scholarly journals MutSpot: detection of non-coding mutation hotspots in cancer genomes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Amanda Guo ◽  
Mei Mei Chang ◽  
Anders Jacobsen Skanderup

AbstractSummaryRecurrence and clustering of somatic mutations (hotspots) in cancer genomes may indicate positive selection and involvement in tumorigenesis. MutSpot performs genome-wide inference of mutation hotspots in non-coding and regulatory DNA of cancer genomes. MutSpot performs feature selection across hundreds of epigenetic and sequence features followed by estimation of position and patient-specific background somatic mutation probabilities. MutSpot is user-friendly, works on a standard workstation, and scales to thousands of cancer genomes.Availability and implementationMutSpot is implemented as an R package and is available at https://github.com/skandlab/MutSpot/Supplementary informationSupplementary data are available at https://github.com/skandlab/MutSpot/

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Gaffney ◽  
Jeffrey P. Townsend

ABSTRACTSummaryPathScore quantifies the level of enrichment of somatic mutations within curated pathways, applying a novel approach that identifies pathways enriched across patients. The application provides several user-friendly, interactive graphic interfaces for data exploration, including tools for comparing pathway effect sizes, significance, gene-set overlap and enrichment differences between projects.Availability and ImplementationWeb application available at pathscore.publichealth.yale.edu. Site implemented in Python and MySQL, with all major browsers supported. Source code available at github.com/sggaffney/pathscore with a GPLv3 [email protected] InformationAdditional documentation can be found at http://pathscore.publichealth.yale.edu/faq.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A Lees ◽  
Marco Galardini ◽  
Stephen D Bentley ◽  
Jeffrey N Weiser ◽  
Jukka Corander

AbstractSummaryGenome-wide association studies (GWAS) in microbes face different challenges to eukaryotes and have been addressed by a number of different methods. pyseer brings these techniques together in one package tailored to microbial GWAS, allows greater flexibility of the input data used, and adds new methods to interpret the association results.Availability and Implementationpyseer is written in python and is freely available at https://github.com/mgalardini/pyseer, or can be installed through pip. Documentation and a tutorial are available at http://[email protected] and [email protected] informationSupplementary data are available online.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas A Rizvi ◽  
Ezgi Karaesmen ◽  
Martin Morgan ◽  
Leah Preus ◽  
Junke Wang ◽  
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ABSTRACTSummaryTo address the limited software options for performing survival analyses with millions of SNPs, we developed gwasurvivr, an R/Bioconductor package with a simple interface for conducting genome wide survival analyses using VCF (outputted from Michigan or Sanger imputation servers), IMPUTE2 or PLINK files. To decrease the number of iterations needed for convergence when optimizing the parameter estimates in the Cox model we modified the R package survival; covariates in the model are first fit without the SNP, and those parameter estimates are used as initial points. We benchmarked gwasurvivr with other software capable of conducting genome wide survival analysis (genipe, SurvivalGWAS_SV, and GWASTools). gwasurvivr is significantly faster and shows better scalability as sample size, number of SNPs and number of covariates increases.Availability and implementationgwasurvivr, including source code, documentation, and vignette are available at: http://bioconductor.org/packages/gwasurvivrContactAbbas Rizvi, [email protected]; Lara E Sucheston-Campbell, [email protected] information: Supplementary data are available at https://github.com/suchestoncampbelllab/gwasurvivr_manuscript


Author(s):  
Daniel G Bunis ◽  
Jared Andrews ◽  
Gabriela K Fragiadakis ◽  
Trevor D Burt ◽  
Marina Sirota

Abstract Summary A visualization suite for major forms of bulk and single-cell RNAseq data in R. dittoSeq is color blindness-friendly by default, robustly documented to power ease-of-use and allows highly customizable generation of both daily-use and publication-quality figures. Availability and implementation dittoSeq is an R package available through Bioconductor via an open source MIT license. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


Author(s):  
Alencar Xavier ◽  
William M Muir ◽  
Katy M Rainey

AbstractMotivationWhole-genome regressions methods represent a key framework for genome-wide prediction, cross-validation studies and association analysis. The bWGR offers a compendium of Bayesian methods with various priors available, allowing users to predict complex traits with different genetic architectures.ResultsHere we introduce bWGR, an R package that enables users to efficient fit and cross-validate Bayesian and likelihood whole-genome regression methods. It implements a series of methods referred to as the Bayesian alphabet under the traditional Gibbs sampling and optimized expectation-maximization. The package also enables fitting efficient multivariate models and complex hierarchical models. The package is user-friendly and computational efficient.Availability and implementationbWGR is an R package available in the CRAN repository. It can be installed in R by typing: install.packages(‘bWGR’).Supplementary informationSupplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry E. Miller ◽  
Alexander J. R. Bishop

Abstract Background Co-expression correlations provide the ability to predict gene functionality within specific biological contexts, such as different tissue and disease conditions. However, current gene co-expression databases generally do not consider biological context. In addition, these tools often implement a limited range of unsophisticated analysis approaches, diminishing their utility for exploring gene functionality and gene relationships. Furthermore, they typically do not provide the summary visualizations necessary to communicate these results, posing a significant barrier to their utilization by biologists without computational skills. Results We present Correlation AnalyzeR, a user-friendly web interface for exploring co-expression correlations and predicting gene functions, gene–gene relationships, and gene set topology. Correlation AnalyzeR provides flexible access to its database of tissue and disease-specific (cancer vs normal) genome-wide co-expression correlations, and it also implements a suite of sophisticated computational tools for generating functional predictions with user-friendly visualizations. In the usage example provided here, we explore the role of BRCA1-NRF2 interplay in the context of bone cancer, demonstrating how Correlation AnalyzeR can be effectively implemented to generate and support novel hypotheses. Conclusions Correlation AnalyzeR facilitates the exploration of poorly characterized genes and gene relationships to reveal novel biological insights. The database and all analysis methods can be accessed as a web application at https://gccri.bishop-lab.uthscsa.edu/correlation-analyzer/ and as a standalone R package at https://github.com/Bishop-Laboratory/correlationAnalyzeR.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Henrique Ribeiro Da Fonseca ◽  
Douglas Silva Domingues ◽  
Alexandre Rossi Paschoal

AbstractMotivationMirtrons are originated from short introns with atypical cleavage from the miRNA canonical pathway by using the splicing mechanism. Several studies describe mirtrons in chordates, invertebrates and plants but in the current literature there is no repository that centralizes and organizes these public and available data. To fill this gap, we created the first knowledge database dedicated to mirtron, called mirtronDB, available at http://mirtrondb.cp.utfpr.edu.br/. MirtronDB has a total of 1,407 mirtron precursors and 2,426 mirtron mature sequences in 18 species.ResultsThrough a user-friendly interface, users can browse and search mirtrons by organism, organism group, type and name. MirtronDB is a specialized resource to explore mirtrons and their regulations, providing free, user-friendly access to knowledge on mirtron data.AvailabilityMirtronDB is available at http://mirtrondb.cp.utfpr.edu.br/[email protected] informationSupplementary data are available.


Author(s):  
Nima Mousavi ◽  
Jonathan Margoliash ◽  
Neha Pusarla ◽  
Shubham Saini ◽  
Richard Yanicky ◽  
...  

AbstractSummaryA rich set of tools have recently been developed for performing genome-wide genotyping of tandem repeats (TRs). However, standardized tools for downstream analysis of these results are lacking. To facilitate TR analysis applications, we present TRTools, a Python library and a suite of command-line tools for filtering, merging, and quality control of TR genotype files. TRTools utilizes an internal harmonization module making it compatible with outputs from a wide range of TR genotypers.AvailabilityTRTools is freely available at https://github.com/gymreklab/[email protected] informationSupplementary data are available at bioRxiv.


Author(s):  
Nils Kurzawa ◽  
André Mateus ◽  
Mikhail M Savitski

Abstract Summary Rtpca is an R package implementing methods for inferring protein–protein interactions (PPIs) based on thermal proteome profiling experiments of a single condition or in a differential setting via an approach called thermal proximity coaggregation. It offers user-friendly tools to explore datasets for their PPI predictive performance and easily integrates with available R packages. Availability and implementation Rtpca is available from Bioconductor (https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rtpca). Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Legana C.H.W Fingerhut ◽  
David J. Miller ◽  
Jan M. Strugnell ◽  
Norelle L. Daly ◽  
Ira R. Cooke

AbstractSummaryAntimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are key components of the innate immune system that protect against pathogens, regulate the microbiome, and are promising targets for pharmaceutical research. Computational tools based on machine learning have the potential to aid discovery of genes encoding novel AMPs but existing approaches are not designed for genome-wide scans. To facilitate such genome-wide discovery of AMPs we developed a fast and accurate AMP classification framework, ampir. ampir is designed for high throughput, integrates well with existing bioinformatics pipelines, and has much higher classification accuracy than existing methods when applied to whole genome data.Availability and Implementationampir is implemented primarily in R with core feature calculation methods written in C++. Release versions are available via CRAN and work on all major operating systems. The development version is maintained at https://github.com/legana/[email protected]; [email protected] informationSupplementary data are available at https://github.com/legana/amp_pub


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