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Introduction to Biomedical Genomics Workbench
- Contact information
- Download and installation
- System requirements
  - Limitations on maximum number of cores
- Workbench Licenses
- When the program is installed: Getting started
  - Import of example data
- Plugins
- Network configuration
User interface
- View Area
- Zoom and selection in View Area
- Toolbox and Status Bar
- Workspace
- List of shortcuts
Data organization
- Navigation Area
- Metadata
- Working with tables
  - Filtering tables
- Customized attributes on data locations
- Local search
Data download
- SRA search
- Sequence web info
User preferences and settings
- General preferences
- View preferences
  - Import and export Side Panel settings
- Data preferences
- Advanced preferences
  - Default data location
- Export/import of preferences
  - The different options for export and import
- View settings for the Side Panel
  - Saving, removing and applying saved settings
Printing
- Selecting which part of the view to print
- Page setup
- Print preview
Import/export of data and graphics
- Standard import
- Import tracks
  - GFF3 format
- Import high-throughput sequencing data
- Import Primer Pairs
- Data export
- Export graphics to files
- Export graph data points to a file
- Copy/paste view output
Running tools, handling results and batching
- Running tools
- Handling results
- Batch processing
Viewing and editing sequences
- View sequence
- Circular DNA
  - Using split views to see details of the circular molecule
  - Mark molecule as circular and specify starting point
- Working with annotations
- Element information
- View as text
- Sequence Lists
Viewing structures
- Importing molecule structure files
  - Import issues
- Viewing molecular structures in 3D
  - Moving and rotating
  - Troubleshooting 3D graphics errors
- Customizing the visualization
  - Visualization styles and colors
  - Project settings
- Snapshots of the molecule visualization
- Tools for linking sequence and structure
- Protein structure alignment
Ready-to-Use Workflows descriptions and guidelines
- General Workflow
- Somatic Cancer
- Hereditary Disease
Getting started
- Reference data
- Create new folder
- Import sequencing data
  - How to import data
- Prepare sequencing data
Whole genome sequencing (WGS)
- General Workflows (WGS)
  - Annotate Variants (WGS)
  - Identify Known Variants in One Sample (WGS)
- Somatic Cancer (WGS)
- Hereditary Disease (WGS)
Whole exome sequencing (WES)
- General Workflows (WES)
  - Annotate Variants (WES)
  - Identify Known Variants in One Sample (WES)
- Somatic Cancer (WES)
- Hereditary Disease (WES)
Targeted amplicon sequencing (TAS)
- General Workflows (TAS)
  - Annotate Variants (TAS)
  - Identify Known Variants in One Sample (TAS)
- Somatic Cancer (TAS)
- Hereditary Disease (TAS)
Whole Transcriptome Sequencing (WTS)
- Analysis of multiple samples
- Annotate Variants (WTS)
- Compare variants in DNA and RNA
- Identify Candidate Variants and Genes from Tumor Normal Pair
- Identify variants and add expression values
- Identify and Annotate Differentially Expressed Genes and Pathways
Genome browser
- Create new genome browser view
- Genome browser view tools
- Graphs
Quality control tools
- QC for Target Sequencing
- QC for Sequencing Reads
- QC for Read Mapping
  - Running the 'QC for Read Mapping' tool
Preparing raw data tools
- Merge overlapping pairs
  - Using quality scores when merging
  - Report of merged pairs
- Trim Sequences
- Demultiplex reads
Resequencing analysis tools
- Map Reads to Reference
  - Selecting reads and reference
  - Including or excluding regions (masking)
  - Mapping parameters
  - Mapping paired reads
  - Non-specific matches
  - Gap placement
  - Computational requirements
  - Reference Caching
- Mapping output
  - Mapping output options
  - Mapped reads coloring
  - Reads track output from a read mapping
- Summary mapping report
- Mapping SOLid reads in color space
  - Viewing color space information
  - Mapping in color space
- Local realignment
  - Method
  - Realignment of unaligned ends
  - Guided Realignment
  - Multi-pass local realignment
  - Known Limitations
  - Computational Requirements
  - How to run the Local Realignment tool
- Merge mapping results
- Remove duplicate mapped reads
  - Algorithm details and parameters
  - Running the duplicate reads removal
- Trim primers of mapped reads
- Extract reads based on overlap
- InDels and Structural Variants
  - How to run the InDels and Structural Variants tool
  - The Structural Variants and InDels output
  - The InDels and Structural Variants detection algorithm
  - The InDels and Structural Variants detection algorithm - Step 1: Creating Left- and Right breakpoint signatures
  - The InDels and Structural Variants detection algorithm - Step 2: Creating Structural variant signatures
  - Theoretically expected structural variant signatures
  - How sequence complexity is calculated
- Copy Number Variant Detection
  - Running the Copy Number Variant Detection tool
  - Region-level CNV track (Region CNVs)
  - Target-level CNV track (Target CNVs)
  - Gene-level annotation track (Gene CNVs)
  - CNV results report
  - CNV algorithm report
- Coverage analysis
  - Running the Coverage analysis tool
- Variant Detectors - overview
  - Differences in the variants called by the different tools
  - How the variant detection tools work
- Fixed Ploidy Variant Detection
  - Ploidy and sensitivity
- Low Frequency Variant Detection
- Basic Variant Detection
- Variant Detectors - error model estimation
- Variant Detectors - filters
  - General filters
  - Noise filters
- Variant Detectors - the outputs
  - The variant track output
  - The annotated table output
  - The report
- The Fixed Ploidy and Low Frequency variant callers: detailed descriptions
  - The Fixed Ploidy Variant Caller: Models and methods
  - The Low Frequency Variant caller: Models and methods
- Variant data
  - Variant tracks
  - The annotated variant table
  - Variant types
- Detailed information about overlapping paired reads
- Identify Known Mutations from Sample Mappings
  - How to run the 'Identify Known Mutations from Sample Mappings' tool
Add information to variants tools
- Add information from variant databases
- Add conservation scores
- Add exon number
- Add flanking sequence
- Add fold changes
- Add information about amino acid changes
- Add information from genomic regions
- Add information from overlapping genes
- Link Variants to 3D Protein Structure
  - Method details
- Download 3D Protein Structure Database
- From databases
Remove variants tools
- Remove variants found in external database
- Remove variants not found in external database
- Remove false positives
- Remove Germline Variants
- Remove reference variants
- Remove variants inside genome regions
- Remove variants outside genome regions
- Remove variants outside targeted regions
- From databases
Add information to genes tool
- Add information from overlapping variants
Compare samples tools
- Compare shared variants within a group of samples
- Identify Enriched Variants in Case vs Control Group
- Trio analysis
Identify candidate variants tools
- Identify candidate variants
- Remove information from variants
- Identify variants with effect on splicing
Identify candidate genes tools
- Identify differentially expressed gene groups and pathways
- Identify highly mutated gene groups and pathways
- Identify mutated genes
- Select genes by name
Transcriptomics tools
- RNA-Seq analysis
- Small RNA analysis
- Experimental design
- Working with tracks and experiments
- Transformation and normalization
- Quality control
- Statistical analysis - identifying differential expression
- Feature clustering
  - Hierarchical clustering of features
  - K-means/medoids clustering
- Annotation tests
  - Hypergeometric tests on annotations
  - Gene set enrichment analysis
- General plots
Helper tools
- Extract sequences
- Filter Based on Overlap
Cloning and cutting
- Molecular cloning
- Gateway cloning
- Restriction site analysis
  - Dynamic restriction sites
  - Restriction site analysis from the Toolbox
- Gel electrophoresis
- Restriction enzyme lists
  - Create enzyme list
  - View and modify enzyme list
Sequencing Data Analysis
- Importing and viewing trace data
  - Scaling traces
  - Trace settings in the Side Panel
- Trim sequences
  - Trimming using the Trim tool
  - Manual trimming
- Assemble sequences
- Assemble sequences to reference
- Sort sequences by name
- Add sequences to an existing contig
- View and edit contigs and read mappings
- Reassemble contig
- Secondary peak calling
Primers
- Primer design - an introduction
  - General concept
  - Scoring primers
- Setting parameters for primers and probes
  - Primer Parameters
- Graphical display of primer information
  - Compact information mode
  - Detailed information mode
- Output from primer design
- Standard PCR
  - User input
  - Standard PCR output table
- Nested PCR
  - Nested PCR output table
- TaqMan
  - TaqMan output table
- Sequencing primers
  - Sequencing primers output table
- Alignment-based primer and probe design
- Analyze primer properties
- Find binding sites and create fragments
  - Binding parameters
  - Results - binding sites and fragments
- Order primers
Epigenomics
- ChIP-Seq Analysis
- Annotate with nearby gene information
Workflows
- Creating a workflow
- Distributing and installing workflows
- Executing a workflow
- Open copy of ready-to-use workflow
Legacy tools
- Quality-based variant detection
- Probabilistic variant detection
Appendix
- Use of multi-core computers
- Reference data overview
- Proteolytic cleavage enzymes
- Restriction enzymes database configuration
- Technical information about modifying Gateway cloning sites
- IUPAC codes for amino acids
- IUPAC codes for nucleotides
- Formats for import and export
  - List of bioinformatic data formats
  - List of graphics data formats
- SAM/BAM export format specification
  - Flags
- Gene expression annotation files and microarray data formats
- Translation Tables
- Matrices for alignment calculation
Bibliography

Per-sequence analysis

Lengths distribution: Counts the number of sequences that have been observed for individual sequence lengths. The resulting table correlates sequence-lengths in base-pairs with numbers of sequences observed with that number of base-pairs. The length distribution depends on your library preparation and sequencing protocol. If you observe secondary peaks at unexpected lengths you may want to consider removing these. Using the Workbench Trim tool you can trim away reads above and/or below a certain length.
GC-content distribution: Counts the number of sequences that feature individual %GC-contents in 101 bins ranging from 0 to 100%.The %GC-content of a sequence is calculated by dividing the absolute number of G/C-nucleotides by the length of that sequence, and should look like a normal distribution in the range of what is expected for the genome you are working with. If the GC-content is substantially lower (the normal distribution is shifted to the left), it may be that GC-rich areas have not been properly covered. You can check this by mapping the reads to your reference. A non-normal distribution, or one that has several peaks indicates the presence of contaminants in the reads.
Ambiguous base content: Counts the number of sequences that feature individual %N-contents in 101 bins ranging from 0 to 100%, where N refers to all ambiguous base-codes as specified by IUPAC.The %N-content of a sequence is calculated by dividing the absolute number of ambiguous nucleotides through the length of that sequence. This distribution should be as close to 0 as possible.
Quality distribution: Calculates the amount of sequences that feature individual PHRED-scores in 64 bins from 0 to 63. The quality score of a sequence as calculated as arithmetic mean of its base qualities. PHRED-scores of 30 and above are considered high quality. If you have many reads with low quality you may want to discuss this with your sequencing provider. Low quality bases/reads can also be trimmed off with the Trim Sequences tool.