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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44557/fundamentals-of-data-visualization-by-claus-o-wilke</guid>
	<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:07:19 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44557/fundamentals-of-data-visualization-by-claus-o-wilke</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Fundamentals of Data Visualization by Claus O. Wilke]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span><span>The book is meant as a guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional. It has grown out of my experience of working with students and postdocs in my laboratory on thousands of data visualizations. Over the years, I have noticed that the same issues arise over and over. I have attempted to collect my accumulated knowledge from these interactions in the form of this book.</span></span></p>
<p><span>The entire book is written in R Markdown, using RStudio as my text editor and the&nbsp;</span><span>bookdown</span><span>&nbsp;package to turn a collection of markdown documents into a coherent whole. The book&rsquo;s source code is hosted on GitHub, at&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/clauswilke/dataviz">https://github.com/clauswilke/dataviz</a><span>.&nbsp;</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/" rel="nofollow">https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Abhi</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/45253/brava-browser</guid>
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:32:19 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/45253/brava-browser</link>
	<title><![CDATA[BRaVa Browser]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>BRaVa Browser is an interactive web tool for exploring rare genetic variant associations. It allows users to search and visualize rare variant association results across genes and traits, making it easier to investigate potential relationships between genetic variation and disease or other phenotypes.</p>
<p>More at&nbsp;https://nikbaya.github.io/brava_browser/#/</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://nikbaya.github.io/brava_browser/#/" rel="nofollow">https://nikbaya.github.io/brava_browser/#/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jitendra Narayan</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/31714/krona</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2017 04:47:35 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/31714/krona</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Krona]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Krona allows hierarchical data to be explored with zooming, multi-layered pie charts. Krona charts can be created using an <a href="https://github.com/marbl/Krona/wiki/ExcelTemplate">Excel template</a> or <a href="https://github.com/marbl/Krona/wiki/KronaTools">KronaTools</a>, which includes support for several bioinformatics tools and raw data formats. The interactive charts are self-contained and can be viewed with any modern web browser (see <a href="https://github.com/marbl/Krona/wiki/Browser%20support">Browser support</a>).</p>
<p><a href="http://marbl.github.io/Krona/img/screen_mgrast.png"><img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/27b71b1f1832523723c3d14dec764e7ad098438c/687474703a2f2f6d6172626c2e6769746875622e696f2f4b726f6e612f696d672f7468756d625f6d67726173742e706e67" width="210" height="167" alt="image" style="border: 0px;"></a></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/marbl/Krona/wiki" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/marbl/Krona/wiki</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/40713/glia-a-graphsmith-waterman-partial-order-alignerrealigner</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 04:02:58 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/40713/glia-a-graphsmith-waterman-partial-order-alignerrealigner</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Glia: a Graph/Smith-Waterman (partial order) aligner/realigner]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>glia's main use is as a local realigner. It will realign reads to a set of known (or putative) variants in a VCF, both consuming and producing an ordered stream of BAM alignments.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span>More at&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/ekg/glia">https://github.com/ekg/glia</a></span></p>
<pre><code>glia -f ~/human_g1k_v37.fasta -t 20:62900077-62902077 -v variants.vcf.gz \
     -s AAATGTAAACATTTTATAGGGGATTCCCCTAAAAACAAAAAAACTTTCTGGGAAAGATTTTTCAAAAAATAAAA</code></pre><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/ekg/glia" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ekg/glia</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/40711/vg-variation-graph-data-structures-interchange-formats-alignment-genotyping-and-variant-calling-methods</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:53:24 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/40711/vg-variation-graph-data-structures-interchange-formats-alignment-genotyping-and-variant-calling-methods</link>
	<title><![CDATA[VG: variation graph data structures, interchange formats, alignment, genotyping, and variant calling methods]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Variation graphs</em>&nbsp;provide a succinct encoding of the sequences of many genomes. A variation graph (in particular as implemented in vg) is composed of:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>nodes</em>, which are labeled by sequences and ids</li>
<li><em>edges</em>, which connect two nodes via either of their respective ends</li>
<li><em>paths</em>, describe genomes, sequence alignments, and annotations (such as gene models and transcripts) as walks through nodes connected by edges</li>
</ul><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/vgteam/vg" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vgteam/vg</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44887/alfapang-alignment-free-algorithm-for-pangenome-graph-construction</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:56:35 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44887/alfapang-alignment-free-algorithm-for-pangenome-graph-construction</link>
	<title><![CDATA[AlfaPang: alignment free algorithm for pangenome graph construction]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>AlfaPang constructs variation graphs, leveraging its alignment-free and reference-free approach, based solely on intrinsic sequence properties. This design allows AlfaPang's runtime and memory usage to scale linearly with the size of input sequences, enabling it to handle significantly larger genome sets compared to other methods.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/AdamCicherski/AlfaPang" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AdamCicherski/AlfaPang</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36950/salsa-a-tool-to-scaffold-long-read-assemblies-with-hi-c</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2018 04:01:15 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/36950/salsa-a-tool-to-scaffold-long-read-assemblies-with-hi-c</link>
	<title><![CDATA[SALSA: A tool to scaffold long read assemblies with Hi-C]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[This code is used to scaffold your assemblies using Hi-C data. This version implements some improvements in the original SALSA algorithm. If you want to use the old version, it can be found in the old_salsa branch.

To use the latest version, first run the following commands:

  cd SALSA
  make
To run the code, you will need Python 2.7, BOOST libraries and Networkx(version lower than 1.2).

If you consider using this tool, please cite our publication which describes the methods used for scaffolding.

Ghurye, J., Pop, M., Koren, S., Bickhart, D., &amp; Chin, C. S. (2017). Scaffolding of long read assemblies using long range contact information. BMC genomics, 18(1), 527. Link

Ghurye, J., Rhie, A., Walenz, B.P., Schmitt, A., Selvaraj, S., Pop, M., Phillippy, A.M. and Koren, S., 2018. Integrating Hi-C links with assembly graphs for chromosome-scale assembly. bioRxiv, p.261149 Link

For any queries, please either ask on github issue page or send an email to Jay Ghurye (jayg@cs.umd.edu).<p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/machinegun/SALSA" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/machinegun/SALSA</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34246/unicycler-hybrid-assembly-pipeline-for-bacterial-genomes</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 03:58:27 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34246/unicycler-hybrid-assembly-pipeline-for-bacterial-genomes</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Unicycler: Hybrid assembly pipeline for bacterial genomes]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Unicycler is an assembly pipeline for bacterial genomes. It can assemble&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.illumina.com/">Illumina</a><span>-only read sets where it functions as a&nbsp;</span><a href="http://cab.spbu.ru/software/spades/">SPAdes</a><span>-optimiser. It can also assembly long-read-only sets (</span><a href="http://www.pacb.com/">PacBio</a><span>&nbsp;or&nbsp;</span><a href="https://nanoporetech.com/">Nanopore</a><span>) where it runs a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/lh3/miniasm">miniasm</a><span>+</span><a href="https://github.com/isovic/racon">Racon</a><span>&nbsp;pipeline. For the best possible assemblies, give it both Illumina reads&nbsp;</span><em>and</em><span>&nbsp;long reads, and it will conduct a hybrid assembly.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/rrwick/Unicycler" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rrwick/Unicycler</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/34418/spades-hybrid-genome-assembly</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:05:40 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/34418/spades-hybrid-genome-assembly</link>
	<title><![CDATA[SPAdes hybrid genome assembly]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>When you have both Illumina and Nanopore data, then SPAdes remains a good option for hybrid assembly - SPAdes was used to produce the&nbsp;<a href="https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13742-015-0101-6">B fragilis assembly</a>&nbsp;by Mick Watson&rsquo;s group.</p><p>Again, running spades.py will show you the options:</p><div><pre><code>spades.py
</code></pre></div><p>This produces:</p><div><pre><code>SPAdes genome assembler v3.10.1

Usage: /usr/local/SPAdes-3.10.1-Linux/bin/spades.py [options] -o &lt;output_dir&gt;

Basic options:
-o      &lt;output_dir&gt;    directory to store all the resulting files (required)
--sc                    this flag is required for MDA (single-cell) data
--meta                  this flag is required for metagenomic sample data
--rna                   this flag is required for RNA-Seq data
--plasmid               runs plasmidSPAdes pipeline for plasmid detection
--iontorrent            this flag is required for IonTorrent data
--test                  runs SPAdes on toy dataset
-h/--help               prints this usage message
-v/--version            prints version

Input data:
--12    &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced forward and reverse paired-end reads
-1      &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward paired-end reads
-2      &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse paired-end reads
-s      &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads
--pe&lt;#&gt;-12      &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-1       &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-2       &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-s       &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--pe&lt;#&gt;-&lt;or&gt;    orientation of reads for paired-end library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9; &lt;or&gt; = fr, rf, ff)
--s&lt;#&gt;          &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for single reads library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-12      &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-1       &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-2       &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-s       &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--mp&lt;#&gt;-&lt;or&gt;    orientation of reads for mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9; &lt;or&gt; = fr, rf, ff)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-12    &lt;filename&gt;      file with interlaced reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-1     &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-2     &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-s     &lt;filename&gt;      file with unpaired reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--hqmp&lt;#&gt;-&lt;or&gt;  orientation of reads for high-quality mate-pair library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9; &lt;or&gt; = fr, rf, ff)
--nxmate&lt;#&gt;-1   &lt;filename&gt;      file with forward reads for Lucigen NxMate library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--nxmate&lt;#&gt;-2   &lt;filename&gt;      file with reverse reads for Lucigen NxMate library number &lt;#&gt; (&lt;#&gt; = 1,2,..,9)
--sanger        &lt;filename&gt;      file with Sanger reads
--pacbio        &lt;filename&gt;      file with PacBio reads
--nanopore      &lt;filename&gt;      file with Nanopore reads
--tslr  &lt;filename&gt;      file with TSLR-contigs
--trusted-contigs       &lt;filename&gt;      file with trusted contigs
--untrusted-contigs     &lt;filename&gt;      file with untrusted contigs

Pipeline options:
--only-error-correction runs only read error correction (without assembling)
--only-assembler        runs only assembling (without read error correction)
--careful               tries to reduce number of mismatches and short indels
--continue              continue run from the last available check-point
--restart-from  &lt;cp&gt;    restart run with updated options and from the specified check-point ('ec', 'as', 'k&lt;int&gt;', 'mc')
--disable-gzip-output   forces error correction not to compress the corrected reads
--disable-rr            disables repeat resolution stage of assembling

Advanced options:
--dataset       &lt;filename&gt;      file with dataset description in YAML format
-t/--threads    &lt;int&gt;           number of threads
                                [default: 16]
-m/--memory     &lt;int&gt;           RAM limit for SPAdes in Gb (terminates if exceeded)
                                [default: 250]
--tmp-dir       &lt;dirname&gt;       directory for temporary files
                                [default: &lt;output_dir&gt;/tmp]
-k              &lt;int,int,...&gt;   comma-separated list of k-mer sizes (must be odd and
                                less than 128) [default: 'auto']
--cov-cutoff    &lt;float&gt;         coverage cutoff value (a positive float number, or 'auto', or 'off') [default: 'off']
--phred-offset  &lt;33 or 64&gt;      PHRED quality offset in the input reads (33 or 64)
                                [default: auto-detect]
</code></pre></div><p>As you can see this is also a &ldquo;pipeline&rdquo; of tools that can be switched on or off. SPAdes takes quite a long time, so for the purposes of this practical, something like this may suffice:</p><div><pre><code>spades.py -t 4 <span>\</span>
          -m 32 <span>\</span>
          -k 31,51,71 <span>\</span>
          --only-assembler <span>\</span>
          -1 miseq.1.fastq -2 miseq.2.fastq <span>\</span>
          --nanopore minion.fastq <span>\</span>
          -o hybrid_assembly
</code></pre></div><p>In turn, these parameters mean</p><ul>
<li>use 4 threads</li>
<li>max memory is 32Gb</li>
<li>use 3 kmer values to build the de bruijn graph(s) - 31, 51 and 71</li>
<li>only run the assembler, not the correction algorithm (for speed)</li>
<li>read 1 and read 2 of the MiSeq data</li>
<li>the nanopore data</li>
<li>put the output in folder &ldquo;hybrid_assembly&rdquo;</li>
</ul>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/35762/genome-assembly-stats-plotting</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 03:45:39 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/35762/genome-assembly-stats-plotting</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Genome assembly stats plotting]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>A&nbsp;<em>de novo</em>&nbsp;genome assembly can be summarised b</p>
<p>y a number of metrics, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Overall assembly length</li>
<li>Number of scaffolds/contigs</li>
<li>Length of longest scaffold/contig</li>
<li>Scaffold/contig N50 and N90Assembly base composition, in particular percentage GC and percentage Ns</li>
<li>CEGMA completeness</li>
<li>Scaffold/contig length/count distribution</li>
</ul>
<p>assembly-stats supports two widely used presentations of these values, tabular and cumulative length plots, and introduces an additional circular plot that summarises most commonly used assembly metrics in a single visualisation. Each of these presentations is generated using javascript from a common (JSON) data structure, allowing toggling between alternative views, and each can be applied to a single or multiple assemblies to allow direct comparison of alternate assemblies.</p>
<p>Tabular presentation allows direct comparison of exact values between assemblies, the limitations of this approach lie in the necessary omission of distributions and the challenge of interpreting ratios of values that may vary by several orders of magnitude.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/rjchallis/assembly-stats" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rjchallis/assembly-stats</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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