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Bioinformatics

Foldseek – compare large protein structure datasets

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Foldseek is a fast and sensitive command-line tool for comparing large protein structure datasets.

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Bioinformatics

Scanpy – scalable toolkit for analysing single-cell gene expression data

August 23, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Scanpy is a scalable toolkit for analysing single-cell gene expression data. It can handle datasets containing more than one million cells.

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Bioinformatics

SeqKit – manipulate FASTA and FASTQ files

August 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

SeqKit is a fast, cross-platform command-line toolkit for manipulating FASTA and FASTQ files.

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Bioinformatics

MultiQC – aggregate results from bioinformatics analyses

August 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

MultiQC is a reporting tool that aggregates results from multiple bioinformatics analyses and samples into a single report

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FastQC – quality control tool for high throughput sequence data

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

FastQC is a quality control tool for high throughput sequence data.

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Bioinformatics

minimap2 – versatile sequence alignment program

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Security

minimap2 is a versatile sequence alignment program for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences.

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Bioinformatics

BCFtools – variant calling and manipulating files in the Variant Call Format

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

BCFtools is a set of utilities for working with variant calls in Variant Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF.

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Bioinformatics

SPAdes – versatile toolkit for assembling and analysing sequencing data

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

SPAdes is a versatile toolkit for assembling and analysing sequencing data. It is primarily developed for Illumina sequencing data

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Bioinformatics

samtools – manipulate next-generation sequencing data

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

samtools is a suite of tools written in C using HTSlib for manipulating next-generation sequencing data.

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Bioinformatics

cramino – BAM/CRAM quality evaluation

March 7, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

cramino is a tool for quick quality assessment of cram and bam files, intended for long read sequencing.

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Bioinformatics

GenomeTools – genome analysis software

February 24, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

The GenomeTools genome analysis system is a collection of bioinformatics tools (in the realm of genome informatics).

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Bioinformatics

Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK)

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

GATK is a genomic analysis toolkit focused on variant discovery.

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Bioinformatics

abPOA – adaptive banded Partial Order Alignment

February 20, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

abPOA is an extended version of Partial Order Alignment (POA) that performs adaptive banded dynamic programming (DP) with an SIMD implementation.

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Bioinformatics

AliView – alignment viewer and editor

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

AliView is an alignment viewer and editor for bioinformatics that aims to be one of the fastest and most intuitive to use.

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Bioinformatics

mothur – analyze microbial communities

February 17, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

mothur fills the bioinformatics needs of the microbial ecology community. It’s software for describing and comparing microbial communities.

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Bioinformatics

Bioconductor – tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Bioconductor is a software project which provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data.

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Bioinformatics

Biopython – tools for biological computation written in Python

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation written in Python by an international team of developers.

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Bioinformatics

BioPerl – computational molecular biology tools

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

BioPerl is a collection of Perl tools for computational molecular biology used by large and small academic laboratories, and pharmaceuticals.

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Bioinformatics

Integrative Genomics Viewer – high-performance visualization tool for interactive exploration of large, integrated genomic datasets

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

The Integrative Genomics Viewer is a high-performance visualization tool for interactive exploration of large, integrated genomic datasets.

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Bioinformatics

InterMine – integrate biological data sources

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

InterMine is a data warehouse system for the integration and analysis of biological data.

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