Questions tagged [sequence-analysis]
Umbrella term for understanding any given nucleic acid sequence code, either as a locus, loci or genome with itself or as a comparison to comparable nucleic acid sequence code either intraspecifically or interspecifically
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How many protein sequences do we usually have for each species?
My question is exactly the one in the title. I add a particular example for more clarity. If I want to study the sequence of protein IkBα, do I find only one sequence or is there a database that ...
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What do the numbers mean in these RNA-Seq gene/transcript TPM files?
From the link https://gtexportal.org/home/datasets, under V7, I'm trying to do R/Python analyses on the Gene TPM and Transcript TPM files. But in these files (and to open them I had to use Universal ...
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How to get a GISAID account? I registered months ago, still no reply!
Inspired by amateur variant hunters, I would like to join the Pango lineage proposal community and help contribute to variant surveillance.
However, I cannot seem to get access to GISAID, the platform ...
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How can I make this Biopython program (to correct erroneous barcodes) run faster, and is there any alternative method?
This question has also been asked on Biostars
I am looking forward to getting a valuable suggestion for a bioinformatic problem.
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Currently, I am performing a de novo whole genome assembly. ...
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How to calculate Allele frequency from vcf file
Organism under investigation is Plasmodium falciparum. How to calculate the allele frequency for each row?
I tried with this code:
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Which non-matching DNA bases clash the least?
I am building primers for LAMP which I know will not match all my target sequences perfectly.
To some extent, having primers with multiple variants at variable sites (degenerate primers) and longer ...
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Math on Pandas Columns
I have a pandas dataframe that reads in a PAF file from minimap2. What I would like to do is take the first 5 columns of the data from to create a BED file.
I used this to extract the first 5 columns:
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Is there a graphical/interactive 16S rRNA clustering method?
I've been doing phylogenetics with large (hundreds) 16S rRNA sequences lately.
Usually I'm focusing on one order, and using a combination of trees and sequence similarity to assess stuff like 'is this ...
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How do I build the MinusB database for Kraken2? (Taxonomy issues)
I am attempting to build my own custom database for Kraken2. I have two questions:
If I have the MCPyV genome in a file called MCPyV.fasta, how do I build a database with just this?
How do I build ...
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How do I measure the proportion of different bacteria in a sample from a high-throughput sequencer?
[this question is based on a question that was asked on Reddit]
I have sequenced some [mostly cell-free] DNA from a sputum sample on a nanopore sequencing machine, and would like to know what is in it ...
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Searching motifs in sequence and their frequencies
This is a two part question.
I am searching for a motif, and in that search I wanted to also find the total number of sequences in my FASTA file, but the code I wrote is not yielding that please see ...
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Maximum likelihood estimation for tree construction
Could someone direct me to a resource (textbook chapter, lecture notes, online video, etc.) that demonstrates, in a mathematically or computationally rigorous way, how to use maximum likelihood ...
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Could someone help me understand if all sample within this are control group?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE117872
I'm teaching myself sequence analysis.
This is the count data:
and then this is, what I believe to be, the coldata:
All I want to know is ...
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Analysis of 4665 proteins in String database
Background I have a data set of 4665 proteins from Phytophthora cactorum and want to analyze them in the String database as other database does not have Phytophthora cactorum for GO or KEGG analysis. ...
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What are the columns in bedtools coverage output hist file?
I am using bedtools to caculate the coverage of my targets of my WES data, to later plot. But to plot, I need to know what to plot and what it is I am seeing. I have unsuccefully tried to find what ...
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Summing up data effectively in excel
I have some tsRNA count data in excel which I need to add selectively in blocks based on the count
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need bam file for pilon
I just ran an assembly on yeast genomes using Flye and I want to polish those assemblies with Pilon but it requires a sorted BAM file.
How do I make a BAM file of the resulting assembled.fasta?
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Simple template for calculating Shannon diversity index from FASTQ files with R
I have a bunch of files in FASTQ format and need to calculate the Shannon diversity index from all of them.
Is there a simple way to do that with R, some kind of step-by-step recipe?
My problem is not ...
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reverse translation from amino acid string to DNA strings
what is the opposite of .translate() function calls ?
I mean let's say I am given an amino acid string CYCLIC, how do I obtain all the possible combinations of DNA ...
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What is the different between the I-TASSER, phyre2, SWISS-model in the 3D tertiary structure?
What is the difference between the I-TASSER, phyre2, and SWISS-model in the 3D tertiary structure?
How do they get the results? When I did a prediction, I got a similar result for the highest template ...
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Locate the saved template of minknow
I am using minknow on ubuntu. After saving the template (settings), where is that file locally stored in the system?
Also what is its format/extension?
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Samtools sort: most efficient approach to sort a single sample after aligning split .fastq files
Related to my other question (Samtools sort: most efficient memory and thread settings for many samples on a cluster), we need to optimize samtools sort as we ...
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Samtools sort: most efficient memory and thread settings for many samples on a cluster
We're preparing to analyze thousands of .bam files beginning with re-alignment, sorting, etc.
Complicated question: Has anyone investigated the optimal thread and ...
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How to run MD5 check for multiple fastq files in different subdirectories?
I have received Illumina sequencing reads for 100 samples. I have 8 R1.fastq.gz and 8 R2.fastq.gz files for each sample in each ...
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How to rescale a function?
When we have a function which takes values in [a,b] and which returns values in [c,d], what transformation can we do so that the function takes values in [0,1] and returns values in [0,1] ...
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tensorflow nn_model for DNA sequences: Matrix size-incompatible: In[0]: [2,1], In[1]: [784,300]
Hope anyone can help a beginner here. I'm building a proof-of concept tensorflow classifier for DNA sequences. However, the NN model does not let through train and test vectors saying the matrix size ...
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How to improve a genome assembly using Dovetail and PacBio assembly?
I have more of a conceptual question. I have two genome assemblies from the same plant, one from Dovetail technology (~998 Gb) and another is PacBio HiFi assembly (~1.1 Gb). The Dovetail assembly is ...
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Help with MinION sequencing data species identification
Hi I'm new to bioinformatics and have just completed my first run on the MinION (long read sequencing Oxford Nanopore Technologies). I was hoping someone could direct me towards R packages, workflow, ...
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Why does randomized motif search work?
I'm looking for intuition for why a randomized motif search works. My current thinking is as follows:
We are selecting many random kmers from our DNA sequences. The chosen kmers will bias the profile ...
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How should I downsample and normalize R1s and R2s and incorporate this into Lexogen's QSPA tool
I am using Lexogen's Quantitative Sequencing Pool Analysis tool (here: https://github.com/Lexogen-Tools/quantseqpool_analysis) to analyze R1 and R2 files.
I have been able to successfully run this ...
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Downloading exon-wise gene sequence using commandline
I want to download exon-wise gene sequence of around 200 genes from NCBI. Is there anyway to do this from terminal? I have the transcript id for each sequence and I am using efetch command to download ...
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Alignment with inserts and keeping the indexing of ref seq intact
Parts of sequences are given below-
Reference sequence (pre-alignment):
ATTAAAGGTTTATACCTTCCCAGGTAACAAACCAACCAACTTTCGATCTCTTGTAGATCTGTTCTCTAAACGAACTTTAAAATCTGTGT
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How to get a FASTA format file with the DNA sequences of all annotated genes?
I am analysing Pyrococcus Furiosus DNA sequencing data by considering data published here in NCBI. When I click on "Send to">"Gene Features">"FASTA format" I ...
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How to Read SCF file in Python?
Is there any way that I can read SCF file in python like in R using sangerseqR, I have tried with Biopython, it seems it does not support this format.
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How likely is it to find primers sequences in already-trimmed reads?
So, I am analysing 18S amplicon data (fastq files) to be able to eventually investigate the taxa composition.
After removing primers (using cutadapt) from both R1 ...
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Where to find publicly available Sanger chromatography data?
I am looking for any public available databases where I can download Sanger chromatography data ideally in Ab1 or SCF file format. I need extremely large amounts of this, since I want to use it for ...
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calculating kmer nucleotide frequency per column
I have a list of sequences:
CAGGTAGCC
CCGGTCAGA
AGGGTTTGA
TTGGTGAGG
CAAGTATGA
ACTGTATGC
CTGGTAACC
Each sequence is nine nucleotides long. I want to calculate ...
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How to know if the DNA sequence has been assembled and why is it important to know how it was assembled?
I have downloaded my FASTA format files, that have the DNA sequences of the coding region of the genes and the DNA sequence of the complete genome, from NCBI. How can I recognize if these sequences ...
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Converting Fastq files to Fasta files on Ubuntu
I am new to bioinformatics and programming. I tried to convert my fastq files to fasta file, but got this. What could be wrong?
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Retrieval of metadata of a batch of 3953 sequence data from GISAID database
I need to retrieve COVID-19 metadata (such as date of collection of sequence data, location, etc.) for a batch of 3953 GISAID accessions from the GISAID database.
I am not very comfortable with GISAID....
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How to deal with wildcards (N) in sequence logos
This is an open question that came to my mind recently, though it might be that it is not a common use case. The purpose is to find common patterns in a collection of sequences by representing the ...
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How to identify the DNA sequence of a gene in the complete genome sequence FASTA format file?
I need to identify the sequence of a gene in the complete genome sequence . I thought it was simple, instead it is not a straightforward task !
My method was the following: I downloaded the FASTA ...
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How to compute a p-value for the similarity measurement of two DNA sequences/contigs?
I'm attempting to come up with a statistical model to determine the p-value for the similarity value $ 0 \le s \le 1 $ of two DNA contigs.
The idea is to get a numerical measure to estimate if two ...
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Get frequency of index sequences of fastq file
I recently did some sequencing on a MiniSeq and unexpectedly the Undetermined_S0_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz file contained quite a lot of data (about 40% of total). I ...
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Does anyone know how I can convert DNA code into FASTA for this TTGAAACACTGGATGAATGAAAAGCCCTGCTTTGCAACCCCTCAGC [closed]
TTGAAACACTGGATGAATGAAAAGCCCTGCTTTGCAACCCCTCAGC this is the DNA code Sequence. I have tried converting each into the amino acid and ended up with this LKHWMNEKPCFATPQX but I was told that this isn't ...
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How to concatenate two fasta sequences by py
I have three backbone and i want to concatenate 70 sequence into these backbone.
such like:
fasta file 1:
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Multiple Alignment cost application
Is there any biological application/case where someone would be interest in the estimated total cost of the alignment between a set of sequences (genes or amino acids) without the aligned sequence ...
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Interpreting contig alignments to a reference genome
I have applied two de novo genome assembly tools to data from the run SRR12707453, corresponding to a phage (I downloaded the data and have no relation with the authors of the study).
Using rnaSPAdes ...
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Are codons in RNA layered? Are we misinterpreting RNA codons?
I am analyzing nucleotide base-pair patterns in RNA and DNA, and had a thought about RNA and DNA (Let me first state though, I am not a biologist; I am an algorithmatician, employing a sort of ...
