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FOSS Tools for Bioinformatics

Deepan Chakravarthy N

Svapas Innovations, Chennai.

www.codeshepherd.com

codeshepherd AT yahoo DOT com


What is FOSS ?


  • Free and Open Source Software
  • http://www.foss.in/2005/

  • Bio-Nix

  • A linux Distro for Biotech people
  • Project Wiki Page
  • Built using Fedora Core 5 as base
  • YUM repository for Biotech related software
  • Please contribute. Join our Mailing List
  • Demo of Bio-Nix YUM repository.
  • Gromacs

  • Demo: Gromacs installation; MD simulation to set up a small peptide surrounded by water, and then run an energy-minimization
  • Gromacs Hello World Tutorial
  • $cp /usr/share/gromacs/tutor/speptide/* .
  • $echo 0 | pdb2gmx -f speptide.pdb -o speptide.gro -p speptide.top >& output.pdb2gmx
  • $editconf -f speptide.gro -o speptide.gro -d 0.5 >& output.genbox

  • Gromacs demo continued..

  • genbox -cp speptide.gro -cs -o speptide_b4em.gro -p speptide.top >>& output.genbox
  • $grompp -f em -c speptide_b4em -p speptide -o speptide_em >& output.grompp_em
  • $mdrun -nice 4 -s speptide_em -o speptide_em -c speptide_b4pr -v

  • Emboss

  • Demo: Emboss installation; Generate random nucleotide/protein sequence, play with it.
  • Emboss tutorials
  • wossname: To search for required tools
  • makenucseq, wordcount, banana, dan
  • primersearch, showorf
  • Rasmol

  • Demo: Rasmol Installation, Insulin Structure.
  • Alpha helix, Beta strands
  • Rasmol>rotate y 45
  • Rasmol>zoom 300
  • Rasmol>translate x 10
  • show sequence
  • show information

  • Rasmol continued..

  • Rasmol>select sulphur
  • Rasmol>colour yellow
  • Rasmol>cpk
  • Rasmol>reset
  • select polar, basic, hydrophobic, acidic, basic
  • Rasmol Tutorial

  • clustalx

  • Used for Multiple sequence alignment
  • Demo: Installation, phylogenetic tree generation
  • Demo: NJplot to view phylogenetic tree files
  • JaMBW

  • Java based Molecular Biologist's Workbench
  • A BioSeq File Format Converter
  • Reverse, Complement, Inverse, Shuffle, Translate
  • Isoelectric point, Antigenicity index, ORF detection, Dotplot
  • Finding patterns, restriction sites, binding sites
  • Primer design, Genome mapping calculators, Buffer calculator
  • primerx



  • Automated design of mutagenic primers for site-directed mutagenesis
  • www.bioinformatics.org/primerx
  • DNA based
  • Protein based
  • Other Intresting Online Tools


  • Discovery Engine: www.bioask.com
  • BioAsk screenshots of upcoming version
  • Tool to generate Plasmid Map: Savvy
  • Sequence Analysis: Sewer
  • Sequence Extractor: Seqext

  • Slides: www.codeshepherd.com/bioinfo.html



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