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Interactive scientific visualization with Plotly. Two APIs: plotly.express (px) for one-liner DataFrame plots, plotly.graphobjects (go) for trace-level control. 40+ chart types with hover, zoom, pan, animation. Exports HTML or static PNG/SVG/PDF via kaleido. Use for volcano plots with gene hover, dose-response…
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Guide for choosing and creating scientific visualizations for publications and talks. Covers chart-type selection by data structure, color theory for accessibility/print, figure composition, journal formatting (Nature, Cell, ACS), and common pitfalls. Consult when visualizing data or preparing submission figures.
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Statistical visualization on matplotlib with native pandas support. Auto aggregation, CIs, grouping for distributions (histplot, kdeplot), categorical (boxplot, violinplot), relational (scatterplot, lineplot), regression (regplot, lmplot), matrix (heatmap, clustermap), grids (pairplot, FacetGrid). Use for quick…
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Guide for annotating statistical significance (p-value asterisks) on comparison plots. Covers standard notation (ns, , , , ), matplotlib bracket+asterisk implementation, and use with seaborn box/violin/bar plots. Use when preparing publication-ready figures with significance markers.
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Fast short-read DNA aligner for WGS/WES/ChIP-seq. 2× faster BWA-MEM successor; outputs SAM/BAM with read group headers for GATK. Primary plus supplementary records for chimeric reads. Use STAR for RNA-seq splice-aware alignment; Bowtie2 is a comparable alternative.
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Read/write SAM/BAM/CRAM, VCF/BCF, FASTA/FASTQ. Region queries, pileup, variant filtering, read groups. Python htslib wrapper exposing samtools/bcftools CLI. Use STAR/BWA for alignment; GATK/DeepVariant for variant calling.
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CLI toolkit for SAM/BAM/CRAM: sort, index, convert, filter, QC alignments. Core commands: view, sort, index, flagstat, stats, depth, markdup, merge. Required between alignment and variant/peak calling. Use pysam for Python-native BAM access; deeptools for normalized coverage tracks.
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Splice-aware RNA-seq aligner producing sorted BAM and splice junction tables. Builds genome index, runs two-pass alignment for better junctions. Outputs sorted BAM, junctions (SJ.out.tab), stats (Log.final.out), optional gene counts. Use Salmon for fast pseudoalignment; STAR when a BAM is needed for variant calling…
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Annotate bacterial and archaeal genomes and plasmids with Bakta's Prodigal/HMM/diamond pipeline. Identifies CDS, ncRNA, tRNA, rRNA, tmRNA, sORFs, CRISPR arrays, oriC/oriV/oriT, and gaps against a curated UniRef-derived database. Produces NCBI-compatible GFF3, GenBank, EMBL, JSON, FASTA, TSV, and a circular genome…
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Annotate prokaryotic genomes (bacteria, archaea, viruses) via Prokka's BLAST/HMM pipeline. Identifies CDS, rRNA, tRNA, tmRNA, signal peptides against Pfam, TIGRFAMs, RefSeq. Outputs GFF3, GenBank, FASTA, TSV. Use PGAP for NCBI GenBank submission; Bakta for faster NCBI-compatible annotation.
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Compute the bacterial pan-genome from Prokka/Bakta GFF3 annotations with Roary's CD-HIT + BLAST + MCL clustering pipeline. Builds gene presence/absence matrices, core/soft-core/shell/cloud partitions, multi-FASTA core gene alignments (with -e), and a pan-genome reference. Use Panaroo for higher-accuracy pan-genomes…
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GRN inference from expression via GRNBoost2 (gradient boosting) or GENIE3 (Random Forest). Load matrix, filter by TFs, infer TF-target-importance links, save network. Dask-parallelized to single-cell scale. Core SCENIC component.
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Molecular biology toolkit: sequence manipulation, FASTA/GenBank/PDB I/O, NCBI Entrez, BLAST automation, pairwise/MSA alignment, Bio.PDB, phylogenetic trees. Use for batch processing, custom pipelines, format conversion, PubMed/GenBank queries. For quick gene lookups use gget; for multi-service REST APIs use…
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Biopython sequence analysis: parse FASTA/FASTQ/GenBank/GFF (SeqIO), NCBI Entrez (esearch/efetch/elink), remote/local BLAST, pairwise/MSA alignment (PairwiseAligner, MUSCLE/ClustalW), phylogenetic trees (Phylo). Use for gene family studies, phylogenomics, comparative genomics, NCBI pipelines. For…
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Query ARCHS4 REST API for uniformly processed RNA-seq expression, tissue patterns, co-expression across 1M+ human/mouse samples. Retrieve z-scores, co-expressed genes, samples by metadata, HDF5 matrices. For variant population genetics use gnomad-database; for pathway enrichment use gget-genomic-databases (Enrichr).
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Unified Python interface to 40+ bioinformatics web services: UniProt proteins, KEGG pathways, ChEMBL/ChEBI/PubChem, BLAST, cross-database ID mapping, GO annotations, PPI. For deep single-DB queries use dedicated tools (gget for Ensembl, pubchempy for PubChem); bioservices excels at cross-database workflows.
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Cancer genomics (TCGA et al.) via cBioPortal REST API. Retrieve somatic mutations, CNAs, expression, clinical data (survival/stage/treatment) across thousands of studies. Use for TMB, oncoprints, survival analysis. For population frequencies use gnomad-database; for drug-gene interactions use opentargets-database.
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Query the ClinPGx (formerly PharmGKB) REST API plus the CPIC PostgREST companion API for pharmacogenomic clinical annotations, CPIC/DPWG dosing guidelines, gene-drug pairs, variant-drug associations, FDA/EMA drug labels, and PGx pathways. Two-host architecture: api.clinpgx.org for annotation records, api.cpicpgx.org…
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Query NCBI ClinVar via E-utilities for variant clinical significance, pathogenicity, disease associations. Search by gene/rsID/condition/review status; returns ClinSig, submitter data, conditions, HGVS. For GWAS use gwas-database; for variant consequence prediction use Ensembl VEP.
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Query COSMIC for cancer somatic mutations, gene census, mutational signatures, drug resistance variants. REST API v3.1 supports gene/sample/variant queries; free registration. For germline use clinvar-database; for drug-target data use opentargets-database or chembl-database-bioactivity.
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Query NCBI dbSNP for SNP records by rsID, gene, or region via E-utilities and Variation Services REST API. Retrieve alleles, MAF, variant class (SNV/indel/MNV), clinical links, cross-DB IDs (ClinVar, dbVar, 1000G). Free; 3 req/sec (10 with key). For clinical pathogenicity use clinvar-database; for population…
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DepMap CRISPR gene effect (Chronos) analysis: sign convention for essentiality, per-gene NaN-safe Spearman correlation, data loading/alignment. For general NaN-safe correlation see nan-safe-correlation; for quality filtering see degenerate-input-filtering.
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ENA REST API for sequences, reads, assemblies, and annotations. Portal API search, Browser API retrieval (XML/FASTA/EMBL), file reports for FASTQ/BAM URLs, taxonomy, cross-refs. For multi-DB Python use bioservices; for NCBI-only use pubmed-database or Biopython Entrez.
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ENCODE Portal REST API for regulatory genomics: TF ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq/DNase-seq peaks, histone marks, and RNA-seq across 1000+ cell types. Search experiments by assay/biosample/target; download BED/bigWig; retrieve SCREEN cCREs by region or gene. Use to annotate variants with regulatory tracks, find open chromatin in…