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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/35386/list-of-visualization-tools-for-network-biology</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2018 05:12:24 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/35386/list-of-visualization-tools-for-network-biology</link>
	<title><![CDATA[List of visualization tools for network biology]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Network analysis&nbsp;is any structured technique used to mathematically analyze a circuit (a &ldquo;network&rdquo; of interconnected components). The&nbsp;<span>Network analysis provides the ability to quantify associations between individuals, which makes it possible to infer details about the network as a whole at the species and/or population level.&nbsp;</span>Few tools published in BMC are listed here https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/sections/networks-analysis.</p><p><img src="https://www.dropbox.com/pri/get/Public/Link%20to%20network.gif?_subject_uid=85115969&amp;raw=1&amp;revision_id=BBqs9eYx7G_faj5J33ExdjmtF8nXK2xrN5dUBsKyTLZQ9RB_hGM-YFmWZMBzbQZfRvjYzfs65HbQYrHRyoikxsQscSFTn1Nud2QeJ8KGfVI5wv4Kzp6froKOmPZu8ZygfKo&amp;size=1280x960&amp;size_mode=3&amp;w=AABQaErsFIz5ZjVZSxXvKaSVUkY5ob1Yjk0x7dghy0X7zw" alt="image" style="border: 0px; border: 0px;"></p><p>Following are the list of standalone applications for network analysis:</p><p>Arena 3D</p><p>3D visualization of multi-layer networks</p><p>http://www.arena3d.org</p><p>Biana</p><p>Data integration and network management</p><p>http://sbi.imim.es/web/BIANA.php</p><p>BioLayout Express 3D&nbsp;</p><p>2D/3D network visualization</p><p>http://www.biolayout.org/</p><p>BiologicalNetworks&nbsp;</p><p>Efficient integrated multi-level analysis of microarray, sequence, regulatory and other data</p><p>http://www.biologicalnetworks.org</p><p>BioMiner</p><p>Modeling, analyzing and visualizing biochemical pathways and networks</p><p>http://www.zbi.uni-saarland.de/chair/projects/BioMiner</p><p>Cell Illustrator&nbsp;</p><p>Petri nets for modeling and simulating biological networks</p><p>http://www.cellillustrator.com</p><p>COPASI</p><p>Analysis of biochemical networks and their dynamics</p><p>http://www.copasi.org/</p><p>Cytoscape&nbsp;</p><p>Network visualization and analysis. Over 200 plugins [60]</p><p>http://www.cytoscape.org/</p><p>Dizzy</p><p>Chemical kinetics stochastic simulation software</p><p>http://magnet.systemsbiology.net/software/Dizzy/</p><p>DyCoNet</p><p>Gephi plugin that can be used to identify dynamic communities in networks</p><p>https://github.com/juliemkauffman/DyCoNet</p><p>GENeVis&nbsp;</p><p>Network and pathway visualization</p><p>http://tinyurl.com/genevis/</p><p>GEPHI&nbsp;</p><p>Interactive visualization and exploration for any network and complex system, dynamic and hierarchical graph.</p><p>https://gephi.org</p><p>Igraph</p><p>Collection of network analysis tools with the emphasis on efficiency, portability and ease of use</p><p>http://igraph.sourceforge.net</p><p>Medusa</p><p>Semantic and multi-edged simple networks</p><p>https://sites.google.com/site/medusa3visualization/</p><p>NAViGaTOR</p><p>Visualizing and analyzing protein-protein interaction networks</p><p>http://tinyurl.com/navigator1/</p><p>N-Browse</p><p>Interactive graphical browser for biological networks</p><p>http://www.gnetbrowse.org/</p><p>NeAT</p><p>Topological and clustering analysis of networks</p><p>http://rsat.ulb.ac.be/neat/</p><p>Ondex&nbsp;</p><p>Data integration and visualization of large networks</p><p>http://www.ondex.org/</p><p>Osprey</p><p>Visualization and annotation of biological networks</p><p>http://biodata.mshri.on.ca/osprey/servlet/Index</p><p>Pajek&nbsp;</p><p>Analysis and visualization of large networks and social network analysis</p><p>http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/</p><p>PathwayAssist&nbsp;</p><p>Navigation and analysis of biological pathways, gene regulation networks and protein interaction maps.</p><p>http://www.ariadnegenomics.com/downloads/</p><p>PIVOT&nbsp;</p><p>Layout algorithms for visualizing protein interactions and families</p><p>http://acgt.cs.tau.ac.il/pivot/</p><p>ProCope&nbsp;</p><p>Prediction and evaluation of protein complexes from purification data experiments</p><p>http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/Complexes/ProCope/</p><p>ProViz&nbsp;</p><p>Visualization and exploration of interaction networks. Gene Ontology and PSI-MI formats supported</p><p>http://cbi.labri.fr/eng/proviz.htm</p><p>SpectralNET&nbsp;</p><p>Network analysis and visualizations. Scatter plots and dimensionality reduction algorithms</p><p>https://www.broadinstitute.org/software/spectralnet</p><p>Tulip&nbsp;</p><p>Enables the development of algorithms, visual encodings, interaction techniques, data models and domain-specific visualizations</p><p>http://tulip.labri.fr/TulipDrupal/</p><p>VANESA&nbsp;</p><p>Automatic reconstruction and analysis of biological networks and Petri nets based on life-science database information</p><p>http://agbi.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/vanesa/</p><p>VANTED&nbsp;</p><p>Network reconstruction, data visualization, integration of various data types, network simulation</p><p>http://tinyurl.com/vanted/</p><p>yEd</p><p>Creation of diagrams manually and import external data</p><p>http://tinyurl.com/yEdGraph/</p><p>Web tools for network analysis</p><p>APID&nbsp;</p><p>Unified protein-protein interactions from BIND, BioGRID, DIP, HPRD, IntAct and MINT</p><p>http://bioinfow.dep.usal.es/apid/</p><p>Arcadia&nbsp;</p><p>Translates text-based descriptions of biological networks (SBML files) into standardized diagrams (Systems Biology Graphical Notation Process Description maps)</p><p>http://arcadiapathways.sourceforge.net/</p><p>AVIS&nbsp;</p><p>Viewer for signaling networks</p><p>http://actin.pharm.mssm.edu/AVIS2</p><p>bioPIXIE&nbsp;</p><p>Discovery of biological networks from diverse functional genomic data</p><p>http://pixie.princeton.edu/pixie</p><p>CellPublisher</p><p>Interactive representations of biochemical processes</p><p>http://cellpublisher.gobics.de/</p><p>Graphle</p><p>Distributed network exploration and visualization of interactive large, dense graphs</p><p>http://tinyurl.com/graphle/</p><p>GraphWeb&nbsp;</p><p>Web server for graph-based analysis of biological networks</p><p>http://biit.cs.ut.ee/graphweb/</p><p>Hubba</p><p>Web-based service to explore the essential nodes in a network</p><p>http://hub.iis.sinica.edu.tw/Hubba</p><p>NetworkBLAST&nbsp;</p><p>Analysis of protein interaction networks across species to infer protein complexes that are conserved in evolution</p><p>http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~bnet/networkblast.htm</p><p>Pathview&nbsp;</p><p>Tool set for pathway-based data integration and visualization</p><p>http://Pathview.r-forge.r-project.org/</p><p>PINA&nbsp;</p><p>Integrated platform for protein interaction network construction, filtering, analysis, visualization and management</p><p>http://cbg.garvan.unsw.edu.au/pina/home.do</p><p>ReMatch&nbsp;</p><p>Web-based tool for integration of user-given stoichiometric metabolic models into a database collected from public data sources</p><p>http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/sysfys/software/rematch/</p><p>SNOW&nbsp;</p><p>Gene mapping on a reference or human protein-protein interaction network that SNOW hosts</p><p>http://snow.bioinfo.cipf.es</p><p>STITCH&nbsp;</p><p>Resource to explore known and predicted interactions of chemicals and proteins</p><p>http://stitch.embl.de/</p><p>STRING</p><p>Protein interaction networks and integration of data such as genomic context, high-throughput experiments, conserved coexpression and previous knowledge derived from the literature</p><p>http://string-db.org</p><p>TVNViewer&nbsp;</p><p>An interactive visualization tool for exploring networks that change over time or space</p><p>http://www.sailing.cs.cmu.edu/main/?page_id=545</p><p>tYNA&nbsp;</p><p>System for managing, comparing and mining multiple networks</p><p>http://tyna.gersteinlab.org/tyna/</p><p>VisANT&nbsp;</p><p>Visualization, mining, analysis and modeling of biological networks, metabolic networks and ecosystems</p><p>http://visant.bu.edu/</p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/37529/bokeh-an-interactive-visualization-library-that-targets-modern-web-browsers-for-presentation</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2018 18:43:08 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/37529/bokeh-an-interactive-visualization-library-that-targets-modern-web-browsers-for-presentation</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Bokeh: An interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p id="about">Bokeh is an interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation. Its goal is to provide elegant, concise construction of versatile graphics, and to extend this capability with high-performance interactivity over very large or streaming datasets. Bokeh can help anyone who would like to quickly and easily create interactive plots, dashboards, and data applications.</p>
<p>To get started using Bokeh to make your visualizations, see the&nbsp;<a href="https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide.html#userguide">User Guide</a>.</p>
<p>To see examples of how you might use Bokeh with your own data, check out the&nbsp;<a href="https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/gallery.html#gallery">Gallery</a>.</p>
<p>A complete API reference of Bokeh is at&nbsp;<a href="https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/reference.html#refguide">Reference Guide</a>.</p>
<p>If you are interested in contributing to Bokeh, or extending the library, see the&nbsp;<a href="https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/dev_guide.html#devguide">Developer Guide</a>.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/" rel="nofollow">https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/40298/environment-for-tree-exploration-ete-is-a-python-programming-toolkit-that-assists-in-the-recontruction-manipulation-analysis-and-visualization-of-phylogenetic-trees</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2019 05:32:33 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/40298/environment-for-tree-exploration-ete-is-a-python-programming-toolkit-that-assists-in-the-recontruction-manipulation-analysis-and-visualization-of-phylogenetic-trees</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Environment for Tree Exploration (ETE) is a Python programming toolkit that assists in the recontruction, manipulation, analysis and visualization of phylogenetic trees]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>The Environment for Tree Exploration (ETE) is a Python programming toolkit that assists in the recontruction, manipulation, analysis and visualization of phylogenetic trees (although clustering trees or any other tree-like data structure are also supported).</span></p>
<p><span>Other tools</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/taxonkit">https://github.com/shenwei356/taxonkit</a></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>ETE, version:&nbsp;<a href="https://pypi.org/project/ete3/3.1.1/">3.1.1</a></li>
<li>BioPython, version:&nbsp;<a href="https://pypi.org/project/biopython/1.73/">1.73</a></li>
<li>taxadb, version:&nbsp;<a href="https://pypi.org/project/taxadb/0.9.0">0.10.1</a></li>
<li>TaxonKit, version:&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/shenwei356/taxonkit/releases/tag/0.10.1">0.5.0</a></li>
</ul><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://pypi.org/project/ete3/3.1.1/" rel="nofollow">https://pypi.org/project/ete3/3.1.1/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/44284/tools-for-geospatial-data-analysis</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 02:10:28 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/pages/view/44284/tools-for-geospatial-data-analysis</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Tools for Geospatial data analysis !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p>Geospatial data is becoming increasingly important in many fields, including urban planning, environmental science, public health, and more. These tools can help you work with data from a variety of sources, including satellite imagery, GPS data, and other forms of spatial data. They can help you visualize data, perform complex analysis, and even create maps and other visualizations.</p><p>The list includes some of the most popular and widely used geospatial tools available in Python. These tools can help you work with data from a variety of sources and in a variety of formats. Some of the tools are focused on visualization, such as Cartopy, Folium, and Contextily, which allow you to create interactive maps and other visualizations. Other tools are more focused on data manipulation and analysis, such as Fiona, GeoPandas, and Rasterio, which allow you to manipulate and analyze spatial data in a variety of ways.</p><p>The list also includes some tools for working with specific types of geospatial data. For example, the H3 library is designed specifically for working with hexagonal grids, while PySAL is focused on spatial econometrics and spatial analysis. Whether you are a data scientist, GIS specialist, or geospatial enthusiast, these tools are sure to enhance your work and help you achieve your goals.</p><p>In summary, this list is an excellent resource for anyone working with geospatial data in Python. It contains a wide range of tools for working with different types of data, and can help you visualize data, perform complex analysis, and create maps and other visualizations. If you're looking to enhance your skills in geospatial analysis, this list is definitely worth checking out.</p></div></div></div><div><p>These tools are:</p><ul>
<li>ArcGIS - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dgC6sKJH" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dgC6sKJH</a></li>
<li>Cartopy - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dc8ijXRg" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dc8ijXRg</a></li>
<li>Contextily - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dTdQsmKX" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dTdQsmKX</a></li>
<li>Descartes - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dCJykxwW" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dCJykxwW</a></li>
<li>Fiona - <a href="https://lnkd.in/d8sJ3Q5a" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/d8sJ3Q5a</a></li>
<li>Folium - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dfSsE-MB" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dfSsE-MB</a></li>
<li>GDAL - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dYBJBaAY" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dYBJBaAY</a></li>
<li>Geohash - <a href="https://lnkd.in/d_NxJ4_M" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/d_NxJ4_M</a></li>
<li>GeoJSON - <a href="https://lnkd.in/daGs2WYq" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/daGs2WYq</a></li>
<li>GeoPandas - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dBTFKKV3" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dBTFKKV3</a></li>
<li>Geopy - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dfAzR8Xa" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dfAzR8Xa</a></li>
<li>Gevent - <a href="http://www.gevent.org/" target="_new">http://www.gevent.org</a></li>
<li>H3 - <a href="https://h3geo.org/docs/" target="_new">https://h3geo.org/docs/</a></li>
<li>OSMnx - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dm3pHgUS" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dm3pHgUS</a></li>
<li>PyQGIS - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dShWyWVr" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dShWyWVr</a></li>
<li>PySAL - <a href="https://pysal.org/" target="_new">https://pysal.org</a></li>
<li>Pydeck - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dGBFu-iw" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dGBFu-iw</a></li>
<li>Pyproj - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dNG9fdkm" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dNG9fdkm</a></li>
<li>RTree - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dURMiYpU" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dURMiYpU</a></li>
<li>Rasterio - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dEMC6ve6" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dEMC6ve6</a></li>
<li>Scikit-mobility - <a href="https://lnkd.in/dpHhaX2J" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/dpHhaX2J</a></li>
<li>Shapely - <a href="https://lnkd.in/d568datK" target="_new">https://lnkd.in/d568datK</a></li>
</ul><p>These tools offer a wide range of capabilities for working with geospatial data, from visualizing and manipulating data to performing complex analysis and modeling. Whether you are a data scientist, GIS specialist, or geospatial enthusiast, these tools are sure to enhance your work and help you achieve your goals.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44630/genofig-a-user-friendly-application-for-the-visualization-and-comparison-of-genomic-regions</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 23:06:58 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/44630/genofig-a-user-friendly-application-for-the-visualization-and-comparison-of-genomic-regions</link>
	<title><![CDATA[GenoFig: a user-friendly application for the visualization and comparison of genomic regions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Tool for graphical vizualisation of annotated genetic regions, and homologous regions comparison. It is an independent recoding of Easyfig 2 initially developped by at the S. Beatson Lab [<a href="https://mjsull.github.io/Easyfig/" target="_blank">https://mjsull.github.io/Easyfig/</a>]</p>
<p dir="auto">Download the GenoFig source code using the 'Download' button on top of this page. Cloning is currently not available for people not member of the INRAE French Institution. After decompression, open a terminal in the folder containing the decompressed files and run:</p>
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<pre id="code-47"><code><span>conda env create -f extras/requirements.yml</span>
<span>extras/SETUP.sh</span></code></pre>
</div><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://forgemia.inra.fr/public-pgba/genofig" rel="nofollow">https://forgemia.inra.fr/public-pgba/genofig</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>BioStar</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/33960/mgra-breakpoint-graphs-and-ancestral-genome-reconstructions</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:48:25 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/33960/mgra-breakpoint-graphs-and-ancestral-genome-reconstructions</link>
	<title><![CDATA[MGRA: Breakpoint graphs and ancestral genome reconstructions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>MGRA (Multiple Genome Rearrangements and Ancestors) is a tool for reconstruction of ancestor genomes and evolutionary history of extant genomes.</p>
<p>It takes as an input a set of genomes represented as sequences of genes (or synteny blocks) and produces such sequences for ancestral genomes at the internal nodes of the phylogenetic tree.</p>
<p>The phylogenetic tree may be also specified completely or partially, in the latter case MGRA can reconstruct conserved ancestral regions (CARs) of the ancestral genome of interest.</p>
<p>Since version 2 MGRA supports gene insertion and deletions in addition to genome rearrangements and allows the input genomes to have different gene content.</p>
<p>It also can reconstruct most plausible phylogenetic tree based on the rearrangement characters.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://mgra.cblab.org/" rel="nofollow">http://mgra.cblab.org/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34377/genomicus-genome-browser-that-enables-users-to-navigate-in-genomes-in-several-dimensions</guid>
	<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2017 16:10:16 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34377/genomicus-genome-browser-that-enables-users-to-navigate-in-genomes-in-several-dimensions</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Genomicus: genome browser that enables users to navigate in genomes in several dimensions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Genomicus is a genome browser that enables users to navigate in genomes in several dimensions: linearly along chromosome axes, transversaly across different species, and chronologicaly along evolutionary time.</p>
<p>Once a query gene has been entered, it is displayed in its genomic context in parallel to the genomic context of all its orthologous and paralogous copies in all the other sequenced metazoan genomes. Moreover, Genomicus stores and displays the predicted ancestral genome structure in all the ancestral species within the phylogenetic range of interest.</p>
<p>All the data on extant species displayed in this browser are from&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ensembl.org/">Ensembl</a>.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="http://genomicus.biologie.ens.fr/genomicus-90.01/cgi-bin/search.pl" rel="nofollow">http://genomicus.biologie.ens.fr/genomicus-90.01/cgi-bin/search.pl</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34488/scripts-for-the-analysis-of-hgt-in-genome-sequence-data</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:44:10 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34488/scripts-for-the-analysis-of-hgt-in-genome-sequence-data</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Scripts for the analysis of HGT in genome sequence data.]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Scripts for the analysis of HGT in genome sequence data</span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://github.com/reubwn/hgt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/reubwn/hgt</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34569/ksnp30-snp-detection-and-phylogenetic-analysis-of-genomes-without-genome-alignment-or-reference-genome</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:48:40 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/34569/ksnp30-snp-detection-and-phylogenetic-analysis-of-genomes-without-genome-alignment-or-reference-genome</link>
	<title><![CDATA[kSNP3.0: SNP detection and phylogenetic analysis of genomes without genome alignment or reference genome]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><span>Sept. 20, 2017 Version 3.1 released. Major upgrade. Version 3.1 fixes the problems with SNP annotation that arose when NCBI discontinued use of GI numbers. Please read carefully the Preface (page 3) and the File of annotated genomes section (pages 9-10) in the version 3.1 User Guide. Thanks to Tom Slezak for revsing the get_genbank_file3 script and to Tod Stuber (USDA) for testing version 3.1 even though he doesn't need the annotation feature. All users are encouraged to upgrade to version 3.1.&nbsp;<br></span></p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ksnp/files/" rel="nofollow">https://sourceforge.net/projects/ksnp/files/</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/34707/string-graph-based-genome-assembly-software-and-tools</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:17:38 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/34707/string-graph-based-genome-assembly-software-and-tools</link>
	<title><![CDATA[String graph based genome assembly software and tools !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>In&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory" title="Graph theory">graph theory</a>, a&nbsp;<strong>string graph</strong>&nbsp;is an&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersection_graph" title="Intersection graph">intersection graph</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve" title="Curve">curves</a>&nbsp;in the plane; each curve is called a "string".&nbsp; String graphs were first proposed by E. W. Myers in a&nbsp;<a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/suppl_2/ii79.full.pdf+html">2005 publication</a>.&nbsp;In&nbsp;recent&nbsp;<a href="http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2012/01/22/gr.126953.111">Genome Research paper</a>&nbsp;describing an innovative approach for assembling large genomes from NGS data caught our attention for several reasons. i) it give different "string graph" prospective of long lasting genome assembly problem ii) the&nbsp;paper is coauthored by Jared Simpson, the developer of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2694472/">ABySS assembler</a>&nbsp;and Richard Durbin. iii)&nbsp;Simpson-Durbin algorithm is that it does not rely on de Bruijn graphs, and instead employs a different graph construction approach called &lsquo;string graph&rsquo;.</p><p>Following are the genome assembly tools based on string graph:</p><p>1.SGA (String Graph Assembler)&nbsp;https://github.com/jts/sga</p><p>Assembles large genomes from high coverage short read data. SGA is designed as a modular set of programs, which are used to form an assembly pipeline. SGA implements a set of assembly algorithms based on the FM-index. As the FM-index is a compressed data structure, the algorithms are very memory efficient. The SGA assembly has three distinct phases. The first phase corrects base calling errors in the reads. The second phase assembles contigs from the corrected reads. The third phase uses paired end and/or mate pair data to build scaffolds from the contigs. The output of this software is a PDF report that allows the properties of the genome and data quality to be visually explored. By providing more information to the user at the start of an assembly project, this software will help increase awareness of the factors that make a given assembly easy or difficult, assist in the selection of software and parameters and help to troubleshoot an assembly if it runs into problems.</p><p>2.&nbsp;SAGE: String-overlap Assembly of GEnomes&nbsp;https://github.com/lucian-ilie/SAGE2</p><p>SAGE, for de novo genome assembly. As opposed to most assemblers, which are de Bruijn graph based, SAGE uses the string-overlap graph. SAGE builds upon great existing work on string-overlap graph and maximum likelihood assembly, bringing an important number of new ideas, such as the efficient computation of the transitive reduction of the string overlap graph, the use of (generalized) edge multiplicity statistics for more accurate estimation of read copy counts, and the improved use of mate pairs and min-cost flow for supporting edge merging. The assemblies produced by SAGE for several short and medium-size genomes compared favourably with those of existing leading assemblers.</p><p>3. FSG: Fast String Graph</p><p>The new integrated assembler has been assessed on a standard benchmark, showing that fast string graph (FSG) is significantly faster than SGA while maintaining a moderate use of main memory, and showing practical advantages in running FSG on multiple threads. Moreover, we have studied the effect of coverage rates on the running times.</p><p>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;BASE&nbsp;https://github.com/dhlbh/BASE</p><p>It enhances the classic seed-extension approach by indexing the reads efficiently to generate adaptive seeds that have high probability to appear uniquely in the genome. Such seeds form the basis for BASE to build extension trees and then to use reverse validation to remove the branches based on read coverage and paired-end information, resulting in high-quality consensus sequences of reads sharing the seeds. Such consensus sequences are then extended to contigs.&nbsp;BASE is a practically efficient tool for constructing contig, with significant improvement in quality for long NGS reads. It is relatively easy to extend BASE to include scaffolding.</p><p>5.&nbsp;Fermi&nbsp;https://github.com/lh3/fermi/</p><p>Fermi is a de novo assembler with a particular focus on assembling Illumina&nbsp;short sequence reads from a mammal-sized genome. In addition to the role of a&nbsp;typical assembler, fermi also aims to preserve heterozygotes which are often&nbsp;collapsed by other assemblers. Its ultimate goal is to find a minimal set of&nbsp;unitigs to represent all the information in raw reads.</p><p>If you want to learn about String Graph assembler, please read the following papers -</p><p>i)&nbsp;<a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/suppl_2/ii79.full.pdf+html">The Fragment Assembly String Graph - E. W. Myers</a></p><p>This paper describes the String Graph concept.</p><p>ii)&nbsp;<a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/12/i367.full#ref-20">Efficient construction of an assembly string graph using the FM-index - Jared T. Simpson and Richard Durbin</a></p><p>This earlier paper from Simpson and Durbin</p><p>iii)&nbsp;<a href="http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2012/01/22/gr.126953.111">Efficient de novo assembly of large genomes using compressed data structures - Jared T. Simpson and Richard Durbin</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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