Projects

BioJava

BioJava is an open-source project dedicated to providing a Java framework for processing biological data. It include objects for manipulating biological sequences, file parsers, DAS client and server support, access to BioSQL and Ensembl databases, tools for making sequence analysis GUIs and ... [More] powerful analysis and statistical routines including a dynamic programming toolkit. BioJava is used in several real-world bioinformatics applications and has been used for bioinformatics analysis in a number of published studies. [Less]

Bioconductor

Bioconductor is an open source and open development software project for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data. The project was started in the Fall of 2001. The Bioconductor core team is based primarily at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Other members come from various US and international institutions.

Biopython

Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation written in Python by an international team of developers. It is a distributed collaborative effort to develop Python libraries and applications which address the needs of current and future work in bioinformatics. The source ... [More] code is made available under the Biopython License, which is extremely liberal and compatible with almost every license in the world. We work along with the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, who generously host our website, bug tracker, and mailing lists. [Less]

Bioclipse

The Bioclipse project is aimed at creating a Java-based, open source, visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). Bioclipse, as any RCP application, is based on a plugin architecture that inherits basic functionality and visual interfaces from ... [More] Eclipse, such as help system, software updates, preferences, cross-platform deployment etc. [Less]

GenoViz

The GenoViz project provides tools for genomics data visualization. It consists of the following: 1) the GenoViz SDK, a library of re-usable components, 2) the Genometry data model to represent relationships between biological sequences, and 3) the Integrated Genome Browser (IGB, "igbee") ... [More] , an application built upon the GenoViz SDK and Genometry for visualization and exploration of genomes and corresponding annotations from multiple data sources. IGB supports the Distributed Annotation System (DAS) protocol, version 1 and 2, as well as other optimized binary data formats that are designed for efficient exploration of large, whole genome data sets. [Less]

nexml

XML-based data exchange standard for phylogenetics. In honor of the commonly-used "nexus" flat file format, the working title for this standard is nexml.

PathVisio

Utility for creating / edit biological pathways and and visualizing high-throughput data (e.g. microarray data) in the context of pathways.

Bio::Phylo

Phylogenetic analysis using perl.

Debian Science

The main goal of the Debian Science project is to provide a system with all the most important free scientific software in each scientific field.

BioDAS

The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) defines a communication protocol used to exchange biological sequence annotations. DAS is a client-server system in which a single client integrates data from multiple servers. Data distribution, performed by DAS servers, is separated from visualization ... [More] , which is done by DAS clients. Little coordination is needed among the various information providers. DAS is heavily used in the genome bioinformatics community for sharing information about gene and protein sequences as well as protein structures. [Less]