Project description:Next-Generation-Sequencing (NGS) technologies have led to important improvement in the detection of new or unrecognized infective agents, related to infectious diseases. In this context, NGS high-throughput technology can be used to achieve a comprehensive and unbiased sequencing of the nucleic acids present in a clinical sample (i.e. tissues). Metagenomic shotgun sequencing has emerged as powerful high-throughput approaches to analyze and survey microbial composition in the field of infectious diseases. By directly sequencing millions of nucleic acid molecules in a sample and matching the sequences to those available in databases, pathogens of an infectious disease can be inferred. Despite the large amount of metagenomic shotgun data produced, there is a lack of a comprehensive and easy-use pipeline for data analysis that avoid annoying and complicated bioinformatics steps. Here we present HOME-BIO, a modular and exhaustive pipeline for analysis of biological entity estimation, specific designed for shotgun sequenced clinical samples. HOME-BIO analysis provides comprehensive taxonomy classification by querying different source database and carry out main steps in metagenomic investigation. HOME-BIO is a powerful tool in the hand of biologist without computational experience, which are focused on metagenomic analysis. Its easy-to-use intrinsic characteristic allows users to simply import raw sequenced reads file and obtain taxonomy profile of their samples.
Project description:Next-Generation-Sequencing (NGS) technologies have led to important improvement in the detection of new or unrecognized infective agents, related to infectious diseases. In this context, NGS high-throughput technology can be used to achieve a comprehensive and unbiased sequencing of the nucleic acids present in a clinical sample (i.e. tissues). Metagenomic shotgun sequencing has emerged as powerful high-throughput approaches to analyze and survey microbial composition in the field of infectious diseases. By directly sequencing millions of nucleic acid molecules in a sample and matching the sequences to those available in databases, pathogens of an infectious disease can be inferred. Despite the large amount of metagenomic shotgun data produced, there is a lack of a comprehensive and easy-use pipeline for data analysis that avoid annoying and complicated bioinformatics steps. Here we present HOME-BIO, a modular and exhaustive pipeline for analysis of biological entity estimation, specific designed for shotgun sequenced clinical samples. HOME-BIO analysis provides comprehensive taxonomy classification by querying different source database and carry out main steps in metagenomic investigation. HOME-BIO is a powerful tool in the hand of biologist without computational experience, which are focused on metagenomic analysis. Its easy-to-use intrinsic characteristic allows users to simply import raw sequenced reads file and obtain taxonomy profile of their samples.
Project description:Shotgun metagenomic sequencing data for nasopharyngeal colonization dynamics with Streptococcus pneumoniae and associated antimicrobial-resistance in a South African birth cohort.
Project description:To evaluate transcriptomic changes induced by in vitro exercise, we established two in vitro exercise models; EPS (electrical pulse stimulation and clenbuterol treatment). As for clen-buterol treatment, differentiated C2C12 myotubes were treated by 30 ng/ml clenbuterol for 1 hour and control and clenbuterol treated C2C12 myotubes were analyzed by RNA-sequencing. As for an EPS model, EPS was applied to differentiated C2C12 myotubes for 24 hours and control and EPS applied C2C12 myotubes were analyzed by RNA-sequencing.
Project description:LincRNA-EPS is a long noncoding RNA that is expressed in macrophages and downregulated upon exposure to diverse microbial products. Analysis of macrophages from lincRNA-EPS-deficient mice revealed a specific role for this lincRNA in restraining immune response gene (IRG) expression. Mechanistically, lincRNA-EPS associates with chromatin at regulatory regions of IRGs to repress their transcription. To gain insight into the molecular function of lincRNA-EPS on chromatin, we generated ATAC-Seq libraries from wildtype and lincRNA-EPS-deficient macrophages stimulated with LPS.