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Tigers genome sequenced

Rahul Agarwal — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:48:24 -0500

Fifteen scientists led by Dr Jong Bhak of Genome Research Foundation, South Korea, decoded as many as 3 billion nucleotides (organic molecules that form the basic building blocks of nucleic acids, such as DNA). They identified 20,000 genes related to various functions of the tiger.

The biggest and perhaps most fearsome of the world's big cats, the tiger, shares 95.6 percent of its DNA with humans' cute and furry companions, domestic cats.

The new research showed that big cats have genetic mutations that enabled them to be carnivores. The team also identified mutations that allow snow leopards to thrive at high altitudes.

Reference:

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/your-cat-ferocious-tigers-share-lot-95-6-percent-their-4B11182690

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Gene-mapping-of-tiger-completed/articleshow/22671681.cms

Paper:

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130917/ncomms3433/full/ncomms3433.html

Opera: An optimal genome scaffolding program

Jit — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:18:20 -0600

Opera (Optimal Paired-End Read Assembler) is a sequence assembly program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_assembly ). It uses information from paired-end or long reads to optimally order and orient contigs assembled from shotgun-sequencing reads.

An updated version called OPERA-LG has been re-engineered with features for the assembly of large and complex genomes.

Song Gao, Denis Bertrand, Burton K. H. Chia and Niranjan Nagarajan. OPERA-LG: efficient and exact scaffolding of large, repeat-rich eukaryotic genomes with performance guarantees. Genome Biology, May 2016, doi: 10.1186/s13059-016-0951-y.

Song Gao, Wing-Kin Sung, Niranjan Nagarajan. Opera: reconstructing optimal genomic scaffolds with high-throughput paired-end sequences. Journal of Computational Biology, Sept. 2011, doi:10.1089/cmb.2011.0170.

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-0951-y

Address of the bookmark: https://sourceforge.net/projects/operasf/

jobTree based python wrapper to run the genome simulation tool suite Evolver

Jit — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:26:32 -0600

evolverSimControl (eSC) can be used to simulate multi-chromosome genome evolution on an arbitrary phylogeny (Newick format). In addition to simply running evolver, eSC 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 (.maf) from leaf and branch nodes from a completed simulation and with the help of mafJoin, join them together into a single maf covering the entire simulation.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/dentearl/evolverSimControl

Magic-BLAST: a tool for mapping large next-generation RNA or DNA sequencing runs against a whole genome or transcriptome.

Jit — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 22:23:39 -0600

Magic-BLAST is a tool for mapping large next-generation RNA or DNA sequencing runs against a whole genome or transcriptome. Each alignment optimizes a composite score, taking into account simultaneously the two reads of a pair, and in case of RNA-seq, locating the candidate introns and adding up the score of all exons. This is very different from other versions of BLAST, where each exon is scored as a separate hit and read-pairing is ignored.

Magic-BLAST incorporates within the NCBI BLAST code framework ideas developed in the NCBI Magic pipeline, in particular hit extensions by local walk and jump (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26109056), and recursive clipping of mismatches near the edges of the reads, which avoids accumulating artefactual mismatches near splice sites and is needed to distinguish short indels from substitutions near the edges.

Address of the bookmark: https://ncbi.github.io/magicblast/

Carefully opt for human reference genome

biogeek — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 07:43:32 -0600

Heng Li posted several issues with the human reference genomes given in these resources and suggests the following compressed FASTA file to be used as hg38/GRCh38 human reference genome.

if you map reads to GRCh38 or hg38, use the following:

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCA/000/001/405/GCA_000001405.15_GRCh38/seqs_for_alignment_pipelines.ucsc_ids/GCA_000001405.15_GRCh38_no_alt_analysis_set.fna.gz

There are several other versions of GRCh37/GRCh38. What’s wrong with them? Here are a collection of potential issues:

More at http://lh3.github.io/2017/11/13/which-human-reference-genome-to-use

Address of the bookmark: http://lh3.github.io/2017/11/13/which-human-reference-genome-to-use

Circlator: automated circularization of genome assemblies using long sequencing reads

Poonam Mahapatra — Tue, 15 May 2018 09:42:32 -0500

A tool to circularize genome assemblies. The algorithm and benchmarks are described in the Genome Biology manuscript. Citation: "Circlator: automated circularization of genome assemblies using long sequencing reads", Hunt et al, Genome Biology 2015 Dec 29;16(1):294. doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0849-0. PMID: 26714481.

Address of the bookmark: http://sanger-pathogens.github.io/circlator/

Download blasr 1.3 version

Jit — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 03:01:20 -0500

DOWNLOAD LINK: https://github.com/BioInf-Wuerzburg/proovread/raw/master/util/blasr-1.3.1/blasr

I'm running "OPERA-LG_v2.0.5/bin/preprocess_reads.pl" and have the following error:

fail to open file './temporarySam'

[bwa_aln_core] write to the disk... 0.09 sec
[bwa_aln_core] 70778880 sequences have been processed.
[bwa_aln_core] calculate SA coordinate... 161.35 sec
[bwa_aln_core] write to the disk... 0.06 sec
[bwa_aln_core] 70989574 sequences have been processed.
[main] Version: 0.7.15-r1140
[main] CMD: bwa aln -t 30 all_p_ctg.fa -
[main] Real time: 2402.523 sec; CPU: 53429.488 sec
[E::hts_open_format] Failed to open file temporarySam
samtools sort: can't open "temporarySam": No such file or directory
[bwa_aln_core] convert to sequence coordinate... 1.00 sec
[bwa_aln_core] refine gapped alignments... 6.07 sec
[bwa_aln_core] print alignments... PREPROCESS:
Fastq format is recognized
[Thu Jun 14 18:16:47 2018] Building bwa index...
bwa index -p all_p_ctg.fa /home/urbe/Tools/OPERA-LG_v2.0.6/all_p_ctg.fa
[Thu Jun 14 18:18:35 2018] Finding the SA coordinates of the reads using BWA aln...
[Thu Jun 14 18:58:37 2018] Generate alignments of reads using bwa sampe...
bwa samse -n 1 all_p_ctg.fa read.sai - | grep '\(^@\|XT:A:U\)' | /usr/local/bin/samtools view -S -h -b -F 0x4 - | /usr/local/bin/samtools sort -@ 20 -no - temporarySam > FALCON-Unzip-Scaff.bam
Mapping long-reads using blasr...
/home/urbe/Tools/SSpace/SSPACE-LongRead_v1-1/blasr -nproc 40 -m 1 -minMatch 5 -bestn 10 -noSplitSubreads -advanceExactMatches 1 -nCandidates 1 -maxAnchorsPerPosition 1 -sdpTupleSize 7 /media/urbe/MyDDrive/ONTdata/allONT/allONT.fasta /home/urbe/Tools/OPERA-LG_v2.0.6/all_p_ctg.fa | cut -d ' ' -f1-5,7-12 | sed 's/ /\t/g' > FALCON-Unzip-Scaff.map
sh: 1: /home/urbe/Tools/SSpace/SSPACE-LongRead_v1-1/blasr: Permission denied
Sorting mapping results...
sort -k1,1 -k9,9g FALCON-Unzip-Scaff.map > FALCON-Unzip-Scaff.map.sort
Analyzing sorted results...
Extracting linking information...
i3 2000 5000
i2 1000 2000
i4 5000 15000
i0 -200 300
i5 15000 40000
i1 300 1000
Repeat detection...
/home/urbe/Tools/OPERA-LG_v2.0.6/bin//filter_conflicting_edge.pl pairedEdges_i0 contig_length.dat 100 2
Illegal division by zero at /home/urbe/Tools/OPERA-LG_v2.0.6/bin//filter_conflicting_edge.pl line 93.
readline() on closed filehandle FILE at bin/OPERA-long-read.pl line 250.
rm anchor_contig_info.dat contig_length.dat filtered_edges.dat filtered_edges_cov.dat *.sai
rm: cannot remove 'anchor_contig_info.dat': No such file or directory
mv FALCON-Unzip-Scaff.bam FALCON-Unzip-Scaff-with-repeat.bam
/home/urbe/Tools/OPERA-LG_v2.0.6/bin//filter_repeat.pl FALCON-Unzip-Scaff-with-repeat.bam repeat.dat | /usr/local/bin/samtools view - -h -S -b > FALCON-Unzip-Scaff.bam
rm FALCON-Unzip-Scaff-with-repeat.bam
/home/urbe/Tools/OPERA-LG_v2.0.6/bin/OPERA-LG config > log
Analyzing 1 library: FALCON-Unzip-Scaff.bam
min library mean : 0
minimum contig length is 500
Current library: 1 out of 7
Analyzing file: pairedEdges_no_repeat_i0
Analyzing file: pairedEdges_no_repeat_i1
Analyzing file: pairedEdges_no_repeat_i2
Analyzing file: pairedEdges_no_repeat_i3
Analyzing file: pairedEdges_no_repeat_i4
Analyzing file: pairedEdges_no_repeat_i5
ln -s results/scaffoldSeq.fasta scaffoldSeq.fasta

To resolve this, try downloading blasr version 1.3 above and re-run :)

P_RNA_scaffolder: a fast and accurate genome scaffolder using paired-end RNA-sequencing reads

BioStar — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 05:19:06 -0500

P_RNA_scaffolder is a novel scaffolding tool using Pair-end RNA-seq to scaffold genome fragments. The method is suitable for most genomes. The program could utilize Illumina Paired-end RNA-sequencing reads from target speciesies. Our method provides another practical alternative to existing mate-pair_based approaches or other Protein-based approaches (for instance, PEP_scaffolder ) for scaffolding genome sequences. The most important feature of this method is to improve the completeness of gene regions and long-coding gene regions (for instance, circRNA).

Address of the bookmark: http://www.fishbrowser.org/software/P_RNA_scaffolder/#

Synima: a Synteny imaging tool for annotated genome assemblies

Abhimanyu Singh — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:49:13 -0500

Synima written in Perl, which uses the graphical features of R. Synima takes orthologues computed from reciprocal best BLAST hits or OrthoMCL, and DAGchainer, and outputs an overview of genome-wide synteny in PDF. Each of these programs are included with the Synima package, and a pipeline for their use. Synima has a range of graphical parameters including size, colours, order, and labels, which are specified in a config file generated by the first run of Synima – and can be subsequently edited. Synima runs quickly on a command line to generate informative and publication quality figures. Synima is open source and freely available from https://github.com/rhysf/Synima under the MIT License.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/rhysf/Synima

ANItools web: a web tool for fast genome comparison within multiple bacterial strains

Jit — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 04:34:23 -0600

ANItools is a software package written by PERL scripts that can be run in a Linux/Unix system. If you want to compare bacterial genomes and calculate their average nucleotide identity (ANI), you could download and run this program directly. Or you could send us the genome sequence by email. Then we will do the analysis work for you.

https://academic.oup.com/database/article/doi/10.1093/database/baw084/2630454

Address of the bookmark: http://ani.mypathogen.cn/