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KAU Thrissur Biotech/Bioinformatics RA/SRF/JRF/Trainee/Studentships

Fri, 26 Sep 2014 20:07:28 -0500

Applications are invited from eligible candidates for the following posts at Bioinformatics Centre (DIC), IT- BT Complex, College of Horticulture, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellanikkara, Thrissur.

1. Research Associate
Emoluments*: 14880/- + HRA
Qualification needed: Ph.D/M.Sc in Bioinformatics or Ph.D/M.Sc in Agriculture or Biotechnology with advanced Diploma in Bioinformatics
Desirable: 2 year experience in Bioinformatics.

2 Senior Research Fellow
Emoluments*: 10230/-
Qualification needed: M.Sc/ M.tech in Bioinformatics or M.Sc in Agriculture/ Biotechnology with Diploma in Bioinformatics.
Desirable: One year experience in Bioinformatics

3 Junior Research Fellow
Emoluments*: 9300/-
Qualification needed: M.Sc/ M.tech in Bioinformatics or M.Sc in Agriculture/Biotechnology/Plant Sciences with Diploma in Bioinformatics.

4 .Trainee/Studentship Bioinformatics
Emoluments*: 5000/-
Qualification needed: M.Sc in Bioinformatics with good knowledge of Bioinformatics softwares and tools.

5 Trainee/ Studentship Biotechnology
Emoluments*: 5000/-
Qualification needed: M.Sc in Biotechnology, with working knowledge in tissue culture, molecular markers and cloning of genes.

Candidates with the required qualifications and experience may give an application in the prescribed format with attested copies of certificates to prove eligibility on or before 30th November 2014. The applications are to be addressed to The Associate Dean, College of Horticulture and send to "Professor & Coordinator, Bioinformatics Centre (DIC), IT-BT Complex, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellanikkara, Thrissur, Kerala 680 656”. The envelope may be superscribed “Application for the post at Bioinformatics Centre”.

*Emoluments are likely to be revised in 2014-2015

More at http://www.kaubic.in/downloads/Notification_bic.pdf
http://www.kaubic.in/downloads/Application%20form.pdf

PLAST: A fast, accurate and NGS scalable bank-to-bank sequence similarity search tool

Jit — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 04:10:54 -0600

PLAST is a fast, accurate and NGS scalable bank-to-bank sequence similarity search tool providing significant accelerations of seeds-based heuristic comparison methods, such as the Blast suite of algorithms.

Relying on unique software architecture, PLAST takes full advantage of recent multi-core personal computers without requiring any additional hardware devices.

PLAST stands for Parallel Local Sequence Alignment Search Tool and is was published in BMC Bioinformatics.

PLAST is a general purpose sequence comparison tool providing the following benefits:

PLAST is a high-performance sequence comparison tool designed to compare two sets of sequences (query vs. reference),
Reduces the processing time of sequences comparisons while providing highest quality results,
Contains a fully integrated data filtering engine capable of selecting relevant hits with user-defined criteria (E-Value, identity, coverage, alignment length, etc.),
Does not require any additional hardware, since it is a software solution. It is easy to install, cost-effective, takes full advantage of multi-core processors and uses a small RAM footprint,
Ready to be used on desktop computer, cluster, cloud as well as within distributed system running Hadoop.

https://plast.inria.fr/

Address of the bookmark: https://plast.inria.fr/

FACULTY POSITION at NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROURKELA

Sun, 05 Oct 2014 15:45:13 -0500

NIT, Rourkela, an institute of national importance under Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India invites applications from Indian nationals possessing excellent academic background along with commitment to quality teaching and research for faculty positions at the level of Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor in most branches of Engineering, Science, Management and Humanities as per following table:-

1 Asst. Professor (on Pre-Ph.D. Contract)

2 Asst. Professor (on Contract)

3 Asst. Professor

4 Associate Professor

5 Professor

Life Sciences:-

i)Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; ii)Cell and Developmental Biology; iii)Immunology and Molecular Medicine; (iv) Microbiology and Ecology (v)Bioinformatics Group; vi)Biophysical Sciences

HOW TO APPLY:-

a. Candidates willing to apply for one or more posts are requested to apply online at “http://www.nitrkl.ac.in/ JOBS & TENDERS /Faculty Position” .
b. Persons employed in Government and Semi-Government organizations may apply directly against the standing advertisement. For this the application should be completed online. The printout of the application generated online should be submitted through employer if shortlisted for interview.
c. The online application can be filled in multiple sessions.
d. Candidates are required to check the Institute website from time to time for latest information, application status call for interview, change of dates and final results.
e. Applications shall be received online only. Please do not send application or CV against this advertisement by email or letter mail.

More Info: http://nitrkl.ac.in/Jobs_Tenders/1FacultyPosition/Default.aspx

MIX: Combining multiple assemblies from NGS data

Rahul Nayak — Tue, 08 May 2018 04:58:05 -0500

Mix is a tool that combines two or more draft assemblies, without relying on a reference genome and has the goal to reduce contig fragmentation and thus speed-up genome finishing. The proposed algorithm builds an extension graph where vertices represent extremities of contigs and edges represent existing alignments between these extremities. These alignment edges are used for contig extension. The resulting output assembly corresponds to a path in the extension graph that maximizes the cumulative contig length.

The Mix algorithm, approach and results were published in BMC bioinformatics : http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/14/S15/S16.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/cbib/MIX

Software developed in pevsner lab

Robert M Willioms — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:41:26 -0500

DRAGON: Database Referencing of Array Genes Online

SNOMAD: Standardization and Normalization of Microarray Data

SNPduo: SNP Analysis Between Two Individuals

SNPtrio: Analyzing and Visualizing and Inheritance Patterns in Trios

SNPscan: Data Analysis and Visualization of SNP Data

pediSNP: Analyze SNP Data From a Pedigree of Two Generations

kcoeff: Calculate Cotterman Coefficients of SNP Genotype Data

triPOD: Detects chromosomal abnormalities in parent-child trio-based microarray data

Address of the bookmark: http://pevsnerlab.kennedykrieger.org/php/?q=software

HALC: High throughput algorithm for long read error correction

Jit — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 10:47:41 -0500

HALC, a high throughput algorithm for long read error correction. HALC aligns the long reads to short read contigs from the same species with a relatively low identity requirement so that a long read region can be aligned to at least one contig region, including its true genome region’s repeats in the contigs sufficiently similar to it (similar repeat based alignment approach) HALC was able to obtain 6.7-41.1% higher throughput than the existing algorithms while maintaining comparable accuracy. The HALC corrected long reads can thus result in 11.4-60.7% longer assembled contigs than the existing algorithms.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/lanl001/halc

Research Fellows at CSIR - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh

Tue, 19 May 2015 07:17:32 -0500

CSIR - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology 2 vacancies of Project Fellow

Name of the Post: Project Fellow

No. of the Post: 02 Two

Salary: Rs. 12000/- per month or Rs. 14000/- per month

Age Limit: Max. 28 years as on 10.06.2015 and relaxation as per rules

Required Job Profile:

Candidate must possess first class B.Tech. in bioinformatics or computational biology OR M.Sc. in bioinformatics or computational biology with fifty five percent marks OR M.Tech. in bioinformatics or computational biology with fifty five percent marks.

How to apply:

Eligible and interested candidates should need to appear for walk-in interview on 10.06.2015 at 9:00 am at the above mentioned address.

Refer to http://www.ihbt.res.in/recruit/AdvtNo7_2015.pdf

KAT: a K-mer analysis toolkit to quality control NGS datasets and genome assemblies

Jit — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 03:36:45 -0500

KAT is a suite of tools that analyse jellyfish hashes or sequence files (fasta or fastq) using kmer counts. The following tools are currently available in KAT:

hist: Create an histogram of k-mer occurrences from a sequence file. Adds metadata in output for easy plotting.
gcp: K-mer GC Processor. Creates a matrix of the number of K-mers found given a GC count and a K-mer count.
comp: K-mer comparison tool. Creates a matrix of shared K-mers between two (or three) sequence files or hashes.
sect: SEquence Coverage estimator Tool. Estimates the coverage of each sequence in a file using K-mers from another sequence file.
blob: Given, reads and an assembly, calculates both the read and assembly K-mer coverage along with GC% for each sequence in the assembly.SEquence Coverage estimator Tool.
filter: Filtering tools. Contains tools for filtering k-mer hashes and FastQ/A files:
- kmer: Produces a k-mer hash containing only k-mers within specified coverage and GC tolerances.
- seq: Filters a sequence file based on whether or not the sequences contain k-mers within a provided hash.
plot: Plotting tools. Contains several plotting tools to visualise K-mer and compare distributions. The following plot tools are available:
- density: Creates a density plot from a matrix created with the "comp" tool. Typically this is used to compare two K-mer hashes produced by different NGS reads.
- profile: Creates a K-mer coverage plot for a single sequence. Takes in fasta coverage output coverage from the "sect" tool
- spectra-cn: Creates a stacked histogram using a matrix created with the "comp" tool. Typically this is used to compare a jellyfish hash produced from a read set to a jellyfish hash produced from an assembly. The plot shows the amount of distinct K-mers absent, as well as the copy number variation present within the assembly.
- spectra-hist: Creates a K-mer spectra plot for a set of K-mer histograms produced either by jellyfish-histo or kat-histo.
- spectra-mx: Creates a K-mer spectra plot for a set of K-mer histograms that are derived from selected rows or columns in a matrix produced by the "comp".

In addition, KAT contains a python script for analysing the mathematical distributions present in the K-mer spectra in order to determine how much content is present in each peak.

This README only contains some brief details of how to install and use KAT. For more extensive documentation please visit: https://kat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/33/4/574/2664339

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/TGAC/KAT

List of non-commercial NGS genotype-calling software

Jit — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 04:21:32 -0500

Meaningful analysis of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data, which are produced extensively by genetics and genomics studies, relies crucially on the accurate calling of SNPs and genotypes. Recently developed statistical methods both improve and quantify the considerable uncertainty associated with genotype calling, and will especially benefit the growing number of studies using low- to medium-coverage data.

A list of programs for genotype and SNP calling :

SOAP2 http://soap.genomics.org.cn/index.html

Single-sample High-quality variant database (for example, dbSNP) Package for NGS data analysis, which includes a single individual genotype caller (SOAPsnp)

realSFS http://128.32.118.212/thorfinn/realSFS/

Single-sample Aligned reads Software for SNP and genotype calling using single individuals and allele frequencies. Site frequency spectrum (SFS) estimation

Samtools http://samtools.sourceforge.net/

Multi-sample Aligned reads Package for manipulation of NGS alignments, which includes a computation of genotype likelihoods (samtools) and SNP and genotype calling (bcftools)

GATK http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsa/wiki/index.php/The_Genome_Analysis_Toolkit Multi-sample Aligned reads Package for aligned NGS data analysis, which includes a SNP and genotype caller (Unifed Genotyper), SNP filtering (Variant Filtration) and SNP quality recalibration (Variant Recalibrator)

Beagle http://faculty.washington.edu/browning/beagle/beagle.html

Multi-sample LD Candidate SNPs, genotype likelihoods Software for imputation, phasing and association that includes a mode for genotype calling

IMPUTE2 http://mathgen.stats.ox.ac.uk/impute/impute_v2.html

Multi-sample LD Candidate SNPs, genotype likelihoods Software for imputation and phasing, including a mode for genotype calling. Requires fine-scale linkage map

QCall ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/rd/QCALL

Multi-sample LD ‘Feasible’ genealogies at a dense set of loci, genotype likelihoods Software for SNP and genotype calling, including a method for generating candidate SNPs without LD information (NLDA) and a method for incorporating LD information (LDA). The ‘feasible’ genealogies can be generated using Margarita (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/margarita)

MaCH http://genome.sph.umich.edu/wiki/Thunder

Multi-sample LD Genotype likelihoods Software for SNP and genotype calling, including a method (GPT_Freq) for generating candidate SNPs without LD information and a method (thunder_glf_freq) for incorporating LD information

BASE: a practical de novo assembler for large genomes using long NGS reads

Rahul Nayak — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 07:25:21 -0500

new de novo assembler called BASE. 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.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/dhlbh/BASE