FASTA
William Pearson's package for fast sequence comparison tools.
ADF MAGE-ML
Open source Java software for checking and conversion of MicroArray Array Design data file (ADF -Array Design File- MAGE-ML).
AlmaKnowledgeServer
Text mining tool for genomics, proteomics platforms and drug discovery.
ARCiB -- Accessible Retired Computers in Biology
NSF supported project to make old computers accessible to new software in bioinformatics. Provides transitional and supplemental support, especially in structual biology, for software packages on various platforms.
JSTRING
Java program for searching Tandem Repeats (TR) in a DNA sequence. It shows the results also in a graphical format.
limmaGUI
A graphical user interface for linear modelling of cDNA and oligonucleotide microarray data to identify differentially expressed genes.
AnnHyb
Free software for working with and managing nucleotide sequences in multiple formats. Features include sequence annotation, restriction analysis, pattern searching, retrieval from servers. Released under GNU Public Licence.
SeWeR
An integrated portal for common web-based bioinformatics services. Built in Javascript as a standalone browser application.
WU-BLAST
The Washington University improved version of BLAST. Free for academic users.
Darwin
An interactive tool for peptide and nucleotide sequence analysis.
MIRA
A sequence assembly suite with SNP detection for "hard" projects.
DNPTrapper
An Linux assembly editing and visualization tool specifically designed for manual analysis and finishing of repeated regions.
EMBOSS
The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite. An open source project started by the EMBnet community in order to replace proprietary systems like GCG.
Mauve
Free software for constructing global alignments of multiple rearranged genomes. The visualization environment displays sequence similarity profiles and annotated sequence features.
Gints
Object-oriented regulation network simulator written in Java. Includes downloadable software and documentation. The site is in French and English.
HMMER
Profiles protein sequence data using hidden Markov models of a statistical descriptions of a sequence family's consensus. HMMER is a freely distributable implementation of profile HMM software for protein sequence analysis.
JAligner
Java implementation of the dynamic programming algorithm Smith-Waterman for biological local pairwise sequence alignment.
MARBL
MARBL is a free (GPL) system to index the text portions of GenBank and associated NLM abstracts. Based on Mumps and the MDH.
Meta-MEME
Software toolkit for building and using motif-based hidden Markov models of DNA and proteins - from the Univ. of California-San Diego.
Nano+Bio-Centre
Offers a range of free software tools for annotating an entire genome, assembling sequences, gap closing and analysis of microarrays.
Keck Computational Systems Biology Software
Software for simulating metabolic, signal and genetic networks. Home of Jarnac, JDesigner and SCAMP.
Sfold
Predicts probable RNA secondary structures, assesses target accessibility, and provides tools for the rational design of RNA-targeting nucleic acids. The web server version is free for academic use.
Genome-tools Web Interface
Genome-tools provides flexible tools and a simple API for genomic sequence processing on genomes published in the standard Genbank format.
Tandem Repeats Finder
Locates and displays tandem repeats in DNA sequences.
Premier Biosoft International
Developers of software for real time PCR primer design, TaqMan, molecular beacons, SYBR green, FRET, DNA microarray analysis, restriction cloning, plasmid maps, gateway cloning, protein interaction network and functional genomics.
biOpen
Commercial Mac OS X sequence analysis and structure visualization software.
pDRAW32
Freeware DNA cloning, analysis and visualization software.
APBioKnoppix
Knoppix based bioinformatics software tools. Bootable from CD.
The ARB Project
A free sequence database application for Unix. It includes a sequence editor, several sequence aligners, phylogeny reconstruction tools, probe/primer search and generation, genome annotation and visualization. In addition to the integrated user-interface the ARB database can be accessed using Perl or C.
MedScan
Commercial Windows natural language processing software for the automated extraction of biological data from scientific literature.
Sockeye
3D visualisation platform for Comparative Genomics visualisation.
GDE
An integrated linux environment for bioinformatics and evolutionary analysis based on the Genetic Data Environment (GDE). Contains binaries for Linux and Mac OS X, documentation, screenshots, references, and organism specific interfaces.
INCA - INteractive Codon Analysis
Windows software that computes and charts codon and amino acid frequencies in whole genomes. Produces fully customizable scatter plots with the possibility to export graphics or text files for further analysis. Free for academic users.
MAFFT
Multiple sequence alignment program for linux and other unix-like operating systems. Offers a range of multiple alignment strategies.
STRING
Search for Tandem Repeats IN Genomes. Includes C source code and examples.
STRAP
Software supports the analysis of hundreds of proteins and integrates aa sequence, secondary structure, 3D-structure and genomic- and mRNA-sequence, and residue annotation.
MELTING
Computes, for a nucleic acid duplex, the enthalpy, the entropy and the melting temperature of the helix-coil transitions.
Expression Profiler
An open, extensible web-based collaborative platform for microarray gene expression, sequence and PPI data analysis, exposing distinct chainable components for clustering, pattern discovery, statistics, machine-learning algorithms and visualization.
GeneRunner
A fairly old Windows sequence analysis tool for everyday lab use. Formerly a commercial product - now "abandonware."
Genespotter
Commercial Windows software for analyzing biochip image data.
PHRED
A widely-used program for base calling DNA sequencing trace files. Source code available and free for non-commecial users.
MaGe (Magnifying Genomes) - Microbial genome Annotation System
The MaGe system offers a set of graphical interfaces which allow biologist to perform relevant expert annotation of microbial genomes.
GoCore
GoCore is an free Excel based tool for protein sequence alignment, comparisons and functional predictions in a simple, visually appealing, manner.
RGBG Analyzer
Commercial software to analyses the red, green, blue, and gray color values of user-selected areas of images in gif, tiff, bmp, jpeg format. Windows 2000 & XP.
Sequence Analysis
A freeware Java application that does many standard types of DNA and protein sequence analysis tasks.
DNAMAN
Commercial software for DNA and Protein sequence analysis and manipulation. Available for Windows and Mac OS X.
BioEdit
Free Windows biological sequence alignment editor.
XDigitize
A Linux/Unix visualization software system for evaluation of hybridisation experiments.
NCBI BLAST
BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a set of similarity search programs designed to explore all of the available sequence databases regardless of whether the query is protein or DNA.
PathwayStudio
Pathway analysis software for interpreting experimental data in the context of pathways, gene regulation networks and protein interaction maps.
Phrap/Consed
DNA sequence assembler and finishing tools from the UW Genome Center.
Seqtools
Commercial Windows software for batch handling and analysis of nucleotide and protein sequences.
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