Open Source Molecular Science Software

Bowtie, an ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner for short DNA sequences (reads) from next-gen sequencers. Please cite: Langmead B, et al. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome. Genome Biol 10:R25.

OpenCFU is a completely open source lightweight application designed to enumerate clustered circular objects such as bacterial colonies. It can handle digital pictures as well as live stream from a video device/webcam. OpenCFU is cross-platform, fast, reliable and allows the user to implement intuitive filters. Additional information is provided on the website: http://opencfu.sourceforge.net/ OpenCFU is published on PLoS ONE: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0054072

A set of tools (in Java) for working with next generation sequencing data in the SAM/BAM format. Note that development has moved to GitHub at https://github.com/broadinstitute/picard and support is available on the GATK forum at http://gatkforums.broadinstitute.org/categories/ask-the-team

This is a Matlab software package for single molecule FRET data analysis.

BioNLP-Corpora is a repository of biomedically and linguistically annotated corpora and biomedical data sources. There are many resources available in separate packages in this project.

The DNA pattern represents a new method of analysis for DNA sequences. In general it can easily detect relationships among species over the evolutionary landscape. Largely, in bioinformatics the DNA pattern method is unexplored and many discoveries can be made through it. One of the questions to which an answer was given is: How many types of promoters are out there regulating the genes ? It seems that there are 10 types of promoters. The project also contains 20,000 images (DNA patterns) that can be analyzed in relation to various genetic disorders (if Homo Sapiens) or for understanding the evolutionary mechanisms between species. References: [1] Gagniuc and Ionescu-Tirgoviste: Eukaryotic genomes may exhibit up to 10 generic classes of gene promoters. BMC Genomics 2012, 13:512. [2] Gagniuc and Ionescu-Tîrgoviste. Gene promoters show chromosome specificity and reveal chromosome territories in humans, BMC Genomics 2013, 14:278. Source code VB6 (Visual Basic 6.0)

Tools for automating everyday laboratory tasks. Imaging and informatics tools for biological research.

The BioNLP UIMA Component Repository provides UIMA wrappers for novel and well-known 3rd-party NLP tools used in biomedical text prosessing, such as tokenizers, parsers, named entity taggers, and tools for evaluation.

Workbench for visualizing biological networks (regulatory, interaction, and metabolic). Can be used as a front-end for BNDB datawarehouses, but also as stand-alone tool.

Research and development of an ontology for the analysis and representation of comparative data for use in evolutionary analysis. For more information, please see www.evolutionaryontology.org

A Folding@Home integrated monitoring environment, designed for Linux, *nix systems and Windows, which is intended to be easy-to-use and provide a flexible, customiseable and "user-friendly" environment for reviewing the status of active F@H clients.

FORce based Cluster Editing (FORCE) is a Java software heuristically solving the graph cluster editing problem on weighted edges using BLAST E-values. It further provides a training mode for heuristic parameter estimation.

GESPA (GEnomic Single nucleotide Polymorphism Analyzer) is a bioinformatics tool for classifying Nonsynonymous Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (nsSNPs). GESPA predicts if a nsSNP is pathogenic using reports from literature and various algorithms to assess conservation in orthologous and paralogous protein alignments. Using reports from literature, GESPA is also able to predict the phenotype of a nsSNP with high accuracy. The software can be used clinically to determine if observed nsSNPs are associated with disease. A host of annotations are provided: orthologous and paralogous multiple sequence alignments, UCSC annotations, reports detailing conservation of a nsSNP in alignments, and links to external nsSNP and gene information such as relevant publications. GESPA is connected to a constantly updating SQL server allowing for fast data retrieval. NOTE: REQUIRES Java 1.7.0+. Port 1433 cannot be blocked by firewall, network, or antivirus program. Please cite: http://tinyurl.com/oj7p84a

Software, Code and Documents from Laboratori de Proteòmica CSIC/UAB ( LP-CSIC/UAB: http://proteomica.uab.cat )

LSG is a Windows application framework designed for visual data integration and based on Microsoft .NET 2.0 and CAB. An admin utility manages LSG apps, modules, events, and services, and a client integrates the modules and provides functionality hooks.

ModST (pronounced as modest) is a tool to search post-translational modifications (PTMs) in mass spectrometry data in an unrestrictive manner. It can search for hundreds of modification without any user provided information for variable modifications. Due to data level parallelization implemented through perl it is fast, portable and easy to use to identify and analyse PTMs in MS/MS data.

Unix-based preparation and analysis toolbox for Nanomaterials and Room Temperature Ionic Liquids in Bulk and Slab using bash scripts, Gromacs tools and Matlab functions. NaRIBaS provides a framework that decouples user input parameter and terminal based command lines. NaRIBaS does not replace a simulation software and specific analysis tools like Gromacs, but it allows iterative repetition of tasks while changing specific input parameter. The toolbox is to be understood as a scripting framework rather than a black-box software. Task specific input and preparation or analysis function, are easy expandable to meet the scientific characteristic of constant changing properties. Concepts for efficiently storing and analysing large files in conjunction with graphical visualization and numerical data processing are presented in a Manual. A documented script collection that allows reproducing all simulations and analysis results presented in the Doctoral thesis of the author.

SIPeS - Site Identification from Paired-end Sequencing

The Self-Organizing Map Maker for Education and Research. Features include 3D-visualization of the training process, various 2D and 3D map topologies, easy extensibility to additional topologies.

ScreeningAssistant 2 is a modular software dedicated to perform various simple and advanced chemoinformatics analysis around chemical libraries.

The Simple Semantic Classifier classifies short chunks of natural language text into broad semantic classes that correspond to the OBO ontologies provided as input.

Tigris is an open source suite of classes and programs implemented in C++ for single particle electron microscopic image processing.

Trowel is an error correction module for Illumina sequencing reads, which is based on the k-mer spectrum approach. This tool is the first tool that uses a quality threshold instead of a coverage cutoff in order to extract trusted k-mers. This tool guarantees high accuracy and speed. This tool has been developed since 21. Jan. 2013 by Euncheon Lim in Prof. Dr. Detlef Weigel's Lab in Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. First of all, you have to install the exact version of boost(>=1.53.0), google sparse hash(>=2.0.2), GCC(>=4.6), autoconf(=2.69), and automake(=1.13).

This project provides visual interactive interfaces to custom algorithms used in genomes research.

gfit creates an interface between computational models and experimental data and provides tools for their analysis