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Bioinformatics Resource Centers Systems Biology (Brcs) Centers Fondation Merieux – J Craig Venter Institute Bioinformatics Workshop December 5 – 8, 2017 Module 3: Genomic Data & Sequence Annotations in Public Databases NIH/NIAID Genomics and Bioinformatics Program SlideSource:A.S.Fauci SlideSource:A.S.Fauci Conducts and supports basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases. NIAIDGenomicsProgram Proteomics Systems Sequencing Functional Structural Biology Genomics Genomics Genomic Clinical Functional Systems Sequencing Proteomics Structural Genomic Biology Centers Centers Genomics Research Centers Centers Centers Bioinformatics BioinformaticsResource Centers GenomicResearchResources Genomic/OmicsDataSets,Databases,BioinformaticsTools,Biomarkers,3DStructures,ProteinClones,PredictiveModels Toaddresskeyquestionsin microbiologyandinfectious disease NIAID Genome Sequencing Center Influenza Genome Sequencing Project at JCVI • 2004: 80 influenza genomes in GenBank • 3OCT2017: ~20,000 influenza genomes sequenced at JCVI • 75% complete influenza genomes in GenBank by JCVI Slide source: Maria Giovanni * Genome Sequencing Centers Bioinformatics Resource Centers Systems Biology (BRCs) Centers Structure Genomics Centers Clinical Proteomics Centers Courtesy of Alison Yao, DMID *Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRCs) Goal: Provide integrated bioinformatics resources in support of basic and applied infectious diseases research • Data and metadata management and integration solutions • Computational analysis and visualization tools • Work spaces and web interfaces • Training and outreach activities • Free bioinformatics services • Rapid response to new and emerging pandemic threats Courtesy of Alison Yao, DMID Influenza Research Database (IRD) • Comprehensive, integrated www.fludb.org database about influenza virus research and surveillance • Funded through the U.S. NIH, specifically the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) • Free and open access with no restrictions • Focus on data curation, aggregation, integration and novel data generation • Suite of analysis and visualization tools • Personal workbench areas • Developed by a team of research • Cited in 569 scientific publications (as of 7NOV2017) scientists, bioinformaticians and • 1484 sessions per week (Google Analytics - 2016 average) professional software developers • 3.7 million sequences downloaded per month Virus Pathogenwww.viprbrc.org Resource (ViPR) • Cited in 244 scientific publications (as of 7NOV2017) • 1638 sessions per week (Google Analytics - 2016 average) Bacterial Bioinformatics Resource Center Sequence Annotations Database Data Available Enriched Sequence Annotations IRD/ViPR vs GenBank? • metadata standardization • genomic sequence curation ¡ potential sequencing artifacts • protein prediction ¡ influenza virus: variant proteins ¡ polyprotein-generating viruses: mature peptides • important protein region prediction ¡ Sequence Features (phenotype markers), domains, epitopes • genome browser • virus classification ¡ clade, subtype, genotype metadata standardization protein prediction clade classification Metadata Standardization Influenza Sequence Auto-curation curated reference alignment • captures the natural variation in the appropriate type/segment/ subtype category flags potential sequencing artifacts: • Conserved Terminal Sequences (CTS) • Non-Coding Regions (NCR) • Coding Sequence (CDS) 11/9/2017 Influenza Research Database - Nucleotide Sequence Search Results Loading Influenza Research Database...About Us Community Announcements Links Resources Support Sign Out [email protected] SEARCH DATA ANALYZE & VISUALIZE WORKBENCH SUBMIT DATA HELP Home My Workbench Working Set (auto_curation_examples) Working Set - auto_curation_examples-Segment Data Type: Segment Created: 11/09/2017 Modified: 11/09/2017 Access: Private Description: Edit Working Set Details11/9/2017 Influenza Research Database - Nucleotide Sequence Search Results 11/9/2017 Influenza Research Database - Phylogenetic Tree IRD uses an automated pipeline to detect potential sequence artifacts or poor quality by aligning Influenza virus nucleotide sequences Loading Influenza Research Database...About Us Community Announcements Links Resources Support Sign Out submitted to the resource to a curated profile of like sequences. The pipeline sets flags indicating the category and location of artifacts, or the type of poor quality sequence. These flags are summarized in sequence search results and working sets as follows: Ambig­Seq (excessive Ns or ambiguity symbols, or insufficient similarity to the profile); Flag­NCR (issues only in non­coding regions);[email protected] Loading Influenza Research Database...About Us Community Announcements Links Resources Support Sign Out Flag­CDS (issues in CDS, possibly also in NCR); Pass (no issues). SEARCH DATA ANALYZE & VISUALIZE WORKBENCH SUBMIT DASee TA SOPHELP for further details. 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Phylogenetic Tree These flags are summarized in sequence search results and working sets as follows: Ambig­Seq (excessive Ns or ambiguity symbols, or insufficient similarity to the profile); Flag­NCR (issues only in non­coding regions); Select all 4 segmentsFlag­CDS (issues in CDS, possibly also in NCR); Pass (no issues). See SOP for further details. The "Quick Tree" option uses PhyML [ Guindon, S. and Gascuel, O., (2003) Syst Biol. 52: 696­704 ] and IRD­defined settings to infer phylogenies based on sequences for Your Selected Items: 4 items selected | Deselect All Curation datasets of at most 1000 sequences. Protein Sequence The "Custom TComplete ree" option ofSegment fers a choice between the PhyML or RaxML [Stamatakis, A. et al. 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