The bioinformatics & lab software catalog

12 curated tools for computational biology, genomics, imaging, and the modern wet lab. Know one we're missing? Submit it.

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Free

Public Databases

NCBI Datasets

Programmatic access to NCBI genomes and sequences

Web appREST APICommand line

Free

Public Databases

Ensembl

Genome annotation and comparative genomics

Web appREST APIDataset

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Open source

Structural Biology

Foldseek

Search protein structures at sequence-search speed

Command lineWeb app

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Open source

Libraries & SDKs

pysam

Pythonic access to SAM/BAM/CRAM/VCF via HTSlib

Python library

Open source

Libraries & SDKs

Bioconductor

2,000+ R packages for the analysis of genomic data

R package

Open source

Genomics & Sequencing

Salmon

Fast, bias-aware transcript quantification from RNA-seq

Command line

Open source

Genomics & Sequencing

GATK

Broad Institute toolkit for variant discovery

Command line

Open source

Genomics & Sequencing

BWA-MEM2

The next-generation BWA-MEM short-read aligner

Command line

Open source

Genomics & Sequencing

minimap2

Versatile long- and short-read sequence aligner

Command linePython library

Open source

Genomics & Sequencing

BCFtools

Call, filter and manipulate genomic variants (VCF/BCF)

Command line

Open source

Genomics & Sequencing

SAMtools

The standard toolkit for SAM/BAM/CRAM alignment files

Command line

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Open source

AI Models

Evo 2

A genome-scale DNA foundation model across all domains of life

Python libraryModel weightsREST API