A comparison of tools for the simulation of genomic next-generation sequencing data

M Escalona, S Rocha, D Posada - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Computer simulation of genomic data has become increasingly popular for assessing and
validating biological models or for gaining an understanding of specific data sets. Several …

A broad survey of DNA sequence data simulation tools

S Alosaimi, A Bandiang, N van Biljon… - Briefings in …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In silico DNA sequence generation is a powerful technology to evaluate and validate
bioinformatics tools, and accordingly more than 35 DNA sequence simulation tools have …

[HTML][HTML] A bioinformatics pipeline for a tick pathogen surveillance multiplex amplicon sequencing assay

LM Osikowicz, A Hojgaard, S Maes, RJ Eisen… - Ticks and tick-borne …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's national tick and tick-borne
pathogen surveillance program collects information to better understand the regional …

Efficient compression of genomic sequences

D Pratas, AJ Pinho… - 2016 Data compression …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The number of genomic sequences is growing substantially. Besides discarding part of the
data, the only efficient possibility for coping with this trend is data compression. We present …

Cryfa: a secure encryption tool for genomic data

M Hosseini, D Pratas, AJ Pinho - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The ever-increasing growth of high-throughput sequencing technologies has led to a great
acceleration of medical and biological research and discovery. As these platforms advance …

[HTML][HTML] In silico proficiency testing for clinical next-generation sequencing

EJ Duncavage, HJ Abel, JD Pfeifer - The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 2017 - Elsevier
Quality assurance for clinical next-generation sequencing (NGS)–based assays is difficult
given the complex methods and the range of sequence variants such assays can detect. As …

An alignment-free method to find and visualise rearrangements between pairs of DNA sequences

D Pratas, RM Silva, AJ Pinho, PJSG Ferreira - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Species evolution is indirectly registered in their genomic structure. The emergence and
advances in sequencing technology provided a way to access genome information, namely …

[HTML][HTML] GTO: a toolkit to unify pipelines in genomic and proteomic research

JR Almeida, AJ Pinho, JL Oliveira, O Fajarda, D Pratas - SoftwareX, 2020 - Elsevier
Next-generation sequencing triggered the production of a massive volume of publicly
available data and the development of new specialised tools. These tools are dispersed …

On the approximation of the Kolmogorov complexity for DNA sequences

D Pratas, AJ Pinho - Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: 8th Iberian …, 2017 - Springer
The Kolmogorov complexity furnishes several ways for studying different natural processes
that can be expressed using sequences of symbols from a finite alphabet, such as the case …

MGS-Fast: metagenomic shotgun data fast annotation using microbial gene catalogs

SM Brown, H Chen, Y Hao, BP Laungani, TA Ali… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Current methods used for annotating metagenomics shotgun sequencing
(MGS) data rely on a computationally intensive and low-stringency approach of mapping …