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Tag: Bioinformatics

DNA

D-GENIES – interactive dot plots for genome comparisons

October 10, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

D-GENIES compares large genome assemblies with interactive dot plots, revealing sequence rearrangements, inversions and repeated regions.

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DNA

IGV-Web App – explore genomic data in a web browser

October 9, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

IGV-Web App lets researchers inspect reference genomes, alignments and variant tracks in a browser using local or remote genomic files.

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CGView.js – interactive circular and linear genome maps

October 5, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

CGView.js is a library for creating interactive circular and linear genome maps with features, plots and sequence-level navigation.

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DNA

SynFlow – visualize genome alignments and structural variation

October 5, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

SynFlow explores genome alignments, synteny and structural rearrangements with interactive multi-genome visualizations.

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Chromoscope – multiscale structural variation genome browser

October 4, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

Chromoscope is an interactive web genome browser for exploring structural variation and copy-number patterns across human cancer genomes.

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CDK – cheminformatics and bioinformatics toolkit

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

CDK is a Java toolkit providing algorithms and data structures for cheminformatics, molecular processing and chemical informatics.

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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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Bioinformatics

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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DNA

HiGlass – interactive exploration of genomic contact maps

October 18, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

HiGlass visualises genomic contact matrices and sequencing tracks with linked views, continuous zooming and interactive comparisons.

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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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