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Software tool for analyzing repetitive DNA found in genome sequences. Software package for identification and classification of genomic repeats. Used for identifying patterns of local alignments induced by certain classes of repeats.
Proper citation: PILER (RRID:SCR_017333) Copy
http://promoter.bx.psu.edu/hi-c/
Genome Browser for study of 3D genome organization and gene regulation and data visualization. Used to visualizing chromatin interaction data, browse other omics data such as ChIP-Seq or RNA-Seq for same genomic region, and gain complete view of both regulatory landscape and 3D genome structure for any given gene., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.
Proper citation: 3D Genome (RRID:SCR_017525) Copy
https://github.com/tanghaibao/mcscan
Software package to simultaneously scan multiple genomes to identify homologous chromosomal regions and subsequently align these regions using genes as anchors.Used to identify conserved gene arrays both within same genome and across different genomes. Command line program to wrap dagchainer and combine pairwise results into multi alignments in column format.
Proper citation: MCScan (RRID:SCR_017650) Copy
https://blobtools.readme.io/docs
Software tool as modular command line solution for visualisation, quality control and taxonomic partitioning of genome datasets. Used for interrogation of genome assemblies. Assists in primary partitioning of data, leading to improved assemblies, and screening of final assemblies for potential contaminants.
Proper citation: Blobtools (RRID:SCR_017618) Copy
https://github.com/philres/ngmlr
Software tool as long read mapper designed to align PacBio or Oxford Nanopore reads to reference genome and optimized for structural variation detection.
Proper citation: Ngmlr (RRID:SCR_017620) Copy
Software tool to organize, retrieve, and share genome analysis resources. Reference genome assembly asset manager. In addition to genome indexes, can manage any files related to reference genomes, including sequences and annotation files. Includes command line interface and server application that provides RESTful API, so it is useful for both tool development and analysis.
Proper citation: refgenie (RRID:SCR_017574) Copy
https://bioconductor.org/packages/TCGAbiolinks/
Software R Bioconductor package for integrative analysis with TCGA data.TCGAbiolinks is able to access National Cancer Institute Genomic Data Commons thorough its GDC Application Programming Interface to search, download and prepare relevant data for analysis in R.
Proper citation: TCGAbiolinks (RRID:SCR_017683) Copy
https://crispy.secondarymetabolites.org
Web tool to design sgRNAs for CRISPR applications. Web tool based on CRISPy to design sgRNAs for any user-provided microbial genome. Implemented as standalone web application for Cas9 target prediction.
Proper citation: CRISPy-web (RRID:SCR_017970) Copy
https://github.com/slimsuite/pafscaff
Software as Pairwise mApping Format reference based Scaffold anchoring and super scaffolding tool. Dsigned for mapping genome assembly scaffolds to closely related chromosome level reference genome assembly.
Proper citation: PAFScaff (RRID:SCR_017976) Copy
http://gmdd.shgmo.org/Computational-Biology/GRS/
A compression tool for efficient storage of Genome Re-Sequencing data. GRS processes genome sequence data without use of reference SNPs and other variants. It can also automatically rebuild the individual genome sequence data using the reference genome sequence.
Proper citation: GRS (RRID:SCR_001008) Copy
http://ntap.cbi.pku.edu.cn/usage.php
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 23,2022. Software for tiling array data analysis to survey the genome-wide binding sites of transcription factor HY5 in Arabidopsis and the genome-wide histone modifications/DNA methylation level in rice. It was developed in the process of generating NimbleGen analysis. Written in R and Perl.
Proper citation: NTAP (RRID:SCR_001488) Copy
http://ccg.vital-it.ch/snp2tfbs
Collection of text files providing specific annotations for human single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), namely whether they are predicted to abolish, create or change the affinity of one or several transcription factor (TF) binding sites. Used to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying regulatory variation in the human genome. SNP2TFBS is also accessible over a web interface, enabling users to view the information provided for an individual SNP, to extract SNPs based on various search criteria, to annotate uploaded sets of SNPs or to display statistics about the frequencies of binding sites affected by selected SNPs.
Proper citation: SNP2TFBS (RRID:SCR_016885) Copy
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~frist/Bit/
BIT Core at University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada, provides bioinformatics services, resources and collaborations. Support for Genome assembly and annotation, Microarray and Transcriptomics, Systems Biology and Pathway analysis, Databases, Data pipelines, Bioinformatics software, Custom software and programming, Project Wikis, Lab group computer management.
Proper citation: University of Manitoba Department of Plant Science Bio Information Technologies Lab Core Facility (RRID:SCR_017177) Copy
https://github.com/HajkD/LTRpred
Software package for automated functional annotation of LTR retrotransposons for comparative genomics studies. Used to perform de novo functional annotation of LTR retrotransposons from any genome assembly in fasta format.
Proper citation: LTRpred (RRID:SCR_017031) Copy
https://github.com/slimsuite/diploidocus
Software package for diploid genome assembly analysis. Sequence analysis toolkit for number of different analyses related to diploid genome assembly.
Proper citation: Diploidocus (RRID:SCR_021231) Copy
Web based database interface for orthology prediction for the inference of orthologs among complete genomes. Used to relate genes across many species., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.
Proper citation: OMA Orthology database (RRID:SCR_016425) Copy
https://cm.jefferson.edu/rna22/
Software tool as a pattern based algorithm for detecting microRNA binding sites and their corresponding microRNA and mRNA complexes. Allows interactive exploration and visualization of miRNA target predictions. Permits link-out to external expression repositories and databases.
Proper citation: RNA22 (RRID:SCR_016507) Copy
https://pan.genomics.cn/ucdisk/s/VjuIRb&code=877833
Pipeline for construction and graphical visualization of annotated pangenome networks from microbial genomes. With the ability to extract and visualize gene contents and gene-gene physical adjacencies of a specific taxon from large-scale metagenomic data provides pangenome analysis to uncultured microbial taxa., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.
Proper citation: MetaPGN (RRID:SCR_016472) Copy
https://www.thermofisher.com/order/catalog/product/00-0210
Scanner for microarray analysis to scan next-generation higher-density arrays, including SNP arrays, tiling arrays for transcription and all-exon arrays for whole-genome analysis.
Proper citation: GeneChip™ Scanner 3000 7G (RRID:SCR_016522) Copy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biocollections
Registry of bio-collections linked to genomes. Collection of curated dataset of metadata for culture collections, museums, herbaria and other natural history collections, including Darwin Core institution and collection codes, and URL formulae for mapping specimen ids to web pages at the collection site.
Proper citation: NCBI Biocollections (RRID:SCR_016459) Copy
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