scholarly journals artMAP: a user-friendly tool for mapping EMS-induced mutations in Arabidopsis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Javorka ◽  
Vivek Raxwal ◽  
Jan Najvarek ◽  
Karel Riha

AbstractMapping-by-sequencing is a rapid method for identifying both natural as well as induced variations in the genome. However, it requires extensive bioinformatics expertise along with the computational infrastructure to analyze the sequencing data and these requirements have limited its widespread adoption. In the current study, we develop an easy to use tool, artMAP, to discover ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) induced mutations in the Arabidopsis genome. The artMAP pipeline consists of well-established tools including TrimGalore, BWA, BEDTools, SAMtools, and SnpEff which were integrated in a Docker container. artMAP provides a graphical user interface and can be run on a regular laptop and desktop, thereby limiting the bioinformatics expertise required. artMAP can process input sequencing files generated from single or paired-end sequencing. The results of the analysis are presented in interactive graphs which display the annotation details of each mutation. Due to its ease of use, artMAP made the identification of EMS-induced mutations in Arabidopsis possible with only a few mouse click. The source code of artMAP is available on Github (https://github.com/RihaLab/artMAP).

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 710
Author(s):  
K. Sripath Roy ◽  
K. Abhiram ◽  
M. Arun Sumanth ◽  
Jaishree Jaishankar ◽  
P. Abhishek ◽  
...  

There are many tools that are used for simulation in the domain of VLSI technology but none of them are easily accessible. There is a need for Free and open source tools in this stream so as to make them accessible to everyone. There are efficient tools that already exist in open source in VLSI stream but are not used widely because of their command line user interface. Hence, creating a user friendly interface will help many developers and users to work easily. This paper deals with the idea to solve the above issue by creating a Graphical User Interface for the open source VLSI tool called QFlow. Qflow is a tool used in synthesizing a VLSI circuit from the Verilog source code. There are multiple tools integrated with this tool to assure the simulation process. It is a combination of many dependencies that are used for synthesis, placement, layout viewing and routing in a fabrication process. All the independent tools used for the Verilog code simulation are integrated onto a single platform. Qt is used for creating the cross-stage application.


2015 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. CIN.S26470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard P. Finney ◽  
Qing-Rong Chen ◽  
Cu V. Nguyen ◽  
Chih Hao Hsu ◽  
Chunhua Yan ◽  
...  

The name Alview is a contraction of the term Alignment Viewer. Alview is a compiled to native architecture software tool for visualizing the alignment of sequencing data. Inputs are files of short-read sequences aligned to a reference genome in the SAM/BAM format and files containing reference genome data. Outputs are visualizations of these aligned short reads. Alview is written in portable C with optional graphical user interface (GUI) code written in C, C++, and Objective-C. The application can run in three different ways: as a web server, as a command line tool, or as a native, GUI program. Alview is compatible with Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple OS X. It is available as a web demo at https://cgwb.nci.nih.gov/cgi-bin/alview . The source code and Windows/Mac/Linux executables are available via https://github.com/NCIP/alview .


2020 ◽  
pp. 580-592
Author(s):  
Libi Hertzberg ◽  
Assif Yitzhaky ◽  
Metsada Pasmanik-Chor

This article describes how the last decade has been characterized by the production of huge amounts of different types of biological data. Following that, a flood of bioinformatics tools have been published. However, many of these tools are commercial, or require computational skills. In addition, not all tools provide intuitive and highly accessible visualization of the results. The authors have developed GEView (Gene Expression View), which is a free, user-friendly tool harboring several existing algorithms and statistical methods for the analysis of high-throughput gene, microRNA or protein expression data. It can be used to perform basic analysis such as quality control, outlier detection, batch correction and differential expression analysis, through a single intuitive graphical user interface. GEView is unique in its simplicity and highly accessible visualization it provides. Together with its basic and intuitive functionality it allows Bio-Medical scientists with no computational skills to independently analyze and visualize high-throughput data produced in their own labs.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (18) ◽  
pp. 3527-3529 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Aparício ◽  
Pedro Ribeiro ◽  
Tijana Milenković ◽  
Fernando Silva

Abstract Motivation Network alignment (NA) finds conserved regions between two networks. NA methods optimize node conservation (NC) and edge conservation. Dynamic graphlet degree vectors are a state-of-the-art dynamic NC measure, used within the fastest and most accurate NA method for temporal networks: DynaWAVE. Here, we use graphlet-orbit transitions (GoTs), a different graphlet-based measure of temporal node similarity, as a new dynamic NC measure within DynaWAVE, resulting in GoT-WAVE. Results On synthetic networks, GoT-WAVE improves DynaWAVE’s accuracy by 30% and speed by 64%. On real networks, when optimizing only dynamic NC, the methods are complementary. Furthermore, only GoT-WAVE supports directed edges. Hence, GoT-WAVE is a promising new temporal NA algorithm, which efficiently optimizes dynamic NC. We provide a user-friendly user interface and source code for GoT-WAVE. Availability and implementation http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/got-wave/ Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 1099-1112
Author(s):  
Jagadish Torlapati ◽  
Xiaolong Geng ◽  
Tom King ◽  
Michel Boufadel ◽  
Kenneth Lee

ABSTRACT We developed a user-friendly numerical model, Shoreline Bioremediation Model (SBM), to simulate the biodegradation and bioremediation of oil entrapped within shorelines. The model takes oil properties and environmental conditions as input and produces variation of oil concentration with time, up to several years from the time of the spill. SBM is equipped with a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI). The accessibility and easy-to-use interface allow the user to quickly produce several biodegradation and bioremediation scenarios before they are implemented at the contaminated shoreline. The model has been calibrated to predict the biodegradation rate of saturates and aromatics, but it can be also used to predict the biodegradation rates of individual oil components and to decide on bioremediation studies in shorelines based on the enhancement due to biostimulation (addition of nutrients) or bioaugmentation (addition of hydrocarbon degrading organisms). The GUI provides the oil concentration with time along with best case and worst case scenarios, which is commonly needed for decision making.


2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 955-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Piccinini ◽  
Alexa Kiss ◽  
Peter Horvath

Abstract Motivation: Time-lapse experiments play a key role in studying the dynamic behavior of cells. Single-cell tracking is one of the fundamental tools for such analyses. The vast majority of the recently introduced cell tracking methods are limited to fluorescently labeled cells. An equally important limitation is that most software cannot be effectively used by biologists without reasonable expertise in image processing. Here we present CellTracker, a user-friendly open-source software tool for tracking cells imaged with various imaging modalities, including fluorescent, phase contrast and differential interference contrast (DIC) techniques. Availability and implementation: CellTracker is written in MATLAB (The MathWorks, Inc., USA). It works with Windows, Macintosh and UNIX-based systems. Source code and graphical user interface (GUI) are freely available at: http://celltracker.website/. Contact: [email protected] Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1281-1284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian B. Hübschle ◽  
George M. Sheldrick ◽  
Birger Dittrich

ShelXleis a graphical user interface forSHELXL[Sheldrick, G. M. (2008).Acta Cryst.A64, 112–122], currently the most widely used program for small-molecule structure refinement. It combines an editor with syntax highlighting for theSHELXL-associated .ins (input) and .res (output) files with an interactive graphical display for visualization of a three-dimensional structure including the electron density (Fo) and difference density (Fo–Fc) maps. Special features ofShelXleinclude intuitive atom (re-)naming, a strongly coupled editor, structure visualization in various mono and stereo modes, and a novel way of displaying disorder extending over special positions.ShelXleis completely compatible with all features ofSHELXLand is written entirely in C++ using the Qt4 and FFTW libraries. It is available at no cost for Windows, Linux and Mac-OS X and as source code.


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