2012年1月31日星期二
course material on evolution and genomics
Evolution and Genomics, here collected many different courses on evolution and genomics.
2012年1月29日星期日
I do not agree with him
Cultural history holds back Chinese research
We can not freely choose culture for ourself in China now. Everything has been controlled, especially those of culture. So how do you conclude as this, Peng Gong, a so-called intellectual in China? It is not the right time to think if cultural hold back research. It is the time for us to think how/at what level the communism politic depleted our freedom of ....
Do you know what happened in the period of the Cultural Evolution? We have already no culture for at least tens of years. 
Python for Non-Programmers
(1) Python  for  Non-Programmers 
(2) tutorial from Pasteur Institute
http://www.pasteur.fr/formation/infobio/python/
(3) a guide from PLoS Computational Biology
(4) programming for biologists
Programming Resources
Install Python on your own computer
- Download page for Python
- Download page for Numpy & Scipy
- Download page for Biopython
- Download page for Wing IDE (go to the bottom of the page for the free version - Wing IDE 101)
- Installing Nose on Windows (Linux and Mac folks can install from the appropriate repositories)
Programming in Python
- Online Python Tutor - see how Python is executing your program line by line
- A gentle introduction to programming using Python
- A primer on Python for life science researchers
- Programming Course for Biologists at the Pasteur Institute
- Python course in bioinformatics at the Pasteur Institute
- Google's Python Class
- Division operators in Python
- Software Carpentry - This online course is a great introduction to more advanced concepts in scientific programming
- BioPython Tutorial and Cookbook
Scientific Tools in Python
- SciPy
- NumPy
- Matplotlib
- Python based GIS tools for landscape genetics: visualising genetic relatedness and measuring landscape connectivity
Phylogenetic Tools in Python
ANGUS
Day 1 (Tue, June 1)
Lecture: Introduction to the course (Titus Brown)
Tutorial 1: UNIX, ssh, and scp
Tutorial 2: Renting a computer from Amazon
An Exercise in Reflection (Stage 1)
Day 2 (Wed, June 2) 
Lecture: Computational Basics (Titus Brown)
Tutorial 1: Running BLASTs on UNIX
Tutorial 2: UNIX, BLAST, and long-running jobs
Tutorial 3: Working with CSV files and Python
Day 3 (Th, June 3)
Lecture: Thinking Statistically (Ian Dworkin)
Tutorial 1: Plotting with matplotlib
Entertainment: Brewery outing for dinner.
(No tutorial #3.)
Day 4 (Fri, June 4)
Lecture: Mapping Reads to Known Genomes (Titus Brown)
Tutorial 1: Mapping with bowtie
Tutorial 2: Visualizing mappings with Samtools (Rose)
Tutorial 3: Other mappers and Bowtie parameters
Bonfire!
Day 5 (Sat, June 5)
Lecture: Assembly. (Titus Brown)
Tutorial 1: Short Read Assembly (Jason)
Tutorial 2: Visualizing NGS data on UCSC genome browser (Likit)
BBQ on Windmill Island.
Day 7 (Mon, June 7)
Lecture: mRNAseq analysis. (Titus Brown)
Tutorial 1 (11:30am): Simple mRNAseq: mapping reads to gene sets and doing quantile normalization
Tutorial 2 (1:30pm): Gene differential expression using DEGseq (Likit)
Tutorial 3 (3:30pm): UNIX directories and files - a quick introduction
Evening lecture: Doing science on software engineering (Greg Wilson)
Day 9 (Wed, June 9)
Tutorial, 11am: Storing data persistently with Amazon
Tutorial, 2:30pm: Writing Python scripts incrementally
Lecture, 8pm: ChIP-seq analysis. (Mark Robinson)
Day 10 (Th, June 10)¶
Tutorial, 9am: Aligning ChIP-seq reads and detecting enriched peaks
Tutorial, 2pm: Using MEME to identify TF binding motif from ChIP-seq data
Tutorial, 1:30pm: more-advanced-python-scripting
(3) tutorials of 2011
http://ged.msu.edu/angus/tutorials-2011/index.html
2012年1月28日星期六
two papers on analyzing whole genome resequencing with objective of detecting selections
This group output some good case of analyzing whole genome resequencing with objective of detecting selections.
Matteo  Fumagalli , Manuela  Sironi , Uberto  Pozzoli , Anna  Ferrer-Admettla , Linda  Pattini , Rasmus  Nielsen Signatures  of  environmental  genetic  adaptation  pinpoint  pathogens  as  the  main  selective  pressure  through human  evolution . PLoS Genetics in Press  Supplementary material, 给出了数据和 Rcode。
Common population genetic tests based on the site frequency spectrum (SFS) include Tajima's D (D T) [14] and Fu and Li's D* and F*  [15]. D T tests the departure from neutrality by comparing two nucleotide diversity indexes:  θW [16], an  estimate  of  the  expected  per  site  heterozigosity , and   π[17], the average number of pairwise sequence nucleotide differences. Positive values of D Tindicate  an  excess  of  intermediate  frequency  variants  and  are  a  signature  of  balancing  selection .Fu  and  Li's  F * and  D * are  also  based  on  SNP  frequency  spectra  and  differ  from  D in that they also take into account whether mutations occur in external or internal branches of a genealogy [15]. As an empirical comparison,  θW, π, as well as D T, F * and  D * were  calculated  for  5 kb windows  (thereafter  referred  to  as  reference  windows ) deriving  from  238 genes  resequenced  by the  NIEHS  program  in  CEU . Additionally , the  statistical  significance  of  neutrality  tests  was evaluated  by  performing  coalescent  simulations  with  a  population  genetic  model  that  incorporates demographic  scenarios   [18].
Cagliani R, Fruguglietti ME, Berardinelli A, D'Angelo MG, Prelle A, Riva S, Napoli L, Gorni K, Orcesi S, Lamperti C, Pichiecchio A, Signaroldi E, Tupler R, Magri F, Govoni A, Corti S, Bresolin N, Moggio M, Comi GP.  New molecular findings in congenital myopathies due to selenoprotein N gene mutations. J Neurol Sci.
2011
Cagliani R, Riva S, Pozzoli U, Fumagalli M, Comi GP, Bresolin N, Clerici M, Sironi M. Balancing selection is common in the extended MHC region but most alleles with opposite risk profile for autoimmune diseases are neutrally evolving. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:171
Rachele Cagliani, Matteo Fumagalli, Franca R. Guerini, Stefania Riva, Daniela Galimberti, Giacomo P. Comi, Cristina Agliardi, Elio Scarpini, Uberto Pozzoli and Diego Forni, et al. Identification of a new susceptibility variant for multiple sclerosis in OAS1 by population genetics analysis. Human Genetics Jul 7
Cereda M, Sironi M, Cavalleri M, Pozzoli U. GeCo++: a C++ library for genomic features computation and annotation in the presence of variants. Bioinformatics 2011 Mar 12. [Epub ahead of print]
Magri F, Del Bo R, D'Angelo MG, Govoni A, Ghezzi S, Gandossini S, Sciacco M, Ciscato P, Bordoni A, Tedeschi S, Fortunato F, Lucchini V, Cereda M, Corti S, Moggio M, Bresolin N, Comi GP. Clinical and molecular characterization of a cohort of patients with novel nucleotide alterations of the Dystrophin gene detected by direct sequencing. BMC Med Genet. 2011 Mar 11;12:37.
Tollervey JR, Curk T, Rogelj B, Briese M, Cereda M, Kayikci M, Konig J, Hortobágyi T, Nishimura AL, Zupunski V, Patani R, Chandran S, Rot G, Zupan B, Shaw CE, Ule J. Characterizing the RNA targets and position-dependent splicing regulation by TDP-43. Nat Neurosci. 2011 Apr;14(4):452-8.
important reference of computational/statistical application in Evo and Eco
These references are mostly recommended by my friend, Jinlong.
1.Phylogeography  and  Phylogenetics 
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~jweir/
2. Statistical method in Ecology
http://www.unc.edu/courses/2010fall/ecol/563/001/index.html
http://www.unc.edu/courses/2010fall/ecol/563/001/docs/lectures.html
3. principals of phylogenetics
http://ib.berkeley.edu/courses/ib200b/IB200B_SyllabusHandouts.shtml
4. phylogenetic comparative methods
http://www2.unil.ch/phylo/teaching/pmc.html
5. Bodega phylogenetic wiki
http://bodegaphylo.wikispot.org/Topics
6. wild evolution group
http://wildevolution.biology.ed.ac.uk/
7.Quantitative  Methods  in  Ecology  and  Evolution 
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~schluter/bio548/
8. how to a quantitative ecologist
http://greenmaths.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.aspx
1.
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~jweir/
2. Statistical method in Ecology
http://www.unc.edu/courses/2010fall/ecol/563/001/index.html
http://www.unc.edu/courses/2010fall/ecol/563/001/docs/lectures.html
3. principals of phylogenetics
http://ib.berkeley.edu/courses/ib200b/IB200B_SyllabusHandouts.shtml
4. phylogenetic comparative methods
http://www2.unil.ch/phylo/teaching/pmc.html
5. Bodega phylogenetic wiki
http://bodegaphylo.wikispot.org/Topics
6. wild evolution group
http://wildevolution.biology.ed.ac.uk/
7.
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~schluter/bio548/
8. how to a quantitative ecologist
http://greenmaths.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.aspx
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