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We introduce a pipeline to easily generate collections of web accessible UCSC genome browsers interrelated by an alignment. Using the alignment, all annotations and the alignment itself can be efficiently viewed with reference to any genome…
Motivation: Modern genomics laboratories generate massive volumes of sequencing data, often resulting in significant storage costs. Genomics storage consists of duplicate files, temporary processing files, and redundant intermediate data.…
The biological significance of genomic features is often context-dependent. We present CruzDB, a fast and intuitive programmatic interface to the UCSC genome browser that facilitates integrative analyses of diverse local and remotely hosted…
Isochores are long genome segments relatively homogeneous in G+C. A heuristic algorithm based on entropic segmentation has been developed by our group, and a web server implementing all the required components is available. However, a…
Biologists who want to analyse their single-cell transcriptomics dataset must install and use specialist software via the command line. This is often impractical for non-bioinformaticians. Whilst the popular CELLxGENE software provides an…
Modern DNA sequencing technologies enable geneticists to rapidly identify genetic variation among many human genomes. However, isolating the minority of variants underlying disease remains an important, yet formidable challenge for medical…
The generation of high-quality assemblies, even for large eukaryotic genomes, has become a routine task for many biologists thanks to recent advances in sequencing technologies. However, the annotation of these assemblies - a crucial step…
Genome data are crucial in modern medicine, offering significant potential for diagnosis and treatment. Thanks to technological advancements, many millions of healthy and diseased genomes have already been sequenced; however, obtaining the…
Background: With the rapid growth of massively parallel sequencing technologies, still more laboratories are utilizing sequenced DNA fragments for genomic analyses. Interpretation of sequencing data is, however, strongly dependent on…
Microbes are essentially yet convolutedly linked with human lives on the earth. They critically interfere in different physiological processes and thus influence overall health status. Studying microbial species is used to be constrained to…
We propose an assembly algorithm {\sc Barnacle} for sequences generated by the clone-based approach. We illustrate our approach by assembling the human genome. Our novel method abandons the original physical-mapping-first framework. As we…
Searching for local sequence patterns is one of the basic tasks in bioinformatics. Sequence patterns might have structural, functional or some other relevance, and numerous methods have been developed to detect and analyze them. These…
Clustering is a difficult and widely-studied data mining task, with many varieties of clustering algorithms proposed in the literature. Nearly all algorithms use a similarity measure such as a distance metric (e.g. Euclidean distance) to…
In our previous work, we demonstrated that it is feasible to perform analysis on mutation signature data without the need for downloads or installations and analyze individual patient data at scale without compromising privacy. Building on…
In recent years the field of genetic programming has made significant advances towards automatic programming. Research and development of contemporary program synthesis methods, such as PushGP and Grammar Guided Genetic Programming, can…
Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have greatly advanced the task of graph classification. Typically, we first build a unified GNN model with graphs in a given training set and then use this unified model to predict labels of all the…
Despite its long-standing popularity and fundamental role in an operating system, the Unix shell has rarely been a subject of academic research. In particular, regardless of the significant progress in compiler testing, there has been…
Computational complexity is a key limitation of genomic analyses. Thus, over the last 30 years, researchers have proposed numerous fast heuristic methods that provide computational relief. Comparing genomic sequences is one of the most…
The search for similar genetic sequences is one of the main bioinformatics tasks. The genetic sequences data banks are growing exponentially and the searching techniques that use linear time are not capable to do the search in the required…
Obtaining a relevant dataset is central to conducting empirical studies in software engineering. However, in the context of mining software repositories, the lack of appropriate tooling for large scale mining tasks hinders the creation of…