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DiScRIBinATE Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
DiScRIBinATE (RRID:SCR_004862) | DiScRIBinATE | software resource | Software for accurate taxonomic classification of metagenomic sequences using a similarity based binning method. User needs to perform a similarity search of the input metagenomic sequences (reads) against the nr protein database using BLASTx search. The generated blastx output is then taken as the input by the DiScRIBinATE program. | metagenome, classification, sequence | is listed by: OMICtools | PMID:21106121 | Free for academic use, Non-commercial, Commercial use with permission, Acknowledgement requested, Copyright - Tata Consultancy Services | OMICS_01453 | SCR_004862 | DiScRIBinATE: Distance Score Ratio for Improved Binning and Taxonomic Estimation, Distance Score Ratio for Improved Binning and Taxonomic Estimation | 2026-09-03 04:47:43 | 4 | ||||||
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MetaPhyler Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
MetaPhyler (RRID:SCR_004848) | software resource | A taxonomic classifier for metagenomic shotgun reads, which uses phylogenetic marker genes as a taxonomic reference. The classifier, based on BLAST, uses different thresholds (automatically learned from the reference database) for each combination of taxonomic rank, reference gene, and sequence length. The reference database includes marker genes from all complete genomes, several draft genomes and the NCBI nr protein database. | metagenome, classification, sequence, taxonomy, genome, microbiome, bio.tools |
is listed by: OMICtools is listed by: Human Microbiome Project is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools has parent organization: University of Maryland; Maryland; USA |
PMID:21989143 | Acknowledgement requested, Available for download | OMICS_01455, biotools:metaphyler | https://bio.tools/metaphyler | SCR_004848 | MetaPhyler - Estimating Bacterial Composition from Metagenomic Sequences | 2026-09-03 04:47:29 | 11 | ||||||
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NCBI BLAST Resource Report Resource Website 10000+ mentions |
NCBI BLAST (RRID:SCR_004870) | BLAST | data access protocol, data analysis software, data processing software, sequence analysis software, software application, software resource, web service | Web search tool to find regions of similarity between biological sequences. Program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates statistical significance. Used for identifying homologous sequences. | genome, similarity, sequence, nucleotide, protein, gene, data, bio.tools |
is used by: MITE-Tracker is used by: Cello2Go is listed by: OMICtools is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is related to: G-BLASTN is related to: genBlastA has parent organization: NCBI is required by: RelocaTE works with: Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) Project works with: BLASTClust works with: MOLE-BLAST works with: Genotyping |
National Library of Medicine | PMID:16845079 PMID:18440982 |
Free, Freely available, Tutorial available | OMICS_01436, nlx_84530, biotools:blast | http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, https://bio.tools/blast, https://sources.debian.org/src/ncbi-blast+/ | SCR_004870 | NCBI Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, NCBI BLAST, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, BLAST | 2026-09-03 04:47:44 | 17718 | ||||
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Rsubread Resource Report Resource Website 100+ mentions |
Rsubread (RRID:SCR_016945) | alignment software, data analysis software, data processing software, image analysis software, software application, software resource | Software R package for sequence alignment and counting for R. Used for analyses of second and third generation sequencing data, for read mapping, read counting, SNP calling, short and long read alignment, quantification and mutation discovery. Includes assessment of sequence reads, read alignment, read summarization, exon-exon junction detection, fusion detection, detection of short and long indels, absolute expression calling and SNP calling. Can be used with reads generated from any of the major sequencing platforms including Illumina GA/HiSeq/MiSeq, Roche GS-FLX, ABI SOLiD and LifeTech Ion PGM/Proton sequencers. | sequence, alignment, counting, multi, seed, strategy, mapping, read, reference, genome, analysis, data, SNP, calling, mutation, discovery, bio.tools |
is listed by: Bioconductor is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is related to: R Project for Statistical Computing is related to: Subread |
Australian Government ; Australian National Health and Medical Research Council ; Victorian State Government Operational Infrastructure Support |
PMID:23558742 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | biotools:rsubread | https://bio.tools/rsubread | SCR_016945 | 2026-09-03 04:54:02 | 203 | ||||||
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Biostrings Resource Report Resource Website 100+ mentions |
Biostrings (RRID:SCR_016949) | data analysis software, data processing software, sequence analysis software, software application, software resource | Software package for efficient manipulation of biological strings. Memory efficient string containers, string matching algorithms, and other utilities, for fast manipulation of large biological sequences or sets of sequences. | manipulation, biological, string, memory, efficient, container, sequence, set, DNA, RNA, protein |
is used by: riboWaltz is listed by: Bioconductor is related to: R Project for Statistical Computing has parent organization: Stanford University; Stanford; California |
Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://web.stanford.edu/class/bios221/labs/biostrings/lab_1_biostrings.html | SCR_016949 | 2026-09-03 04:54:11 | 182 | |||||||||
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ProSight Lite Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
ProSight Lite (RRID:SCR_016908) | data analysis software, data processing software, software application, software resource | Software application for matching a single candidate protein sequence and its modifications against a set of mass spectrometric observations. Used to analyze top-down mass spectrometry data. | matching, single, protein, sequence, proteomics, top-down proteomics, mass, spectrometric, data, bio.tools |
is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: Debian has parent organization: Northwestern University; Illinois; USA is provided by: National Resource for Translational and Developmental Proteomics |
NIDA P30 DA018310; NIGMS R01 GM067193 |
DOI:10.1002/pmic.201400313 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | biotools:prosigh_lite | https://bio.tools/prosight_lite | SCR_016908 | 2026-09-03 04:54:10 | 14 | ||||||
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Discovar assembler Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
Discovar assembler (RRID:SCR_016755) | Discovar | data analysis software, data processing software, sequence analysis software, software application, software resource | Software tool for variant calling with reference and de novo assembly of genomes. The heart of DISCOVAR is a de novo genome assembler which can generate de novo assemblies for both large and small genomes. | variant, calling, reference, de novo, assembly, genome, genetic, human, sequence, analysis |
is listed by: OMICtools has parent organization: Broad Institute |
NHGRI R01 HG003474; NHGRI U54 HG003067; NIAID HHSN272200900018C |
PMID:25326702 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | SCR_016755 | Discovar de novo, Discovar | 2026-09-03 04:54:02 | 20 | ||||||
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PPR-Meta Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
PPR-Meta (RRID:SCR_016915) | data analysis software, data processing software, sequence analysis software, software application, software resource | Software tool to identify metagenomic sequences of phages, chromosomes or plasmids. Used for identifying phages and plasmids from metagenomic fragments using deep learning., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025. | identify, metagenomic, sequence, phage, chromosome, plasmid, fragment, machine, learning |
is related to: Python Programming Language is related to: MATLAB is related to: tensorflow |
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE | https://github.com/zhenchengfang/PPR-Meta | SCR_016915 | 2026-09-03 04:53:57 | 4 | |||||||||
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Rampart Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Rampart (RRID:SCR_016742) | data processing software, software application, software resource, workflow software | Software for workflow management system for de novo genome assembly of DNA sequence data.Designed to exploit high performance computing environments, such as clusters and shared memory systems. | workflow, management, system, de novo, genome, assembly, DNA, sequence, data, high, performance, computing, environment, bio.tools |
is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: Debian has parent organization: The Genome Analysis Centre; Norwich; United Kingdom |
BBSRC | PMID:25637556 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | biotools:rampart | http://www.earlham.ac.uk/rampart/, https://bio.tools/rampart | SCR_016742 | 2026-09-03 04:53:52 | 2 | ||||||
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seqNMF Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
seqNMF (RRID:SCR_017068) | data analysis software, data processing software, software application, software resource | Software tool for unsupervised discovery of sequential structure. Used to detect sequences in neural data generated by internal behaviors, such as animal thinking or sleeping. Used for unsupervised discovery of temporal sequences in high dimensional datasets in neuroscience without reference to external markers. | sequence, structure, high, dimention, dataset, neuroscience, repeated, sequential, pattern, data | has parent organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts; USA; | Department of Energy ; Labor and Economic Growth Computational Science Graduate Fellowship ; G Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation ; NIBIB T32 EB019940; NIDCD R01 DC009183; NIMH R25 MH062204; NINDS U19 NS10 4648; Simons Foundation Simons Collaboration for the Global Brain ; U.S. Department of Defense NDSEG Fellowship program |
PMID:30719973 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | SCR_017068 | 2026-09-03 04:54:25 | 6 | ||||||||
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rnaSPAdes Resource Report Resource Website 50+ mentions |
rnaSPAdes (RRID:SCR_016992) | data analysis software, data processing software, sequence analysis software, software application, software resource | Software tool for assembling transcripts from RNA-Seq data. Explores surprising computational parallels between assembly of transcriptomes and single cell genomes. Suitable for all kind of organisms. Part of SPAdes package since version 3.9. | assembling, transcript, RNA-Seq, data, single, cell, genome, analysis, sequence, bio.tools |
is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: Debian is related to: SPAdes is related to: rnaQUAST |
Russian Science Foundation 14-50-00069 | DOI:10.1101/420208 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | biotools:rnaSPAdes_autogenerated | https://bio.tools/rnaSPAdes_autogenerated | SCR_016992 | 2026-09-03 04:54:22 | 58 | ||||||
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Clustal 2 Resource Report Resource Website 1000+ mentions |
Clustal 2 (RRID:SCR_017055) | alignment software, data processing software, data visualization software, image analysis software, software application, software resource | Software tool for nucleotide sequence alignment. Graphical version of multiple sequence alignment program for DNA and proteins. Windows interface for ClustalW multiple sequence alignment program. Provides integrated environment for performing multiple sequence and profile alignments and analyzing results. Available on Linux, Mac and Windows. | graphical, multiple, sequence, alignment, DNA, protein |
is related to: Clustal W2 is related to: Clustal Omega |
CNRS ; EMBL ; INSERM ; Ministère de la Recherche et Technologie ; Science Foundation Ireland |
PMID:17846036 PMID:9396791 |
Free, Available for download, Freely available | biotools:clustal2 | http://www.clustal.org/download/clustalx_help.html, https://bio.tools/clustal2 | SCR_017055 | Clustalx, CLUSTAL_X, clustalx, clustal X, clustal2 | 2026-09-03 04:54:24 | 1535 | |||||
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Nuclear Hormone Receptor Scan Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Nuclear Hormone Receptor Scan (RRID:SCR_016975) | NHR-scan | analysis service resource, data access protocol, production service resource, service resource, software resource, web service | Web interface for computational prediction of nuclear hormone receptor binding sites in genomic sequences. Flexible Hidden Markov Model framework to allow for variable spacing and orientation of half sites. Allows for parameter modifications. | prediction, nuclear, hormone, receptor, binding, site, genomic, sequence, parameter, modification, analysis | is listed by: OMICtools | Canadian Institutes of Health Research ; Pharmacia Corporation to the Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics |
PMID:15563547 | Free, Available, Acknowledgement requested | OMICS_14042 | SCR_016975 | NHR-scan, NHR Scan, NHRScan, Nuclear Hormoe Receptor Scan | 2026-09-03 04:54:00 | 5 | |||||
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EMBOSSMatcher Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
EMBOSSMatcher (RRID:SCR_017252) | alignment software, data access protocol, data processing software, image analysis software, software application, software resource, web service | Software tool for pairwise sequence alignment. Identifies local similarities in two input sequences. One of EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools. | pairwise, sequence, alignment, identify, local, similarity, two, input, sequence, bio.tools |
is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools |
EMBL | PMID:30976793 | Free, Freely available | biotools:ebi_search | https://bio.tools/ebi_search | SCR_017252 | EMBOSS Matcher, emboss_matcher, EMBOSS_Matcher | 2026-09-03 04:54:23 | 16 | |||||
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Juicer Resource Report Resource Website 100+ mentions |
Juicer (RRID:SCR_017226) | data analysis software, data processing software, software application, software resource | Software platform for analyzing kilobase resolution Hi-C data. Open source tool for analyzing terabase scale Hi-C datasets. Allowes to transform raw sequence data into normalized contact maps. | analysis, kilobase, resolution, Hi-C, data, terabase, dataset, transform, raw, sequence, normalized, contact, map | has parent organization: Baylor College of Medicine; Houston; Texas | Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas ; Google Research Award ; IBM University Challenge Award ; McNair Medical Institute Scholar Award ; NHGRI HG003067; NHGRI HG006193; NHLBI U01 HL130010; NIH Office of the Director DP2 OD008540; NSF PHY-1427654; NVIDIA Research Center Award ; PD Soros Fellowship ; President Early Career Award in Science and Engineering ; Welch Foundation |
PMID:27467249 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | SCR_017226 | 2026-09-03 04:54:14 | 119 | ||||||||
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PIRATE Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
PIRATE (RRID:SCR_017265) | data analysis software, data processing software, software application, software resource | Software pangenomics toolbox for clustering diverged orthologues in bacteria. Used to identify and classify orthologous gene families in bacterial pangenomes over wide range of sequence similarity thresholds. | Pangenome, clustering, genomics, bacteria, orthologue, gene, sequence, amino acid, nucleotide, dataset, bio.tools |
is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools |
DOI:10.1101/598391 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | biotools:PIRAtE | https://bio.tools/PIRATE | SCR_017265 | Pangenome Iterative Refinement And Threshold Evaluation | 2026-09-03 04:54:17 | 23 | ||||||
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RepeatFiller Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
RepeatFiller (RRID:SCR_017414) | alignment software, data processing software, image analysis software, software application, software resource | Software tool to incorporate newly detected repeat overlapping alignments into pairwise alignment chains. It only aligns local genomic regions that are bounded by colinear aligning blocks, as provided in chains, which makes it feasible to consider all seeds including those that overlap repetitive regions. Used to improve genome alignments by incorporating previously undetected local alignments between repetitive sequences. | Repeat, overlapping, alignment, pairwise, chain, local, genomic, region, colinear, block, sequence, undetected, bio.tools |
is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools has parent organization: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics; Dresden; Germany |
DOI:10.1101/696922 | Free, Freely available | biotools:RepeatFiller, BioTools:RepeatFiller | https://bio.tools/RepeatFiller, https://bio.tools/RepeatFiller, https://bio.tools/RepeatFiller | SCR_017414 | 2026-09-03 04:54:33 | 16 | |||||||
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trimAl Resource Report Resource Website 500+ mentions |
trimAl (RRID:SCR_017334) | data analysis software, data processing software, software application, software resource | Software tool for automated removal of spurious sequences or poorly aligned regions from multiple sequence alignment. Software package for automated alignment trimming in large scale phylogenetic analyses. | removal, spurious, sequence, poorly, aligned, region, multiple, alignment, trimming, large, scale, phylogenetic, analysis, bio.tools |
is listed by: OMICtools is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools |
FIS ; MEC |
PMID:19505945 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | biotools:trimal | https://vicfero.github.io/trimal/, https://bio.tools/trimal | SCR_017334 | 2026-09-03 04:54:23 | 673 | ||||||
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HomoplasyFinder Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
HomoplasyFinder (RRID:SCR_017300) | data analysis software, data processing software, software application, software resource, software toolkit, standalone software | Software tool to identify and annotate homoplasies on phylogeny and sequence alignment. Used to automatically identify any homoplasies present in simulated and real phylogenetic data. Java application that can be used as standalone tool or within statistical programming environment R. | homoplasy, phylogeny, sequence, alignment, identify, data, annotate | Science Foundation Ireland | PMID:30663960 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | https://github.com/JosephCrispell/homoplasyFinder | SCR_017300 | 2026-09-03 04:54:32 | 6 | ||||||||
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BEAST2 Resource Report Resource Website 100+ mentions |
BEAST2 (RRID:SCR_017307) | data analysis software, data processing software, sequence analysis software, software application, software resource, software toolkit | Software package for advanced Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees. Used for phylogenetics, population genetics and phylodynamics. Program for Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of molecular sequences. Estimates rooted, time measured phylogenies using strict or relaxed molecular clock models. Framework can be extended by third parties. Comprised of standalone programs including BEAUti, BEAST, MASTER, RBS, SNAPP, MultiTypeTree, BDSKY, LogAnalyser, LogCombiner, TreeAnnotator, DensiTree and package manager. | Bayesian, evolutionary, sampling, tree, phylogenic, analysis, Markov, chain, monte carlo, phylogenetic, population, genetic, phylodynamic, sequence |
is related to: BASTA is related to: BEAST is related to: PhyDyn has parent organization: University of Auckland; Auckland; New Zealand |
EMBL ; European Research Council ; Max Planck Society ; NIGMS U01 GM110749; Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden award ; Swiss National Science foundation |
PMID:30958812 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | SCR_017307 | , Beast 2.5 | 2026-09-03 04:54:31 | 211 |
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