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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/19272/translate2r</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 01:16:06 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/19272/translate2r</link>
	<title><![CDATA[translate2R]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>After their presentation at the international &ldquo;user!&rdquo; conference, data analysis specialist <a href="http://www.eoda.de/en/" target="_blank">eoda</a> starts the public alpha testing of <a href="http://www.eoda.de/en/translate2R.html" target="_blank">translate2R</a>. With the start of alpha testing the innovative migration solution by the company hailing from Kassel discards the working title &ldquo;translateR&rdquo; and takes on the final product brand name &ldquo;translate2R&rdquo;. translate2R is a service for the automated translation of SPSS&reg; syntax to R code, therefore supporting data analysts with a quick and low-risk migration to R.</p><p>The manual translation of many, frequently rather complex SPSS scripts often presents itself as a tedious and error-prone task, and represents a rather large obstacle for many analysts and companies to migrate to a modern, open source data management and analysis tool like R. With translate2R this hurdle will be diminished substantially.</p><p>Find at https://service.eoda.de/translater/?lang=en</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/36191/bioinformatics-workshops-no-coding-required</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:06:01 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/36191/bioinformatics-workshops-no-coding-required</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Bioinformatics Workshops - NO CODING REQUIRED]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://edu.t-bio.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/t-bioinfo-bioinformatics-workshops.jpg" alt="Bioinformatics Workshops T-BioInfo" width="568" height="319" style="vertical-align: middle; border: 0px;"></p><p>Pine Biotech, Inc., a US-based startup working with the Tauber Bioinformatics Research Center is offering a full curriculum online preparing students without any technical background for real-life challenges with large scale biomedical data. Workshops on processing, analysis and biomedical interpretation of Next Generation Sequencing data cover important up-to-date algorithms and machine learning approaches. The most important thing is that there are virtually no pre-requisites such as coding, biostatistics or advanced medical skills. If you know what gene is and how the genes are expressed, you are ready to take the courses or join our workshops. Learn more:&nbsp;https://edu.t-bio.info/workshops/</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>eliabrodsky</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/26395/biolinux-ubuntu-desktop-folder-and-files-disappeared</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:40:41 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/26395/biolinux-ubuntu-desktop-folder-and-files-disappeared</link>
	<title><![CDATA[BioLinux Ubuntu Desktop folder and files disappeared !!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Restarted my BioLinux ubuntu computer after an update, and when I logged back in, I noticed that all of my files went missing. Instead of Desktop folder, icons of all of my home folder are showed on desktop.</p><p>Then I thaught it migh be a problem of graphical display and I opened the terminal out of curiosity, and I found out that there is no ~/Desktop folder at all. What happened? What do I need to do?</p><p>Then I google the problem and found this is a very common problem after updates. To fix this problem, follow these steps:</p><p>You need to edit the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file, and make sure the contents of the file are like the following:<br /><br />XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"<br />XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"<br />XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"<br />XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Share"<br />XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"<br />XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"<br />XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"<br />XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"<br /><br />Then restart nautilus:<br /><br />killall nautilus<br /><br />or<br /><br />nautilus -q<br /><br />Then, open nautilus via Unity menu (press the Super key) or using the run command (Alt+F2)</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jit</dc:creator>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 15:48:14 -0500</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics]]></title>
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<p>The focus of the bioinformatics group is to use computational approaches to gain an insight into genome evolution in primates.</p>

<p>http://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/bioinformatics/overview.html?Fsize=0%2C%20%40%2F%27</p>

<p>Kelso Group<br />Department of Evolutionary Genetics<br />Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology<br />Deutscher Platz 6<br />04103 Leipzig<br />Germany<br />Phone: +49 341 3550 500</p>

<p>Job: <br />http://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/bioinformatics/jobs.html?Fsize=0%2C%2B%40</p>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/37627/setting-python-version-as-default-on-linux</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2018 10:15:47 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/37627/setting-python-version-as-default-on-linux</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Setting python version as default on Linux]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>If you have a later version than 2.6 you'll need to set 2.6 as the default Python. Later versions would be 2.7 and 3.1; see what you have by typing</p><pre>python -V
</pre><p><span>at the terminal. For purposes of this example we'll assume you have 3.1 installed. You'll next need to execute the following commands:</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><pre>sudo apt-get install python2.6 idle-python2.6
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3.1 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.6 10
sudo update-alternatives --config python
</pre><p>This last command will allow you to choose which version of python to use by default. If you have done everything above correctly, python2.6 should already be set as the default. If it is not, choose it to be the default. From now on, running python should start version 2.6.</p><div><p>Undoing These Changes</p><p>In some cases (e.g., installing or updating certain packages), you'll get an error message if you've run the commands above. To update these packages, you'll have to temporarily undo these changes. Here's how to do that:</p><pre>sudo update-alternatives --remove-all python
sudo ln -s python3.1 /usr/bin/python
</pre><p>Once you're done updating these packages, execute the commands at the top to set python2.6 as the default again.</p></div>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Nayak</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/40768/linux-advantages</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 06:27:29 -0600</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/40768/linux-advantages</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Linux advantages]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/07/30/ditching-windows-heres-how-ubuntu-updates-your-pc-and-why-its-better/#7aa6fa5f7c23</p><p>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/07/23/5-reasons-you-should-switch-from-windows-to-linux-right-now/#70c74923777b</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Rahul Agarwal</dc:creator>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 07:40:07 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/43911/slurm-commands</link>
	<title><![CDATA[SLURM Commands]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<h3>SLURM commands</h3><p>The following table shows SLURM commands on the SOE cluster.</p><table border="1">
<thead>
<tr><th>Command</th><th>Description</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><strong>sbatch</strong></td>
<td>Submit batch scripts to the cluster</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>scancel</strong></td>
<td>Signal jobs or job steps that are under the control of Slurm.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>sinfo</strong></td>
<td>View information about SLURM nodes and partitions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>squeue</strong></td>
<td>View information about jobs located in the SLURM scheduling queue</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>smap</strong></td>
<td>Graphically view information about SLURM jobs, partitions, and set configurations parameters</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>sqlog</strong></td>
<td>View information about running and finished jobs</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>sacct</strong></td>
<td>View resource accounting information for finished and running jobs</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>sstat</strong></td>
<td>View resource accounting information for running jobs</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table><p><span>For more information, run&nbsp;</span><strong>man</strong><span>&nbsp;on the commands above. See some examples below.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>1. Info about the partitions and nodes</strong></span><span></span><br /><span>List all the partitions available to you and the nodes therein:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>sinfo
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>Nodes in state&nbsp;</span><tt>idle</tt><span>&nbsp;can accept new jobs.</span><br /><br /><span>Show a partition configuratuin, for example,&nbsp;</span><tt>SOE_main</tt><span></span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>scontrol show partition=SOE_main
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>Show current info about a specific node:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>scontrol show node=&lt;nodename&gt;
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>You can also specify a group of nodes in the command above. For example, if your MPI job is running across soenode05,06,35,36, you can execute the command below to get the info on the nodes you are interested in:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>scontrol show node=soenode[05-06,35-36]
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>An informative parameter in the output to look at would be CPULoad. It allows you to see how your application utilizes the CPUs on the running nodes.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>2. Submit scripts</strong></span><span></span><br /><span>The header in a submit script specifies job name, partition (queue), time limit, memory allocation, number of nodes, number of cores, and files to collect standard output and error at run time, for example</span></p><div><table border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>#!/bin/bash

#SBATCH --job-name=OMP_run     # job name, "OMP_run"
#SBATCH --partition=SOE_main   # partition (queue)
#SBATCH -t 0-2:00              # time limit: (D-HH:MM) 
#SBATCH --mem=32000            # memory per node in MB 
#SBATCH --nodes=1              # number of nodes
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=16   # number of cores
#SBATCH --output=slurm.out     # file to collect standard output
#SBATCH --error=slurm.err      # file to collect standard errors
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>If the time limit is not specified in the submit script, SLURM will assign the default run time, 3 days. This means the job will be terminated by SLURM in 72 hrs. The maximum allowed run time is two weeks,&nbsp;</span><tt>14-0:00</tt><span>.</span><br /><span>If the memory limit is not requested, SLURM will assign the default 16 GB. The maximum allowed memory per node is 128 GB. To see how much RAM per node your job is using, you can run commands&nbsp;</span><tt>sacct</tt><span>&nbsp;or&nbsp;</span><tt>sstat</tt><span>&nbsp;to query MaxRSS for the job on the node - see examples below.</span><br /><span>Depending on a type of application you need to run, the submit script may contain commands to create a temporary space on a computational node -&nbsp;</span><a href="http://ecs.rutgers.edu/file_systems.html">see the discussion about using the file systems on the cluster.</a><span></span><br /><span>Then it sets the environment specific to the application and starts the application on one or multiple nodes - see sbatch sample scripts in directory&nbsp;</span><tt>/usr/local/Samples</tt><span>&nbsp;on soemaster1.hpc.rutgers.edu.</span><br /><span>You can submit your job to the cluster with&nbsp;</span><tt>sbatch</tt><span>&nbsp;command:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>sbatch myscript.sh
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>3. Query job information</strong></span><span></span><br /><span>List all currently submitted jobs in running and pending states for a user:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>squeue -u &lt;username&gt;
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>Command&nbsp;</span><tt>squeue</tt><span>&nbsp;can be run with format options to expose specific information, for example, when pending job #706 is scheduled to start running:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>squeue -j 706 --format="%S"
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><div><table border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>START_TIME
2015-04-30T09:54:32
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>More info can be shown by placing additional format options, for example:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>squeue -j 706 --format="%i %P %j %u %T %l %C %S"
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><div><table border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>JOBID PARTITION   NAME    USER STATE   TIMELIMIT  CPUS START_TIME
706   SOE_main  Par_job_3 mike PENDING 3-00:00:00 64   2015-04-30T09:54:32
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>To see when all the jobs, pending in the queue, are scheduled to start:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>squeue --start 
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><br /><span>List all running and completed jobs for a user</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>sqlog -u &lt;username&gt;
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>or</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>sqlog -j &lt;JobID&gt;
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>The following appreviations are used for the job states:</span></p><pre>       CA   CANCELLED      Job was cancelled.

       CD   COMPLETED      Job completed normally.

       CG   COMPLETING     Job is in the process of completing.

       F    FAILED         Job termined abnormally.

       NF   NODE_FAIL      Job terminated due to node failure.

       PD   PENDING        Job is pending allocation.

       R    RUNNING        Job currently has an allocation.

       S    SUSPENDED      Job is suspended.

       TO   TIMEOUT        Job terminated upon reaching its time limit.
</pre><p><span>You can specify the fields you would like to see in the output of&nbsp;</span><tt>sqlog</tt><span>:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>sqlog --format=list
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>The command below, for example, provides Job ID, user name, exit state, start date-time, and end date-time for job #2831:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>sqlog -j 2831 --format=jid,user,state,start,end
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>List status info for a currently running job:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>sstat -j &lt;jobid&gt;
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>A formatted output can be used to gain only a specific info, for example, the maximum resident RAM usage on a node:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>sstat --format="JobID,MaxRSS" -j &lt;jobid&gt;
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>To get statistics on completed jobs by jobID:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>sacct --format="JobID,JobName,MaxRSS,Elapsed" -j &lt;jobid&gt;
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>To view the same information for all jobs of a user:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>sacct --format="JobID,JobName,MaxRSS,Elapsed" -u &lt;username&gt;
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>To print a list of fields that can be specified with the&nbsp;</span><tt>--format</tt><span>&nbsp;option:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>sacct --helpformat
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>For example, to get Job ID, Job name, Exit state, start date-time, and end date-time for job #2831:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>sacct -j 2831 --format="JobID,JobName,State,Start,End"
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>Another useful command to gain information about a running job is&nbsp;</span><tt>scontrol</tt><span>:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>scontrol show job=&lt;jobid&gt;
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>4. Cancel a job</strong></span><span></span><br /><span>To cancel one job:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>scancel &lt;jobid&gt;
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>To cancel one job and delete the TMP directory created by the submit script on a node:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>sdel &lt;jobid&gt;
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>To cancel all the jobs for a user:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>scancel -u &lt;username&gt;
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><p><span>To cancel one or more jobs by name:</span></p><div><table border="0" style="background-color: #D0D0D0;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>scancel --name &lt;myJobName&gt;
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Shruti Paniwala</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/11592/xampp-starting-apache-fail-ubuntu</guid>
	<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2014 05:52:35 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/11592/xampp-starting-apache-fail-ubuntu</link>
	<title><![CDATA[XAMPP: Starting Apache fail Ubuntu]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Once you install XAMMP on linux, the most common problem you face is Apache failure. To fix the issues please use following command to first stop and then again start it.</p><p>sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop</p><p>sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop</p><p>sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd stop</p><p>sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>PhpMyAdmin &ldquo;Wrong permissions on configuration file, should not be world writable!&rdquo;</strong></p><p>Once the Xammp is installed, it might be possible to set up the configuration file in writable mode. Try the following steps:</p><p>Just chmod 0755 the file</p><pre>sudo chmod 0755 config.inc.php</pre>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Ram Yash Pal</dc:creator>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://bioinformaticsonline.com/videolist/watch/12288/genomic-medicine-bruce-korf-2014</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:58:44 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/videolist/watch/12288/genomic-medicine-bruce-korf-2014</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Genomic Medicine - Bruce Korf (2014)]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<iframe width="" height="" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FYldIrsXHKw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>May 21, 2014 - Current Topics in Genome Analysis 2014
A lecture series covering contemporary areas in genomics and bioinformatics. More: http://www.genome.gov/COURSE2014]]></description>
	
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	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:38:10 -0500</pubDate>
	<link>https://bioinformaticsonline.com/blog/view/14011/dynamic-chromosome-breakpoints</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Dynamic chromosome breakpoints !!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>Cell division involves the distribution of identical genetic material, DNA, to two daughters&rsquo; cells. During this process, duplicated deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) goes through a condensation and decondensation process. This is followed by nuclear envelope dissolution, mitotic spindle assembly, migration of the sister chromatid pairs to the metaphase plate, division and segregation of identical sets of chromosomes into daughter nuclei and nuclear envelope reformation.</p><p>The vital metaphase stage of cell division, when the sister chromatids migrated to the centre and lined up in a row, and pulled apart using attached microtubules in such a way that half the DNA ends up in each daughter cell. However, before the mitotic spindle‐mediated movement gets start and pulled DNA apart, the chromosomes are free to undergo <strong>recombination </strong>which involves the exchange of genetic material either between multiple chromosomes or between different regions of the same chromosome.</p><p><img src="http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/var/sciencelearn/storage/images/contexts/uniquely-me/sci-media/images/chromosomes-crossing-over/464438-1-eng-NZ/Chromosomes-crossing-over.jpg" alt="image" width="504" height="342" style="border: 0px; border: 0px;"></p><p>During recombination, the precise breakage of each strand, exchange between the strands, and sealing of the resulting recombined molecules happens. The &ldquo;<strong>chromosomal breakpoints</strong>&rdquo; refers to these places where they break. Mostly, this process occurs with a high degree of accuracy at high frequency in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. But occasionally this &ldquo;break and sealing/ break and reattach&rdquo; process goes wrong and the reattachment happens in the wrong place which usually create disaster (with few exceptions).These chromosome disaster or abnormalities involve the gain, loss or rearrangement of visible amounts of genetic material during cell division. These abnormalities are of two type, the first one is numerical abnormalities &nbsp;where severe disorders are caused by the loss or gain of whole chromosomes, which affect the copy number of hundreds or even thousands of genes. The second are structural abnormalities which can be unbalanced or balanced. The former are similar to numerical abnormalities in that genetic material is either gained or lost. The natural defects in chromosome segregation are linked to cancer and several genetic diseases (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_disorders). Therefore, the enzymes involved in regulating cell division are still the attractive drug targets for many diseases.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Chromosomal_translocations.svg" alt="image" width="424" height="331" style="border: 0px; border: 0px;"></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Apart from certain chromosome abnormalities, these &ldquo;crossing over&rdquo; of segments of maternal and paternal chromosomes to form hybrid chromosomes have some evolutionary importance and considered as a driver of genetic variation. Moreover, the chromosome breakage in evolution is considered to be non-random in nature(http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.0020014). In addition the study of breakpoint regions and non-breakpoint (stable) regions of chromosomes indicates both the regions evolved in distinctly different ways ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2675965/). These breakage may lead to genetic diseases or participate to chromosomal rearranmgnets and contributed in development of new species.</p><p>I will try to explain the genome hotspots/Evolutionary Breakpoint Regions(EBRs)/fragile regions/weak fragments/&nbsp; in my next blog.</p><p><strong>Software for recombination detection:</strong></p><p><strong>RAT</strong> http://cbr.jic.ac.uk/dicks/software/RAT/</p><p><strong>Breakpointer</strong> https://github.com/ruping/Breakpointer</p><p><strong>DRP</strong> http://web.cbio.uct.ac.za/~darren/rdp.html</p><p><strong>RB-finder</strong> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18707535</p><p><strong>LDhat2.0</strong> http://ldhat.sourceforge.net/LDhat2.0/instructions.shtml</p><p><strong>Reference:</strong></p><p>http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/genetic-recombination-514#</p><p>Image: Wikipedia , sciencelearn.org.nz</p><p><strong>Recommended Articles:</strong></p><p>http://www.friendshipcircle.org/blog/2012/05/22/13-chromosomal-disorders-youve-never-heard-of/</p><p>http://web.udl.es/usuaris/e4650869/docencia/segoncicle/genclin98/recursos_classe_%28pdf%29/revisionsPDF/chromosyndromes.pdf</p><p>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2775595/table/T2/</p><p>http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/disorders/chromosomal/</p><p>http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/learning_basket/biology/cc&amp;cd.pdf</p>]]></description>
	<dc:creator>Jitendra Narayan</dc:creator>
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