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Shinyheatmap

Jit — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:12:11 -0500

Background: Transcriptomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, and other various next-generation sequencing (-omics) fields are known for their production of large datasets. Visualizing such big data has posed technical challenges in biology, both in terms of available computational resources as well as programming acumen. Since heatmaps are used to depict high-dimensional numerical data as a colored grid of cells, efficiency and speed have often proven to be critical considerations in the process of successfully converting data into graphics. For example, rendering interactive heatmaps from large input datasets (e.g., 100k+ rows) has been computationally infeasible on both desktop computers and web browsers. In addition to memory requirements, programming skills and knowledge have frequently been barriers-to-entry for creating highly customizable heatmaps. Results: We propose shinyheatmap: an advanced user-friendly heatmap software suite capable of efficiently creating highly customizable static and interactive biological heatmaps in a web browser. shinyheatmap is a low memory footprint program, making it particularly well-suited for the interactive visualization of extremely large datasets that cannot typically be computed in-memory due to size restrictions. Conclusions: shinyheatmap is hosted online as a freely available web server with an intuitive graphical user interface: http://shinyheatmap.com. The methods are implemented in R, and are available as part of the shinyheatmap project at: https://github.com/Bohdan-Khomtchouk/shinyheatmap.

More at http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/21/076463

Address of the bookmark: http://shinyheatmap.com/

PLINK2

Jit — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:24:45 -0500

This is a comprehensive update to Shaun Purcell's PLINK command-line program, developed by Christopher Chang with support from the NIH-NIDDK's Laboratory of Biological Modeling, the Purcell Lab at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and others. (What's new?) (Credits.) (Methods paper.)

Address of the bookmark: https://www.cog-genomics.org/plink2/

Statistics Using R with Biological Examples

Neel — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 04:55:41 -0500

This book is a manifestation of my desire to teach researchers in biology a bit more about statistics than an ordinary introductory course covers and to introduce the utilization of R as a tool for analyzing their data. My goal is to reach those with little or no training in higher level statistics so that they can do more of their own data analysis, communicate more with statisticians, and appreciate the great potential statistics has to offer as a tool to answer biological questions.

This is necessary in light of the increasing use of higher level statistics in biomedical research. I hope it accomplishes this mission and encourage its free distribution and use as a course text or supplement.

K Seefeld, May 2007

Information Officer at IIAR, Gujarat

Fri, 04 Nov 2016 05:19:13 -0500

Walk in interview at 10.30 am on Nov 11th, 2016 for the following position at Distributed Information Sub-Centre (DISC) established by Dept. Of Biotechnology, Govt. of India at Indian Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Position (scale), qualifications and experience

1. Information Officer (Rs 8000-275-13500): one post
Qualifications and experience: MCA, Post-Graduate in any field of biosciences, bioinformatics with at least two years of experience in working in a bioinformatics setup and good knowledge of linux operating system and computer networking.

General terms and conditions:
1. The above engagements is presently till March 31st, 2017. However on extension of project grant and satisfactory performance of the candidate, your services can be extended beyond March 31st, 2017 based on the terms and conditions of extension of project grant.

2. It is not an appointment with the institute and will not confer any right to the incumbent to any claim implicit or explicit on any position.

3.No TA/DA will be paid for attending the interview. Outstation candidates have to make their own arrangement for their stay.

4.Candidates, appearing in the walk-in interview are requested to bring the hard copy of application addressed to Dr. Anju Pappachan with latest photograph, CV mentioning qualifications, work experience and name of two referees and one page write up as to why you would like to join the project.

Address:
Dr. Anju Pappachan
Indian Institute of Advanced Research (IIAR),
University and Institute of Advanced Research,
The Puri Foundation for Education in India,
Koba Institutional Area,
Gandhinagar- 382 007, Gujarat, India. Contact no. 079-30514152
e-mail- anju@iiar.res.in

Statistics and probability

Jit — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 07:34:25 -0600

Topics

Displaying and describing data

Modeling distributions of data

Describing relationships in quantitative data

Designing studies

Probability

Random variables

Sampling distributions

Confidence intervals (one sample)

Significance tests (one sample)

Significance tests and confidence intervals (two samples)

Inference for categorical data (chi-square tests)

Advanced regression (inference and tran

Address of the bookmark: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability

Bioistats Online course

Abhimanyu Singh — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 04:22:51 -0600

One of our primary focuses will be to develop an understanding of the various ways in which we can assign a probability to some chance event. We'll also learn the fundamental properties of probability, investigate how probability behaves, and learn how to calculate the probability of a new chance event.

This book is handy understanding basic concepts.

Address of the bookmark: https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat414/node/287

Research Officer at National Tea Research Foundation

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 04:19:24 -0600

National Tea Research Foundation (NTRF) a registered body, requires qualified and experienced agricultural research scientist for contractual appointment as per details below :

Post Research Officer, NTRF, Kolkata

Essential Post Graduate degree in Life Science having special paper in Bioinformatics. Post Graduate degree in Bioinformatics.

Desirable Ph. D. in the area of computational biology or bioinformatics.

Job Experience Work experience on database development, capable to work independently and efficient in bioinformatics related project.

Job Responsibility

To develop database on various aspects of tea research.

Screening of the In-house projects of NTRF at the preliminary level.

Review and evaluation of In-house projects of NTRF. Technical monitoring of the In-house projects of NTRF.

Reviewing the final technical report of the In-house projects of NTRF.

Putting-up of same proposals for taking approval and sanction of the competent authority.

Physical and technical verification of the In-house projects of NTRF.

To assist in organizing seminars / workshops / meetings etc.

Interested candidate may appear for walk-in Interview on 17 th November, 2016

More Info :

http://www.teaboard.gov.in/pdf/Recruitment_for_the_post_of_Research_Officer_pdf7538.pdf

Spines

Jit — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 05:33:26 -0600

Spines is a collection of software tools, developed and used by the Vertebrate Genome Biology Group at the Broad Institute. It provides basic data structures for efficient data manipulation (mostly genomic sequences, alignments, variation etc.), as well as specialized tool sets for various analyses. It also features three sequence alignment packages: Satsuma, a highly parallelized program for high-sensitivity, genome-wide synteny; Papaya, an all-purpose alignment tool for less diverged sequences; and SLAP, a context-sensitive local aligner for diverged sequences with large gaps.

Access Spines here.

Address of the bookmark: https://www.broadinstitute.org/genome-sequencing-and-analysis/spines

SWALO

Jit — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:06:05 -0600

SWALO (scaffolding with assembly likelihood optimization) is a method for scaffolding based on likelihood of genome assemblies computed using generative models for sequencing.

Download

Git repository of SWALO is at https://github.com/atifrahman/SWALO.

Address of the bookmark: https://atifrahman.github.io/SWALO/

DBT India

Jit — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:30:37 -0600

Latest announcement on DBT India.

Calls

Events

Projects

Jobs

Address of the bookmark: http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/out-reach/latest-announcements/