Liftoff.bio illustration — cat libraries
Open sourceLibraries & SDKs

Bioconda

A conda channel with 10,000+ bioinformatics packages

Bioconda packages thousands of bioinformatics tools as conda recipes, making installation and reproducibility across platforms painless. It is the backbone of software provisioning in many Nextflow and Snakemake pipelines.

Example

1conda config --add channels bioconda --add channels conda-forge
2conda create -n bio samtools bcftools minimap2 bwa-mem2

Recipes also auto-generate BioContainers Docker/Singularity images.

Related tools

Liftoff.bio illustration — cat workflows
Open source

Workflow Orchestration

Snakemake

Reproducible, Make-style workflows in Python

Command line
Liftoff.bio illustration — cat workflows
Open source

Workflow Orchestration

Nextflow

Dataflow pipelines that scale from laptop to cloud

Command lineCloud platform
Liftoff.bio illustration — cat genomics
Open source

Genomics & Sequencing

SAMtools

The standard toolkit for SAM/BAM/CRAM alignment files

Command line