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BIOINFORMATICS TOOLS

(for Genetic Epidemiologists)

Mehmet Tevfik DORAK, MD, PhD

 Bioinformatics in HLA

 

Open Access Reviews / Journals

ENCODE Resources (Pazin MJ. CSHP 2015); Database Tools (Bianco, Genomics 2013; Zou, 2015); UCSC Browser (Mangan, 2014)

JournalsNucleic Acids Research (NAR); NAR Genomics & Bioinformatics;  Database; Bioinformatics  

 Nucleic Acids Research Databases Catalog

Scientific Data

 

Article Collections

 ENCODE (Web Focus)     FANTOM5 (RIKEN)    IHEC    Epigenome RoadMap     TCGA     GTEx

F1000Research: Bioconductor

 

Societies

ISCB     ISMB    AMIA   ECCB

 

Online Suites

Galaxy (101 - Support)   ExPASy (ref)   Taverna 2.5.0/Archive (ref)   Apache-Taverna   BioMart (ref)   Artemis (manual)   Babelomics (ref / tutorial)  

Bioconductor (manual)   BioPython (tutorial & cookbook / PDF)

EDGE: Empowering the Development of Genomics Expertise (ref)

 

Genome Statistics

NCBI Genome (GRCh38.p14)   NCBI Human Gene List    Genecode    HGNC    Ensembl    Panther (Human)

 

Biomarts

BioTools: Biomart

Ensembl BioMart (YouTube tutorial)   UCSC Table Browser   GWAS Central GWAS Mart (tutorial)   SPS Mart (allele freqs)  Fantom5

 

Genome Browsers

BioTools: Genome Visualization 

UCSC Human Genome BioInformatics    GENCODE    FANTOM5 (ref / tutorial / wiki / user guide (pp.12-19)) - ZENBU - SLIDEBASE (tutorial)

Ensembl Genome Browser (Human)    PopHuman (ref)

NIH RoadMap Epigenomic Browser (tutorial)   WashU EpiGenome   Human Epigenome Atlas   NCBI Epigenomics (help)   NGSmethDB (ref)

1KG (Browser - Quick Start Guide)-(NCBI)   

  UK10K (ref)   GENCODE Browser   SNiPA    (gnomAD) genome Aggregation Browser (ref)

CNV Browser  DECIPHER  eQTL Browser  seeQTL  GTEx eQTL Browser

lncRBase   NonCode   FANTOM CAT (lncRNA Atlas) Browser (ref)   Integrative Genomics (ref

VISTA Enhancer Browser    Swiss Regulon    Reactome Pathway Browser   ImmunoBase Browser   ImmunPop Browser (ref)

NCBI Genome Data Viewer (GDV) (ref / tutorial)

 

 General Resources

BioTools    OmicX

NCBI Global Search   GoPubMed  HuGE  LabMeeting   NCBI Tutorials / Handbook / Help Manual   NIH Helix   NCBI Tools for Data Mining  NCI Data Analysis Tools

Sanger: Software / Databases & Tools     EMBL-EBI    Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: ExPASy  

NCBI Gene .. GeneCards (User Guide) .. GeneMap .. GenAtlas .. iHOP .. BioGPS Gene Annotation .. Harmonizome (ref)

NCBI (tutorials on YouTube) .. BLAST .. MimicMe (ref) .. e-PCR .. In Silico PCR .. GeneNote .. GeneLoc .. CGAP-GAI .. Aceview

ENCODE (ref / tutorial1 / tutorial2 / cell types)   GENCODE    RegulomeDB   FANTOM/Gateway (papers / software)   Broad Institute Portals

Database of Genomic Variants (CNV)   CNV inspector   Copy Number Variation Resources   DECIPHER (ref)

OMIM .. OMIM Map .. NCBI Genetic Association Database (GAD) [Now Retired] .. HuGE Navigator .. Variant Name Mapper  

Gene Exp Omnibus -GEO (NCBI) .. NCBI dbGaP .. ArrayExpress (EBI) .. SOURCE (genomics tool)

Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD)    CHE Toxicant & Disease Database   CellTypist (ref)

  NIEHS SNPs    RNA-seq Atlas (via OmicTools) (ref)   NGSmethDB (ref)   MecCog (genetic disease mechanisms) (ref / tutorial)

Genomic coordinate conversion: Ensembl Assembly Converter   Kaviar

Variation Services @ dbSNP 

Harmonizome (ref)   iLINCS (ref)   SigComLINCS (ref)   GeneHopper (ref)

 

 SNP Resources (variation & functional annotation)

BioTools: SNP      NAR Database: Polymorphism    Dr Martti's Tools: SNP     SNP Notes  

VarNote-REG (ref)   AnnoPortal (refCAUSALdb (ref / documentationSNP-SuRE (ref)   FeatSNP    3DSNP v2.0 (ref / tutorial)

OpenTargets (ref1 / ref2)   OpenTargets PostGWAS- GitHub   Mastermind (ref)   varsome (ref)   monarch (ref)

 VariED (ref)   LDtrait (ref)   UCSC Variant Annotation Integrator (VAI)   VARAdb (ref)

dbSNP (help / tutorials / variation services)   LOVD (ref)   NCI LDLink (ref)    PER (Pathogenic variant-enriched regions) (ref)

NCBI Variation Viewer   NCBI ClinVar (ref)  NHGRI Clin Genomic DB   GeneSNPs   PharmGKB   HGMD    snpXplorer (ref / GitHub)

Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP)     AVIA  (ref / tutorial)     wANNOVAR (tutorial)    FunSeq2 (ref)    dbNSFP (ref)    Variant Ranker (ref / tutorial)

rVarBase (ref / tutorial)   SNiPA (ref)   DICE (Dbase of Immune Cell Eqtl/Exp/Epigen) (ref)

mQTLdb (ref)   GoDMC (ref)    DiseaseMeth (ref)

 SNPnexus (User Guide) .. PheGenI (tutorial) .. HaploReg v4 (ref) .. HumanMine (ref) .. CoreMine .. VaDE .. SNVrap/QUICKrap (ref)  

FUN-LDA (ref)   CADD (ref1 / ref2) .. DANN (ref) .. EIGEN (ref) .. FATHMM (ref) .. GWAVA (ref) .. SusPect (ref) .. RegulomeDB (GWAS) .. DeepSEA (ref)

FATHMM-XF (ref)  PhD-SNPg (refPredictSNP2 (refSNPDelScore (ref)  PAFA (ref)   FINSURF (ref  UMD-Predictor (ref)

 RVS / Reference Variant Store (ref)   Structure PPi (ref)     GenoCanyon (ref)    ClinGen Pathogenicity Calculator (ref

VarioWatch .. SNPedia .. NextBio .. SNPwatch .. MutaGeneSys .. LS-SNP/PDB .. LS-SNP (ref)

dSysMap (ref / tutorial)    PsyGeNET (ref1/ref2)

  rSNP Guide .. SNPLogic .. SPSMart (comparative frequencies)

DistiLD .. SNPEffect .. SNPfunc (ref) .. GRAIL (ref)

PopHuman (ref)   Haplotter   HGDP Selection Browser   Selectome - A Database of Positive Selection   dbPSHP (ref)   GERP (ref1 / ref2)

RVIS Genic Intolerance (ref)

 FERRET for 1KG SNP Data Download (ref) – requires JAVA    SNP2Gene (physical mapping)

   Endeavour

Harmonizome (ref)

Obsolete: GENEPI TOOLBOX (ref)    OpenTargets PostGWAS (ref)     BIOS QTL Browser (ref1 / ref2)

 

Proxy Search

NCI LDLink (ref)   NCI_LDproxy (ref)   NCI LDAssoc (ref)   NCI LDexpress (ref)    NCI SNPclip (pruning) (ref)

ssSNPer .. SNAP .. SNPSnap (ref / guide) .. SPOT (ref / user guide) .. HaploReg v4 .. CandiSNPer (ref)  

Obsolete: rAggr

 

eQTL / meQTL Resources

BioTools: eQTL    BioTools: meQTL

EMBL-EBI eQTL Catalog (ref / training webinar)    FIVEx (ref / GitHub)    eQTLGen (ref)   QTLizer (ref)

GTEx .. NCBI Molecular QTL Browser (ref) .. SCAN (tutorial) .. PheGenI .. eQTL Databases

ESM_Browser (Exonic Splicing Mutations) (ref)  

eQTL Resources @ Pritchard Lab (browser) .. eQTL Catalog (NESDA/NTR) (ref) .. reQTL (ref)

CAGE eQTL Browser (ref)   ImmunPop eQTL Browser (ref)   GEUVADIS/1KG (ref; data download)

 mQTLdb (ref)   GoDMC (ref)   LIBD (Brain) eQTL Browser (ref)   

 HSM (Haplotype-specific Methylation-associated SNPs) (ref)   EpiDelta (ref)   DiseaseMeth (ref)

   Plateletomics (platelet transcriptomics by gender)  ImmGen eQTL Browser (mouse)   

FIRE (Functional Inference of genetic variants that Regulate gene Expression) (ref)

eCAVIAR: colocalization of GWAS signals and eQTLs (ref / manual)   PancanQTL (ref)   Pancan meQTL (ref)

DIVAN (ref)

Obsolete:  seeQTL (ref) .. e/meQTL .. GWAS2Genes (ref) .. Blood eQTL Browser .. BIOS QTL Browser (ref1 / ref2)

 

Splice Site Analysis and ssSNPs / RNA Modifications

FIVEx (ref / GitHub)   regSNPs-splicing (ref)   dbNSFP (ref)   ESM_Browser (Exonic Splicing Mutations) (ref)

AS-ALPS (ref)    NNSplice (splice site prediction on genomic sequence)    Human Splicing Finder    Splice-Net   DBSCSNV (splice site SNPs) (ref)  

Splice Disruption Model SNPs @ GTEx    BPHunter (Branch Point SNPs) (ref)   ValidSpliceMut (ref)   RMvar (RNA modificating SNPs) (ref)   RMDisease (ref / user guide)

Obsolete: ssSNPTarget (ref) .. AASsites (ref)

 

Coding SNP Annotation

genome Aggregation (gnomAD) Browser (formerly ExAc Browser) (ref)

MISCAST (ref)    Variant Score Ranker (ref)   Rhapsody (ref)

Missense3D-DB (ref) .. SNPs3D .. dbNSFP (ref) .. SNPdbe (ref) .. PolyPhen-2 .. SIFT (by SNP ID) .. PolyDoms .. KD4v (ref)

 MutDB .. HGMD .. Panther (download) .. FannsDB (Condel & TransFIC) .. Mutation Assessor (ref) .. MutPred .. PMut (ref)  

ClinPred (download) (ref)

 

GWAS Resources

BioTools: GWAS    Dr Martti's: GWAS Tools

OpenTargets (ref1 / ref2)  Mastermind (ref)   VariED (ref)   LDtrait (ref)   PhenoScanner (manual / ref)   TreeWAS (ref / FAQs)

CTG postGWAS: Browser & Virtual Lab (ref)    XGR for Genes/SNPs (ref / R package / demo)

 EBI GWAS Catalog (ref)   NCBI GAPplus   GWAS Explorer (ref)   GWAS Central   HuGE Navigator

TCGD Cancer GWAS Database (ref)   Cancer PRSweb (ref)   PHGKB-Cancer  

 GRASP (ref / overview / user guide)   GWAS4D (ref / help)    FUMA GWAS (ref)   MAGMA (ref)    DEPICT (ref)

 LocusZoom (ref)   FORGE (ref / GitHub / Wiki)   VAMPIRE (ref)   pgwas (Proteo-Genomic Convergence) (ref)

GWAS-ROCS (ref)   PGS Catalog v1 (ref) – v2: PRS (ref)   ExPRSweb (ref)    MendelVar (ref/tutorial)

HaploReg v4 (ref)    RegulomeDB (GWAS)    OpenTargets – V2D

  GenAMap (ref / tutorial)   SNPTrack (ref)

OMICtools    GWAS Diagram Browser   SIB Association Viewer (ref)

SNP Imputability   HLA-IMP (tutorial/ref)

CAPE: CellulAr dePendent dEactivating mutations predictor (ref

GARLIC: GWAS-based Prediction Toolkit for Connecting Diseases and Cell Types (ref)

LD Hub (ref)    easyGWAS (ref / tutorial)    UKBB Heritability Browser    GWEHS (ref/Wiki)

LDGIdb (Linkage-Disequilibrium-based Gene Interaction database) (ref)

 CGEMS   (KM Plotter)  Human Protein Atlas KM Plotter - Search (ref)   Adult Human Cell Atlas (AHCA) (ref)

GeneAtlas (UK Biobank)   GeneAtlas/PheWAS   PheWeb (UK Biobank) (unpublished)   PheWAS Catalog   UKBB-GeneBass (ref)

FinnGene GWAS Browser (ref)    MGeND (Medical Genomics Japan Variant Database) (ref)

  Metabolomics GWAS   mGWAS (ref)   PGWAS: Proteomics GWAS (ref)   pgwas (ref)   Omicscience (ref)

eCAVIAR: colocalization of GWAS signals and eQTLs (ref / manual)

humanbase (module/GWAS)

GWAS Summary Results: EBI GWAS Catalog   GRASP     GWAS-ATLAS (Atlas of GWAS Summary Statistics) (ref)

OpenGWAS (ref)

Obsolete: MR-Base (ref1 / ref2)   HESS: Heritability Estimation from Summary Statistics of GWAS (ref)   WGAviewer (ref)   GWATCH (ref)  GWASKB (ref / GitHub)

GWASdb v2 (ref)   Breast Cancer GWAS: GAME-ON

 

Epigenetics

BioTools: Epigenetics    EpiGenie Epigenetics Tools   EpiMap / Browser (ref)    EpiDelta (ref)    ImmuMethy (ref)

NIH RoadMap Epigenomic Browser (tutorial / cell types)   WashU EpiGenome   Human Epigenome Atlas   NCBI Epigenomics (help)  

Int Hum Epigenet Cons (IHEC)   IHEC Data Portal    FeatSNP

HEDD (Human Epigenetic Drug Database) (ref)  

EWAS Catalog (ref)    EWAS Atlas (ref)    eFORGE (ref)   EWAS Cat (Summary Stats)   Table of All EWAS

CpG Sites List (CruzDB)   SNPs to CpG Islands (ref)

Obsolete: EpiRegNet (ref

 

Chromatin Features Databases

BioTools: Chromatin

HEDD (Human Enhancer Disease Database) (ref)   DiseaseEnhancer (Disease-associated enhancers) (ref)   GeneHancer (ref)

SlideBase (FANTOM Enhancers) (tutorial)    epiTAD (ref)    ABC Enhancer-Gene Connections (ref)    EnhancerDB (ref)

EpiRegio (ref / documentation)    EpiFactors (refHeRA (ref)    CATlas (ref)

descartes (Cell Atlas of Fetal Development) (ref1 / ref2)

Cistrome DB (for chromatin features) (ref)   NHGRI HistoneDB v.2 (ref

3DSNP v2.0 (ref; tutorial)

3DIV (3D-genome Interaction Viewer and Database) (ref1ref2 / tutorial)  

3D Genome Browsers:  Yue Lab (ref / tutorial)    HUGIn (ref / tutorial)    3DGB/McGill (ref)    3Disease Browser (ref / tutorial)

 4D Genome (ref)   3CDB (ref)    Human Histone Modification Database (HHMD) (ref)

Obsolete: CCSI (ref)

 

ncRNA (microRNA/lncRNA) & Pseudogene Resources

BioTools: microRNA   BioTools: lncRNA / BioTools: lincRNA   BioTools: ncRNA     

NONCODE (ref)   NONCODER (ref)   NPInter v3 (ref)   ncRNA Databases Resource (NRDR)   ChIPBase (ref)

 miRBase   miRDB   mrSNP   TargetScan (ref)   miRWalk 2.0 (ref)  StarBase (tutorial / ref)   miRNA SNiPer (ref)   microSNiPer (ref

DIANA-TarBase (ref)    miRTarBase (ref-2014 / 2016)   miRmap (ref)   miRNAmap (tutorial/ref)   Human miRNA Tissue Atlas (ref)   miRFocus   

 Human miRNA Disease Database (HMDD)   ncFANs (ref)

miRCancer    miR-TV (ref)   OncomiR (ref)   OncomiRDB (ref)   leukmir (ref)   mirAPP (ref)  HOCTAR (refFAME (ref)   IntaRNA (ref / help)

RegNetwork (TF and miRNA networks) (ref)    Genome-wide Predictions of miRNA Regulation by Transcription Factors Database  (ref)

miRNA-SNP db (ref)   AVIA miR SNP Analysis Tool   miTranscriptome (ref)   iSeeRNA (ref)    miRcode (ref)

lncRNAKB (ref)

FANTOM CAT/lncRNA Atlas / Browser (ref)    MNDR (Mammal ncRNA-Disease Repository) (ref)

lncRNA and Disease Database     lncTar for Target Prediction (ref)    lncRNAMap (ref)    LncMAP (ref)

 LNCiPedia (ref)   lnCeDB (ref)   lncRBase (ref)   DIANA-lncBase (ref / v2.0)   LncRNADisease v2 (ref1 / ref2)

EVLncRNAs (database for long non-coding RNAs) (ref)    ncRNA (Functional RNA Analysis)

Lnc2Meth (database of regulatory relationships between long non-coding RNAs and DNA methylation)  (ref)

Database of CpG Islands

lnCaNet Database (lncRNA-Cancer co-expression database) (ref)   lncRNA-SNP db (ref)   LncVar (ref)

lncScape (Hematopoietic lineage and leukemia lncRNA expression atlas) (ref)    ImmLnc (immune lncRNAs in cancer) (ref)

IntaRNA (ncRNA-mRNA interaction prediction) (ref)

Database of small human noncoding RNAs (DASHR) (ref)    miRVaS (miRNA search within sequences) (ref / manual)

 PseudoMap (ref / tutorial)    RNASNP (Predicting SNP effects on local RNA secondary structure)  RBP-Var2 (ref)

Rfam (ncRNA families)

Obsolete: lncRNome (ref)   lncRNA2Target (ref)   lncRNA2Function (ref)    lncReg (ref)   lncRNAtor (ref)   Co-LncRNA (ref)   TF2LncRNA (ref)

LincSNP v2 (ref)   decodeRNA (ref)

 

Gene Expression (incl. cancer) & Cancer Informatics

Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia / CCLE (ref)   Human Protein Atlas: Cancer   RefEx (ref)   descartes (Cell Atlas of Fetal Development) (ref1 / ref2)

   RNA-seq Atlas (ref)   Expression Atlas (ref)   lnCaNet Database (ref)   PanglaoDB (ref)

TSEA (Tissue Specific Expression Analysis) (ref)    SC2disease (ref)

PancanQTL (ref)    Pancan meQTL (ref)

NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) (ref)  

Cancer Gene Census (ref)    Network of Cancer Genes (ref)   CHG: Cancer Hallmark Genes (ref / download)

  PeCan (St Jude Pediatric Cancer Genetics) (ref / tutorial)

ORGANize (linking genes to the organs they affect) (ref / help)  

SAGD (sex-associated gene database from transcriptomes) (ref)

Gene Enrichment Profiler (ref)    DiRE (Distant Regulatory Elements of Co-regulated Genes) (ref)

Brain: Oxford Brain Imaging Genetics (BIG) Server v2   OASIS Brain (ref)   Cortecon (ref)   BrainSpan (ref / help)   CrispBrain (ref)  

FeatSNP (Brain-Specific Epigenetic Annotation of Human SNPs) (ref)   meQTLs in Human Brain (ref)   BrainSeq (eQTL) (ref)

 & 

(KM Plotter)  Human Protein Atlas KM Plotter (ref)   TCGA Survival (ref)

BloodSpot (AML) (ref)

Databases for Cancer Genomics (Table 2 in Chin, 2011)

 

Transcription Factor Binding Site Search

GVATdb (Genetic Variants Allelic TF Binding Database) (ref)

ADASTRA (Allele-Specific Transcription Factor Binding Sites) (ref) - includes Androgen Receptor

Harmonizome: ENCODE Transcription Factor Binding Sites (enter the TF in Filter box)

Harminozome: MotifMap Predicted Transcription Factor Targets (enter the gene in Filter box)  

 TransFac  TFBS Search (Qiagen)  TFBS Mapper (refTFBIND  MFold   JasPar (ref)  PAZAR  SNP@llincRNA TFBS (ref)   @SNP (ref)

 Swiss Regulon    AR Target Gene Dbase   TESS-discontinued  

CTCFBSDB v2 (ref)

 

Cancer Somatic Mutations

 COSMIC (somatic mutations in cancer) .. COSMIC Browser .. ICGC Data Portal .. NCBI Cancer Genome Anatomy Project .. cBioPortal 

HotSpotAnnotations (ref)   CancerVar (ref / GitHub)

Integrative OncoGenomics Database (intOgen) (ref)   DriverDBv2 (ref, help)   OncodriveFML (ref)

 CRAVAT (ref / help)    CIViC (ref)    TCGA Clinical Explorer

TransFIC    PRISMAD (ref)   BRCA1 Circos (ref)    Cancer cell line encyclopedia (CCLE) (ref)

(See also Yang, 2015 & Raphael, 2015)  

 

Gene Set Enrichment and Pathway Analysis

ENRICHR (ref / help)   SigComLINCS (ref)   GSEA/MSigDB (User Guide)   GSAn [GO only] (ref / user guide)   ConsensusPath (CPdB) (ref / protocol / documentation)  

Pathway Commons (guide / primer / tutorial1 & 2)     Pathview (ref)

  DAVID (ref / tutorial / protocol)   SSEA (ref)   g:Profiler (ref / protocol)   Varanto (SNP to Pathway) (ref)   TissueEnrich (ref)    XGR for Genes/SNPs (ref / R package / demo)

KEA3 (Kinase Enrichment Analysis) (ref)    X2Kweb (Expression to Kinases) (ref)   

 Cytoscape    Disease Connect    ToppGene (ref)    Panda (ref / video tutorial)   WebGestalt (ref)   IMPaLA (ref)   Metascape (ref)

UniHi   Reactome (user guide)   Reactome Pathway Browser   BioSystems   Pathway Searcher   KEGG   KeggExp (for visualisation) (ref)

 Gene Ontology    GeneSetDB    GeneFamilies

 PCxN - The Pathway Co-Activity Map (ref)    SIGNAL (ref / User Guide)    HiPathia (ref / User Guide)

GSEA & GSEA-SNP   GIANT (Gene Networks in Tissues; Ref)   Onto-Tools (user guide)    

FUMA-GENE2FUNC     iLINCS (ref)    RMDisease (ref / user guide)   MGenrichment (microglia) (ref)

Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) 

Obsolete: IPAD (ref)    GeneSigDB 

 

GWAS SNP Set Analysis

i-Gsea4Gwas Web Server (ref / tutorial)   GSEA & GSEA-SNP   SSEA (ref  VSEAMS (ref)-for local use   MAGENTA (ref)-requires MatLab  

VSEA: Variant Set Enrichment Analysis  (ref)

FUMA > SNP2GENE: Functional Mapping and Annotation (ref)

Reactome via SNPnexus v4 (nearest gene algorithm)

 

GWAS Network Analysis

GWAB (Network-based Boosting of GWAS) (ref)    NetWAS (ref) (example)

 

Gene Network Analysis

 Genetic Network Analysis Tool (GNAT) (ref)    Gene Network v2.0 (ref / GitHub)

GeneNetwork-UT / GN2 (co-expression) (ref)    Human Gene Correlation Analysis (co-expression) (ref)   CORD (ref) (co-regulation) 

GLITTER (tissue-specific coexpression) (ref)    iLINCS (ref)    X2Kweb (Expression to Kinases) (ref)

GIANT (Gene Networks in Tissues; ref)    BioGrid    String  

RegNetwork (TF and miRNA networks) (ref)   ChIPBase (ref)

 Genome-wide Predictions of miRNA Regulation by Transcription Factors Database  (ref)

Ingenuity Target Analysis  

 

Gene Ontology

QuickGO (ontology) .. Gene Ontology (AmiGO browser)

GeneNetwork-UCMG (function, expression and co-expression) .. GeneNetwork-UT

Harmonizome (ref)

 

Immunoinformatics

IPD-IMGT/HLA (ref)    MHCcluster (ref)   Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) (video tutorials/ref)

 HLA Epitopes @ Allele Frequencies.Net (ref)   PGG.MHC (ref)   HLA-EPI (Epitope Registry) (ref)

IMGT/HLA Allele Query   EASY-HLA (ref)   HLA3D (ref)   HLA-SPREAD (ref)

 ImmPort (tutorial)   ImmVar   ImmunoBase (browser)   ImmuNet (ref)   ImmuneCellScience (ref)   ImmGene-Mouse (ref / video)

Cross-tissue Immune Cell Atlas (ref)    ImmuMethy (ref)   PCIG (PanCancerImmunoGenomics) (ref)

FineMapping / PICS (ref)    SNP2HLA (Imputation of Amino Acid Polymorphisms in HLA) (ref / manual)   HLA-IMPUTER (ref)

HLA-NET GENE[RATE] Tools (publications)   HLA-NET: Charts & Maps

HLA-MA (ref

HLA-TAPAS (HLA-Typing At Protein coding positions for Association Studies) (ref)

BIGDAWG Case-Control HLA Data Analysis (ref)

 MHC Haplotype Project_Archived    dbMHC_Archived    IDAWG_Archived    Vega Genome Browser_Archived

Obsolete: The SysteMHC Atlas Project (ref)

 

 Proteins

Human Protein Atlas (ref) .. ProteomicsDB .. Protein Data Bank .. MOPED .. SWISS-MODEL .. SwissVar .. AS-ALPS (ref)

Structure PPi (ref)   Phyre 2 (ref; tutorial; tutorial notes)   Phyre 2 Investigator   ConsensusPath (CPdB)  (ref)

SusPect (ref)   UniProt (query)   SwissProt   Protein-Protein Interaction Mining Tool   MINT (interactions)

BioPlex (ref)   Genome3D   SMART   STRING  Jet2Viewer (PPI) (ref)

Structural Biology Knowledgebase (SBKB)  MEME Suite   iHOP

Protein Sequence Analysis     Protein Functional Analysis (PFA) @ EMBL    SOSUI (ref)

ExPasy: Proteomics Tools    Tools for Protein Analysis    GenomeNet Chemical Analysis Tools    3DBIONETS-WS (ref)

 Post-translational Modifications

PTMD (ref)   MusiteDeep (ref)  

GPS    PhosSNP (ref)    Functional Glycomics   ActiveDriverDB (variation in post-translational modification sites) (ref)

Protein-related Bioinformatics Resources

 

Human Metabolome Database (HMDB)   Metabolomics GWAS   HumanMine (ref)

 ANNOVAR (ref / quick startup guide / protocol)  wANNOVAR (tutorial)   AVIA

AURA: Atlas of UTR Regulatory Activity (ref)

PAFA: Prioritization And Functional Assessment of Variants (ref)

 

Disease Databases

NAR Database: Disease

dSysMap (ref / tutorial)   Disease Connect   CoreMine   Phenolyzer (ref / tutorial)   PhenoPred   SNPs3D  DisGeNET (ref)   CPR Diseases (ref)

FANTOM CAT Traits Database    3Disease Browser (ref / tutorial)    eDGAR (Disease-Gene Associations) (ref / tutorial)    MecCog (genetic disease mechanisms) (ref / tutorial)

Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) 

EpiGraphDB (ref)    DiseaseMeth (ref)   Geneshot (ref)    SC2disease (ref

GenderMedDB (ref)  

SZGR (ref)    SZDB Database (ref)   

Brain xQTL Serve (ref)   WGBS Brain meQTLs (refFeatSNP (Brain-Specific Epigenetic Annotation of Human SNPs) (refMGenrichment (microglia) (ref)

 Alzheimer Disease Gene Exp Browser (ref)   Alzheimer Disease Meta-Analysis (ref)   Alzheimer Multi-Omics Landscape (ref)    AlzGene (ref)

ADVP (Alzheimer Disease Variants Portal) (ref)    NIAGADS (ref)    AD Knowledge Portal (ref)   CrispBrain (ref)

PDGene (ref)

 Type 2 Diabetes  

 

Various Other Resources

Gene Prediction Tools

 AUGUSTUS Gene Prediction Tool (tutorial)   Gene Prediction 

 

STR Database

 TaqMan SNP Genotyping Assays (1)  (2)  

Chang Bioscience Tools    VISTA Tools

ThermoFisher Learning Center .. Access Biotech

Restriction Enzyme Database .. NEBCutter .. GenScript Tools

Primer Design Software Primer3 (help) .. Primer3Plus .. Oligo Analyser and PrimerQuest (IDT)

FastPCR .. FastPCR Online Tools .. In Silico PCR

Multiple Sequence Alignment: Clustal (help) .. Topali v2 .. Jabaws   

Expasy Translate Tool .. ORF Finder (NCBI) .. JustBio Bioinformatics Tools  

 Icahn School of Medicine   Ma'ayan Lab   Yue Lab   Cui Lab   Mulin Lab     

 

Search Templates

(use these static URLs for quick searches by changing the indicated identifier to yours in the address line)

dbSNP (GeneID)   dbSNP (rs#)   Ensembl (rs#)   SNiPA (rs#)    FeatSNP (rs#)

GWAS Cat (EBI) (rs#)    EWAS Cat (CpG)  PhenoScanner (rs#)   GeneAtlas-PheWAS (UK Biobank) (rs#)   OpenGWAS (rs#)

 PheGenI (rs#)   dbGAP (rs#)   GWAS Central (rs#)   Super-EnhancerDB (rs#)   GTEx (rs#)   TreeWAS (rs#)

Variation Viewer (geneName)   rVarBase (rs#)   HaploReg v4 (rs#)   HSM (rs#)   3DSNP (rs#)

SNPedia (rs#)   OpenSNP (rs#)   SNPDelScore (rs#): Restful (API)   ClinVar (rs#)

LDAssoc / LDPair (LD between two SNPs in EUR populations)

RegulomeDB (chr#/nt#) 

Ensembl (Gene Name)   Gene (Gene Name1/Human)  Gene (Gene Name2)  Gene (GeneID)

GTeX (Gene Name)  GTEx Visualizer (Gene Name)  GTEx (your own SNP)  GTEX (alt. splicing variants for a gene)

GWAS Central (Gene Name)    Ingenuity Target Explorer (Gene Name)   Harmonizome (Gene Name)   Genehopper (Gene Name)

ENCODE Regulatory Elements DB (Gene Name)    GenCode - Alternative Splicing Variants (Gene Name)

 Expression Atlas (Gene Name)   Protein Atlas (Gene Name)   

COSMIC Gene Analysis Search (Gene Name)

LnCaNet search: general info by Gene ID; expression by Gene ID; PTM by Gene ID

 HGMD (Gene Name)   GeneCards    Entrez Structure   RVIS (GeneName)    iLINCS  Harmonizome  

Amino Acids   Genetic Code   Ambiguity (Mixed Base) Codes

 BioCompare

 

ONLINE TUTORIALS / TRAINING

BioStar Handbook: Recipes  Cookbook    

Babraham Bioinformatics Training Courses

EMBER - A Practical Guide to Bioinformatics

GOBLET - the Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education & Training

Bioinformatics Labs in Virtual Labs (ref)    CourseSource: Bioinformatics / Genetics

Applied Bioinformatics Course (ABC) (ref)

Bioinformatics Training and Services (BITS) - Exercises

Dr Martti's Bioinformatics Pages  

Tutorials: NCBI   Mini-Courses (NCBI)   dbSNP   Bioconductor  Ensembl  UCSC  Haploview  Galaxy  GoldenHelix  ImmPort

EMBL-EBI Training    Getting Genetics Done   BioStars   

Online Lectures on Bioinformatics

Genome Biology (for Genetic Epidemiologists) & Applied Bioinformatics Course Notes

Melbourne Bioinformatics (formerly VLSCI)   Genomics Virtual Laboratory (GVL) (tutorial)  

Bioinformatics Labs in Virtual Labs (ref)   Bioinformatics on CourseSource   labXchange

Pathway Guide (GSEA)  

Complex-Traits Genetics Virtual Lab (ref)

Center for Statistical Genetics (Uni of Michigan)

 

HGNC Human Genetic Nomenclature Guide

Mouse Genetic Nomenclature

General Allele Frequency Database ALFRED   HLA Allele Frequencies  

 

R LIBRARIES to Learn/Teach R

learnr     discovr (GitHub)    SWIRL (courses; help)    OpenIntroStat (openintro / GitHub / R Labs)

learnPopGenet (ref)    refine.bio Examples

Teaching Statistics with R (CRAN Task View)

R Community Public Library of eBooks

 

R LIBRARIES for Bioinformatics

BioConductor Framework  (packages / vignettes / workflows / help; support / tutorials / newsletter / conferences)

rentrez (vignette)   haploR (vignette; ref)    enrichR (ref / usage)   biomaRt (user guide / vignette / examples)

gwasrapidd (ref / Getting Started / Functions / Case Study / Cheat Sheet)    gwascat (vignette1 / vignette2)    GWASTools (ref)    GenABEL (ref)

XGR for Genes/SNPs (ref / R package / manual / demo)    QTLizer (ref / GitHub)    rGREAT (ref)

echolocatoR (RDRR / ref / vignette 1 / vignette 2 / GitHub)    catalogueR (RDRR / ref / manual)    postgwas (ref / vignette)

R-Bloggers tag: GWAS   hierGWAS (tutorial)   VarExp (ref / GitHub)

Bayesian GWAS Analysis: GWAS.BAYES (vignette)   bGWAS (ref / GitHub)   genphen (overview)

snpGeneSets (manual; ref)   VSE: Variant Set Enrichment (ref / vignette1 & 2 / practical / GitHub)

traseR (ref)   garfield (ref)   VarGen (ref)    biomartr (ref)   LDlinkR (ref)  

AnnotationHub (vignette1 & 2; using AH)  annotatr (vignette)   AnnotationDbi (vignette)   rtracklayer (data import)   motifbreakR (ref / manual / vignette)

ewascatalog (GitHub)

GenomicFeatures (vignette)   GenomicRanges (vignette1 & 2HelloRanges (tutorial)  

loci2path (ref / GitHubdeTS (ref / GitHub

GSOAP (visualization of gene set over-representation analysis) (ref)

gprofiler2 (ref / vignette)   DOSE (ref / vignette)   clusterProfiler/GSEA (ref)    ReactomePA    enrichplot (ref / manual / vignette)

  disgenet2r (ref / GitHub)    CONQUER (ref)

BioMedR (ref / vignette / GitHub)    HPAanalyze (ref / GitHub)    GEOquery (ref / GitHub)

BIGDAWG Case-Control HLA Data Analysis (ref)  

F1000Research: Bioconductor

Obsolete: NCBI2R (GitHub)  SuRFR (ref)

 

qPCR Analysis Using R

qRAT (ref)    qPCRtools (GitHub / vignette)    EasyqpcR (vignette)    tidyqpcr (GitHub)    pcr (ref / GitHub / vignette)   qPCR    ReadqPCR (vignette) / NormqPCR (vignette) (ref)  

 

LINKS

Links to Bioinformatics Tools @ ABC

Bioinformatics.ca    Dr Martti's Bioinformatics Pages  

OMICSTools     Dataset2Tools (Tools) (ref)     BioTools

Online Bioinformatics Resources Collection

 

Mehmet Tevfik DORAK, MD, PhD

 

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17 September 2023