Entropy – Uses an EM algorithm for Haplotype Frequency Estimation

Entropy

:: DESCRIPTION

Entropy is a PERL program that uses an EM algorithm for haplotype frequency estimation. It reads standard linkage format files.

::DEVELOPER

Institute for Clinical Molecular Biology

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

::REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux/Windows
  • Perl

:: DOWNLOAD

 Entropy

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Hampe J, Schreiber S, Krawczak M (2003).
Entropy-based SNP selection for genetic association studies.
Hum Genet 114(1): 36-43

DMEAS 2012 – DNA Methylation Entropy Analysis Software

DMEAS 2012

:: DESCRIPTION

DMEAS is a user-friendly DNA methylation analysis tool for DNA methylation pattern extraction, DNA methylation level estimation, DNA methylation entropy analysis and multi-sample comparison. It was developed in order to assess the DNA methylation variations for a given genomic locus or genome-wide methylation data.

::DEVELOPER

DMEAS team

:: SCREENSHOTS

DMEAS

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows
  • .net framework 4.0 environments

:: DOWNLOAD

 DMEAS

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

DMEAS: DNA methylation entropy analysis software.
He J, Sun X, Shao X, Liang L, Xie H.
Bioinformatics. 2013 Aug 15;29(16):2044-5. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt332.

MIDER v2 – Mutual Information Distance and Entropy Reduction

MIDER v2

:: DESCRIPTION

MIDER is a general purpose software tool for inferring network structures. It has been developed with biological networks in mind, but can be applied in other areas.

::DEVELOPER

(Bio)Process Engineering group, IIM-CSIC

:: SCREENSHOTS

MIDER

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux /Windows/MacOsX
  • MatLab

:: DOWNLOAD

 MIDER

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

MIDER: Network Inference with Mutual Information Distance and Entropy Reduction.
Villaverde AF, Ross J, Morán F, Banga JR.
PLoS One. 2014 May 7;9(5):e96732. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096732. eCollection 2014.

InfoTrim – DNA Read Quality Trimmer using Entropy Created with Python

InfoTrim

:: DESCRIPTION

InfoTrim is a DNA read quality trimmer based on the Trimmomatic maximum information criterion model.

::DEVELOPER

Professor Zhang Liqing’s Lab

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux
  • Python

:: DOWNLOAD

InfoTrim

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

InfoTrim: A DNA read quality trimmer using entropy
2017 IEEE 7th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS)

EMVC 0.3 – Entropy Minimization over Variable Clusters

EMVC 0.3

:: DESCRIPTION

EMVC filters the annotations for each gene set to minimize a measure of entropy across disjoint gene clusters computed for a range of cluster sizes over multiple bootstrap resampled datasets.

::DEVELOPER

H. Robert Frost <rob.frost at dartmouth.edu>

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows/Linux/MacOsX
  • R

:: DOWNLOAD

 EMVC

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Bioinformatics. 2014 Jun 15;30(12):1698-706. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu110. Epub 2014 Feb 25.
Optimization of gene set annotations via entropy minimization over variable clusters (EMVC).
Frost HR, Moore JH.

RNAentropy 1.0 – Compute RNA Secondary Structure Conformational Entropy

RNAentropy 1.0

:: DESCRIPTION

RNAentropy implements two cubic time algorithms to compute the RNA thermodynamic structural entropy.

::DEVELOPER

Clote Lab 

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux

:: DOWNLOAD

 RNAentropy

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

RNA Thermodynamic Structural Entropy.
Garcia-Martin JA, Clote P.
PLoS One. 2015 Nov 10;10(11):e0137859. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137859.