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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/45303/the-tree-that-learned-to-read-genomes</guid>
	<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>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/4099/sequencing-solutions-to-world-health</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:05:35 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/4099/sequencing-solutions-to-world-health</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Sequencing Solutions to World Health]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>"<em>New technology that quickly, easily and economically reveals the genomes of viruses and pathogens transforms public health and medicine."</em></p>
<p><strong>Source</strong>: Life technologies</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://www.lifetechnologies.com/global/en/home/communities-social/blog/blogs/sequencing-solutions-to-world-health.html?cid=social_blogseries_20130829_11098264" rel="nofollow">http://www.lifetechnologies.com/global/en/home/communities-social/blog/blogs/sequencing-solutions-to-world-health.html?cid=social_blogseries_20130829_11098264</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Agarwal</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/videolist/watch/8988/what-is-healthcare-informatics</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:49:54 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/videolist/watch/8988/what-is-healthcare-informatics</link>
	<title><![CDATA[What is Healthcare Informatics?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<iframe width="" height="" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/pzS--PaGC9o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Incorporating information technologies and information management, this work describes evolving areas of efficiency in the healthcare industry due to healthcare informatics enhancements. Beginning with an overview of how information management can enhance organizational efficiency the book delves into how informatics can impact productivity for healthcare providers and reduce costs. It stresses the incorporation of available information technologies along with appropriate management tactics to ensure the most effective informatics outcomes that can drive efficiencies.

Areas that are addressed include project management in healthcare, knowledge management, decision support systems, business intelligence, Six Sigma, and advanced analytics such as data mining.]]></description>
	
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	<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:17:35 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/20437/wuxi-has-acquired-nextcode-health</link>
	<title><![CDATA[WuXi has acquired NextCODE Health]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Shanghai, China-headquartered pharmatech company WuXi (NYSE: WX) has acquired NextCODE Health, a genomic analysis and bioinformatics company based in the USA.<br /><br />The acquisition was made for $65 million in cash, and WuXi plans to merge its genome center with NextCODE Health to form a new company, WuXi NextCODE Genomics. The business will be headquartered in Shanghai and have operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Reykjavik, Iceland.<br /><br />With the huge unmet medical needs in diseases with a genetic component and the rapid advances in genomics and bioinformatics, now is the right time for WuXi to make a strategic investment in this field, and NextCODE is the right partner. This new venture of WuXi NextCODE Genomics will create important new genomic and bioinformatic products and services to help make personalized treatment and medicine a reality.&nbsp; It will also enable doctors to provide better treatments to patients.<br /><br /></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Pranjali Yadav</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/8848/upgrade-r-303</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:23:51 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/8848/upgrade-r-303</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Upgrade R 3.0.3]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>R is a free software programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. Polls and surveys of data miners are showing R's popularity has increased substantially in recent years. Recently the new version of R codename &ldquo;Warm Puppy" have been released.<br /><br />You can download the latest version from here http://cran.rstudio.com/ . Or, if you are using Windows, you can upgrade to the latest version using the installr package http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/installr/ . Simply run the following code:<br /><br /># installing/loading the package:<br />if(!require(installr)) { <br />install.packages("installr"); require(installr)} #load / install+load installr<br />&nbsp;<br />updateR()<br /><br />I try to keep the installr package updated and useful. If you have any suggestions or remarks on the package, you&rsquo;re invited to leave a comment below.<br /><br />If you use the global library system http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ , you can run the following in the new version of R:<br /><br />source("http://www.r-statistics.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/upgrading-R-on-windows.r.txt")<br />New.R.RunMe()</p><p>Reference:</p><p>http://www.r-statistics.com/2014/03/r-3-0-3-is-released/</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:11:21 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/41496/new-machine-learning-packages-in-r</link>
	<title><![CDATA[New Machine Learning Packages in R]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<h3 id="machine-learning">Machine Learning</h3><p><a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=autokeras">autokeras</a>&nbsp;v1.0.1: Implements an interface to&nbsp;<a href="https://autokeras.com/">AutoKeras</a>, an open source software library for automated machine learning. See&nbsp;<a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/autokeras/readme/README.html">README</a>&nbsp;for an example.</p><p><a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=MTPS">MTPS</a>&nbsp;v0.1.9: Implements functions to predict simultaneous multiple outcomes based on revised stacking algorithms as described in&nbsp;<a href="denied:doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz531">Xing et al. (2019)</a>. See the&nbsp;<a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MTPS/vignettes/Guide.html">vignette</a>&nbsp;to get started.</p><p><a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=quanteda.textmodels">quanteda.textmodels</a>&nbsp;v0.9.1: Implements methods for scaling models and classifiers based on sparse matrix objects representing textual data. It includes implementations of the&nbsp;<a href="denied:doi:10.1017/S0003055403000698">Laver et al. (2003)</a>&nbsp;wordscores model, the&nbsp;<a href="denied:arxiv:1710.08963">Perry &amp; Benoit&rsquo;s (2017)</a>&nbsp;class affinity scaling model, and the&nbsp;<a href="denied:doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2008.00338.x">Slapin &amp; Proksch (2008)</a>&nbsp;wordfish model. See the&nbsp;<a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/quanteda.textmodels/vignettes/textmodel_performance.html">vignette</a>&nbsp;to get started.</p><p><a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=SeqDetect">SeqDetect</a>&nbsp;v1.0.7: Implements the automaton model found in&nbsp;<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8910574">Krleža, Vrdoljak &amp; Brčić (2019)</a>&nbsp;to detect and process sequences. See the&nbsp;<a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SeqDetect/vignettes/SequentialDetector.pdf">vignette</a>&nbsp;for examples and theory.</p><p><a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=studyStrap">studyStrap</a>&nbsp;v1.0.0: Implements multi-Study Learning algorithms such as Merging, Study-Specific Ensembling (Trained-on-Observed-Studies Ensemble), the Study Strap, and the Covariate-Matched Study Strap. and offers over 20 similarity measures. See&nbsp;<a href="denied:doi:10.1101/856385">Kishida, et al. (2019)</a>&nbsp;for background and the&nbsp;<a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/studyStrap/vignettes/vignette.html">vignette</a>&nbsp;for how to use the package.</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2020 02:39:16 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/42354/vsfilt-a-tool-to-improve-virtual-screening-by-structural-filtration-of-docking-poses</link>
	<title><![CDATA[vsFilt: A tool to improve virtual screening by structural filtration of docking poses]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>The vsFilt is the first open application for post-docking structural filtration, available as a web-server. The new tool is easy to use and configure to detect a wide range of interaction types that are known to be involved in molecular recognition, including hydrogen and halogen bonds, ionic interactions, hydrophobic contacts, &pi;-stacking, and cation-&pi; interactions. The web-server can process large libraries of up to 150&rsquo;000 docked ligand poses. The results are web-based and can be operated on-line using the built-in HTML5 interactive analysis tools, or can be downloaded for a local use. The vsFilt is freely available on-line, no login required.</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://biokinet.belozersky.msu.ru/vsfilt" rel="nofollow">https://biokinet.belozersky.msu.ru/vsfilt</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Neel</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:48:24 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/4590/tigers-genome-sequenced</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Tigers genome sequenced]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>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.&nbsp;</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Reference:</p><p><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/science/your-cat-ferocious-tigers-share-lot-95-6-percent-their-4B11182690">http://www.nbcnews.com/science/your-cat-ferocious-tigers-share-lot-95-6-percent-their-4B11182690</a></p><p><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Gene-mapping-of-tiger-completed/articleshow/22671681.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Gene-mapping-of-tiger-completed/articleshow/22671681.cms</a></p><p>Paper:</p><p><a href="http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130917/ncomms3433/full/ncomms3433.html">http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130917/ncomms3433/full/ncomms3433.html</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Agarwal</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34443/opera-an-optimal-genome-scaffolding-program</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:18:20 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34443/opera-an-optimal-genome-scaffolding-program</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Opera: An optimal genome scaffolding program]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Opera (Optimal Paired-End Read Assembler) is a sequence assembly program (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_assembly" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_assembly&nbsp;<img src="https://a.fsdn.com/con/img/icons/external_asset.png" alt="image" style="border: 0px;"></a><span>). It uses information from paired-end or long reads to optimally order and orient contigs assembled from shotgun-sequencing reads.</span><br><br><span>An updated version called OPERA-LG has been re-engineered with features for the assembly of large and complex genomes.</span><br><br><span>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.</span><br><br><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-0951-y</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/operasf/" rel="nofollow">https://sourceforge.net/projects/operasf/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<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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