Best bioinformatics skills, page 12

Evaluates genome assembly quality across the three orthogonal axes - contiguity (QUAST auN/NG50/NGx, not bare N50), completeness (BUSCO/compleasm gene-space plus Merqury k-mer completeness), and…

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Profiles a genome from raw reads BEFORE assembly with a k-mer spectrum (KMC or Jellyfish histogram), then models it with GenomeScope2 to estimate genome size, heterozygosity, repeat content, and…

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Assembles haplotype-resolved diploid and telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genomes from PacBio HiFi reads with hifiasm (HiFi-only, Hi-C, or trio phasing) and verkko (HiFi + ultralong ONT for T2T)…

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Assembles genomes de novo from noisy long reads (Oxford Nanopore R9/R10/Dorado, PacBio CLR) with Flye (repeat graph), Canu (correct-trim-assemble OLC), NextDenovo, Shasta, Raven, wtdbg2, or miniasm…

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Assembles microbial-community sequencing into metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) with metaFlye (ONT), metaSPAdes/MEGAHIT (Illumina), and hifiasm-meta/metaMDBG (PacBio HiFi), then recovers genomes…

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Assembles a genome de novo from Illumina short reads with SPAdes (isolate/careful/sc/meta/plasmid/rna modes), MEGAHIT (low-memory, huge datasets), Unicycler (bacterial finishing/hybrid), MaSuRCA…

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Designs cytosine (CBE, C-to-T) and adenine (ABE, A-to-G) base-editor guides by positioning the target base at the activity-peak of the editing window (protospacer positions ~5-7, PAM-distal…

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Designs and ranks guide RNAs (sgRNAs) for CRISPR-Cas9/Cas12a gene knockout by scanning a target for PAM sites (NGG SpCas9, NNGRRT SaCas9, TTTV Cas12a, NG SpCas9-NG, near-PAMless SpRY), enumerating…

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Designs donor/repair templates for precise CRISPR knock-ins -- choosing the format (ssODN, long-ssDNA/Easi-CRISPR, dsDNA/plasmid, AAV6), sizing homology arms, placing the cut within ~10 bp of the…

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Designs pegRNAs and nicking guides for prime editing (PE) -- choosing the nick/strand, tuning the primer-binding site (PBS) and reverse-transcription template (RTT) as a per-locus panel, selecting…

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Handles BED-format genomic intervals (BED3 through BED12, narrowPeak/broadPeak) and the coordinate-system substrate the whole interval category rests on, with bedtools (CLI) and…

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Generates, normalizes, and converts bedGraph signal tracks (4-column chrom/start/end/value, 0-based half-open) with bedtools genomecov, deepTools bamCoverage/bamCompare/bigwigCompare, bedtools…

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Reads, queries, and writes bigWig indexed binary signal tracks (coverage, fold-change, conservation, methylation-rate) with pyBigWig (Python) and the UCSC Kent tools (bedGraphToBigWig…

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Computes and interprets sequencing read depth and coverage over a genome, windows, or target regions with mosdepth (windowed depth, cumulative distribution, --quantize callable BEDs), bedtools…

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Parses, queries, converts, and extracts from GTF and GFF3 gene-model annotation files - walking the gene/transcript/exon/CDS hierarchy with gffutils (queryable SQLite DB), converting formats and…

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Performs set operations on genomic intervals - intersect (-wa/-wb/-wo/-wao/-loj/-c/-v/-u), subtract (-A), merge (-d, -c/-o), complement, cluster, multiinter, unionbedg, map, and groupby - with…

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Performs proximity operations on genomic intervals with bedtools (closest, window, flank, slop) and pybedtools - nearest-feature queries with signed/strand-aware distance, fixed-radius window…

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Detects TAD boundaries from balanced Hi-C contact matrices via the diamond-window insulation score (cooltools insulation) and HiCExplorer hicFindTADs, returning a continuous log2 insulation track…

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Segment single cells from multiplexed IMC/MIBI tissue images using Mesmer/DeepCell, Cellpose, or ilastik+CellProfiler, covering whole-cell vs nuclear segmentation, the summed-membrane-channel…

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Load and preprocess imaging mass cytometry (IMC) and MIBI data from raw MCD/TXT through hot-pixel removal, spillover compensation, and variance-stabilizing transformation, covering readimc/steinbock…

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Basecalls raw Oxford Nanopore signal (POD5/FAST5) into reads with Dorado, choosing the chemistry-matched model and accuracy tier (fast/hac/sup), requesting modified bases (5mCG5hmCG, 6mA, m6A) at…

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Calls germline small variants (SNPs and indels) from Oxford Nanopore and PacBio HiFi long reads with Clair3, a two-stage (pileup + full-alignment) deep-learning caller, selecting the chemistry- and…

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Phases small variants, SVs, and methylation from Oxford Nanopore and PacBio long reads (read-backed/physical phasing) with WhatsHap, LongPhase, or HiPhase, and haplotags the BAM (HP/PS tags) for…

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Discovers, classifies, filters, and quantifies full-length transcript isoforms from PacBio Iso-Seq/Kinnex (HiFi) and Oxford Nanopore (cDNA/direct-RNA) long reads, using the isoseq+pigeon pipeline…

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Aligns Oxford Nanopore and PacBio long reads (and assemblies) to a reference with minimap2 using the error-rate-matched preset (map-ont, lr:hq, map-hifi, map-pb, splice/splice:hq, asm5/10/20, ava)…

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Assesses Oxford Nanopore and PacBio long-read quality with NanoPlot, cramino, NanoComp, pycoQC/toulligQC, and seqkit, and filters reads with chopper/Filtlong for the downstream goal.

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Polishes Oxford Nanopore draft assemblies to higher consensus accuracy with medaka, a basecaller-model-specific neural consensus net, produces haploid variant calls (VCF) for microbial…

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Calls DNA base modifications (5mC, 5hmC, 6mA, 4mC) directly from Oxford Nanopore and PacBio HiFi long reads encoded as MM/ML SAM tags, piles them into per-site bedMethyl with modkit (or pb-CpG-tools…

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Detects structural variants (deletions, insertions, inversions, duplications, translocations) from Oxford Nanopore and PacBio long-read alignments with Sniffles2, cuteSV, SVIM, and assembly-based…

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Maps query single-cell data onto reference atlases and transfers cell-type labels using scArches surgery (scVI/scANVI), Symphony, Azimuth, CellTypist, scPoli, popV, and foundation models, with…

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Designs and analyzes stable-isotope-resolved metabolomics (SIRM / isotope tracing / fluxomics) experiments that measure metabolic ACTIVITY via 13C/15N/2H tracers, distinct from steady-state pool…

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Turns shotgun classifier output into a defensible abundance table with Bracken Bayesian re-estimation, then compositional treatment (CLR, zero handling), library-size normalization, reference-frame…

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Profiles the antimicrobial-resistance gene content (resistome) of shotgun metagenomes - read-based quantification with RGI bwt, AMR++/MEGARes, ARGs-OAP/SARG, deepARG, or GROOT, and presence calling…

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Cleans a shotgun metagenome of everything that is not the target community before profiling - host-read depletion (Hostile, bowtie2/T2T-CHM13), reagent/kitome contamination control with blanks and…

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Profiles the functional potential of shotgun metagenomes with HUMAnN 3's tiered search (MetaPhlAn prescreen, Bowtie2 pangenome, translated DIAMOND vs UniRef), giving gene-family (RPK) and MetaCyc…

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Classifies shotgun metagenomic reads to taxa with Kraken2's minimizer/LCA matching against a chosen reference database, then hands off to Bracken for abundance re-estimation.

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Profiles shotgun metagenomes to species/SGB relative abundance with MetaPhlAn 4's clade-specific marker genes (bowtie2 short reads, minimap2 long reads).

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Resolves and compares bacterial strains below the species level from shotgun metagenomes with inStrain (popANI/conANI microdiversity), StrainPhlAn (marker-SNV consensus phylogeny and nGD), MIDAS2…

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Turns a shotgun profiler table (MetaPhlAn relative abundance, Bracken counts, HUMAnN function tables) into honest figures and defensible community statistics with phyloseq, vegan, microViz, and…

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Turns raw Illumina Infinium methylation BeadChip IDATs (450K, EPIC, EPICv2) into a defensible beta/M matrix with sesame (openSesame/SigDF) or minfi (RGChannelSet - MethylSet - GenomicRatioSet).

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Aligns bisulfite-converted (WGBS, RRBS, PBAT) and enzymatic (EM-seq) short reads to an in-silico C-T/G-A-converted reference with Bismark (Bowtie2 or HISAT2), preparing the genome index, choosing…

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Find sequence motifs, degenerate IUPAC patterns, and transcription-factor binding sites in DNA/RNA using Biopython and regex, including position weight matrix (PWM/PSSM) scoring.

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Discovers shared and view-specific latent factors across bulk multi-omics blocks (RNA-seq, proteomics, methylation) on a common sample axis with MOFA2's unsupervised Bayesian group factor model…

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Handle paired-end FASTQ files (R1/R2) using Biopython while keeping mates synchronized.

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Runs Gene Ontology over-representation analysis (ORA) on a gene LIST with clusterProfiler enrichGO, the one-sided hypergeometric/Fisher 2x2 test phyper(k-1, M, N-M, n, lower.tail=FALSE).

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Build model-corrected evolutionary distance matrices and distance trees (NJ, BIONJ, FastME, UPGMA) with Biopython Bio.Phylo plus R ape/phangorn/FastME.

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Read, write, and convert phylogenetic tree files with Biopython Bio.Phylo, and choose an annotation-preserving parser (treeio, DendroPy) when metadata matters.

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Edit phylogenetic tree structure with Biopython Bio.Phylo, and treat rooting as a separate statistical inference rather than a display choice.

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