Sequence Analysis

A collection of articles explaining operations of biological sequences for sequence analysis.

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[Tutorial] Installing BBTools on Ubuntu (Linux).

BBTools is a suite consisting of various bioinformatics tools for DNA and…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

HMMER- Uses & Applications

HMMER is a well-known bioinformatics tool/software. It offers a web server and…

Tariq Abdullah

Easy installation of some alignment software on Ubuntu (Linux) 18.04 & 20.04

There are commonly used alignment programs such as muscle, blast, clustalx, and…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

FEGS- A New Feature Extraction Model for Protein Sequence Analysis

Protein sequence analyses include protein similarity, Protein function prediction, protein interactions, and…

Tariq Abdullah

Installing RDPTools on Ubuntu (Linux)

RDP provides analysis tools called RDPTools. These tools are used to high-throughput…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

NGlyAlign- A New Tool to Align Highly Variable Regions in HIV Sequences

It is necessary to detect highly variable regions in envelopes of viruses…

Tariq Abdullah

How to install ClustalW2 on Ubuntu?

Clustal packages are quite useful in multiple sequence alignments. Especially, when you…

Tariq Abdullah

Installing HMMER package on Ubuntu

HMMER tool is used for searching sequence homologs using profile hidden Markov…

Tariq Abdullah

Installing FASTX-toolkit on Ubuntu

FASTX-toolkit is a command-line bioinformatics software package for the preprocessing of short…

Tariq Abdullah

Aligning DNA reads against a local database using DIAMOND

DIAMOND is a program for high throughput pairwise alignment of DNA reads…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Installing MEME suite on Ubuntu

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

Tariq Abdullah

Installing BLAT- A Pairwise Alignment Tool on Ubuntu

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

Tariq Abdullah

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…

Tariq Abdullah

How to use Clustal Omega and MUSCLE command-line tools for multiple sequence alignment?

Clustal Omega and MUSCLE are bioinformatics tools that are used for multiple…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

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

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

Tariq Abdullah

Sequence search against a set of local sequences (local database) using phmmer

PHMMER is a sequence analysis tool used for protein sequences (http://hmmer.org; version…

Tariq Abdullah

Biotite: A bioinformatics framework for sequence and structure data analysis

Sequence and structural data in bioinformatics are ever-increasing and the need for…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Simulated sequence alignment software: An alternative to MSA benchmarks

In our previous article, we discussed different multiple sequence alignment (MSA) benchmarks…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Benchmark databases for multiple sequence alignment: An overview

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a very crucial step in most of…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

SparkBLAST: Introduction

The basic local alignment search tool (BLAST) is known for its speed…

Dr. Muniba Faiza