A Streamlined Approach to Pathway Analysis from RNA-Sequencing Data
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Analysis of the Impact of Sequencing Errors on Blast Using Fault Injection
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship Repository ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF SEQUENCING ERRORS ON BLAST USING FAULT INJECTION BY SO YOUN LEE THESIS Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013 Urbana, Illinois Adviser: Professor Ravishankar K. Iyer ABSTRACT This thesis investigates the impact of sequencing errors in post-sequence computational analyses, including local alignment search and multiple sequence alignment. While the error rates of sequencing technology are commonly reported, the significance of these numbers cannot be fully grasped without putting them in the perspective of their impact on the downstream analyses that are used for biological research, forensics, diagnosis of diseases, etc. I approached the quantification of the impact using fault injection. Faults were injected in the input sequence data, and the analyses were run. Change in the output of the analyses was interpreted as the impact of faults, or errors. Three commonly used algorithms were used: BLAST, SSEARCH, and ProbCons. The main contributions of this work are the application of fault injection to the reliability analysis in bioinformatics and the quantitative demonstration that a small error rate in the sequence data can alter the output of the analysis in a significant way. BLAST and SSEARCH are both local alignment search tools, but BLAST is a heuristic implementation, while SSEARCH is based on the optimal Smith-Waterman algorithm. -
Advancing Solutions to the Carbohydrate Sequencing Challenge † † † ‡ § Christopher J
Perspective Cite This: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 14463−14479 pubs.acs.org/JACS Advancing Solutions to the Carbohydrate Sequencing Challenge † † † ‡ § Christopher J. Gray, Lukasz G. Migas, Perdita E. Barran, Kevin Pagel, Peter H. Seeberger, ∥ ⊥ # ⊗ ∇ Claire E. Eyers, Geert-Jan Boons, Nicola L. B. Pohl, Isabelle Compagnon, , × † Göran Widmalm, and Sabine L. Flitsch*, † School of Chemistry & Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, U.K. ‡ Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universitaẗ Berlin, Takustraße 3, 14195 Berlin, Germany § Biomolecular Systems Department, Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany ∥ Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZB, U.K. ⊥ Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States # Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States ⊗ Institut Lumierè Matiere,̀ UMR5306 UniversitéLyon 1-CNRS, Universitéde Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France ∇ Institut Universitaire de France IUF, 103 Blvd St Michel, 75005 Paris, France × Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden *S Supporting Information established connection between their structure and their ABSTRACT: Carbohydrates possess a variety of distinct function, full characterization of unknown carbohydrates features with -
Unicarbkb: Building a Standardised and Scalable Informatics Platform for Glycosciences Research
Platforms EOI: UniCarbKB: Building a Standardised and Scalable Informatics Platform for Glycosciences Research 20 September 2019 at 13:02 Project title UniCarbKB: Building a Standardised and Scalable Informatics Platform for Glycosciences Research Field of Research code(s) 03 CHEMICAL SCIENCES 06 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 08 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES 11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES EOI Lead Name Matthew Campbell EOI lead Research Group Institute for Glycomics EOI lead Organisation Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University EOI lead Email Collaborator details Name Research Group Organisation Malcolm Wolski eResearch Services Griffith University Project description Over the last few years the glycomics knowledge platform UniCarbKB has contributed to the growth of international glycoinformatics resources by providing access to data collections, web services and software applications supported by biocuration activities. However, UniCarbKB has continued to develop as a single monolithic resource. This proposed project will improve the growth and scalability of UniCarbKB by breaking down the platform into smaller and composable pieces. This will be achieved through the adoption of a more decentralised approach and a microservice architecture that will allow components of the platform to scale at different rates. This architecture will allow us is to build an extendable and cross-disciplinary resource by integrating existing data with new analysis tools. The adoption of international resources (e.g. NIH GlyGen), will allow not just mapping of glycan data to genes and proteins but also pathways, gene ontology, publications and a wide variety of data from EBI, NCBI and other sources. Additionally, we propose to integrate glycan array data and develop ontologies that can serve as tools for integration and subsequently analysis of glycan-associated Existing technology Adopt The proposed project will adopt a multi-tier application architecture in which applications will be developed and deployed as microservices. -
The ELIXIR Core Data Resources: Fundamental Infrastructure for The
Supplementary Data: The ELIXIR Core Data Resources: fundamental infrastructure for the life sciences The “Supporting Material” referred to within this Supplementary Data can be found in the Supporting.Material.CDR.infrastructure file, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2625247 (https://zenodo.org/record/2625247). Figure 1. Scale of the Core Data Resources Table S1. Data from which Figure 1 is derived: Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Data entries 765881651 997794559 1726529931 1853429002 2715599247 Monthly user/IP addresses 1700660 2109586 2413724 2502617 2867265 FTEs 270 292.65 295.65 289.7 311.2 Figure 1 includes data from the following Core Data Resources: ArrayExpress, BRENDA, CATH, ChEBI, ChEMBL, EGA, ENA, Ensembl, Ensembl Genomes, EuropePMC, HPA, IntAct /MINT , InterPro, PDBe, PRIDE, SILVA, STRING, UniProt ● Note that Ensembl’s compute infrastructure physically relocated in 2016, so “Users/IP address” data are not available for that year. In this case, the 2015 numbers were rolled forward to 2016. ● Note that STRING makes only minor releases in 2014 and 2016, in that the interactions are re-computed, but the number of “Data entries” remains unchanged. The major releases that change the number of “Data entries” happened in 2013 and 2015. So, for “Data entries” , the number for 2013 was rolled forward to 2014, and the number for 2015 was rolled forward to 2016. The ELIXIR Core Data Resources: fundamental infrastructure for the life sciences 1 Figure 2: Usage of Core Data Resources in research The following steps were taken: 1. API calls were run on open access full text articles in Europe PMC to identify articles that mention Core Data Resource by name or include specific data record accession numbers. -
Hierarchical Classification of Gene Ontology Terms Using the Gostruct
Hierarchical classification of Gene Ontology terms using the GOstruct method Artem Sokolov and Asa Ben-Hur Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA Abstract Protein function prediction is an active area of research in bioinformatics. And yet, transfer of annotation on the basis of sequence or structural similarity remains widely used as an annotation method. Most of today's machine learning approaches reduce the problem to a collection of binary classification problems: whether a protein performs a particular function, sometimes with a post-processing step to combine the binary outputs. We propose a method that directly predicts a full functional annotation of a protein by modeling the structure of the Gene Ontology hierarchy in the framework of kernel methods for structured-output spaces. Our empirical results show improved performance over a BLAST nearest-neighbor method, and over algorithms that employ a collection of binary classifiers as measured on the Mousefunc benchmark dataset. 1 Introduction Protein function prediction is an active area of research in bioinformatics [25]; and yet, transfer of annotation on the basis of sequence or structural similarity remains the standard way of assigning function to proteins in newly sequenced organisms [20]. The Gene Ontology (GO), which is the current standard for annotating gene products and proteins, provides a large set of terms arranged in a hierarchical fashion that specify a gene-product's molecular function, the biological process it is involved in, and its localization to a cellular component [12]. GO term prediction is therefore a hierarchical classification problem, made more challenging by the thousands of annotation terms available. -
Gene Ontology Analysis with Cytoscape
Introduction to Systems Biology Exercise 6: Gene Ontology Analysis Overview: Gene Ontology (GO) is a useful resource in bioinformatics and systems biology. GO defines a controlled vocabulary of terms in biological process, molecular function, and cellular location, and relates the terms in a somewhat-organized fashion. This exercise outlines the resources available under Cytoscape to perform analyses for the enrichment of gene annotation (GO terms) in networks or sub-networks. In this exercise you will: • Learn how to navigate the Cytoscape Gene Ontology wizard to apply GO annotations to Cytoscape nodes • Learn how to look for enriched GO categories using the BiNGO plugin. What you will need: • The BiNGO plugin, developed by the Computational Biology Division, Dept. of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Interuniversitary Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), described in Maere S, et al. Bioinformatics. 2005 Aug 15;21(16):3448-9. Epub 2005 Jun 21. • galFiltered.sif used in the earlier exercises and found under sampleData. Please download any missing files from http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/courses/27041/exercises/Ex3/ Download and install the BiNGO plugin, as follows: 1. Get BiNGO from the course page (see above) or go to the BiNGO page at http://www.psb.ugent.be/cbd/papers/BiNGO/. (This site also provides documentation on BiNGO). 2. Unzip the contents of BiNGO.zip to your Cytoscape plugins directory (make sure the BiNGO.jar file is in the plugins directory and not in a subdirectory). 3. If you are currently running Cytoscape, exit and restart. First, we will load the Gene Ontology data into Cytoscape. 1. Start Cytoscape, under Edit, Preferences, make sure your default species, “defaultSpeciesName”, is set to “Saccharomyces cerevisiae”. -
Global LC/MS Metabolomics Profiling of Calcium Stressed and Immunosuppressant Drug Treated Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Metabolites 2013, 3, 1102-1117; doi:10.3390/metabo3041102 OPEN ACCESS metabolites ISSN 2218-1989 www.mdpi.com/journal/metabolites/ Article Global LC/MS Metabolomics Profiling of Calcium Stressed and Immunosuppressant Drug Treated Saccharomyces cerevisiae Stefan Jenkins 1,2,3,*, Steven M. Fischer 2, Lily Chen 3 and Theodore R. Sana 2 1 Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 2 Agilent Technologies, Life Sciences, Diagnostics and Applied Markets, Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA; E-Mails: [email protected] (S.M.F.); [email protected] (T.R.S.) 3 Biology Department, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA; E-Mail: [email protected] * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: [email protected]; Tel.: +1-650-922-5046; Fax: +1-510-486-4545. Received: 15 October 2013; in revised form: 20 November 2013 / Accepted: 25 November 2013 / Published: 6 December 2013 Abstract: Previous studies have shown that calcium stressed Saccharomyces cerevisiae, challenged with immunosuppressant drugs FK506 and Cyclosporin A, responds with comprehensive gene expression changes and attenuation of the generalized calcium stress response. Here, we describe a global metabolomics workflow for investigating the utility of tracking corresponding phenotypic changes. This was achieved by efficiently analyzing relative abundance differences between intracellular metabolite pools from wild-type and calcium stressed cultures, with and without prior immunosuppressant drugs exposure. We used pathway database content from WikiPathways and YeastCyc to facilitate the projection of our metabolomics profiling results onto biological pathways. A key challenge was to increase the coverage of the detected metabolites. This was achieved by applying both reverse phase (RP) and aqueous normal phase (ANP) chromatographic separations, as well as electrospray ionization (ESI) and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) sources for detection in both ion polarities. -
STRING V10: Protein–Protein Interaction Networks, Integrated
Published online 28 October 2014 Nucleic Acids Research, 2015, Vol. 43, Database issue D447–D452 doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1003 STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life Damian Szklarczyk1, Andrea Franceschini1, Stefan Wyder1, Kristoffer Forslund2, Davide Heller1, Jaime Huerta-Cepas2, Milan Simonovic1, Alexander Roth1, Alberto Santos3, Kalliopi P. Tsafou3, Michael Kuhn4,5, Peer Bork2,*, Lars J. Jensen3,* and Christian von Mering1,* 1Institute of Molecular Life Sciences and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland, 2European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany, 3Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark, 4Biotechnology Center, Technische Universitat¨ Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany and 5Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Downloaded from Genetics, 01062 Dresden, Germany Received September 15, 2014; Accepted October 07, 2014 ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/ The many functional partnerships and interactions For a full description of a protein’s function, knowledge that occur between proteins are at the core of cel- about its specific interaction partners is an important pre- lular processing and their systematic characteriza- requisite. The concept of protein ‘function’ is somewhat hi- tion helps to provide context in molecular systems erarchical (1–4), and at all levels in this hierarchy, interac- biology. However, known and predicted interactions tions between proteins help to describe and narrow down a protein’s function: its three-dimensional structure may are scattered over multiple resources, and the avail- become meaningful only in the context of a larger pro- able data exhibit notable differences in terms of qual- tein assembly, its molecular actions may be regulated by at University of Aarhus on January 22, 2015 ity and completeness. -
And Macro-Level Network Metrics Unveils Top Communicative Gene Modules in Psoriasis
G C A T T A C G G C A T genes Article Using Micro- and Macro-Level Network Metrics Unveils Top Communicative Gene Modules in Psoriasis 1, 2 3 Reyhaneh Naderi y, Homa Saadati Mollaei , Arne Elofsson 3, , and Saman Hosseini Ashtiani * y 1 Department of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Faculty of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran 1684613114, Iran; [email protected] 2 Department of Advanced Sciences and Technology, Islamic Azad University Tehran Medical Sciences, Tehran 1916893813, Iran; [email protected] 3 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +46-762623644 These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered joint first authors. y Received: 9 July 2020; Accepted: 6 August 2020; Published: 10 August 2020 Abstract: (1) Background: Psoriasis is a multifactorial chronic inflammatory disorder of the skin, with significant morbidity, characterized by hyperproliferation of the epidermis. Even though psoriasis’ etiology is not fully understood, it is believed to be multifactorial, with numerous key components. (2) Methods: In order to cast light on the complex molecular interactions in psoriasis vulgaris at both protein–protein interactions and transcriptomics levels, we studied a set of microarray gene expression analyses consisting of 170 paired lesional and non-lesional samples. Afterwards, a network analysis was conducted on the protein–protein interaction network of differentially expressed genes based on micro- and macro-level network metrics at a systemic level standpoint. (3) Results: We found 17 top communicative genes, all of which were experimentally proven to be pivotal in psoriasis, which were identified in two modules, namely the cell cycle and immune system. -
"Phylogenetic Analysis of Protein Sequence Data Using The
Phylogenetic Analysis of Protein Sequence UNIT 19.11 Data Using the Randomized Axelerated Maximum Likelihood (RAXML) Program Antonis Rokas1 1Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee ABSTRACT Phylogenetic analysis is the study of evolutionary relationships among molecules, phenotypes, and organisms. In the context of protein sequence data, phylogenetic analysis is one of the cornerstones of comparative sequence analysis and has many applications in the study of protein evolution and function. This unit provides a brief review of the principles of phylogenetic analysis and describes several different standard phylogenetic analyses of protein sequence data using the RAXML (Randomized Axelerated Maximum Likelihood) Program. Curr. Protoc. Mol. Biol. 96:19.11.1-19.11.14. C 2011 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Keywords: molecular evolution r bootstrap r multiple sequence alignment r amino acid substitution matrix r evolutionary relationship r systematics INTRODUCTION the baboon-colobus monkey lineage almost Phylogenetic analysis is a standard and es- 25 million years ago, whereas baboons and sential tool in any molecular biologist’s bioin- colobus monkeys diverged less than 15 mil- formatics toolkit that, in the context of pro- lion years ago (Sterner et al., 2006). Clearly, tein sequence analysis, enables us to study degree of sequence similarity does not equate the evolutionary history and change of pro- with degree of evolutionary relationship. teins and their function. Such analysis is es- A typical phylogenetic analysis of protein sential to understanding major evolutionary sequence data involves five distinct steps: (a) questions, such as the origins and history of data collection, (b) inference of homology, (c) macromolecules, developmental mechanisms, sequence alignment, (d) alignment trimming, phenotypes, and life itself. -
Biological Pathways
Biological pathways Bing Zhang Department of Biomedical Informatics Vanderbilt University [email protected] Biological pathway A biological pathway is a series of actions among molecules in a cell that leads to a certain product or a change in a cell. Different types of biological pathways Signal transduction pathways Gene regulation pathways Metabolic pathways 2 Applied Bioinformatics, Spring 2011 Outline Pathway databases Pathway assembly and editing Pathway mapping and enrichment analysis 3 Applied Bioinformatics, Spring 2011 Selected pathway databases KEGG Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes http://www.genome.jp/kegg/pathway.html Reactome Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York University School of Medicine and The European Bioinformatics Institute http://www.reactome.org/ WikiPathways University of Maastricht and UCSF http://www.wikipathways.org/ 4 Applied Bioinformatics, Spring 2011 KEGG: data model Molecular building blocks KEGG GENES: genes and proteins generated by genome sequencing projects KEGG ORTHOLOGY: orthology (KO) groups KEGG COMPOUND: small molecules KEGG REACTIONS: biochemical reactions KEGG PATHWAY: pathway maps Created in a general way to be applicable to all organisms, in terms of the orthologs defined by KO groups Organism-specific pathways can be generated by converting KO groups to gene identifiers in a given organism 5 Applied Bioinformatics, Spring 2011 KEGG: TCA cycle 6 Applied Bioinformatics, Spring 2011 Reactome: data model Entities -
Webnetcoffee
Hu et al. BMC Bioinformatics (2018) 19:422 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2443-4 SOFTWARE Open Access WebNetCoffee: a web-based application to identify functionally conserved proteins from Multiple PPI networks Jialu Hu1,2, Yiqun Gao1, Junhao He1, Yan Zheng1 and Xuequn Shang1* Abstract Background: The discovery of functionally conserved proteins is a tough and important task in system biology. Global network alignment provides a systematic framework to search for these proteins from multiple protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks. Although there exist many web servers for network alignment, no one allows to perform global multiple network alignment tasks on users’ test datasets. Results: Here, we developed a web server WebNetcoffee based on the algorithm of NetCoffee to search for a global network alignment from multiple networks. To build a series of online test datasets, we manually collected 218,339 proteins, 4,009,541 interactions and many other associated protein annotations from several public databases. All these datasets and alignment results are available for download, which can support users to perform algorithm comparison and downstream analyses. Conclusion: WebNetCoffee provides a versatile, interactive and user-friendly interface for easily running alignment tasks on both online datasets and users’ test datasets, managing submitted jobs and visualizing the alignment results through a web browser. Additionally, our web server also facilitates graphical visualization of induced subnetworks for a given protein and its neighborhood. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first web server that facilitates the performing of global alignment for multiple PPI networks. Availability: http://www.nwpu-bioinformatics.com/WebNetCoffee Keywords: Multiple network alignment, Webserver, PPI networks, Protein databases, Gene ontology Background tools [7–10] have been developed to understand molec- Proteins are involved in almost all life processes.