.

Eligibility : Bachelor degree in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Agriculture, Veterinary, Medicine, Pharmacy, Engineering and Technology are eligible to appear for the examination. They need not have any formal training, diploma or certificate in Bioinformatics.

Application and syllabus : The online application can be filled from April 13, 2016 to May 13, 2016.

Syllabus for the examination is available online.

It consists of five sections:
Bioinformatics, Biology, Physical and Chemical Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics and Computer Science & Information Technology.

Examination : The examination fee is Rs. 600/- for general candidates, Rs. 400/- for women/OBC candidates and Rs. 200 for SC/ST candidates, and no fee for physically challenged candidates.

The online Part - I (Paper - I) examination is scheduled on June 12,2016 and Part- II (Paper - II and Paper- III) on June 26, 2016. The Paper- I will be of objective type and candidates scoring a minimum of 40% marks in Paper - I will be called to appear in Part II examination.

Part II examination consists of two papers : The Paper - II will be of short answer type questions of three hours duration while the Paper- III will be a practical examination of two hours duration to test analytical ability and programming skill of candidates.

Research Fellowships for all the successful candidates those who are interested and qualified in pursuing Ph.D. in India will be awarded. In addition, cash prizes will be awarded to the top 10 successful candidates.

The details of examination centres, other details and submission of application, please
visit: http://www.pondiuni.edu.in/exams/binc/

Do you think it's important for everyone to pass BINC exam?

Jit — Wed, 11 May 2016 07:25:34 -0500

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India has instituted BINC examination with the objective of evaluating the Bioinformatics knowledge & skills of students. Do you think it is important ?

Sample BINC question paper 2016 - part1

Radha Agarkar — Fri, 13 May 2016 03:41:48 -0500

Please download the sample bioinformatics question paper for BINC 2016

Platanus

Jit — Fri, 13 May 2016 05:12:40 -0500

Platanus is a novel de novo sequence assembler that can reconstruct genomic sequences of
highly heterozygous diploids from massively parallel shotgun sequencing data.

The latest version is 1.2.4.

To cite Platanus, please use the following:

Kajitani R, Toshimoto K, Noguchi H, Toyoda A, Ogura Y, Okuno M, Yabana M, Harada M, Nagayasu E, Maruyama H, Kohara Y, Fujiyama A, Hayashi T, Itoh T, “Efficient de novo assembly of highly heterozygous genomes from whole-genome shotgun short reads”. Genome Res. 2014 Aug;24(8):1384-95. doi: 10.1101/gr.170720.113. [abstract | full text]

Address of the bookmark: http://platanus.bio.titech.ac.jp/

Navin Lab

Wed, 18 May 2016 16:40:14 -0500

NAvin laboratory has pioneered the development of single cell sequencing technologies. They apply these tools to study complex biological processes that occur in human cancers including tumor initation, clonal evolution, invasion, metastasis and chemoresistance. These processes have previously been difficult to study with genomic technologies using bulk tissues

More at http://www.navinlab.com/navinlab/home.html

MOSAIK: A Hash-Based Algorithm for Accurate Next-Generation Sequencing Short-Read Mapping

Neel — Fri, 20 May 2016 18:53:49 -0500

MOSAIK is a stable, sensitive and open-source program for mapping second and third-generation sequencing reads to a reference genome. Uniquely among current mapping tools, MOSAIK can align reads generated by all the major sequencing technologies, including Illumina, Applied Biosystems SOLiD, Roche 454, Ion Torrent and Pacific BioSciences SMRT. Indeed, MOSAIK was the only aligner to provide consistent mappings for all the generated data (sequencing technologies, low-coverage and exome) in the 1000 Genomes Project. To provide highly accurate alignments, MOSAIK employs a hash clustering strategy coupled with the Smith-Waterman algorithm. This method is well-suited to capture mismatches as well as short insertions and deletions. To support the growing interest in larger structural variant (SV) discovery, MOSAIK provides explicit support for handling known-sequence SVs, e.g. mobile element insertions (MEIs) as well as generating outputs tailored to aid in SV discovery.

Address of the bookmark: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0090581

Senior Project Fellow Bioinformatics at NBRI

Sat, 21 May 2016 21:01:05 -0500

Walk In Interview No. 03/Project/2016
Senior Project Fellow Bioinformatics Job vacancies in CSIR- National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow
Area III: Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
Qualification : 1st Class M.Sc. in Bioinformatics/Biotechnology/ Life Science /Biochemistry/Botany with 2 years research experience and at least one publication in SCI Journal or 1st class M.Tech in Bioinformatics
Age : 32 years
Salary : Rs.18000
How to apply
Date & Venue of Interview For Area III: 27-05-2016 at 11.00 A.M. at Conference Room, T.N. Khushoo Block, NBRI, Lucknow.

http://www.nbri.res.in/temp.php

Cytoscape

Anjana — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:00 -0500

Cytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of attribute data. A lot of Apps are available for various kinds of problem domains, including bioinformatics, social network analysis, and semantic web.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.cytoscape.org/

RA at UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD

Sun, 29 May 2016 11:50:37 -0500

UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD

School of Life Sciences

Department of Animal Biology

Applications are invited on a plane paper (along with copies of educational qualifications and experience) from eligible candidates for the selection of following position to work under a collaborative research project entitled “Development and application of high resolution genome conformation capture technology to investigate genome architecture in space and time” between University of Hyderabad and CR Rao advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences, sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi

Name and No. of positions JRF‐ONE

Emoluments for the position Rs. 25,000/p.m. + Eligible HRA

Qualifications MSc or M.Tech in any branch of biology/bioinformatics/computational biology/computer sciences/Mathematics/Physics

Duration Appointments are made initially for ONE year and can be extended further TWO years or until the duration of project

Our laboratory is interested in understanding signalling and spatiotemporal dynamics of 3‐Dimensional genome architecture and gene expression during embryonic stem cell differentiation by utilizing a combination of cellular, molecular genetics, Biochemical and computational tools in combination with next generation sequencing based chromatin structure analysing methods. Successful candidates shall pursue project related to either experimental or computational analysis of genome and Epigenomics data derived from human and mouse cells. Experience in Computational biology, bioinformatics, statistics, machine learning and algorithmic development is required. Knowledge of programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Perl, Python, Ruby etc.) and statistical framework (e.g. R, matlab, etc.) is preferable. Basic understanding of molecular biology will be an added advantage.

Interested candidates with the above mentioned qualification can send their curriculum vitae to Dr. K. Sreenivasulu, Department of Animal Biology, School of Life Sciences, South campus, University of Hyderabad or via email at positionssklab@gmail.com or svksl@uohyd.ernet.in.

Candidates with CSIR/UGC/ICMR/DBT/BINC qualifications if interested in above mentioned area of research are welcomed to approch principal investigator for a position leading to PhD. Last date for submission of applications is 17/06/2016. Eligible candidates will be called for an interview and they should carry all original certificates of the qualifying exam. No TA/ DA will be paid for attending the interview or at the time of joining the post.

Advertisement: http://www.uohyd.ac.in/images/recruitment/jrf_260516.pdf

HistoneDB 2.0 – with variants

Anjana — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 05:06:20 -0500

This histone database can be used to explore the diversity of histone proteins and their sequence variants in many organisms. The resource was established to better understand how sequence variation may affect functional and structural features of nucleosomes. To get started, select a histone type to explore its variants.

More at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/HistoneDB2.0/index.fcgi/browse/

Address of the bookmark: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/HistoneDB2.0/index.fcgi/browse/