335 research outputs found
Ivica Plavec - Man from Železno; Exhibition
Full text linkOn Friday, 24, 2019, Galerija Forum in Zagreb, Teslina street, hosted an exhibition of paintings entitled Ivica Plavec - Man from Železno. Ivica Plavec, professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb and a painter, has exhibited his works earlier at the group exhibition ”Matter Painting in Contemporary Croatian Art” and the solo exhibition ”Sign and Reason” in 2017 in Zagreb. His paintings are painted on car hoods connected into diptychs. Using various tools he carved his oil paintings and thus produced creative effects in the form of slits, cracks, scratches, dents, scrapings, hammer marks and other forms of interventions that testify to a close connection between the author and his home place Železno named after blacksmiths who traditionally lived there. The diptychs are made of car hoods fixed together with two screws. They are coated with paint in such a way that traces of their original colour can still be discerned: white, red, silver, black, gold etc. Eleven diptychs are the paintings named Dies I-XI while six others make another group entitled Roman soldiers. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue written by the curator Feđa Gavrilović, and the photographs of all the exhibits
Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees
No full textInteractive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation
No full textThe Interactive Tree Of Life (https://itol.embl.de) is an online tool for the display, manipulation and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees. It is freely available and open to everyone. iTOL version 5 introduces a completely new tree display engine, together with numerous new features. For example, a new dataset type has been added (MEME motifs), while annotation options have been expanded for several existing ones. Node metadata display options have been extended and now also support non-numerical categorical values, as well as multiple values per node. Direct manual annotation is now available, providing a set of basic drawing and labeling tools, allowing users to draw shapes, labels and other features by hand directly onto the trees. Support for tree and dataset scales has been extended, providing fine control over line and label styles. Unrooted tree displays can now use the equal-daylight algorithm, proving a much greater display clarity. The user account system has been streamlined and expanded with new navigation options and currently handles >1 million trees from >70 000 individual users
SMART v10: three decades of the protein domain annotation resource
Full text linkSMART (Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool, https://smart.embl.de) is a web-based platform for identifying and annotating protein domains and analyzing domain architectures. SMART version 10 features manually curated models for over 1300 protein domains. Approaching its 30th anniversary, SMART’s user interface has been redesigned from the ground up, leveraging modern web technologies to enhance intuitiveness and usability. SMART’s “Genomic” mode, which annotates proteins from completely sequenced genomes was synchronized with the current release of STRING, and now includes 12 035 species, compared to 5090 in the previous release. Protein and domain annotation pages have been updated with new information sources. Integration with eggNOG provides links to 17.5 million orthologous groups for over 53 million proteins. Additionally, synchronization with the interactive Pathways Explorer version 3 incorporates updated KEGG pathway and orthologous group data, enabling direct visualization on four distinct pathway overview maps
INSIdE NANO: a systems biology framework to contextualize the mechanism-of-action of engineered nanomaterials
Full text linkEngineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are widely present in our daily lives. Despite the efforts to characterize their mechanism of action in multiple species, their possible implications in human pathologies are still not fully understood. Here we performed an integrated analysis of the effects of ENMs on human health by contextualizing their transcriptional mechanism-of-action with respect to drugs, chemicals and diseases. We built a network of interactions of over 3,000 biological entities and developed a novel computational tool, INSIdE NANO, to infer new knowledge about ENM behavior. We highlight striking association of metal and metal-oxide nanoparticles and major neurodegenerative disorders. Our novel strategy opens possibilities to achieve fast and accurate read-across evaluation of ENMs and other chemicals based on their biosignatures
eggNOG-mapper v2: Functional Annotation, Orthology Assignments, and Domain Prediction at the Metagenomic Scale
No full textCentro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP)Even though automated functional annotation of genes represents a fundamental step in most genomic and metagenomic workflows, it remains challenging at large scales. Here, we describe a major upgrade to eggNOG-mapper, a tool for functional annotation based on precomputed orthology assignments, now optimized for vast (meta)genomic data sets. Improvements in version 2 include a full update of both the genomes and functional databases to those from eggNOG v5, as well as several efficiency enhancements and new features. Most notably, eggNOG-mapper v2 now allows for: 1) de novo gene prediction from raw contigs, 2) built-in pairwise orthology prediction, 3) fast protein domain discovery, and 4) automated GFF decoration. eggNOG-mapper v2 is available as a standalone tool or as an online service at http://eggnog-mapper.embl.de.This research was supported by the National Programme for Fostering Excellence in Scientific and Technical Research (Grant No. PGC2018-098073-A-I00 MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE, to J.H.C.) and the Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence Programme (Grant No. SEV-2016-0672 (2017–2021) to C.P.C.) from the State Research Agency (AEI) of Spain, as well as a Research Technical Support Staff Aid (PTA2019-017593-I/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 to A.H.P.); European Research Council grant MicroBioS (ERC-2014-AdG)—GA669830 (to P.B.). Cloud computing is supported by BMBF (de.NBI network #031A537B).Peer reviewed5 Pág
Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL): an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation
No full textSummary: Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) is a web based tool for the display, manipulation and annotation of phylogenetic trees. Trees can be interactively pruned and re-rooted. Various types of data such as genome sizes or protein domain repertoires can be mapped onto the tree. Export to several bitmap and vector graphics formats is supported
Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees
Full text linkInteractive Tree Of Life (http://itol.embl.de) is a web-based tool for the display, manipulation and annotation of phylogenetic trees. It is freely available and open to everyone. The current version was completely redesigned and rewritten, utilizing current web technologies for speedy and streamlined processing. Numerous new features were introduced and several new data types are now supported. Trees with up to 100,000 leaves can now be efficiently displayed. Full interactive control over precise positioning of various annotation features and an unlimited number of datasets allow the easy creation of complex tree visualizations. iTOL 3 is the first tool which supports direct visualization of the recently proposed phylogenetic placements format. Finally, iTOL's account system has been redesigned to simplify the management of trees in user-defined workspaces and projects, as it is heavily used and currently handles already more than 500,000 trees from more than 10,000 individual users
Protein domain analysis in the era of complete genomes
No full textAbstractDomains present one of the most useful levels at which to understand protein function, and domain family-based analysis has had a profound impact on the study of individual proteins. Protein domain discovery has been progressing steadily over the past 30 years. What are the realistically achievable goals of sequence-based domain analysis, and how far off are they for the sequences encoded in eukaryotic genomes? Here we address some of the issues involved in better coverage of sequence-based domain annotation, and the integration of these results within the wider context of genomes, structures and function
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