EMBOSS
EMBOSS is The
European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite.
EMBOSS
is a free Open Source software analysis package specially developed for
the needs of the molecular biology (e.g. EMBnet) user community. The
software automatically copes with data in a variety of formats and even
allows transparent retrieval of sequence data from the web.
In addition, as extensive libraries are provided with the
package, it is a platform to allow other scientists to develop and
release software in true open source spirit. EMBOSS also integrates a
range of currently available packages and tools for sequence analysis
into a seamless whole. EMBOSS breaks the historical trend towards
commercial software packages.
EMBOSS contains hundreds of applications including:
- Sequence alignment
- Rapid database searching with sequence patterns
- Protein motif identification, including domain analysis
- Nucleotide sequence pattern analysis---for example to
identify CpG islands or repeats
- Codon usage analysis for small genomes
- Rapid identification of sequence patterns in large scale
sequence sets
- Presentation tools for publication
EMBOSS 6.0.1
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Price
Free to download
Size
19.3MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Ian Longden, Peter Rice, Alan Bleasby, and many
contributors
Website
emboss.sourceforge.net
System Requirements
100 to 200MB disk space
Support
Sites:
Documentation,
Developer
Docs, Administrator
Docs
FAQ,
Mailing
Lists, ch.EMBnet.org,
CGB
Bioinformatics Portal, EMBOSS
at the MPI, CSC,
Finnish IT, EMBOSS
Explorer, Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center, Forsyth
GCGEMBOSS,
Selected
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Features include:
- Properly constructed toolkit for creating robust
bioinformatics applications or workflows
- Comprehensive set of sequence analysis programs
- All sequence and many alignment and structural formats are
handled
- Extensive programming library for common sequence analysis
tasks
- Additional
programming libraries for many other areas including string handling,
pattern-matching, list processing and database indexing
- Each application has the same style of interface so master
one and you've mastered them all.
- Consistent user interface facillitates GUI
designers
and developers
- Integrates other popular publicly available packages
- Free of arbitrary size limits: there are no limits on the
amount of
data that can be processed. For the programmer, memory management for
objects such as sequences and arrays is simplified
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