Tag: SNV
Cracking cancer: Using long-read RNA sequencing for cancer neoantigen discovery
When developing effective personalized immunotherapies, such as cancer vaccines, a pivotal factor lies in uncovering tumor neoantigens that can serve as crucial therapeutic targets. Traditionally, neoantigen discovery heavily relied on short-read sequencing technology, with a predominant focus on neoantigens resulting from single-nucleotide variants (SNVs). However, recent advancements have unveiled the…
Principal Scientist I Bioinformatics Job Opening in Santa Clara, CA at Roche Holdings Inc.
The Position Roche Sequencing Solutions (RSS), a business within Roche Diagnostics, focused on developing a disruptive Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) platform along with a portfolio of reagents, assays and informatics solutions for multiple disease areas. We are looking for a Principal Bioinformatics Scientist in the NGS Algorithms and Applications team to…
Sequential intrahost evolution and onward transmission of SARS-CoV-2 variants
Emergence of a novel BA.1 sublineage through intrahost evolution We performed genomic analysis of serially collected nasopharyngeal (NP) and anterior nares (AN) samples from an immunocompromised patient (P1) with diffuse B-cell lymphoma and persistent SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 replication between December 2021 and March 2022. Over a 12-week period, we documented…
Characterization of metagenome-assembled genomes from the International Space Station | Microbiome
Metagenome-assembled bacterial genomes Out of the 42 ISS metagenomes submitted at NCBI, only PMA-treated metagenomes (n = 21) representing the viable/intact cells were used for generating bacterial MAGs. Characteristics of MAGs (n = 46) such as genome size (2.6 to 6.6 Mb), completeness, contamination percentage, the average mean coverage, number…
Generation of a mutator parasite to drive resistome discovery in Plasmodium falciparum
CRISPR editing of DNA polymerase δ To increase the genetic repertoire of P. falciparum parasites in culture, we aimed to generate parasites with impaired 3ʹ−5ʹ proof-reading activity from the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase δ (PF3D7_1017000) in order to increase the level of basal spontaneous mutations, based on prior work…
JPM | Free Full-Text | Determination of the Duplicated CYP2D6 Allele Using Real-Time PCR Signal: An Alternative Approach
1. Introduction The Cytochrome P450 (CYP) superfamily of enzymes are involved in the metabolism of a range of xenobiotics and their evolution parallels the need for host protection against environmental and food-produced toxins [1,2]. One critically important member is the CYP2D6 hepatic enzyme owing to its involvement in the metabolism…
Splitting of VCF file of CSQ field in the INFO column to tabular format.
VCF file will be having seven fixed columns and INFO column. Chromosome, position, ID, ref, alt, qual, filter, and INFO column. This INFO column will be having the variant related information. In the INFO column CSQ field will be having multiple fields – 82 fields fixed with the delimeter “|”…
Generating variant read count matrix, total read count matrix and binary/ternary mutaion matrix for SNV from scDNAseq FASTQ files
Generating variant read count matrix, total read count matrix and binary/ternary mutaion matrix for SNV from scDNAseq FASTQ files 0 Leung et al., 2017 paper mentioned in Fig 1 data processing for CRC patients was sequenced as single cell for both SNV (with MDA WGA) and CNA (with DOP-PCR) parallelly….
Enabling accurate and early detection of recently emerged SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in wastewater
Wastewater sample collection, RNA extraction, and sequencing Houston Water collected and provided weekly 24-hour time-weighted composite influent (raw wastewater) samples from 39 wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Houston covering a service area of approximately 580 miles2 and serving over 2.3 million people. In total, 2637 samples were analyzed. Untreated wastewater…
Pre-test and post-test genetic counseling
Introduction The yield of genetic prenatal diagnosis has been notably improved by introducing whole genome chromosomal microarray (CMA) analysis, which is now recommended in all cases with structural anomalies,1 allowing an additional diagnostic yield as compared to karyotyping of up to 10%.2,3 Moreover, recent data suggest that the expected diagnostic…
Prevalence of BRCA homopolymeric indels in an ION Torrent-based tumour-to-germline testing workflow in high-grade ovarian carcinoma
Patients cohort Among consecutive patients who underwent BRCA tumour testing through ION Torrent-based sequencing between August 2017 and February 2022, we retrospectively selected 222 high-grade ovarian cancer (HGOC) patients with the following histological subtypes: 203 serous (HGSOC), seven endometrioid, five clear-cell and seven with mixed histotypes. Since NGS BRCA1/2 tumour…
Activation of the urotensin-II receptor by remdesivir induces cardiomyocyte dysfunction
Study design The overall goal of this study was to explore the molecular mechanisms of remdesivir-related cardiotoxicity in anti-COVID-19 therapy. We first performed the GPCR screening using major anti-COVID-19 drugs as ligands (n = 3 per GPCR). We validated the results of GPCR screening by concentration-response analysis and determined the EC50 and…
Mobile element variation contributes to population-specific genome diversification, gene regulation and disease risk
Development and benchmarking of MEGAnE Accurate variant genotyping is required for statistical genetics. To enable both discovery and accurate MEV genotyping from genomes studied using short reads, we developed a new bioinformatic tool, mobile element genotype analysis environment (MEGAnE; Supplementary Note). Compared to SVs resolved by long reads, MEGAnE discovers…
How do I use the new human pangenome reference to discover SNV and SV.
We are excited to announce a collection of new human reference genome sequences that reflect much more global diversity! t.co/a39cFG8dOu — Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (@HumanPangenome) May 10, 2023 My favorite T2T/Pangenome discovery so far: a multi-megabase inverted segmental duplication on the short arm of chr14 that explains the mechanism…
Principal scientist bioinformatics – Urgent Role at Roche in Washington DC
We are looking to hire a resourceful Principal scientist bioinformatics to join our incredible team at Roche in Washington DC.Growing your career as a Full Time Principal scientist bioinformatics is an incredible opportunity to develop excellent skills.If you are strong in presentation, adaptability and have the right mindset for the…
Evidence of international transmission of mobile colistin resistant monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium ST34
Three samples of S. 4,[5],12:i:-, all isolated in 2010, harbored mcr-3.1. Two were from human stool and the other was from ready-to-eat frozen food. Phenotypic characterization confirmed that all three isolates were resistant to colistin, all with MIC and MBC of 8 µg/ml. WGS of H1-012, H1-014 and H1-120 were analyzed…
Bioconductor – SICtools
DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.SICtools This package is for version 3.12 of Bioconductor; for the stable, up-to-date release version, see SICtools. Find SNV/Indel differences between two bam files with near relationship Bioconductor version: 3.12 This package is to find SNV/Indel differences between two bam files with near relationship in a way…
Convergent genomic diversity and novel BCAA metabolism in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
Multi-omics analyses of the ICC samples Following multiregional sampling of primary ICC cases, we performed multi-omics analyses, including genome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome analysis. We used 10 (67 samples), 11 (88 samples), 10 (49 samples) and 10 (49 samples) ICC cases for WES, whole-transcriptome sequencing, proteomic analysis, and metabolomic analysis,…
What are the advantages of using the T2T as a reference vs GRCh38 today?
enter link description hereOnter, The advantages of (T2T) CHM13v2 over (GRC) GRCh38.p14 are myraid and extend into over a dozen fields. The second question you ask is a minor subset of that first, huge question. To date, even dedicated peer reviewed manuscripts on this subject have struggled to present all…
Roche hiring Principal Scientist II Bioinformatics in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
The PositionRoche Sequencing Solutions (RSS), a business within Roche Diagnostics, focused on developing a disruptive Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) platform along with a portfolio of reagents, assays and informatics solutions for multiple disease areas. We are looking for a Principal Bioinformatics Scientist in the NGS Algorithms and Applications team to support…
Anyone familiar with ICGC’s DCC data releases?
Anyone familiar with ICGC’s DCC data releases? 0 Hi all, As part of my project, I wanted to find recurrent somatic mutations in cancer, but not only coding regions, I want to assess the whole genome for noncoding somatic mutations -> Thus I need WGS data. My supervisor directed me…
Minimal residual disease monitoring in NSCLC
Background Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) refers to fragments of DNA released into the circulation by endothelial cells and white blood cells by active release or passively through apoptosis and necrosis.1,2 The fraction of cfDNA that originates from tumor is known as circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA). In 2016 the first commercial ctDNA…
Sanger Sequencing Market is expected to undergo a CAGR of 18.50%
Data Bridge Market Research analyses that the sanger sequencing market which was USD 1.92 billion in 2021, would rocket up to USD 7.47 billion by 2029, and is expected to undergo a CAGR of 18.50% during the forecast period 2022 to 2029. In addition to the market insights such as…
1000 genomes hg38 with dbSNP rsid
1000 genomes hg38 with dbSNP rsid 1 Hi, Anyone know where I can download the latest version of 1000 Genomes, on build hg38, in VCF format (or PLINK format), that ALSO contains the dbSNP RSid in the VCF ID field? I looked at the IGSR website, dbSNP, UCSC, etc. So…
using GRanges metadata to constrain overlap searches between objects
I have two sets of genomic data, one a list of SNPs and another a list of ChIP-seq-type peaks, each drawn from the same set of multiple samples. I’d like to be able to ask, for each sample, which SNPs overlap with the peaks in the same sample – and…
Cancer genomics and transcriptomics | EMBL-EBI Training
This course will focus on the analysis of data from genomic studies of cancer. It will also highlight the application of transcriptomic analysis and single-cell technologies in cancer. Talks and interactive sessions will give an insight into the bioinformatic concepts required to analyse such data, whilst practical sessions will enable…
The human story behind human genome sequencing
Hidden in the nuclei of your cells, DNA molecules lie tightly coiled, harbouring the genetic secrets that make you who you are. Thanks to advancements in clinical genomics, it is now possible to unravel your DNA’s code, allowing scientists to better understand and treat genetic conditions. What is a genome?…
Tecan and Oxford Nanopore build alliance to create automated, seamless and fully compatible nanopore sequencing library preparation for any-length fragments of native DNA/RNA
The Tecan Group and Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc (Oxford Nanopore) today announce their collaboration to drive easier high-throughput nanopore library preparation in an automated, hands-free fashion. The result is a fully walkaway automated workflow for Oxford Nanopore’s Ligation Sequencing Kit XL V14 protocol (LSK114) with Tecan’s DreamPrep® NGS solutions. The…
Do we have any disease specific SNVs database?
Do we have any disease specific SNVs database? 0 Hi, I have a general question. I was looking for some resources to bring some connection between SNVs and protein activity. I know that there are some softwares like ANNOVAR which can be used to prioritized the SNVs in terms of…
A CRISPR/Cas12a-assisted array for Helicobacter pylori DNA analysis in saliva
. 2023 Jan 25;1239:340736. doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2022.340736. Epub 2022 Dec 23. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Health Inspection and Quarantine, School of Public Health, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350122, PR China. 2 College of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detecting Technology, Food Safety MOE, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002,…
Genotyping approach to predict Coa and Cob antigens
Introduction The Colton (CO) blood group system (ISBT No. 015) currently consists of four antigens; a high prevalence antigen, Coa with its antithetical antigen, Cob, and the other high prevalence antigens, Co3 and Co4.1 The CO antigens are carried on red blood cell (RBC) water transporter, aquaporin-1 (AQP1), encoded by…
how to seperate VEP INFO column into seperate columns
I have a vcf files like below: #CHROM POS ID REF ALT QUAL FILTER INFO FORMAT treatmentSample chr1 857100 . C T 1756.06 PASS AC=2;AF=1;AN=2;DP=60;ExcessHet=3.0103;FS=0;MLEAC=2;MLEAF=1;MQ=60;QD=29.27;SOR=1.812;CSQ=chr1:857100|T|SNV|ENSG00000228794|ENST00000445118|LINC01128||1|MODIFIER|non_coding_transcript_exon_variant||||5/5|||||||||||||||||| GT:AD:DP:GQ:PL 1/1:0,60:60:99:1770,180,0 Does anyone know how to seperate INFO columns into different columns? And also how to separate treatmentSample column following the FORMAT ORDER? I…
Bridging biological cfDNA features and machine learning approaches: Trends in Genetics
Early detection (pancreatic cancer) cfMeDIP-seq, 5hmC sequencing LR elastic-net Hierarchical clustering, t-SNE, LR with elastic-net penalization Methylation (5mC-5hmC) 208 (72/136) 24-feature 5mC, 27-features 5hmC, 51-features combined model SML, UML Combined 5mC and 5hmC AUC of 0.997 (sensitivity 0.938, specificity 0.955) Median total reads: 17.4 M, 0.8 nonduplicate mapping rate pms.cd120.com/PDAC/index.html…
AGBT Sessions Shine Spotlight on Long-Read Sequencing
This story includes reporting by Huanjia Zhang. NEW YORK – As the reigning Nature Methods method of the year, long-read sequencing featured prominently in many of the talks at this year’s Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting, held in Hollywood, Florida, last week. Pacific Biosciences presented new data from…
The Carbon Footprint Impact of Cloud Solutions
Contributed Commentary by Mladen Lazarevic, Seven Bridges February 3, 2023 | Researchers turn to bioinformatics computing to analyze large datasets and tackle issues ranging from precision medicine solutions in oncology to novel drug therapies. This is especially true of genomic data and bioinformatics analysis. While those in the life sciences…
Study demonstrates intrahost MPXV variation within a single lesion
In a recent study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers reported on the clinical and molecular characteristics of monkeypox (MPX) virus (MPXV) infections in Finland. Study: Intrahost Monkeypox Virus Genome Variation in Patient with Early Infection, Finland, 2022. Image Credit: ART-ur/Shutterstock Background Ever since 2022, an unprecedented MPXV outbreak has…
A Solve-RD ClinVar-based reanalysis of 1,522 index cases from ERN-ITHACA reveals common pitfalls and misinterpretations in exome sequencing
Purpose: Within the Solve-RD project (solve-rd.eu/), the ERN-ITHACA (European Reference Network for Intellectual disability, TeleHealth, Autism and Congenital Anomalies) aimed to investigate whether a reanalysis of exomes from unsolved cases based on ClinVar annotations could establish additional diagnoses. We present the results of the “ClinVar low-hanging fruit” reanalysis, reasons for…
Hypersaline Lake Urmia: a potential hotspot for microbial genomic variation
Physico-chemical features of Lake Urmia Sampling was performed during the period of lowest rainfall and input volume in the year when the lake water reached the highest salt concentration (locations shown in Fig. 1, Supplementary Table S1). The measured ionic composition of the collected brine showed the typical composition of halite-dominated…
Detecting de novo SNV with vcftools
Detecting de novo SNV with vcftools 1 Hi, all. I have a raw whole genome sequence data of a kind of fish trio: father, mother and offspring. I would like to know how many SNV loci there are in the child but not in the parent (i.e. de novo SNV…
Senior Scientist Applied Bioinformatics Job In San Francisco, CA 94103| TechCareers
At Bristol Myers Squibb, we are inspired by a single vision – transforming patients’ lives through science. In oncology, hematology, immunology and cardiovascular disease – and one of the most diverse and promising pipelines in the industry – each of our passionate colleagues contribute to innovations that drive meaningful change….
BAM file and no RNAME or POS information? : bioinformatics
Newbie here. Please, play nice. I got possession of a set of 4 .bam files that stores the exome of an individual, around 400 MB each. I used samtools to generate a 2.4 GB .sam file out of one of the .bam files, and I found it contains lines with…
Table – PMC
PMC full text: Copyright/LicenseRequest permission to reuse This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. Summary of SNV class by matrix. Matrix Pinnable Variants…
Color hiring Software Engineer, Bioinformatics in Remote
About Color Color’s mission is to help people lead the healthiest lives that science and medicine can offer. We launched in April 2015 with a simple, affordable genetic test to help people understand their risk for hereditary cancer. In 2017, we added coverage for hereditary heart conditions. Between them, cancer…
Design and implementation of a novel pharmacogenetic assay for the identification of the CYP2D6*10 genetic variant | BMC Research Notes
Methods The study was conducted at the Human Genetics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. It was an experimental study, where a novel assay was designed for the targeted variant, and a cohort of hormone receptor positive breast cancer patients were genotyped for the CYP2D6*10 variant using the optimized…
Comparison of CNV analysis methods: Array CGH vs NGS
Rare genetic disorders are caused by variants in major functional genes. Most are SNV or INDEL variants, but SVs, such as CNVs or chromosomal variants, can also be the cause. Recently, a large-scale study has also been published showing that CNVs were identified in 11-12% more infants and children with…
A genomic mutation spectrum of collecting duct carcinoma in the Chinese population
This article was originally published here BMC Med Genomics. 2022 Jan 3;15(1):1. doi: 10.1186/s12920-021-01143-2. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Renal collecting duct carcinoma (CDC) is a rare and lethal subtype of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The genomic profile of the Chinese population with CDC remains unclear. In addition, clinical treatments are contradictory. In…
Systems biology analysis of human genomes points to key pathways conferring spina bifida risk
Significance Genetic investigations of most structural birth defects, including spina bifida (SB), congenital heart disease, and craniofacial anomalies, have been underpowered for genome-wide association studies because of their rarity, genetic heterogeneity, incomplete penetrance, and environmental influences. Our systems biology strategy to investigate SB predisposition controls for population stratification and avoids…
What is the single nucleotide polymorphism database ( dbsnp )?
The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbSNP) is a free public archive for genetic variation within and across different species developed and hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in collaboration with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Furthermore, are there any databases for single nucleotide polymorphisms?As there…
Reliability of Cell-Free DNA (cfDNA) Next Generation Sequencing in Predicting Chromosomal Structural Abnormalities and Cytogenetic-Risk Stratification of Patients with Myeloid Neoplasms
Oral and Poster Abstracts 617. Acute Myeloid Leukemias: Biomarkers, Molecular Markers and Minimal Residual Disease in Diagnosis and Prognosis: Poster III Translational Research Maher Albitar, MD1*, Andrew Ip, MD, MSc2, Andre H. Goy, MD3*, Jeffrey Justin Estella, BS, MS1*, Ivan De Dios, BS1*,…
How to handle VCFs from the same sample but using different aligners and variant callers?
Hi, I’m using whole-exome sequencing (WES) for somatic variant calling. During the process, I tried to follow the approach described here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28420412/ Basically my workflow is as follows: FASTQ preprocessing: Using 2 aligners (BWA-MEM, Bowtie2) BAM calibration Variant calling: Using 3 software (Mutect2, Strelka2, Lancet) Variant filtering: I keep just…
The Biostar Herald for Tuesday, September 21, 2021
The Biostar Herald publishes user submitted links of bioinformatics relevance. It aims to provide a summary of interesting and relevant information you may have missed. You too can submit links here. This edition of the Herald was brought to you by contribution from Istvan Albert, and was edited by Istvan…
Phylogeographic reconstruction of the marbled crayfish origin
Procambarus fallax collections and PCR genotyping Animals were collected from various wild populations (Table S1) in compliance with state and local regulations (Georgia department of natural resources scientific collection permit 115621108, state of Florida collection permits S-19-10 and S-20-04). DNA was isolated from abdominal muscle tissue using SDS-based extraction and precipitation…
Alternate nucleotide is more frequent than reference nucleotide. OMG I’m dizzy. How do I stop the twirl?
This is due to the fact that the very reference genomes that we use for re-alignment are themselves based on individuals who carry rare risk alleles. Thus, when we call variants against these genomes, we are, at many loci, comparing against rare disease risk alleles. As the best/worst example (depending…
ZhaozzReal/SNV_IPA: Detect SNV-associated intronic polyadenylation events from standard RNAseq data
Description Somatic single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in cancer genome affect gene expression through various mechanisms depending on their genomic location. In this study, we found that somatic SNVs near splice site are associated with abnormal intronic polyadenylation (IPA) . Here we give examples to show how to detect SNV-associated IPA…
Is it possible to detect of SNVs and InDels in low coverage WGS (5-10X) data?
Is it possible to detect of SNVs and InDels in low coverage WGS (5-10X) data? 2 Hello, the Biostar community, What I know about low coverage WGS (or shallow WGS) data is that it is an economic technique for genomic copy number detection in the realms of tumor diagnosis or…
Gene mutation analysis in papillary thyroid carcinoma
Introduction Thyroid tumors are the most common malignant tumors of the endocrine system, and their incidence has been increasing in the recent decades. Currently, there are some target drugs that can effectively treat PTC, and next-generation sequencing (NGS) can be used for targeted therapy. In order to make better informed…
Bioconductor – BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38.dbSNP151.major
DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38.dbSNP151.major Full genome sequences for Homo sapiens (UCSC version hg38, based on GRCh38.p12) with injected major alleles (dbSNP151) Bioconductor version: Release (3.13) Full genome sequences for Homo sapiens (Human) as provided by UCSC (hg38, based on GRCh38.p12) with major allele injected from dbSNP151, and stored in Biostrings…
Calculate the fraction of genome that is feature X
Calculate the fraction of genome that is feature X 2 I am trying to calculate enrichment of Structural variant breakpoints and SNV locations in genomic features (exon, intron, 5’UTR…) in a non-human genome. To know whether a feature is over/underrepresented in a SV/SNV dataset, I first need to know the…
Dissecting Cancer with Single-cell DNA Sequencing & Multi-omics | Learning Center
CANCER & SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS The heterogeneity and dynamism of cancer present formidable challenges to understanding and treating the disease. As discussed in the last section, tumor evolution often leads to considerable genetic variation across clones. But the complexity of tumors does not stop at the level of DNA. Intratumoral phenotypic…
How to merge multiple patient’s vcf files (indel and snv) with different IDs?
How to merge multiple patient’s vcf files (indel and snv) with different IDs? 0 Hi all, I have some VCF files for my patients, each patient has 2 files( indel.vcf , snv.vcf) and I want to merge these file by the script bellow: java -jar gatk-package-4.2.0.0-local.jar MergeVcfs -I /PATH_TO_patient1_ID_indel.vcf -I…
Need suggestions about pathogenicity prediction of gdc level 3 SNV file
Hi, I am trying to figure out which tool is most accurate in terms of pathogenicity prediction of TCGA SNVs level 3 data. TCGA offers SIFT, PolyPhen, and IMPACT scores for different kinds of mutations. SIFT, and PolyPhen cover mainly “Missense Mutation”, while IMPACT categorizes every kind of mutation into…
Change chromosome notation in dbSNP VCF file
Change chromosome notation in dbSNP VCF file 0 Hiii, I have downloaded dbSNP VCf file from [ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/snp/organisms/human_9606/VCF/] The format is as follows: #CHROM POS ID REF ALT QUAL FILTER INFO 1 10019 rs775809821 TA T . . RS=775809821;RSPOS=10020;dbSNPBuildID=144;SSR=0;SAO=0;VP=0x050000020005000002000200;GENEINFO=DDX11L1:100287102;WGT=1;VC=DIV;R5;ASP 1 10039 rs978760828 A C . . RS=978760828;RSPOS=10039;dbSNPBuildID=150;SSR=0;SAO=0;VP=0x050000020005000002000100;GENEINFO=DDX11L1:100287102;WGT=1;VC=SNV;R5;ASP 1 10043 rs1008829651 T…
Parsing snp result
Parsing snp result 1 I am trying to parse dbSNP results into data frame in python, I got the result as “bytes” and I wonder if there is a way to parse it into dataframe. I tried multiple xml packages (xml, lxml) but they are not able to separate the…