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| Resource Name | Proper Citation | Abbreviations | Resource Type |
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BWA Resource Report Resource Website 1000+ mentions |
BWA (RRID:SCR_010910) | BWA | software application, sequence analysis software, data processing software, software resource, alignment software, image analysis software, data analysis software | Software for aligning sequencing reads against large reference genome. Consists of three algorithms: BWA-backtrack, BWA-SW and BWA-MEM. First for sequence reads up to 100bp, and other two for longer sequences ranged from 70bp to 1Mbp. | sequence, alignment, reference, genome, human, short, long, read, bio.tools |
is listed by: OMICtools is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: Debian is listed by: SoftCite is related to: shovill is related to: Proovread is related to: BWA-MEM2 has parent organization: SourceForge is required by: RelocaTE |
PMID:19451168 PMID:20080505 DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp324 |
Free, Available for download, Freely available | SCR_015853, biotools:bwa-sw, OMICS_00654 | https://sourceforge.net/projects/bio-bwa/files/ https://bio.tools/bwa-sw https://sources.debian.org/src/bwa/ |
SCR_010910 | Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA), Burrows-Wheeler Aligner | 2026-02-15 09:20:25 | 2291 | |||||
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Prodigal Resource Report Resource Website 1000+ mentions |
Prodigal (RRID:SCR_011936) | Prodigal | software application, simulation software, software resource | Software tool for protein coding gene prediction for prokaryotic genomes. |
is listed by: OMICtools is listed by: Debian is listed by: SoftCite has parent organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
PMID:20211023 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | SCR_021246, OMICS_01493 | https://sources.debian.org/src/prodigal/ | http://prodigal.ornl.gov/ | SCR_011936 | , PROkaryotic DYnamic programming Gene-finding ALgorithm, Prokaryotic Dynamic Programming Genefinding Algorithm | 2026-02-15 09:20:25 | 2985 | |||||
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CANGS Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
CANGS (RRID:SCR_011837) | CANGS | software application, data processing software, data analysis software, software resource | A user-friendly utility for processing and analyzing 454 GS-FLX data in biodiversity studies. | windows, bio.tools |
is listed by: OMICtools is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: SoftCite |
PMID:20180949 | biotools:cangs, OMICS_01084 | https://bio.tools/cangs | SCR_011837 | 2026-02-15 09:20:27 | 1 | |||||||
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pClamp Resource Report Resource Website 5000+ mentions |
pClamp (RRID:SCR_011323) | software application, data processing software, software resource, data acquisition software, data analysis software | Software suite for electrophysiology data acquisition and analysis by Molecular Devices. Used for the control and recording of voltage clamp, current clamp, and patch clamp experiments. The software suite consists of Clampex 11 Software for data acquisition, AxoScope 11 Software for background recording, Clampfit 11 Software for data analysis, and optional Clampfit Advanced Analysis Module for sophisticated and streamlined analysis. | electrophysiology, data, acquisition, analysis, Molecular Device, voltage, clamp, | is listed by: SoftCite | Commercially available | rid_000085 | https://www.moleculardevices.com/products/axon-patch-clamp-system/acquisition-and-analysis-software/pclamp-software-suite#gref | SCR_011323 | patch clamp, Axon™pCLAMP™ 10 Electrophysiology Data Acquisition and Analysis Software, patch CLAMP, pCLAMP 11, pCLAMP 10, patch Clamp | 2026-02-15 09:20:27 | 9678 | |||||||
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TopHat Resource Report Resource Website 5000+ mentions Rating or validation data |
TopHat (RRID:SCR_013035) | software application, sequence analysis software, data processing software, software resource, alignment software, image analysis software, data analysis software | Software tool for fast and high throughput alignment of shotgun cDNA sequencing reads generated by transcriptomics technologies. Fast splice junction mapper for RNA-Seq reads. Aligns RNA-Seq reads to mammalian-sized genomes using ultra high-throughput short read aligner Bowtie, and then analyzes mapping results to identify splice junctions between exons.TopHat2 is accurate alignment of transcriptomes in presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions. | align, RNA-Seq, read, cDNA, sequencing, transcriptomics, fast, splice, junction, mapper, exon, analysis, bio.tools |
uses: Bowtie is used by: CIRCexplorer is listed by: OMICtools is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: SoftCite is related to: HISAT2 has parent organization: University of Maryland; Maryland; USA has parent organization: University of California at Berkeley; Berkeley; USA has parent organization: Johns Hopkins University; Maryland; USA has parent organization: University of Washington; Seattle; USA works with: GeneScissors |
NHGRI R01 HG006102; NHGRI R01 HG006677 |
PMID:23618408 PMID:19289445 DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp120 |
Free, Available for download, Freely available | biotools:tophat, OMICS_01257 | https://github.com/infphilo/tophat https://bio.tools/tophat https://sources.debian.org/src/tophat/ |
http://tophat.cbcb.umd.edu/ | SCR_013035 | tophat, TopHat1, Tophat2 | 2026-02-15 09:20:23 | 9575 | ||||
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minfi Resource Report Resource Website 100+ mentions |
minfi (RRID:SCR_012830) | minfi | software application, data visualization software, data processing software, software resource, data analysis software | Software tools for analyzing and visualizing Illumina''s 450k array data. | Illumina, array data, Analyze Illumina Infinium DNA methylation arrays, DNA methylation array, bio.tools |
is listed by: OMICtools is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: SoftCite is related to: SWAN has parent organization: Bioconductor |
PMID:28035024 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | biotools:minfi, OMICS_00799, BioTools:minfi | https://bio.tools/minfi https://bio.tools/minfi https://bio.tools/minfi |
SCR_012830 | 2026-02-15 09:20:36 | 390 | ||||||
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affy Resource Report Resource Website 1000+ mentions |
affy (RRID:SCR_012835) | Affy | software application, data processing software, data analysis software, software resource | Software R package of functions and classes for the analysis of oligonucleotide arrays manufactured by Affymetrix. Used to process probe level data and for exploratory oligonucleotide array analysis. | analysis, oligonucleotide, array, Affymetrix, process, probe, data, function, bio.tools |
is listed by: OMICtools is listed by: Bioconductor is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: SoftCite is related to: affydata is related to: R Project for Statistical Computing is related to: OMICtools |
Danish Biotechnology Instrument Center | PMID:14960456 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | BioTools:affy, OMICS_00740, biotools:affy | https://bio.tools/affy https://sources.debian.org/src/r-bioc-affy/ |
SCR_012835 | Affymetrix, analysis of Affymetrix GeneChip data at the probe level, analysis of Affymetrix GeneChip data | 2026-02-15 09:20:39 | 2996 | ||||
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WebPlotDigitizer Resource Report Resource Website 1000+ mentions |
WebPlotDigitizer (RRID:SCR_013996) | web service, data access protocol, service resource, software resource | Web based tool to extract data from plots, images, and maps. HTML5 based online tool to extract numerical data from plot images. Used to reverse engineer images of data visualizations to extract underlying numerical data. | Data extraction, plot, image, map, HTML5, numerical data extraction, plot image, reverse image, reverse data visualization |
is listed by: SoftCite is related to: Connected Researchers |
Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://apps.automeris.io/wpd/ https://github.com/ankitrohatgi/WebPlotDigitizer https://github.com/ankitrohatgi/WebPlotDigitizer/releases |
http://arohatgi.info/WebPlotDigitizer/ | SCR_013996 | WebPlotDigitizer Version 4.1, WebPlotDigitizer Version 4.2 | 2026-02-15 09:20:49 | 1786 | |||||||
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Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (RRID:SCR_014239) | NTA | software application, data processing software, data acquisition software, software resource | Software which utilizes the properties of both light scattering and Brownian motion to obtain the particle size distribution of samples in liquid suspension. The Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis software tracks many particles individually and calculates their hydrodynamic diameters using the Stokes Einstein equation. | data acquisition software, particle size distribution, liquid suspension | is listed by: SoftCite | Pay for product | SCR_014239 | Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) | 2026-02-15 09:20:50 | 28 | ||||||||
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JMP Resource Report Resource Website 100+ mentions |
JMP (RRID:SCR_014242) | data management software, software application, data visualization software, data processing software, software resource | Statistical software that uses dynamic graphics rather than tables or graphs to visualize raw data. More specific versions of JMP are available for statistical analyses, clinical work, and genomics. Features include statistical modeling, data cleanup, automation and scripting, and experimental design. | statistical software, data visualization, data management, graphic data visualization |
is listed by: Metabolomics Workbench is listed by: SoftCite |
Pay for product, Free trial download is available | SCR_014242 | 2026-02-15 09:20:53 | 190 | ||||||||||
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NIS-Elements Resource Report Resource Website 1000+ mentions Rating or validation data |
NIS-Elements (RRID:SCR_014329) | software application, data processing software, software resource, software toolkit, data analysis software | Microscope imaging software suite used with Nikon products. NIS-Elements includes software applications for advanced and standard research, documentation, confocal microscopy, and high-content analysis., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025. | element, microscope imaging software, software suite, nikon |
is listed by: SoftCite works with: Nikon ECLIPSE Ti2 inverted microscope |
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE | SCR_014329 | Nikon Instruments Software Elements, NIS Elements, Nikon Instruments Software | 2026-02-15 09:21:00 | 3462 | |||||||||
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Phaser Resource Report Resource Website 1000+ mentions |
Phaser (RRID:SCR_014219) | software application, data processing software, software resource, data acquisition software, image analysis software, image reconstruction software | Crystallographic software which solves structures using algorithms and automated rapid search calculations to perform molecular replacement and experimental phasing methods. | crystallographic software, molecular replacement, experimental phasing method, data acquisition software, image analysis software, image reconstruction software |
is listed by: SoftCite is affiliated with: Phenix has parent organization: University of Cambridge; Cambridge; United Kingdom |
PMID:19461840 | Available through Phenix, Available through CCP4, Acknowledgement requested | http://www.phaser.cimr.cam.ac.uk/index.php/Phaser_Crystallographic_Software | SCR_014219 | 2026-02-15 09:20:50 | 2572 | ||||||||
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Coot Resource Report Resource Website 10000+ mentions |
Coot (RRID:SCR_014222) | COOT | software application, software resource, model, simulation software, data or information resource, software toolkit | Software for macromolecular model building, model completion and validation, and protein modelling using X-ray data. Coot displays maps and models and allows model manipulations such as idealization, rigid-body fitting, ligand search, Ramachandran plots, non-crystallographic symmetry and more. Source code is available. | software toolkit, simulation software, model manipulation, protein modeling, bio.tools |
is used by: PDB-REDO is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: Debian is listed by: SoftCite is related to: MolProbity has parent organization: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
PMID:15572765 | Available for download, Acknowledgement requested | biotools:coot | http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/index.php/Coot https://bio.tools/coot |
SCR_014222 | Crystallographic Object-Oriented Toolkit | 2026-02-15 09:20:53 | 14789 | |||||
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MolProbity Resource Report Resource Website 5000+ mentions |
MolProbity (RRID:SCR_014226) | web application, software resource | A structure-validation web application which provides an expert-system consultation about the accuracy of a macromolecular structure model, diagnosing local problems and enabling their correction. MolProbity works best as an active validation tool (used as soon as a model is available and during each rebuild/refine loop) and when used for protein and RNA crystal structures, but it may also work well for DNA, ligands and NMR ensembles. It produces coordinates, graphics, and numerical evaluations that integrate with either manual or automated use in systems such as PHENIX, KiNG, or Coot. | web application, consultation, macromolecular structure, structure validation, macromolecular crystallography |
is listed by: SoftCite is related to: Phenix is related to: Coot has parent organization: Duke University; North Carolina; USA |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship ; NIGMS GM-15000; NIGMS GM-61302 |
DOI:10.1107/S0907444909042073 | Acknowledgement requested, Requires Java and Javascript | https://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/reference/molprobity_tool.html | SCR_014226 | 2026-02-15 09:20:53 | 6313 | |||||||
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LSM Image Examiner Resource Report Resource Website 1000+ mentions Rating or validation data |
LSM Image Examiner (RRID:SCR_014344) | data management software, software application, software resource | Software used to compile images obtained from the Zeiss LSM 510 confocal microscope. The browser can be used for general image archiving and handling and interactive measurement in labs and workgroups. Features include orthogonal sectioning, 3D cut function, 3D view with calculation of single projections, and interactive measurement functions in the overlay dialog, such as scale bar, distance, and area. | data management software, image archive, image management, interactive measurement | is listed by: SoftCite | Available for download | http://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/en_us/website/downloads/lsm-image-browser.html http://lsm-image-examiner.software.informer.com | SCR_014344 | LSM Image Browser | 2026-02-15 09:21:01 | 1508 | ||||||||
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MassLynx Resource Report Resource Website 5000+ mentions |
MassLynx (RRID:SCR_014271) | data management software, software application, data processing software, software resource, data acquisition software, data analysis software | Software which can acquire, analyze, manage, and share mass spectrometry data. MassLynx controls any Waters mass spectrometry system, from sample and solvent management components to mass spectrometer and auxiliary detectors. The software can acquire nominal mass, exact mass, MS/MS and exact mass MS/MS data. The software system also maintains and consolidates all user sample data. Optional Application Manager programs provide additional information for specific MS analyses and data., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025. | data acquisition software, data analysis software, data management software, mass spectrometry | is listed by: SoftCite | THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE | SCR_014271 | MassLynx MS Software | 2026-02-15 09:20:59 | 5802 | |||||||||
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Cufflinks Resource Report Resource Website 5000+ mentions |
Cufflinks (RRID:SCR_014597) | software application, sequence analysis software, data processing software, software resource, data analysis software | 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 | 2026-02-15 09:20:59 | 8838 | |||||||
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Minitab Resource Report Resource Website 5000+ mentions |
Minitab (RRID:SCR_014483) | software application, data processing software, data analysis software, software resource | A statistical software package that allows the user to import data, create graphs, and perform statistical analysis. It can perform basic statistical tests like descriptive statistics, hypothesis tests, confidence intervals, and normality tests as well as regression and ANOVA and quality assessment. | data analysis, statistical analysis, hypothesis, confidence, descriptive | is listed by: SoftCite | SCR_014483 | 2026-02-15 09:20:43 | 5778 | |||||||||||
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IMAGIC Resource Report Resource Website 100+ mentions |
IMAGIC (RRID:SCR_014447) | software application, image processing software, data processing software, software resource, image analysis software | An image analysis software that can process spectra and other multi-dimensional data-sets. The software package is aimed at processing large data sets from (cryo-) electron microscopy, especially in the field of single particle analyses. This software can be used with light and raster-tunneling microscopes, computer tomographs, FT-IR spectrometers and other signal collecting devices. This resource provides three-dimensional data processing and angular reconstitution modules that allow the three-dimensional reconstruction with point-group symmetry from the two dimensional electron microscopy projections. These models aid in the analysis of the macromolecules. | image analysis, spectra, multi-dimensional data, macromolecule, 3d processing, tomograph, spectrometer, software environment | is listed by: SoftCite | PMID:8742718 | Commercial, Account needed for download | SCR_014447 | 2026-02-15 09:20:57 | 217 | |||||||||
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COMSOL Multiphysics Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
COMSOL Multiphysics (RRID:SCR_014767) | software application, simulation software, software resource | General-purpose software platform for modeling and simulating physics-based problems which accounts for coupled or multiphysics phenomena. The platform includes a set of core physics interfaces for common physics application areas such as structural analysis, laminar flow, pressure acoustics, transport of diluted species, electrostatics, electric currents, heat transfer, and Joule heating. | simulation software, software platform, physics, problem solver | is listed by: SoftCite | Commercially available | SCR_014767 | 2026-02-15 09:21:00 | 37 |
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