Search results for "GENOME"
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A parallel and sensitive software tool for methylation analysis on multicore platforms.
2015
Abstract Motivation: DNA methylation analysis suffers from very long processing time, as the advent of Next-Generation Sequencers has shifted the bottleneck of genomic studies from the sequencers that obtain the DNA samples to the software that performs the analysis of these samples. The existing software for methylation analysis does not seem to scale efficiently neither with the size of the dataset nor with the length of the reads to be analyzed. As it is expected that the sequencers will provide longer and longer reads in the near future, efficient and scalable methylation software should be developed. Results: We present a new software tool, called HPG-Methyl, which efficiently maps bis…
A web application for the unspecific detection of differentially expressed DNA regions in strand-specific expression data
2015
Abstract Genomic technologies allow laboratories to produce large-scale data sets, either through the use of next-generation sequencing or microarray platforms. To explore these data sets and obtain maximum value from the data, researchers view their results alongside all the known features of a given reference genome. To study transcriptional changes that occur under a given condition, researchers search for regions of the genome that are differentially expressed between different experimental conditions. In order to identify these regions several algorithms have been developed over the years, along with some bioinformatic platforms that enable their use. However, currently available appli…
Long read alignment based on maximal exact match seeds
2012
Abstract Motivation: The explosive growth of next-generation sequencing datasets poses a challenge to the mapping of reads to reference genomes in terms of alignment quality and execution speed. With the continuing progress of high-throughput sequencing technologies, read length is constantly increasing and many existing aligners are becoming inefficient as generated reads grow larger. Results: We present CUSHAW2, a parallelized, accurate, and memory-efficient long read aligner. Our aligner is based on the seed-and-extend approach and uses maximal exact matches as seeds to find gapped alignments. We have evaluated and compared CUSHAW2 to the three other long read aligners BWA-SW, Bowtie2 an…
Towards next-generation diagnostics for tuberculosis: identification of novel molecular targets by large-scale comparative genomics.
2020
5 páginas, 2 figuras. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The database of non-tuberculous mycobacteria assemblies can be accessed at: 10.5281/zenodo.3374377. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz729
RabbitMash: accelerating hash-based genome analysis on modern multi-core architectures
2020
Abstract Motivation Mash is a popular hash-based genome analysis toolkit with applications to important downstream analyses tasks such as clustering and assembly. However, Mash is currently not able to fully exploit the capabilities of modern multi-core architectures, which in turn leads to high runtimes for large-scale genomic datasets. Results We present RabbitMash, an efficient highly optimized implementation of Mash which can take full advantage of modern hardware including multi-threading, vectorization and fast I/O. We show that our approach achieves speedups of at least 1.3, 9.8, 8.5 and 4.4 compared to Mash for the operations sketch, dist, triangle and screen, respectively. Furtherm…
Two hundred and fifty-four metagenome-assembled bacterial genomes from the bank vole gut microbiota.
2020
Abstract Vertebrate gut microbiota provide many essential services to their host. To better understand the diversity of such services provided by gut microbiota in wild rodents, we assembled metagenome shotgun sequence data from a small mammal, the bank vole Myodes glareolus (Rodentia, Cricetidae). We were able to identify 254 metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) that were at least 50% ( n = 133 MAGs), 80% ( n = 77 MAGs) or 95% ( n = 44 MAGs) complete. As typical for a rodent gut microbiota, these MAGs are dominated by taxa assigned to the phyla Bacteroidetes ( n = 132 MAGs) and Firmicutes ( n = 80), with some Spirochaetes ( n = 15) and Proteobacteria ( n = 11). Based on coverage over…
Physics of the nuclear pore complex: Theory, modeling and experiment
2021
Abstract The hallmark of eukaryotic cells is the nucleus that contains the genome, enclosed by a physical barrier known as the nuclear envelope (NE). On the one hand, this compartmentalization endows the eukaryotic cells with high regulatory complexity and flexibility. On the other hand, it poses a tremendous logistic and energetic problem of transporting millions of molecules per second across the nuclear envelope, to facilitate their biological function in all compartments of the cell. Therefore, eukaryotes have evolved a molecular “nanomachine” known as the Nuclear Pore Complex (NPC). Embedded in the nuclear envelope, NPCs control and regulate all the bi-directional transport between the…
Draft Genome Sequence of the Microbispora sp. Strain ATCC-PTA-5024, Producing the Lantibiotic NAI-107.
2014
ABSTRACT We report the draft genome sequence of Microbispora sp. strain ATCC-PTA-5024, a soil isolate that produces NAI-107, a new lantibiotic with the potential to treat life-threatening infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-positive pathogens. The draft genome of strain Microbispora sp. ATCC-PTA-5024 consists of 8,543,819 bp, with a 71.2% G+C content and 7,860 protein-coding genes.
ChIP-Seq from Limited Starting Material of K562 Cells and Drosophila Neuroblasts Using Tagmentation Assisted Fragmentation Approach
2019
Chromatin immunoprecipitation is extensively used to investigate the epigenetic profile and transcription factor binding sites in the genome. However, when the starting material is limited, the conventional ChIP-Seq approach cannot be implemented. This protocol describes a method that can be used to generate the chromatin profiles from as low as 100 human or 1,000 Drosophila cells. The method employs tagmentation to fragment the chromatin with concomitant addition of sequencing adaptors. The method generates datasets with high signal to noise ratio and can be subjected to standard tools for ChIP-Seq analysis.
Approaches for a Sustainable Use of the Bioactive Potential in Sponges: Analysis of Gene Clusters, Differential Display of mRNA and DNA Chips
2003
In recent years, analyses of the genome organization of marine sponges have begun that have led to the elucidation of selected genes and gene arrangements that exist in gene clusters (e.g. the receptor tyrosine kinase cluster and the allograft inflammatory factor cluster). Most of these studies were performed with the demosponge Suberites domuncula; but Geodia cydonium (Demospongiae), Aphrocallistes vastus (Hexactinellida) and Sycon raphanus (Calcarea) were also investigated. Both S. domuncula and G. cydonium possess a surprisingly large genome of approximately 1.7 pg DNA per haploid set. Taking the high gene density in these sponges into account and considering that predominantly single-co…