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All posts created by edgingtonn1

| posted 03 Jun, 2023 18:34
There is a Pham (which includes London_gp47) which has a group of proteins that have a good E-value on CDD, HHPRED, and structural predictions in AlphaFold, however:

• These are usually part of a multi-gene system. What is the function of this gene by itself?
• What is its function in phage multiplication?
• This domain is in the ACT domain family, which is found in many different proteins with various functions and ligands.
• The attached file has some of the evidence and predictions.

Recommendation (from Karen K. and the SMART team): Keep as hypothetical protein for now.


8 Members of Pham 7014 as of 2023-06-03:
    Asa16_47 Ascela_50 Elezi_47 Eraser_47 Iter_50 London_47 Niobe_47 Nitro_Draft_51
Edited 06 Jun, 2023 14:48
Posted in: Cluster AZ Annotation TipsPutative thiamine-binding protein Pham
| posted 02 Mar, 2023 18:09
Hi Christian,

It hits the same biolib server on the CMD, but I was hoping that submitting them slowly overnight with a script might work, even if it was taking 5-10 minutes or longer per sequence. Instead, it just times-out, & kills the job. It looks like creating an account is the way to go – Thanks Chris!

-Nick
SCSU, New Haven CT
Posted in: Functional AnnotationDeep TMHMM?
| posted 01 Mar, 2023 19:26
DeepTMHHH keeps timing out (all day) both at the website (for my students and myself), and on the command line…

Is it just me?

-Nick
SCSU, New Haven CT
Posted in: Functional AnnotationDeep TMHMM?
| posted 01 Aug, 2022 18:50
Thanks Debbie! I thought maybe I had missed a new directive.

We have been following the guidance that if there is a single predicted TMD, then it must be called by at least two different TMD prediction programs.

Best,
-Nick
Posted in: AnnotationMembrane proteins
| posted 01 Aug, 2022 16:26
Could someone remind me why 'membrane protein' seems to be missing in the PhagesDB.org Pham 'notes' section, and isn't seen as a predicted function when looking at a Phage gene list? The function is in the published Genbank files however. An example below is with Asa16.

Best,
-Nick

Pham 36850 - No 'notes' with 'membrane protein' function?
Asa16_CDS_23 Membrane Protein.

From the Genbank file:

gene 19751..20182
/gene="23"
/locus_tag="SEA_ASA16_23"
CDS 19751..20182
/gene="23"
/locus_tag="SEA_ASA16_23"
/codon_start=1
/transl_table=11
/product="membrane protein"
/protein_id="UAJ15384.1"
/translation="MDLLPVILGTVGVIVGAVLSYFGVRFTARQNAKAAKDAAAVSNR
QVDVDEWRAIVGALREEVGRLTTRVENLEKKRDDDRDYIETLEAEARAHEARYRLLLR
YVRDVLTWAAKIAPDHDPPNAPDPLRDDLPNERNPAHADHS"
Posted in: AnnotationMembrane proteins
| posted 11 Mar, 2022 19:02
Hi Christian,

Using a slight modification of your MySQL query statement, I pulled the data for all HostGenus = Arthrobacter and Microbacteria, and then tried the
phamclust -t 0 -m gcs
"-t 0" flag (to set the similarity threshold for a genome to join a cluster to zero). I thought it would produce a single file with an all-by-all matrix, but instead it actually produced even more cluster matrix files than when I used the default "-t 35". For both, I used the same input file.
Did I do something wrong? or am I misinterpreting "-t=0"?

P.S. Setting it to 100% is interesting. There are seven phamclust 'clusters' (in these phages from these two hosts, wherein all of the members have 100% GSC with each other!

Best,
-Nick

Cohort IV
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent St.
Department of Biology, SCI 311E
New Haven, CT 06515
Posted in: Bioinformatic Tools and AnalysesDifficulty pulling large-scale data for batch GCS analysis using Pope/Mavrich 2017 scripts
| posted 11 Mar, 2022 14:51
Here is a powerful program, but there is a learning curve! http://circos.ca

Here someone has tried to make it easier with a Circos web interface

This one looks nice, but costs money.

Best,
-Nick

Cohort IV
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent St.
Department of Biology, SCI 311E
New Haven, CT 06515
Posted in: Bioinformatic Tools and AnalysesCircular Genome Visualization
| posted 20 Jan, 2022 01:11
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Posted in: General Message BoardJackson Laboratory’s Genomic Education Survey
| posted 05 Jan, 2022 19:34
I'm a new Apple M1 user now myself, and it appears that the only choice is to use the latest version of "Parallels" with a VM 'Windows Insider' version of Windows 10 ARM64. VirtualBox will not work, and it seems that it is never going to be updated to work on an ARM64 architecture! You can create a Ubuntu VM with the Ubuntu 20 LTS ARM64 OS if you are also interested in getting Ubuntu up and running. (I assume that the Ubuntu SEA-PHAGES VM circa 2017 will not work.)

Wine would be another option to try now that (since version 6.0.1) it adds support for the M1 architecture, but I haven't tried it, since it was always pretty buggy for me when I tried using it with DNAMaster with the previous Apple OS's.

My IT dept. is still working on the Parallels/WIN10-ARM VM set up for me so I haven't tested this setup myself yet!

Best,
-Nick

Cohort 4
Dept. Biology
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT
Posted in: DNA MasterDNA Master on M1 Mac
| posted 21 Nov, 2019 16:20
Awesome Chris–Thanks!
Posted in: StarteratorRelease of Starterator version 1.2