Questions tagged [file-formats]
File format are sets of defined rules to organise a specific type of data. Common file format in bioinformatics include FASTA, FASTQ, SAM, BAM, VCF.
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What is the file .mums created by mummer?
I am doing genome sequence alignment using MUMmer, in particular I want to do a dotplot with mummerplot. So the passages that I did are:
1.create a file .mums with the following command line:
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Which format is the most raw format
I wanted information regarding which format is considered the most raw from an illumina sequencer ?
fasta
fastq
bcl
bam
As per my research it should be bcl but I am not sure.
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Not Able to pull genes due to file.fa error
I've recently been pulling TLR genes for different species and keep running across an error called file.fa whenever I start pulling them. Whenever I pull the first gene it's fine and makes the file.fa ...
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Obtaining Whole Genetic Sequence
As an end-user of my own data, specifically raw DNA sequence (WGS, whole genome sequencing). How or where do one obtain such DNA data so that a biology hobbyist can perform bioinformatics on this?
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blast p-error with making directory
I tried running this command python blastp.py CmydPro tlr TLR.txt to extract the query sequence for the target species I'm looking at. However, whenever I try ...
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Metagenome simulation from a concatenated FASTA file
I am trying to simulate metagenome sequencing. So I will start with a file with a lot of concatenated genomes. From there, I would like to randomly extract 10,000 sequences of length 200bps.
I got ...
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Creating a tab delimited column [closed]
I have a blast file produced. I executed a blast(x) command outputting both "qeseqid" and ...
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Is there a simple command for outputting a tab delimited columns?
I am working on a fasta file and am writing my command in nano within command-line and executing using python, also within a command line.
My objective is to get my command to provide me with a tab ...
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creating a tab delimited file
I am working on a project using a fasta file. I am writing my command in nano within command-line and executing using python, also within my command-line.
I would like my command to provide me with a ...
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How to find the number of contigs produced? N50 length in base pairs? N90 length in base pairs?
I am having trouble with some underlying questions about my project.
I have ran a Trinity tool to create a trinity.fasta file.
To determine some underlying questions, I used the utility asm_stats to ...
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BinaryCIF vs MMTF formats, which one to choose?
Both file formats are advertised as more memory/parsing efficent than old PDB format and its successor mmCIF format, but I can't understand the context (I'm a developer, but pretty new to the field of ...
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What should be the numbers in the fastSTRUCTURE file?
The structure file for fastSTRUCTURE seem to be a table with rows and columns but the cells are all numbers, while my genotypes are simply bases. How could I know what I should insert there?
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How is the GT field in a VCF file defined?
As my question in SO was closed and asked to be posted in this forum, I am posting it here
I am not from the bioinformatics domain. However, for the sake of analysis, I am trying to pick up certain ...
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Get start and end coordinates per chromosome
I will use GATK for SNP calling (HaplotypeCaller). I need to feed the interval file in the command, otherwise I get errors (even though I want to use the whole genome, not a subset - btw it's not the ...
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Wrong format .ped in PLINK
I know that I don't have the correct format in my .ped file for PLINK but I don't know how to convert it.
My actual file is something like:
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How to quickly and robustly convert between mmCIF and PDB?
There is already a question on PDB/CIF to MMTF, however what is a robust way to programmatically go between PDB and CIF files?
For example I can use a python script from this gist that relies on ...
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What do these files / annotations mean?
I have no experience in Bioinformatics and I need to understand what the annotations given here mean (I am including the first few lines, please see the link for more):
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Parsing MSigDB Supplementary Collections
MSigDB recently added Supplementary Collections. The formatting is similar to the original MSigDB gene sets, but there is an additional metadata.txt file (link).
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What type of information does an .sf file contain?
What is an .sf file. What information does it contain?
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Convert PAF format to SAM/BAM format
I have a bunch of PAF files resulting from the alignments of fastq files on a reference genome with minimap2. I would like to convert them into SAM/BAM format so I can use ...
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swap genotypes for specific fields of a vcf file
Is there a tool already established to "swap" the ref/alt information in the GT, AD and PL ...
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Determine reference for reference-compressed SRA file
Note: this question was also asked on Github.
I have 241 SRA files that appear to be reference compressed. I didn't even know this was a thing until I tried to convert them to Fastq files without an ...
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Index VCF file for rapid access by rsID?
With tabix one can index a VCF file for rapid variant retrieval based on genomic position. I'm wondering if there are any tools that will index a VCF file to allow rapid retrieval using rsIDs and/or ...
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How to interpret UniProt allele patterns?
In creating a parser for the UniProt flat file uniprot_sprot.dat (directory) in the manual for the comments POLYMORPHISM there ...
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Filter VCF for “CAF=[0.9,0.1]”
Related to this other question
but in this case the CAF is defined as "An ordered, comma delimited list of allele frequencies...".
I tried using vcffilterjdk and the command suggested by Pierre
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I have 23andme text files and would like to convert to SAM/BAM format
I would like to convert 23andme text file to NextGen to BAM file for Yfull.com to read. It is difficult to get answers on how to convert to SAM/BAM file for the 23andme text file to be converted to ...
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UniProt flat file. Interpreting format of SUBCELLULAR LOCATION. What does flag mean?
In creating a parser for the UniProt flat file uniprot_sprot.dat (directory) in the manual for the section SUBCELLULAR LOCATION ...
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Can a gff file be converted to a fasta file?
I downloaded an annotated genome file in gff format here. I would like to use it for proteomics. Though I need it in fasta format. Is there any tool that converts gff to annotated fasta? I see the ...
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What is the “primer masterfile” format?
I am working with an amplicon kit from Swift Bioscience and they provide the primer locations in what they call a "masterfile". The format is like this:
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How to convert data in gmt format to dataframe?
I downloaded c5: gene ontology gene sets file from http://software.broadinstitute.org/gsea/downloads.jsp
I opened the "c5.all.v6.2.symbols.gmt" file in csv format and It looks like below:
I want to ...
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How to convert Bed file to fasta file?
I have Bed file containing start and end of a sequence, and I need to convert it to fasta format, any recommendations?
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Plotting Ramachandran Plot from more than one PDB file
I want to plot a Ramachandran Plot for around 5000 PDB files in python that is saved in a folder in my system. I am searching for a way to make it without accessing each file by hard-coding each file ...
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Meaning of the FORMAT fields of the VCF file coming from GIAB project
After reading the GIAB paper in https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/05/25/281006 and its Figure 1, I am still having trouble understanding the data inside the GIAB VCF file for HG001 (...
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How to filter for “CAF=0.5747,0.4253”
In my gzipped VCF file I have many variants, and they report allele frequency such as:
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get gene lines from gtf file
I would like to retrieve gene lines from a GTF file for which I only have exons & transcripts lines (output from Cufflinks) and alternative splicing possible. I need gene lines for compatibility ...
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Script to run everything in a loop for extracting tar.gz files into fastq and to bam with alignment?
Original tar.gz files look like below:
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How to calculate call detection values in microarray datase if .cel file unavailable
I would like to do a differential gene expression analysis on a microarray data. From the literature, I understood, call detection (Present, Absent, Marginal) has to be done to minimize false ...
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Which data format for stranded coverage data
I need tools I am writing to output data in terms of score for each base in the genome. The format needs to be indexed for fast random access.
The obvious choices are bigWig and tabix-index bedgraph ...
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Run gffread in multi-thread mode
Is there any possibility to run gffread in multi-thread mode? The answer seems to be 'no' from the manual (or gffread -h), as no multi-thread option is mentioned.
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seqret error when trying to transform GFF3 and FASTA files into EMBL format
I am using the tool seqret from emboss to transform an annotation file in GFF3 format and a FASTA file into an EMBL file because Wormbase does not supply an EMBL file with annotation and sequence ...
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Can a data file in VCF format be converted into FASTA?
I'm considering purchasing the 'MyGenome' product by Veritas Genetics to analyze my genome for a project. I'd like the data to be in FASTA format, but Veritas only provides VCF data. Is it possible to ...
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Why would someone use a CRAM instead of a BAM?
I had this question from a graduate student yesterday, and I was stuck.
What should I say? Why use a CRAM instead of a BAM?
When is it a good idea to use a CRAM instead of a BAM?
When is it a bad ...
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What are the differences between BNGL (BioNetGen Language) and SBML (System Biology Markup Langague) formats?
Per request from meta comment.
I am self-learning about whole cell modeling, specifically An introduction to whole-cell modeling and Fundamentals of Systems Biology: From Synthetic Circuits to Whole-...
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seqret: Warning: bad /protein_id value
I am using the seqret tool from the Emboss suite to transform produce an EMBL annotation file from a GTF annotation file and the corresponding FASTA sequence:
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Why doesn't Biopython AlignIO.read() recognise the 'mauve' format?
On this Biopython tutorial, they describe how to import a multiple sequence alignment in the Mauve (XMFA: extensible multi fasta format). So I imported the AlignIO module:
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Infer missing UTR features in GFF3 file
I am working on a GFF file that is missing the 5'UTR and 3'UTR information. For example:
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How to indicate the END of a haplotype block in VCF?
In VCF I know how to indicate that two genotypes are in the same phase by using consecutive "0|1" and "1|0" genotype fields, for example. However, how do I deal with the case that the first two ...
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bcftools output vs. bgzip
I've got what seems like it should be a simple question, but I can't seem to figure it out from google. bcftools has 4 output options:
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What is this 5-column sequencing format from 2009?
There is high throughput sequencing data here, and I don't know what format it is in.
It was submitted in 2009, and the description says the following:
Library strategy: ncRNA-Seq
Library source:...
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What format is this? Pretty sure it's not a BED file
Time for guess the bioinformatics file format... :)
I found this '.bed' file on GEO (GSE84660), but it's clearly not a BED file. Anyone know what it might be? And what can view it? It's from a HiC ...
