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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44503/entire-human-genome-sequencing</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 01:19:29 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44503/entire-human-genome-sequencing</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Entire Human Genome Sequencing !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Cost-effective whole human genome sequencing has revolutionized the landscape of genetic research and personalized medicine by making comprehensive genetic analysis accessible to a wider population. Through advancements in sequencing technologies, such as next-generation sequencing (NGS), costs have significantly decreased, enabling researchers and healthcare providers to analyze an individual's complete genetic makeup with greater efficiency and affordability. This has profound implications for disease diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, as it allows for the identification of genetic predispositions and the customization of healthcare interventions based on an individual's unique genetic profile. Moreover, as the cost continues to decline, the potential for population-scale genomic studies and large-scale screening programs becomes increasingly feasible, promising to further enhance our understanding of human genetics and improve healthcare outcomes on a global scale.</p><p>Here are few companies:</p><p>https://mynucleus.com/</p><p>https://myome.com/</p><p>https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/</p>]]></description>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44775/genomic-architecture-surrounding-the-fusion-site-of-human-chromosome-2</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:26:29 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44775/genomic-architecture-surrounding-the-fusion-site-of-human-chromosome-2</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Genomic architecture surrounding the fusion site of human chromosome 2]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>The article <strong>"Genomic Structure and Evolution of the Ancestral Chromosome Fusion Site in 2q13&ndash;2q14.1 and Paralogous Regions on Other Human Chromosomes (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC187548/)"</strong> explores the genomic architecture surrounding the fusion site of human chromosome 2. This fusion event is a key evolutionary marker distinguishing humans from other great apes, as humans have 46 chromosomes while chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans possess 48. The fusion occurred through an end-to-end joining of two ancestral chromosomes, which remain separate in nonhuman primates.</p><h3><strong>Key Findings:</strong></h3><ol>
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<p><strong>Chromosomal Fusion and Its Molecular Signature:</strong></p>
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<li>The fusion site is located at <strong>2q13&ndash;2q14.1</strong> and is characterized by <strong>degenerate telomeric sequences</strong> appearing interstitially, indicating the historical head-to-head joining of ancestral chromosomes.</li>
<li>Despite being a signature of a past fusion event, these telomeric repeats are no longer functional and have undergone sequence degradation over time.</li>
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<p><strong>Extensive Duplications in the Surrounding Genomic Region:</strong></p>
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<li>The study identifies <strong>large-scale segmental duplications</strong> flanking the fusion site, with several of these regions duplicated and scattered across multiple chromosomes.</li>
<li>These duplications are predominantly located in <strong>subtelomeric and pericentromeric regions</strong>, suggesting their role in genomic instability and chromosomal evolution.</li>
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<p><strong>Paralogous Regions and Their Evolutionary Relationships:</strong></p>
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<li>A <strong>168-kilobase (kb) segment</strong> near the fusion site has <strong>98%&ndash;99% sequence identity</strong> with three regions on <strong>chromosome 9 (9pter, 9p11.2, and 9q13)</strong>.</li>
<li>Another <strong>67-kb region distal to the fusion site</strong> shows a high degree of homology to sequences in <strong>chromosome 22qter</strong>.</li>
<li>Additionally, a <strong>100-kb segment</strong> exhibits <strong>96% sequence identity</strong> with a region in <strong>chromosome 2q11.2</strong>.</li>
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<p><strong>Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Implications:</strong></p>
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<li>By comparing the duplicated sequences and their arrangement in primates, the researchers traced the order of duplication events leading to their present distribution.</li>
<li>The presence of specific repetitive elements within these duplicated segments serves as <strong>evolutionary markers</strong> that help infer their historical rearrangements.</li>
<li>Some of these <strong>duplicated regions are associated with chromosomal inversion breakpoints</strong>, potentially contributing to evolutionary changes in primates.</li>
<li>Recurrent <strong>structural rearrangements</strong> in these regions have been linked to human chromosomal disorders.</li>
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</ol><h3><strong>Conclusions and Implications:</strong></h3><ul>
<li>The findings provide valuable insights into <strong>the structural evolution of human chromosome 2</strong>, which played a crucial role in human speciation.</li>
<li>Understanding these <strong>segmental duplications</strong> and their evolutionary trajectories sheds light on <strong>genomic instability</strong>, which may contribute to <strong>human genetic diseases</strong>.</li>
<li>The study highlights how large-scale chromosomal rearrangements, such as fusion and duplication, have influenced the <strong>evolutionary divergence of humans</strong> from other primates.</li>
</ul><p>This research advances our understanding of <strong>human genome evolution</strong> and offers a foundation for studying the effects of <strong>structural variants in genetic disorders</strong>.</p>]]></description>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/45267/when-thousands-of-bacterial-genomes-become-one-giant-map</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:56:47 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/45267/when-thousands-of-bacterial-genomes-become-one-giant-map</link>
	<title><![CDATA[When Thousands of Bacterial Genomes Become One Giant Map]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Imagine trying to understand a city by studying just one house.</p><p>You might learn a lot about that house&mdash;the rooms, the doors, the furniture&mdash;but you would miss the bigger story: the streets, the neighborhoods, and all the ways the city changes from one place to another.</p><p>Something similar happens when scientists study bacterial genomes one at a time.</p><p>Over the past decade, researchers have collected thousands of bacterial genomes. These genomes contain an enormous amount of information about how bacteria survive, adapt, and evolve. But comparing thousands of individual genomes can quickly become a computational maze.</p><p>That is where PANORAMA enters the story.</p><p>Developed by J&eacute;r&ocirc;me Arnoux and colleagues, PANORAMA is a computational tool designed to explore bacterial pangenomes&mdash;the complete collection of genetic possibilities found across a species or group of related organisms. Instead of looking at every genome as an isolated object, the approach represents their shared and variable genetic features as a graph.</p><p>Think of this graph as a giant subway map.</p><p>Some stations appear on almost every route. These represent genes that are highly conserved. Other stations appear only on certain routes, representing genes that some bacteria possess while others do not. By looking at the entire network, scientists can begin to see not just *what genes exist*, but how they are organized and how biological systems are distributed across populations.</p><p>The researchers put PANORAMA to the test using 941 genomes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium important in human health. They used the tool to investigate biological systems, including bacterial defense mechanisms against viruses known as bacteriophages. They then expanded the analysis to more than 6,000 genomes from four Enterobacteriaceae species.</p><p>The result is more than a faster way to process data.</p><p>PANORAMA allows researchers to ask a bigger question: What can an entire microbial species do, genetically speaking?</p><p>By comparing pangenomes, the researchers could identify systems shared between species as well as distinctive features. They could also find recurring genomic locations where genetic material is inserted&mdash;clues that may reveal common evolutionary processes.</p><p>And this is perhaps the most exciting part of the story.</p><p>Every bacterial genome is like a page in a huge evolutionary book. Until recently, reading thousands of those pages together was difficult. PANORAMA provides a way to turn those pages into a map, allowing scientists to see patterns that might disappear when each genome is studied separately.</p><p>The study, published in PLOS Computational Biology in July 2026, presents PANORAMA as a foundation for large-scale comparative pangenomics. The software and accompanying analysis resources are openly available, giving other researchers the opportunity to explore microbial diversity themselves.</p><p>So the story is not really about one bacterium or one genome.</p><p>It is about changing the way we look at life.</p><p>Instead of asking, &ldquo;What is inside this genome?&rdquo;, scientists can increasingly ask, &ldquo;What is the full genetic landscape of this species&mdash;and how did it become this way?&rdquo;</p><p>And sometimes, when you stop looking at one house and finally see the whole city, the most interesting discoveries are hiding in the streets between them.</p><p>Read more at&nbsp;https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013856</p>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:51:02 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/45303/the-tree-that-learned-to-read-genomes</link>
	<title><![CDATA[The Tree That Learned to Read Genomes]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Imagine trying to reconstruct a family tree when many family photographs are missing, some names are unclear, and different relatives remember the past differently. This is similar to the challenge scientists face when trying to understand how organisms are related. Their family records are genomes, and the family tree is a phylogenetic tree. With modern sequencing technologies, scientists now have access to thousands of genomes, but comparing them can be difficult, especially when genomes are incomplete or poorly annotated.</p><p>A recent study by Webster and Chapman introduces Buscogeny (https://github.com/Jwebster89/Buscogeny), an open-source bioinformatics pipeline designed to make this process easier. The tool uses BUSCO (Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs), which identifies conserved genes that are expected to occur as single copies in particular groups of organisms. These genes act like evolutionary landmarks, allowing researchers to compare genomes and investigate their relationships.</p><p>Buscogeny brings several steps of phylogenomic analysis into one workflow. It identifies BUSCO genes, extracts and aligns their sequences, removes unreliable regions, combines information from multiple genes, and uses the resulting data to construct a phylogenetic tree. It also provides quality-control information, helping researchers identify genomes that may be too incomplete for reliable analysis.</p><p>The authors demonstrate the usefulness of Buscogeny with bacterial and fungal genomes, including Alternaria. This is particularly valuable because fungal genomes can vary greatly in quality and annotation. Ultimately, Buscogeny helps transform massive amounts of genomic data into an understandable evolutionary story. Each DNA sequence becomes a clue, each conserved gene becomes a landmark, and together these clues reveal a picture of how life is connected.</p><p>More at&nbsp;https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10123-025-00752-6?</p>]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:51:23 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rolf Backofen Lab]]></title>
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<p>The research interest of this group include constraint programming, structure prediction in simplified protein models, investigation of protein energy landscapes, detection of RNA sequence/structure motifs, prediction and evaluation of alternative splice forms, description and detection of regulatory sequences.</p>

<p>Link @ http://www.bioinf.uni-freiburg.de/</p>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/6720/rna-sequencing-helps-identify-functional-variants-from-gwas</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 21:33:33 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/6720/rna-sequencing-helps-identify-functional-variants-from-gwas</link>
	<title><![CDATA[RNA Sequencing Helps Identify Functional Variants from GWAS]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>For Alzheimer&rsquo;s and other complex disorders, mining the genome for disease-associated variants is no longer the obstacle. The challenge nowadays is figuring out how the identified loci relate to disease. As reported last month in Nature and its associated journals, advances in high-throughput RNA sequencing are providing new tools for understanding how disease loci influence gene expression&mdash;a starting point for understanding their connection to pathogenesis.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://schizophreniaforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=1953" rel="nofollow">http://schizophreniaforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=1953</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Andaleeb</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/17843/pathway-analysis</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:51:13 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/17843/pathway-analysis</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Pathway Analysis]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Pathway Analysis is usually performed with aim to enrich the genes with their functional information and reveal the underlying biological mechanisms pursue by genes. Pathway Analysis is not only limited to what biological pathways a particular set of expressed genes follow but also to disclose the relationships between these genes. With availability of more genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics data, interactions between genes involve in multiple pathways become more clear and also relationships between the genes, their transcripts, and their gene products. However, existing tools and dbs mainly based on knowledge driven approach in which pathways will be identified by finding the correlation between the&nbsp;<span>information in one of the pathway knowledge databases (KEGG,Reactome,Panther,BioCarta, Panther,GO,NCI,WikiPathways,etc) and gene expression result for a specific conditions for instance tumor, obesity , cold resistant crops/plants, etc.</span></p><p><span><strong>Introductory Articles/ppt/sources</strong>:</span></p><p><a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002375"><span>http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002375</span></a></p><p><a href="http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/MicroarrayCourse/Lectures09/Pathway%20Analysis.pdf"><span>http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/MicroarrayCourse/Lectures09/Pathway%20Analysis.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="http://gettinggeneticsdone.blogspot.de/2012/03/pathway-analysis-for-high-throughput.html"><span>http://gettinggeneticsdone.blogspot.de/2012/03/pathway-analysis-for-high-throughput.html</span></a></p><p><a href="http://davetang.org/muse/tag/pathway/"><span>http://davetang.org/muse/tag/pathway/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.biostars.org/p/42219/"><span>https://www.biostars.org/p/42219/</span></a></p><p><a href="http://bioinformatics.ca//files/public/Pathways_2014_Module4_v2.pdf"><span>http://bioinformatics.ca//files/public/Pathways_2014_Module4_v2.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="http://bioinformatics.ca//files/public/Pathways_2014_Module2.pdf"><span>http://bioinformatics.ca//files/public/Pathways_2014_Module2.pdf</span></a></p><p><span><strong>Impotant Database and Tools</strong>:</span></p><p>GeneMANIA, Cytoscape,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ingenuity.com/products/ipa">IPA</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/metacore/">Metacore</a> (Commerical ),&nbsp;<span>Pathway Commons, Reactome ,Panther, BioCyc, WikiPathways, Pathvisio, KEGG, NCI, Stringdb, Amigo,&nbsp;<span>WebGestalt ,<span>ConsensusPathDB ,GSEA,Blast2go</span></span></span></p><p><span><strong>Popular R based tools</strong>:</span></p><p><span>Reactome.db, ReactomePA, ClusterProfiler, Gage, SPIA, topGO, Pathview,DOSE,GOStat</span></p><p><span><strong>More</strong>:</span></p><p><a href="http://www.bioconductor.org/help/search/index.html?q=Enrichment+analysis+"><span>http://www.bioconductor.org/help/search/index.html?q=Enrichment+analysis+</span></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Agarwal</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/32631/barrnap-bacterial-ribosomal-rna-predictor</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2017 09:24:41 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/32631/barrnap-bacterial-ribosomal-rna-predictor</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Barrnap: Bacterial ribosomal RNA predictor]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Barrnap predicts the location of ribosomal RNA genes in genomes. It supports bacteria (5S,23S,16S), archaea (5S,5.8S,23S,16S), mitochondria (12S,16S) and eukaryotes (5S,5.8S,28S,18S).</p>
<p>It takes FASTA DNA sequence as input, and write GFF3 as output. It uses the new NHMMER tool that comes with HMMER 3.1 for HMM searching in RNA:DNA style. NHMMER binaries for 64-bit Linux and Mac OS X are included and will be auto-detected. Multithreading is supported and one can expect roughly linear speed-ups with more CPUs.&nbsp;</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/tseemann/barrnap" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tseemann/barrnap</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Abhimanyu Singh</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41046/iseqqc-a-tool-for-expression-based-quality-control-in-rna-sequencing</guid>
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 08:47:17 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/41046/iseqqc-a-tool-for-expression-based-quality-control-in-rna-sequencing</link>
	<title><![CDATA[iSeqQC: a tool for expression-based quality control in RNA sequencing]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>iSeqQC, an expression-based QC tool that detects outliers either produced due to variable laboratory conditions or due to dissimilarity within a phenotypic group. iSeqQC implements various statistical approaches including unsupervised clustering, agglomerative hierarchical clustering and correlation coefficients to provide insight into outliers.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://cancerwebpa.jefferson.edu/iSeqQC/">http://cancerwebpa.jefferson.edu/iSeqQC/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-020-3399-8">https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-020-3399-8</a></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/gkumar09/iSeqQC" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gkumar09/iSeqQC</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/42033/seastar-systematic-evaluation-of-alternative-start-site-in-rna</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 09:54:27 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/42033/seastar-systematic-evaluation-of-alternative-start-site-in-rna</link>
	<title><![CDATA[SEASTAR: Systematic Evaluation of Alternative STArt site in RNA]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>SEASTAR (Systematic Evaluation of Alternative STArt site in RNA) is a software package for Transcription Start Site (TSS) identification and quantification using only RNA-seq data. It assembles novel TSSs based only on RNA-Seq data and merges them with known TSSs from a public database. This package enables high-quality TSS identification that is comparable to the highly sophisticated CAGE technology. This package is particularly useful for finding novel TSSs that contribute to transcriptome complexity along with identifying differential promoter utilization.</p>
<p>version 1.0.0 - updates several descriptions and tests. To achieve v0.9.4, one can visit&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/zhyqin/SEASTAR-0.9.4">https://github.com/zhyqin/SEASTAR-0.9.4</a>&nbsp;for download.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/Xinglab/SEASTAR" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Xinglab/SEASTAR</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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