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Converting a phyloseq object to text files
How to convert a phyloseq object from R to tab-separated values that can be read anywhere
Using rclone, teams channels, and onedrive on deepthought
Recently, our HPC, deepthought has been running low on storage space. There are several options, but one that we are using is to combine deepthought, rclone,...
Extracting some data from Google Cloud
Heres a way to get some PDB files from Google cloud
Searching for metagenomes on the SRA in the cloud
How to search for all the WGS metagenomes in the cloud
Deduplicating a genome assembly
Learn all about deduplicating highly heterozygous genome assemblies
How to start a Google VM
Starting a Google VM Sometimes you might want to spin up a Google VM to use: WARNING: There maybe charges for starting a VM, running BigQuery searches, or ...
Searching SRA Metadata in the Cloud
This is another in our series of posts on searching things in the SRA. As we noted previously, NCBI has moved most of the SRA into the clouds, which makes se...
Forking a git repo and then updating the upstream changes
how to update your repo to match code that was added upstream
How to clone a git repository to develop code
a quick set of commands to clone a repository to update code
Accessing NCI resources
Instructions and guidelines for Flinders researchers
Congrats Amber Skye on being awarded first class honours
Congrats to FAME’s first honours student, Amber Skye on her graduation!
FAME's fabulous ASM tour
A wrap up of the FAME labs’ trip to the Australian Society for Microbiology conference in Sydney
How to run a Jupyter notebook on a deepthought node
Most of these instructions come from the official jupyter docs and you should use those as a guide
Congratulations to Laura Inglis
Congrats to FAMEous person - Laura Inglis on her recent achievements!
Meet the Microbiologist podcast
Elizabeth Dinsdale talks Shark Epidermis Microbiomes on American Society for Microbiology podcast.
World Oceans Day 2022
Celebrating World Oceans Days with the Dinsdale Lab research group.
Therapeutic Annotation of Phage Genomes
What should we worry about before we inject phage into people?
Presentations and posters at ASM 2022
View all FAME posters and talks presented at ASM 2022!
Intro to Snakemake Part 2
Yet another Snakemake tutorial, part 2
Celebrating PhD student Susie Grigson’s achievements
Congrats to FAMEous person - Susie Grigson on her recent achievements!
Introduction to Snakemake
Yet another Snakemake tutorial…
Southern eagle ray sampling at Seacliff beach
Southern eagle ray sampling with the Southern Shark Ecology Group (Huveneers lab).
Women’s History Month 1st-31st March
Women’s History month commemorates women’s contribution to history, science, culture, and society.
Happy International Women in Science Day!
On Feb 11th we acknowledge and celebrate the incredible women of STEM on Women in Science Day.
Krona plots are easy (metagenomics example)
Krona plots are a fantastic way of representing heirarchial data such as taxonomic annotations. These plots are interactive, visually appealing, and best of...
Running AlphaFold on phage lambda
DeepMind’s AlphaFold is winning at predicting tertiary structures from primary amino acid sequences. We thought it would be fun to investigate how it perfo...
NCBI datasets and genome assembly data
Recently, NCBI released their new datasets API that might replace NCBI E-utils. At the moment, datasets is focused on genomes, genes, and viruses, but no dou...
Fast correlations with turbocor
We often want to calculate Pearson correlation between different datasets, for example, we have used it to identify the hosts of different phages. Often, we...
Atavide: importing your data into R
This post is one of a multipart series about analysing your metagenomics samples with Atavide. It is intended to be a quick and dirty look at the superfocus ...
Atavide: atavistic metagenome analysis with a vision
A simple pipeline for complex annotations of metagenomes incorporating lots of tools
How to use the VPN to connect to Flinders network
Why would I want to connect to the network. When you connect to the VPN it makes it seem like you are on the Flinders University Network even if you are at ...
How to install qiime2 on deepthought
Why would I want to do this? I am not really sure, but if you want to use Qiime2 you should install it on deepthought using conda. The sysadmins (may they ...
FAME seed projects for 2021
View project summaries for the FAME seed projects for 2021
How to install and use super-focus on deepthought
super-FOCUS Super-FOCUS is a tool to identify the functions that the sequences in your metagenome are doing. As a benefit, it also identifies the taxonomy a...
How to install and use Kraken2 on deepthought
Kraken2 Kraken2 is a tool to identify the taxonomy of the things in your environmental sample. It does not identify what those things are doing, but what is...
Snakemake profiles updated
This is an update from a previous post https://fame.flinders.edu.au/blog/2020/09/04/snakemakeprofile where Rob outlines a simple Snakemake profile for runnin...
How to use Snakemake Checkpoints
Snakemake checkpoints are a little complex to get your head around, and so here are two examples that will hopefully clarify some use cases. Before we begin...
Rob’s presentation at ASM 2021
“Prophages, Phages, and Viruses Associated with Irritable Bowel Disease and Crohn’s Disease Notes”
Getting started with linux
It can be daunting when you’re just starting out using the Linux command line to access the University’s HPC resources.
Managing thousands of files in your Snakemake pipelines
I’m working on a pipeline that uses and generates tens of thousands of files, and there’s a good chance this could be expanded to produce hundreds of thousa...
Using PyCharm and Jupyter Notebooks
PyCharm is a terrific Python IDE, and you should use it for code development
How to run a Jupyter notebook on deepthought
Most of these instructions come from the official jupyter docs and you should use those as a guide
Searching the NR database with MMSeqs2
We have a computational problem searching the Non-Redundant database, but we can solve that! If you use MMSeqs2 to search the NR database, it needs about 1....
Part 4: Snakemake profiles for DeepThought
Setting up a snakemake profile for deepthought will make your life much easier
Part 3: Using snakemake on deepthought
snakemake is a pipelining tool that allows you to recreate reusable pipelines to analyse data
Part 2: Using conda on deepthought
We are going to use conda to install and update software
Part 1: DeepThought General Overview
Introduction To Using the Flinders HPC ‘DeepThought’ For Bioinformatics