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RepeatScout Resource Report Resource Website 500+ mentions |
RepeatScout (RRID:SCR_014653) | software application, data processing software, sequence analysis software, data analysis software, algorithm resource, software resource | Algorithm used to identify de novo repeat families in newly sequenced genomes. Repeat libraries for C. briggsae, M. muscles (X chromosome), R. novegicus (X chromosome), armadillo, H. sapiens (X chromosome), and various other mammals created using RepeatScout are available on the main site., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025. | algorithm, sequence analysis, repeat, genome sequence, de novo, repeat family, repeat library, bio.tools |
is used by: RepeatModeler is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools has parent organization: University of California at San Diego; California; USA |
PMID:15961478 | THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE | BioTools:RepeatScout, biotools:RepeatScout | https://bio.tools/RepeatScout https://bio.tools/RepeatScout https://bio.tools/RepeatScout |
SCR_014653 | 2026-02-16 09:48:39 | 815 | |||||||
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Cufflinks Resource Report Resource Website 5000+ mentions |
Cufflinks (RRID:SCR_014597) | software application, data processing software, sequence analysis software, data analysis software, software resource | Software tool for transcriptome assembly and differential expression analysis for RNA-Seq. Includes script called cuffmerge that can be used to merge together several Cufflinks assemblies. It also handles running Cuffcompare as well as automatically filtering a number of transfrags that are likely to be artifacts. If the researcher has a reference GTF file, the researcher can provide it to the script to more effectively merge novel isoforms and maximize overall assembly quality. | transcriptome, rna-seq, rna seq, cuffmerge, cufflink, cuffcompare, transfrags, artifacts, gtf file, transcriptome assembly, expression analysis, bio.tools, bio.tools |
is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: OMICtools is listed by: SoftCite works with: GeneScissors is hosted by: GitHub |
DOI:10.1038/nbt.1621 | Acknowledgement requested, Source code available on GitHub | biotools:cufflinks, OMICS_01304, SCR_013307 | https://github.com/cole-trapnell-lab/cufflinks https://bio.tools/cufflinks https://sources.debian.org/src/cufflinks/ |
SCR_014597 | 2026-02-16 09:48:39 | 8838 | |||||||
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RAST Server Resource Report Resource Website 500+ mentions |
RAST Server (RRID:SCR_014606) | RAST | production service resource, service resource | A SEED-quality automated service that annotates complete or nearly complete bacterial and archaeal genomes across the entire phylogenetic tree. RAST can also be used to analyze draft genomes. | microbiome, seed, annotate, genome, bacteria, archaea, service, bio.tools |
is listed by: Human Microbiome Project is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools |
National Science Foundation 0850546; NIAID contract HHSN272200900040C |
PMID:18261238 | Free for the scientific community, Login required | biotools:theseed | https://bio.tools/theseed | SCR_014606 | Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology, Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology Server | 2026-02-16 09:48:35 | 907 | ||||
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Prokka Resource Report Resource Website 1000+ mentions |
Prokka (RRID:SCR_014732) | software application, data processing software, sequence analysis software, data analysis software, software resource | THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 28,2023. Software tool for the rapid annotation of prokaryotic genomes. It produces GFF3, GBK and SQN files that are ready for editing in Sequin and ultimately submitted to Genbank/DDJB/ENA. A typical 4 Mbp genome can be fully annotated in less than 10 minutes on a quad-core computer, and scales well to 32 core SMP systems., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025. | annotation, prokaryote, genome, prokaryotic genome, sequence analysis software, annotation software, bio.tools |
is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: OMICtools |
DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu153 | THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE | OMICS_04220, biotools:prokka | https://bio.tools/prokka https://sources.debian.org/src/prokka/ https://sources.debian.org/src/prokka/ |
SCR_014732 | 2026-02-16 09:48:40 | 4876 | |||||||
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ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry (RRID:SCR_014556) | data or information resource, topical portal, portal | Elixir Interoperability Platform to help people and machines to discover, access, integrate and analyse biological data. Encourages life science community to adopt standardized file formats, metadata, vocabularies and identifiers and works internationally to achieve its goals. Bioinformatics resource registry that provides scientific and technical information about analytical tools and data services for bioinformatics. Gateway to databases and tools for life science data analysis.Provides comprehensive and up-to-date catalogue of resources that are interactive and downloadable, and that offer programmatic access. The registry also allows the community to upload their own resources to the registry following a simple log in procedure. | bioinformatics, data service registry, tool registry, resource registry, registry |
lists: gProfiler2 lists: Galactic Circos lists: bio.tools is affiliated with: bio.tools is related to: FAIRsharing is related to: Laniakea |
Free, Freely available | SCR_014556 | European Infrastructure for Biological Information Tools | 2026-02-16 09:48:39 | 20 | |||||||||
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SPEX2 Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
SPEX2 (RRID:SCR_014923) | software application, data processing software, sequence analysis software, data analysis software, software resource | Automatic software program for profiling spatial gene expression patterns from Fly embryo ISH images. It utilizes image-based genome-scale profiling of whole-body mRNA patterns. | software, spatial gene expression, fly, embryo, extraction, mrna, bio.tools |
is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools has parent organization: Carnegie Mellon University; Pennsylvania; USA |
PMID:20529936 | biotools:spex2 | https://bio.tools/spex2 | SCR_014923 | 2026-02-16 09:48:44 | 1 | ||||||||
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Online Resource for Community Annotation of Eukaryotes Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
Online Resource for Community Annotation of Eukaryotes (RRID:SCR_014989) | OrcAE, ORCAE | wiki, data or information resource, narrative resource | Online genome annotation tool for validating and correcting gene annotations. OrcAE is community-driven and can be edited by account-holders in the research community. | genome annotation, gene validation, community driven, bio.tools |
is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: Debian has parent organization: Bioinformatics Gent has parent organization: Ghent University; Ghent; Belgium has parent organization: VIB; Flanders; Belgium |
PMID:23132114 | Free, Account required, The research community can contribute to this resource | biotools:orcae | https://bio.tools/orcae | SCR_014989 | Online Resource for Community Annotation of Eukaryotes (OrcAE) | 2026-02-16 09:48:40 | 16 | |||||
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SeaView Resource Report Resource Website 1000+ mentions |
SeaView (RRID:SCR_015059) | software application, data processing software, data visualization software, sequence analysis software, data analysis software, software resource | Graphical user interface for multiple sequence alignment and molecular phylogeny. SeaView also generates phylogenetic trees. | sequence alignment, molecular phylogeny, phylogenetic tree, bio.tools |
is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: OMICtools |
PMID:19854763 DOI:10.1093/molbev/msp259 |
Free, Available for download | OMICS_08908, biotools:seaview | https://bio.tools/seaview https://sources.debian.org/src/seaview/ |
SCR_015059 | 2026-02-16 09:48:42 | 1777 | |||||||
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LTR_Finder Resource Report Resource Website 500+ mentions |
LTR_Finder (RRID:SCR_015247) | web service, data access protocol, analysis service resource, software resource, production service resource, service resource | Web software capable of scanning large-scale sequences for full-length LTR retrotranspsons., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025. | Long Terminal Repeat retrotransposons, Long Terminal Repeat, retrotransposon prediction, genome sequences, LTR prediction, LTR structure prediction, DNA sequence, biotools |
is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools |
Fudan University ; Shanghai ; China |
PMID:17485477 | THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE | SCR_020944, biotools:ltr_finder | https://bio.tools/ltr_finder | SCR_015247 | LTR Finder | 2026-02-16 09:48:44 | 795 | |||||
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MeroX Resource Report Resource Website 50+ mentions |
MeroX (RRID:SCR_014956) | software application, data processing software, sequence analysis software, data analysis software, software resource | THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on June 29,2023. Software tool for the analysis of cross-linking/mass spectrometry datasets using MS-cleavable cross-linkers. MeroX is specialized for MS/MS-cleavable cross linking reagents and identifies the specific fragmentation products of the cleavable cross links. | sequence analysis software, cross linking, mass spectrometry, MS cleavage, fragmentation, cleavable cross link, bio.tools |
is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is related to: StavroX |
PMID:25261217 | THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE | BioTools:MeroX, biotools:MeroX | https://bio.tools/MeroX https://bio.tools/MeroX https://bio.tools/MeroX |
SCR_014956 | 2026-02-16 09:48:45 | 74 | |||||||
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BUSCO Resource Report Resource Website 5000+ mentions |
BUSCO (RRID:SCR_015008) | software application, data processing software, data analysis software, algorithm resource, software resource | Software tool to quantitatively measure genome assembly and annotation completeness based on evolutionarily informed expectations of gene content. | genome assembly, annotation completeness, quantitative method, bio.tools |
is used by: rnaQUAST is recommended by: CEGMA is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is related to: CEGMA works with: BUSCOMP |
Swiss National Science Foundation ; Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship |
DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv351 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | biotools:busco | https://gitlab.com/ezlab/busco https://bio.tools/busco https://sources.debian.org/src/busco/ |
SCR_015008 | BUSCO v2, Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO), Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs, BUSCO v1 | 2026-02-16 09:48:45 | 7284 | |||||
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clustergrammer Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
clustergrammer (RRID:SCR_015681) | data visualization tool, software tool | Clustergrammer is a web-based tool for visualizing and analyzing high-dimensional data as interactive and shareable hierarchically clustered heatmaps. Clustergrammer enables intuitive exploration of high-dimensional data and has several optional biology-specific features. | bio.tools |
is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools |
DOI:10.1038/sdata.2017.151 | biotools:clustergrammer | https://bio.tools/clustergrammer | SCR_015681 | 2026-02-16 09:48:51 | 41 | ||||||||
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GenePattern Notebook Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
GenePattern Notebook (RRID:SCR_015699) | software application, software resource, systems interoperability software, electronic laboratory notebook, web application | Interactive analysis notebook environment that streamlines genomics research by interleaving text, multimedia, and executable code into unified, sharable, reproducible “research narratives.” It integrates the dynamic capabilities of notebook systems with an investigator-focused, simple interface that provides access to hundreds of genomic tools without the need to write code. | gene, genomics research, research narrative, notebook system, analysis notebook, bio.tools |
is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: Debian is affiliated with: GenePattern |
NIGMS R01-GM074024; NCI U24-CA194107 |
PMID:28822753 | Open Source, Free, Available for download, Account required | biotools:GenePattern_notebook | https://bio.tools/GenePattern_notebook | SCR_015699 | GenePattern Notebook environment | 2026-02-16 09:48:56 | 3 | |||||
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HISAT2 Resource Report Resource Website 10000+ mentions |
HISAT2 (RRID:SCR_015530) | software application, data processing software, sequence analysis software, data analysis software, source code, software resource | Graph-based alignment of next generation sequencing reads to a population of genomes. | alignment program, mapping reads, population genomics, human genome, bio.tools |
is used by: Fcirc is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is related to: TopHat has parent organization: Johns Hopkins University; Maryland; USA is required by: SL-quant is hosted by: GitHub |
NLM R01-LM06845; NIGMS R01-GM083873; NSF CCF-0347992 |
PMID:25751142 DOI:10.1038/s41587-019-0201-4 |
Available for download | OMICS_07225, biotools:hisat2 | https://github.com/infphilo/hisat2 https://bio.tools/hisat2 https://sources.debian.org/src/hisat2/ |
SCR_015530 | HISAT | 2026-02-16 09:48:55 | 17595 | |||||
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Hybrid-denovo Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Hybrid-denovo (RRID:SCR_015866) | software application, data processing software, sequence analysis software, data analysis software, software resource | Software for a de novo OTU-picking pipeline integrating single- and paired-end 16S sequence tags. It is designed to take Illumina paired-end sequencing reads as input and output the OTU BIOM table, together with their representative sequences and a phylogenetic tree of OTUs. | hybrid-denovo, 16S rRNA, microbiota pipeline, single-end, paired-end, illumina read, de novo, otu-picking pipeline, phylogenetic tree, python, bio.tools |
is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: Debian |
biotools:hybrid-denovo | https://bio.tools/hybrid-denovo | SCR_015866 | 2026-02-16 09:48:53 | 3 | |||||||||
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NiftyPET Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
NiftyPET (RRID:SCR_015873) | software application, data processing software, software toolkit, data visualization software, image analysis software, software resource, source code | Python software package that offers quantitative PET image reconstruction and analysis with high accuracy and precision. It is written in CUDA C and embedded in Python C extensions. | python, cuda c, python c, pet, image reconstruction, image analysis, bio.tools |
uses: CMake is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools |
DOI:10.1007/s12021-017-9352-y | Free, Available for download, Runs on Windows, Runs on Linux | biotools:niftypet | https://bio.tools/niftypet | SCR_015873 | 2026-02-16 09:48:57 | 6 | |||||||
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oligo Resource Report Resource Website 1000+ mentions |
oligo (RRID:SCR_015729) | software application, data processing software, data analysis software, source code, software resource | Software package to analyze oligonucleotide arrays (expression/SNP/tiling/exon) at probe-level. It currently supports Affymetrix (CEL files) and NimbleGen arrays (XYS files). | oligonucleotide, microarray gene expression, r, oligonucleotide array, snp, gene expression, probe-level, affymetrix array, cel file, and nimblegen array, xys file, bio.tools |
is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: SoftCite |
CAPES (Coordenação de Aprimoramento Pessoal de Nível Superior) ; NCRR R01RR021967; NHGRI P41HG004059 |
PMID:20688976 | Free, Available for download, Runs on Mac OS, Runs on Windows | biotools:oligo | https://bio.tools/oligo | SCR_015729 | oligo package | 2026-02-16 09:48:56 | 1749 | |||||
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BSVF Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
BSVF (RRID:SCR_015727) | BSVF | software application, data processing software, sequence analysis software, data analysis software, source code, software resource | Software code for bisulfite sequencing virus integration. This finder is for directional libraries only and does not support PBAT and indirectional libraries. | virus integration, sequencing analysis, virus assembly, integration, bisulfite, bio.tools |
is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: Debian |
Open source | biotools:bs-virus-finder | https://bio.tools/bs-virus-finder | SCR_015727 | BSVF: Bisulfite Sequencing Virus integration Finder, Bisulfite Sequencing Virus integration Finder | 2026-02-16 09:48:52 | 1 | ||||||
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andi Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
andi (RRID:SCR_015971) | software application, data processing software, algorithm resource, image analysis software, software resource, alignment software | Software tool for rapidly computing and estimating evolutionary distance between closely related genomes. Because andi does not compute full alignments it scales even up to thousands of bacterial genomes. | algorithm, computing, estimate, analysis, genome, alignment, bio.tools |
is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: OMICtools |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Pf672/3-1 | PMID:25504847 | Free, Freely available, Available for download | OMICS_09287, biotools:andi | https://bio.tools/andi https://sources.debian.org/src/andi/ |
SCR_015971 | 2026-02-16 09:48:55 | 41 | ||||||
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larvalign Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
larvalign (RRID:SCR_015815) | software application, data processing software, software toolkit, sequence analysis software, data analysis software, data set, software resource, data or information resource | Software package including computational methods for aligning gene expression patterns from the larval brain of Drosophila melanogaster. Its method includes evaluation of the registration framework involved in template generation and mapping. | drosophila melanogaster, computational method, gene expression, alignment, larval brain, larvae, template generation, mapping, bio.tools |
is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools |
Free, Available for download | biotools:larvalign | https://bio.tools/larvalign | SCR_015815 | 2026-02-16 09:48:53 | 1 |
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