Tariq Abdullah

Tariq is founder of Bioinformatics Review and Lead Developer at IQL Technologies. His areas of expertise include algorithm design, phylogenetics, MicroArray, Plant Systematics, and genome data analysis. If you have questions, reach out to him via his homepage.
109 Articles

Tutorial: Constructing phylogenetic tree using MEGA7

MEGAX is a bioinformatics software/tool used for phylogenetic tree construction. In this…

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IonCRAM: New Tool for Ion Torrent Sequence Files Compression

One of the major next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies that are most frequently…

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Installing MEME suite on Ubuntu

MEME suite is used to discover novel motifs in unaligned nucleotide and…

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Installing BLAT- A Pairwise Alignment Tool on Ubuntu

BLAT is a pairwise sequence alignment algorithm that is used in the…

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RNAIndel: A tool to identify somatic indels from tumor RNA-seq data

It is a challenging task to discover somatic coding indels that are…

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Tutorial: Installing Autodock Vina on Windows

We have provided several tutorials on Autodock Vina software including its installation…

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Predict putative protein targets for small molecules using a new tool

It is computationally costly to predict target proteins for query compounds or…

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Converting smiles into 3D structures using openbabel.

Openbabel is used to inter-convert many file formats . It is available…

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Plugin to visualize CASTp results in PyMOL

CASTp (Computed Atlas of Surface Topography of proteins) server is used to…

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Operations on FASTA files using Perl, PHP, and Bash commands

We have published various articles on bioinformatics programming dealing with large files…

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Genozip- a new compression tool for VCF files

Variant Call Format (VCF) is a text file format used to store…

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Installing CHARMM on Ubuntu

CHARMM (Chemistry at Harvard Molecular Mechanics) is a molecular simulation program that…

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Installing PyMol on Ubuntu

PyMol is a molecular visualization software that is freely available for education-use-only…

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Homology search against a local dataset using NCBI-BLAST+ command-line tool

NCBI-BLAST+ command-line tool offers multiple functions to be performed on a large…

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Modifying multi-FASTA files using Bash: ‘Sed’ Command

Dealing with thousands of FASTA sequences is a tedious task without using…

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Multiple Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree construction using ClustalW2 command-line tool

ClustalW2 is a bioinformatics tool for multiple sequence alignment of DNA or…

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How to perform graph-based clustering of peptide/protein sequences using MCL?

Markov Cluster Algorithm (MCL) is a clustering algorithm that clusters networks .…

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Tutorial: MD simulation output analysis of protein using GROMACS

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is an important step in studying the dynamics…

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Update: Selection analysis on spike glycoproteins of SARS-CoV

In our last article, we mentioned the selection pressure analysis of SARS-CoV-2…

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SciPRank: A quantitative method for evaluation of Research personnel in scientific setup

Background A journal’s relevance is generally estimated by its impact factor (Web…

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