Genome Intelligence

I’ve asked Juan to upload data to the class directory on the Centaurus cluster (hpc-student.uncc.edu). So instead of transferring from Dropbox, you can go directly to the cluster and copy the data you need into your working directory. You will find: sequence reads from one of the better chloroplast genome samples generated with our Ion Torrent instrument ERR008613 (a set of paired end Illumina sequence reads from ends of 200bp E. coli fragments) ERR022075 (a set of paired end Illumina…

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In this exercise we will focus primarily on quality analysis and quality control of Illumina sequencing data, since that is the type of NGS data you are currently most likely to encounter in new datasets. You can view older versions of this exercise for tips on how to handle Ion Torrent or 454 data if you encounter that in your work. What sequence data looks like — the FASTQ file NGS read files tend to be distributed in *.fastq format. To…

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Here’s what I do, in order, to set my computer up to be able to install software that we use in the class. Disclaimer: I just got a new work laptop, so it doesn’t have much of an environment on it yet. I can’t know what you’ve done to your computer in the past, and so some of these things may not work for you if your environment’s already like this: Administrator privileges 2. xcode Install the xcode libraries that…

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Mapping short sequence reads to a reference sequence is a common task in genomics. Many different results can be extracted from a mapped sequence, depending on the original experimental design that produced the sequence reads and on the analysis that follows the mapping. For example: a genomic consensus for an individual (against the reference genome for that species) location of SNPs and other variations in one genome relative to the other location of expressed transcripts (coding mRNAs, noncoding RNAs such…

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Why use Prokka? First, because in a benchmark test it has been shown to be as or more accurate at reproducing known annotation than RAST or xBASE2 in most annotation categories. Second, because it’s fast and you can run it on a standard laptop within a short time, while sending your genome out for annotation to the RAST server can take a day or so to return. If you’re interested in learning to use the RAST server, search the site…

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Like last week’s tutorial, this tutorial uses Urban Environmental Genomics Project data. The original version of the tutorial was developed by Anju Lulla for our student interns. Preparation and software installation You can use metaphlan on the cluster and that’s probably the best idea. If you have a reasonably powerful laptop you can run it there on these small data sets. You can download Metaphlan by cloning it (hg/Mercurial): hg clone https://bitbucket.org/biobakery/metaphlan2. Note: this will put metaphlan2’s directory as a…

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