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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/42936/ancient-whole-genome-duplication-wgd-detection-tools</guid>
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2021 00:32:44 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/42936/ancient-whole-genome-duplication-wgd-detection-tools</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Ancient whole genome duplication (WGD) detection tools !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>There are two methods for ancient WGD detection, one is collinearity analysis, and the other is based on the Ks distribution map. Among them, Ks is defined as the average number of synonymous substitutions at each synonymous site, and there is also a Ka corresponding to it, which refers to the average number of non-synonymous substitutions at each non-synonymous site.</p><p>At present, some people have posted articles about the analysis process of WGD. I searched for the keyword "wgd pipeline" and found the following:</p><p><strong>GenoDup: https:// github.com/MaoYafei/GenoDup-Pipeline</strong><br /><strong>https://peerj.com/articles/6303/</strong><br /><strong>WGDdetector: https:// github.com/yongzhiyang2 012/WGDdetector</strong><br /><strong>https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-019-2670-3</strong><br /><strong>wgd: https:// github.com/arzwa/wgd</strong><br /><strong>https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-016-1142-2#Sec1</strong><br /><strong>https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0399-x</strong><br /><strong>GeNoGAP https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-016-1142-2</strong><br /><strong>https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0399-x</strong><br /><strong>https://github.com/dfguan/purge_dups</strong><br /><strong>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.24.917997v1</strong></p><p>This article introduces the usage of wgd.</p><p>Wgd cannot be installed directly with bioconda at present, so it is a little troublesome to install, because it depends on a lot of software. wgd depends on the following software</p><p><strong>BLAST</strong><br /><strong>MCL</strong><br /><strong>MUSCLE/MAFFT/PRANK</strong><br /><strong>PAML</strong><br /><strong>PhyML/FastTree</strong><br /><strong>i-ADHoRe</strong></p><p>But the good news is that most of the software it depends on can be installed with bioconda</p><blockquote><p>conda create -n wgd python=3.5 blast mcl muscle mafft prank paml fasttree cmake libpng mpi=1.0=mpich<br />conda activate wgd</p></blockquote><p>Here mpi=1.0=mpich is selected, because i-adhore depends on mpich. If openmpi is installed, an error will appear while loading shared libraries: libmpi_cxx.so.40: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</p><p>After that, the installation is much simpler</p><blockquote><p>git clone https://github.com/arzwa/wgd.git<br />cd wgd<br />pip install .<br />pip install git+https://github.com/arzwa/wgd.git<br />For i-ADHoRe, you need to register at http:// bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be /webtools/i-adhore/licensing/Agree to the license to download i-ADHoRe-3.0</p></blockquote><p>Since my miniconda3 installed ~/opt/, the installation path is so~/opt/miniconda3/envs/wgd/</p><blockquote><p>tar -zxvf i-adhore-3.0.01.tar.gz<br />cd i-adhore-3.0.01<br />mkdir -p build &amp;&amp; cd build<br />cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/opt/miniconda3/envs/wgd/<br />make -j 4 <br />make insatall</p></blockquote><p>Take the sugarcane genome Saccharum spontaneum L as an example. The genome is 8-ploid with 32 chromosomes (2n = 4x8 = 32)</p><p><strong>Download the tutorial for CDS and GFF annotation files</strong></p><blockquote><p><strong>mkdir -p wgd_tutorial &amp;&amp; cd wgd_tutorial</strong><br /><strong>wget http://www.life.illinois.edu/ming/downloads/Spontaneum_genome/Sspon.v20190103.cds.fasta.gz</strong><br /><strong>wget http://www.life.illinois.edu/ming/downloads/Spontaneum_genome/Sspon.v20190103.gff3.gz</strong><br /><strong>gunzip *.gz</strong></p></blockquote><p>First conda activate wgdstart our analysis environment, and then start the analysis</p><p>Step 1 : Use to wgd mclidentify homologous genes in the genome</p><blockquote><p>wgd mcl -n 20 --cds --mcl -s Sspon.v20190103.cds.fasta -o Sspon_cds.out</p></blockquote><p>Step 2 : Use to wgd ksdbuild Ks distribution</p><blockquote><p>wgd ksd --n_threads 80 Sspon_cds.out/Sspon.v20190103.cds.fasta.blast.tsv.mcl Sspon.v20190103.cds.fasta</p></blockquote><p>Step 3 : If the quality of the genome is good, then wgd syncollinearity analysis can be used . It can help us find the collinearity block in the genome and the corresponding anchor point</p><blockquote><p>wgd syn --feature gene --gene_attribute ID \<br /> -ks wgd_ksd/Sspon.v20190103.cds.fasta.ks.tsv \<br /> Sspon.v20190103.gff3 Sspon_cds.out/Sspon.v20190103.cds.fasta.blast.tsv.mcl</p></blockquote><p>&nbsp;For more reading - There are 9 sub-modules in WGD</p><ul>
<li><span>kde: KDE fitting to the Ks distribution</span></li>
<li><span>ksd: Ks distribution construction</span></li>
<li><span>mcl: BLASP comparison of All-vs-ALl + MCL classification analysis.</span></li>
<li><span><span>mix: Hybrid modeling of Ks distribution.</span></span></li>
<li><span>pre: preprocess the CDS file</span></li>
<li><span>syn: Call I-ADHoRe 3.0 to use GFF files for collinearity analysis</span></li>
<li><span>viz: draw histogram and density plot</span></li>
<li><span>wf1: Ks standard analysis procedure of the whole genome paranome (paranome), call mcl, ksd and syn</span></li>
<li><span>wf2: Ks standard analysis procedure of one-vs-one homologous gene (ortholog), call wcl and kSD</span></li>
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	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2014 20:44:05 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/13226/you-and-your-friend-have-similar-dna</link>
	<title><![CDATA[You and your friend have similar DNA !!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>New research out of Massachusetts claims that people often choose friends that are similar to them in genetics and they are more accurate than you might suppose. A study published on PNAS&nbsp;http://www.pnas.org/content/111/Supplement_3/10796.full found that people are apt to pick friends who are genetically similar to themselves - so much so that friends tend to be as alike at the genetic level as a person's fourth cousin.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--CwLwHa43--/18fbmlokxcmqcjpg.jpg" alt="image" width="300" height="271" style="border: 0px; border: 0px;"></div><p>Scientists with a long-running Framingham Heart Study looked at 1,932 people (examination of about 1.5 million markers of genetic variations), comparing unrelated friends to unrelated strangers. They found that friends shared about 1% of their genes &mdash; a percentage much higher than those shared with strangers.This new findings made it clear that people have more DNA in common with those who are selected as friends than with strangers in the same population.&nbsp;</p><p>The genes that lined up the most were olfactory genes, which deal with smell. The ones that lined up the least were immune system genes. The researchers weren't sure why that happened :/. Olfactory genes might be a straightforward explanation: People who like the same smells tend to be drawn to similar environments, where they meet others with the same tendencies.</p><p>Reference:</p><p>http://www.pnas.org/content/111/Supplement_3/10796.full</p><p>Image : http://i.kinja-img.com</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 07:18:16 -0600</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Short-read assembly using Spades !]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<h2 id="short-read-assembly-a-comparison">If we only had Illumina reads, we could also assemble these using the tool Spades.</h2><p>You can try this here, or try it later on your own data.</p><h2 id="get-data">Get data</h2><p>We will use the same Illumina data as we used above:</p><ul>
<li>illumina_R1.fastq.gz: the Illumina forward reads</li>
<li>illumina_R2.fastq.gz: the Illumina reverse reads</li>
</ul><h2 id="assemble">Assemble</h2><p>Run Spades:</p><div><pre>spades.py -1 illumina_R1.fastq.gz -2 illumina_R2.fastq.gz --careful --cov-cutoff auto -o spades_assembly_all_illumina
</pre></div><ul>
<li><code>-1</code>&nbsp;is input file of forward reads</li>
<li><code>-2</code>&nbsp;is input file of reverse reads</li>
<li><code>--careful</code>&nbsp;minimizes mismatches and short indels</li>
<li><code>--cov-cutoff auto</code>&nbsp;computes the coverage threshold (rather than the default setting, &ldquo;off&rdquo;)</li>
<li><code>-o</code>&nbsp;is the output directory</li>
</ul><h2 id="results">Results</h2><p>Move into the output directory and look at the contigs:</p><div><pre>infoseq contigs.fasta</pre></div>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Abhimanyu Singh</dc:creator>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2014 01:22:52 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Protein function annotation and machine learning - UPMC - Paris, France]]></title>
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<p>Protein function annotation and machine learning - UPMC - Paris, France</p>

<p>Job Description: We are interested in finding an excellent postdoc with interests in protein functional annotation, machine learning and computer grids. The position is open for 3.5 years at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in the heart of paris.</p>

<p>Research topic: Protein function annotation, multiple probabilistic models, domain architecture, machine learning, combinatorial optimization, computer grid.</p>

<p>Title: A novel integrative platform for large scale protein annotation that exploits a multitude of diversified probabilistic models in several protein signature databases.</p>

<p>We propose a novel integrated approach for large scale protein annotation that will exploit an unprecedented amount of genomic data as well as sophisticated machine learning techniques and combinatorial optimization approaches taking advantages of High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. The idea is to uncover as much as possible the evolutionary processes of protein sequences that took place throughout the whole tree of life and that affected the evolution of a protein family. We have already demonstrated in a previous work that the problem of functional annotation is inherent to the ability of uncovering such paths. Now, we shall extend this approach to large scale genome annotation by considering 11 different protein databases, constituted by about 10^9 protein sequences, and by producing a large pool of diversified probabilistic models coding for about 10^7 evolutionary protein pathways. Such models will be used to search for specific domains in genomes to be annotated. Our previous methodology needs to be fundamentally improved to deal with this large amount of biological data. In this project, we shall work on the algorithms to reduce the space of models and the search complexity, and we shall implement some important algorithmic changes towards the realization of a powerful integrated annotation tool.</p>

<p>Where: This project is run on the Laboratoire de Biologie Computationnelle et Quantitative UMR7238 CNRS-UPMC – Analytical Genomics team, headed by A.Carbone. It is co-advised with Pierre-Henri Wuillemin, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6 – Equipe DECISION.</p>

<p>Start date: September 1st, 2014<br />Contact Person: Alessandra Carbone<br />Contact: alessandra.carbone@lip6.fr</p>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2024 15:59:46 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/44551/bioinformatic-tools-for-pathogens-informatics-at-cvr</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Bioinformatic tools for pathogens informatics at CVR]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<div><div><div><div><div><p>Novel sequencing and analytical approaches focused on studying viruses and virus-host interactions. Below you will find summaries and links to a number of bioinformatic tools that have been developed @ CVR.</p></div><div><h3><a href="http://giffordlabcvr.github.io/DIGS-tool/" target="_blank" title="DIGS">DIGS</a></h3></div><div><p>The database-integrated genome-screening (DIGS) tool provides a framework for implementing automated in silico screening of sequence databases using BLAST in combination with a relational database (MySQL).</p></div><div><h3><a href="https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/software/discvr/" target="" title="DisCVR">DisCVR</a></h3></div><div><p>DisCVR is a Diagnostic tool for detecting known human viruses in clinical samples from Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. The tool uses a simple and straightforward Graphical User Interface and is optimized on Windows OS without compromising speed and accuracy.</p></div><div><h3><a href="http://josephhughes.github.io/DiversiTools/" target="_blank" title="DiversiTools">DiversiTools</a></h3></div><div><p>DiversiTools is a computational tool that is specifically tailored towards viral HTS data sets and the analysis of the underlying viral populations that they represent. It was initially developed in collaboration with a number of virologists interested in characterising the intra-host diversity of viral populations and studying their evolution across transmission chains at the micro-evolutionary scale.</p></div><div><h3><a href="http://glue-tools.cvr.gla.ac.uk/" target="_blank" title="GLUE">GLUE</a></h3></div><div><p>GLUE is a flexible data-centric bioinformatics environment for virus sequence data, with a focus on virus evolution and genomic variation. GLUE has been applied to a range of viruses. A GLUE-based resource focused on Hepatitis C virus is HCV-GLUE.</p></div><div><h3><a href="https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/tanoti/" target="_blank" title="Tanoti">Tanoti</a></h3></div><div><p>Tanoti is a BLAST guided reference based short read aligner. It is developed for maximising alignment in highly variable next generation sequence data sets (Illumina).</p></div><div><h3><a href="https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/victree/" target="_blank" title="VicTREE">ViCTree</a></h3></div><div><p>ViCTree is a bioinformatic framework that automatically selects new candidate virus sequences from GenBank, generates multiple sequence alignments, calculates a maximum likelihood phylogeny and integrates the sequences into the existing phylogenetic trees.&nbsp;<span>For more information click&nbsp;</span><a href="https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/victree_web/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><h3><a href="https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/software/viral-host-predictor/" target="" title="Viral Host Predictor">Viral Host Predictor</a></h3></div><div><p>Viral Host Predictor provides a fast and simple way to predict the hosts and vectors of RNA viruses from viral sequences.</p></div><div><h3><a href="https://github.com/salvocamiolo/GRACy/releases/tag/v0.4.4" target="_blank" title="GRACy">GRACy</a></h3></div><div><p>GRACy is a bioinformatic tool designed for the analysis of Illumina data originated from Human cytomegalovirus samples. GRACy can be used to perform read quality filtering, genotyping, de novo assembly, variant detection, annotation and data submission to public database.</p></div><div><h3><a href="https://github.com/salvocamiolo/LoReTTA/releases/tag/v0.1" target="_blank" title="LoReTTA">LoReTTA</a></h3></div><div><p>LoReTTA (Long Read Template Targeted Assembler) is a reference assisted de novo assembler specifically designed to deal with PacBio reads generated from viral genomes.&nbsp;</p></div><div><h3><a href="https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/software/bingleseq/" target="" title="BingleSeq">BingleSeq</a></h3></div><div><p>BingleSeq is a R-package enables the user-friendly analysis of count tables obtained by both Bulk RNA-Seq and single-cell RNA-Seq protocols. The development of BingleSeq focused on providing a flexible and intuitive user experience.</p></div></div></div></div></div>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Abhi</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2014 03:01:21 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/13842/swabs-to-genomes-a-comprehensive-workflow</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Swabs to Genomes: A Comprehensive Workflow]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>The sequencing, assembly, and basic analysis of microbial genomes, once a painstaking and expensive undertaking, has become almost trivial for research labs with access to standard molecular biology and computational tools. However, there are a wide variety of options available for DNA library preparation and sequencing, and inexperience with bioinformatics can pose a significant barrier to entry for many who may be interested in microbial genomics. The objective of the present study was to design, test, troubleshoot, and publish a simple, comprehensive workflow from the collection of an environmental sample (a swab) to a published microbial genome; empowering even a lab or classroom with limited resources and bioinformatics experience to perform it.</p><p>Address of the bookmark: <a href="https://peerj.com/preprints/453.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://peerj.com/preprints/453.pdf</a></p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 06:16:06 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Assistant Professor 	in Bioinformatics at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi]]></title>
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<p>Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas ,New Delhi – 110016</p>

<p>ROLLING ADVERTISEMENT NO. 01/2014(E-1)<br />ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE POSITIONS OF ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CANDIDATES CAN APPLY ANY TIME DURING THE YEAR.</p>

<p>IIT Delhi invites applications from qualified Indian Nationals, Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) and Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) for the following positions in the various Departments/Centres/Schools (in the fields<br />mentioned alongwith them):<br />Post Pay Band Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor (on Contract) Rs.15600-39100 (PB-3) (Minimum pay of Rs.30000/-)+ AGP Rs.8000/-</p>

<p>The following norms will be followed for fixing the basic pay + AGP for Assistant Professors appointed on<br />contract with Ph.D but experience of 3 years or less:-<br />Type Qualification &amp; Experience on the date of joining<br />Assistant Professor (Contract) PB3 (Rs. 15,600-39,100).</p>

<p>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:<br />Ph.D. with First class at the preceding degree or equivalent in the appropriate branch with very good academic record throughout. A minimum of three years industrial/research/teaching experience, excluding however, the experience gained while Pursuing Ph. D. The candidates should preferably be below<br />35 years of age for male and 38 years for female ( to be relaxed by 5 years in case of persons with physical disability, SC/ST and 3 years in case of OBC-NCL).</p>

<p>Qualified persons include:<br />(a) Indian Nationals,<br />(b) Foreign Nationals who are “Persons of Indian Origin” (PIO) or Overseas<br />Citizens of India (OCI), in whose case, if selected, permission will be sought from Govt. of India<br />before he/she can join IIT Delhi, or<br />(c) Other Foreign Nationals, in whose case, if selected, appointment will be on a contract basis for up to 5 (five) years subject to permission from the Govt. of India before he/she can join IIT Delhi.<br />(d) Institute specifically encourages applicants from SC/ST/OBC category as well as persons<br />with disability to apply for these positions. </p>

<p>AMAR NATH &amp; SHASHI KHOSLA SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:<br />Computational Neuroscience, Medical Applications of Information Technologies, Computational &amp; Systems Biology, Machine to Machine (M2M) Technologies, Embedded Systems &amp; Sensors, Computer Security.<br />KUSUMA SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES:<br />In-silico Biology Applications, Systems Biology, Infection Biology, Neurodegeneration. </p>

<p>More at http://www.iitd.ac.in/sites/default/files/jobs/faculty/spl-areas-rolling-advt.pdf</p>

<p>http://www.iitd.ac.in/content/faculty-positions</p>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:45:52 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Level B/C) in Bioinformatics]]></title>
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<p>Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Level B/C) in Synthetic Biology, Research Fellow (Level B) in Synthetic Biology &amp; Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Level B/C) in Bioinformatics</p>

<p>Apply now Job no: 494553<br />Work type: Continuing full time<br />Vacancy type: External Vacancy, Internal Vacancy<br />Categories: Academic - Teaching and Research</p>

<p>The Faculty of Science is launching a new and innovative branch of biological science at Macquarie University – Synthetic Biology. Synthetic biology combines engineering principles with molecular biological approaches to design and construct biological devices and systems. Recent highlights in this field include the design and synthesis of a functional bacterial genome and a yeast chromosome, and generation of synthetic bacterial cells. The rational synthesis of "designer" organisms yield important insights into how organisms work and has the potential to revolutionise biotechnological applications in areas such as bioenergy and biomanufacturing.</p>

<p>Find more at http://jobs.mq.edu.au/cw/en/job/494553/lecturersenior-lecturer-level-bc-in-synthetic-biology-research-fellow-level-b-in-synthetic-biology-lecturersenior-lecturer-level-bc-in-bioinformatics</p>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:16:22 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[PhD opportunity at Université de Liège - Belgium]]></title>
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<p>The Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Unit of Université de Liège (Belgium) is looking for a highly motivated master student with programming skills for a PhD thesis project (4 years, fully funded) with the goal of designing computational tools that use literature, genomic and structural data in order to infer regulatory and metabolic networks.  </p>

<p>Applicants are invited to send their resume and a recommendation letter to Prof. Patrick Meyer (more details at   www.biosys.ulg.ac.be )</p>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 04:19:40 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Internship in Computational Biology]]></title>
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<p>We are looking for a motivated and autonomous intern to study gene expression in hybrid organisms. The student will work on natural hybrids of two or three different species of fungal endosymbionts of grasses. The pupose of this project is to build software allowing us to identify the genomic origin of expressed genes. To do that, the intern will have to analyze expression data (from RNA-seq) to find SNPs on the sequenced mRNAs allowing to identify from which of the parental genome the expressed gene come from. The data will have to be saved in a database using the standard BioSQL schema.</p>

<p>This job will allow the intern to become more familiar with new biological and bioinformatics tools like next generation sequencing, RNA-Seq data analysis and comparative genomics.</p>

<p>To apply for this position, send the following documents (in PDF format) to Dr Pierre-Yves Dupont (email p.y.dupont@massey.ac.nz):</p>

<p>1. A short cover letter.<br />2. A curriculum vitae, with transcript details.<br />3. The names and contact details of two referees willing to provide a confidential letter of recommendation upon request.</p>

<p>Informal enquiries are welcome. Formal applications are due by Sunday 2nd December 2012.<br />Requirements: </p>

<p>This position requires a good understanding of genetic problems, a good command of at least one scripting language (Perl, Python...), a basic knowledge of MySQL or any relational database management system. Knowledge in biological programming libraries (BioPython, BioPerl, BioRuby...), Java, C++ or any compiled language is an asset but not required. Undergraduate or Master degree is required.<br />Contact Information: </p>

<p>Dr. Pierre-Yves Dupont<br />Institute of Molecular BioSciences<br />Massey University<br />Private Bag 11 222<br />Palmerston North 4442<br />NEW ZEALAND</p>

<p>http://massey.genomicus.com/<br />p.y.dupont@massey.ac.nz</p>

<p>Information about the Institute of Molecular BioSciences (http://imbs.massey.ac.nz/) and the Computational Biology Research Group (http://massey.genomicus.com/) is available online. For more information about the position, you can contact Dr Pierre-Yves Dupont (email p.y.dupont@massey.ac.nz).</p>
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