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dna2bit: an ultra-fast and accurate genomic distance estimation software

LEGE — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 06:24:58 -0500

dna2bit is a software tool developed in C++11, leveraging the capabilities of OpenMP for parallel computing and the popcount technique for efficient bit manipulation. It has been thoroughly tested using the g++ and clang compilers on both Linux and MacOS platforms.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/lijuzeng/dna2bit

Easyfig

Poonam Mahapatra — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 05:49:39 -0500

Easyfig has moved to github, for newer releases of Easyfig please visit our new webpage - https://mjsull.github.io/Easyfig. Easyfig is a Python application for creating linear comparison figures of multiple genomic loci with an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI).

More at http://easyfig.sourceforge.net/

Address of the bookmark: http://easyfig.sourceforge.net/

ORFfinder with smart BLAST

Jit — Tue, 17 May 2016 01:43:15 -0500

ORF Finder

ORFfinder is a graphical analysis tool for finding open reading frames (ORFs). We’ve been working on a few updates, and we’d like to find out what you think about them. Read on to find out what you can do with the new ORFfinder.

Smart BLAST (https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2015/07/29/smartblast/)

Select one or a group of ORFs and BLAST several databases at once, and use the newly developed SmartBLAST to verify protein names. Looking for the traditional results from BLAST? They’re there too.

LoRMA: a tool for correcting sequencing errors in long reads such those produced by Pacific Biosciences sequencing machines

Jit — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:18:36 -0500

LoRMA is a tool for correcting sequencing errors in long reads such those produced by Pacific Biosciences sequencing machines.

Publication:

L. Salmela, R. Walve, E. Rivals, and E. Ukkonen: Accurate selfcorrection of errors in long reads using de Bruijn graphs. Accepted to RECOMB-Seq 2016.

Download:

Address of the bookmark: https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/lmsalmel/LoRMA/

maf2synteny

Abhimanyu Singh — Thu, 18 May 2017 05:31:30 -0500

A tool for converting for recovering synteny blocks from multiple alignment (in MAF fromat)

This tool is a standalone version of Ragout module [http://fenderglass.github./Ragout]

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/fenderglass/maf2synteny

PhyloGrapher - Graph Visualization Tool

Jit — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:11:25 -0600

PhyloGrapher is a program designed to visualize and study evolutionary relationships within families of homologous genes or proteins (elements). PhyloGrapher is a drawing tool that generates custom graphs for a given set of elements. In general, it is possible to use PhyloGrapher to visualize any type of relations between elements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgufqYMHCvM

Address of the bookmark: http://www.atgc.org/PhyloGrapher/PhyloGrapher_Welcome.html

SynVisio: An Interactive Multiscale Synteny Visualization Tool for McScanX.

Jit — Sun, 31 May 2020 02:01:14 -0500

SynVisio lets you explore the results of McScanX a popular synteny and collinearity detection toolkit and generate publication ready images.

SynVisio requires two files to run:

The simplified gff file that was used as an input for a McScanX query.
The collinearity file generated as an output by McScanX for the same input query.
Optional track file in bedgraph format to annotate the generated charts.

SynVisio offers different types of visualizations such as Linear Parallel plots, Hive plots, Stacked Parallel Plots and Dot plots. Users can configure the type of plots required and then choose the source and the target chromosomes that need to be mapped. Users also have option to download the generated visualizations in publication ready SVG or PNG formats.

Address of the bookmark: https://synvisio.github.io/#/

Panacus : A Counting Tool for Pangenome Graphs

Neel — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:42:28 -0500

panacus is a tool for calculating statistics for GFA files. It supports GFA files with P and W lines, but requires that the graph is blunt, i.e., nodes do not overlap and consequently, each link (L) points from the end of one segment (S) to the start of another.

panacus supports the following calculations:

coverage histogram
pangenome growth statistics
path-/group-resolved coverage table

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/marschall-lab/panacus

When DNA Data Tells the Wrong Story - CrossFit assist to resolve !

BioStar — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:41:38 -0500

Imagine comparing humans and chimpanzees to discover which genes make us different. You have millions of RNA-sequencing reads—but there is a catch: the computer may align these reads more easily to one species' genome than the other.

Suddenly, a technical error can look like a biological difference.

This is the problem Kenneth A. Barr and Yoav Gilad tackle with CrossFilt, a new computational tool introduced in Genome Biology journal.

CrossFilt acts like a careful referee. It keeps only sequencing reads that can be reliably compared across species, filtering out reads that could create alignment bias.

When tested on human, chimpanzee, and rhesus macaque data, CrossFilt reduced false discoveries and produced more reliable cross-species comparisons.

The message is simple: before asking what makes species different, we need to make sure our methods aren't creating those differences.

In genomics, sometimes the most important discovery is finding—and removing—the bias hiding in the data.

Read more at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-026-04082-2?

EXCAVATOR2tool

Bulbul — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 04:09:19 -0600

EXCAVATOR2 is a collection of bash, R and Fortran scripts and codes that analyses Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) data to identify CNVs. EXCAVATOR2 enhances the identification of all genomic CNVs, both overlapping and non-overlapping targeted exons by integrating the analysis of In-targets and Off- targets reads. Specifically, it improves the precision of calling CNVs overlapping targeted exons from WES data and enlarges the spectrum of detectable CNVs to off-target events.
EXCAVATOR2 can be effectively employed for the identification of CNVs in small as well as large-scale re-sequencing population and cancer studies. Lastly, it’s of particular interest that all WES experiments can be re-analysed using our method with the beneficial effect to identify novelCNVs in extra-exonic regions by having the full-genome CN profile.

Address of the bookmark: https://sourceforge.net/projects/excavator2tool/