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A collection of articles explaining installation and usage of different bioinformatics tools.

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vcf2fhir- A New Tool to Convert VCF files into HL7 FHIR Format

A new utility is developed to convert variant calling format (VCF) files…

Tariq Abdullah

Installing Bismark on Ubuntu

Bismark is a bioinformatics tool to map bisulfite treated sequencing reads to…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

FiNGS- A New Software providing Filters for Next Generation Sequencing

We use somatic variant callers to detect mutations in cancer samples by…

Tariq Abdullah

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

Tutorial-I: Functional Divergence Analysis using DIVERGE 3.0 software

DIVERGE is a tool to detect functional divergence between member genes of…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Evaluate predicted protein distances using DISTEVAL

A new webserver called DISTEVAL is developed that evaluates the predicted protein…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

How to find disulfides in protein structure using Pymol?

As shown in previous articles, Pymol has several functions. In this article,…

Tariq Abdullah

How to build molecules in Pymol?

Pymol has many functions that you keep finding on exploration. In this…

Tariq Abdullah

Video Tutorial: Pymol Basic Functions- Part II

This video tutorial is in continuation of our previous tutorial.

Dr. Muniba Faiza

ped_drew: A New Tool for Pedigree Visualization

A new command-line and web tool are developed for easy visualization of…

Tariq Abdullah

Most widely used software for docking results image generation

Computational docking is an important technique in bioinformatics. The docking result interpretation…

Tariq Abdullah

Installing TREE-PUZZLE on Ubuntu

TREE-PUZZLE is a software to reconstruct phylogenetic trees using the maximum likelihood…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Installing HMMER package on Ubuntu

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

Tariq Abdullah

How to Compress and Decompress FASTQ, SAM/BAM & VCF Files using genozip?

genozip is a tool for lossless compression of large files including VCF,…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

AligNet- A New Protein-Protein Interaction Network Aligner

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are essential to study to understand the molecular functions…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Installing FASTX-toolkit on Ubuntu

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

Tariq Abdullah

Installing SIFT for Missense Variants on Ubuntu

SIFT is a bioinformatics tool for predicting missense effects of non-synonymous/missense variations…

Tariq Abdullah

smORFunction: A Tool for ORFs and Microproteins Function Prediction

small open reading frames (smORFs) that are less than 100 codons in…

Tariq Abdullah

Installing MGLTools2 package (ADFR/AGFR/AutoSite) on Ubuntu

MGLTools2 package comes with three different tools for docking: ADFR, AGFR, and…

Dr. Muniba Faiza