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Sequence Analysis:
     

BioEdit

Windows

BioEdit is a full integrated sequence/alignment editor. Performs translations, phylogenetic analysis, clustalw alignments, ABI trace analysis, RNA comparative analysis and BLAST searches.

URL: http://www.mbio.ncsu.edu/BioEdit/bioedit.html
     

BLAST

Linux | Windows

BLAST 2.0, (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), provides a method for rapid searching of nucleotide and protein databases.

URL: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/
     

BOXSHADE

Linux

BOXSHADE is a program for creating good looking printouts from multiple-aligned protein or DNA sequences. The program does no alignment by itself, it has to take as input a file preprocessed by a multiple alignment program or a multiple file editor.

URL: ftp://www.isrec.isb-sib.ch/pub/
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Circle

Windows

Infer RNA secondary structure using the comparative method.

URL: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/circles/
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ClustalW

Linux | Windows

Clustal-W is a multiple sequence alignment program. It provides an integrated environment for performing multiple sequence and profile alignments and analyzing the results.
URL: ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/unix/clustalw/
   

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ClustalX

Linux | Windows

ClustalX is a new windows interface for the ClustalW. It provides an integrated environment for performing multiple sequence and profile alignments and analyzing the results.

URL: ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/dos/clustalx/
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Dambe

Windows

It is a general-purpose package for DNA and protein sequence phylogenies, and also gene frequencies.
URL: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~xxia/software/software.htm
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DCSE

Linux | Windows

DCSE (Dedicated Comparative Sequence Editor) is a multiple alignment editor. It can be used to edit protein, DNA or RNA alignments. The structure of the molecules can be incorporated in the alignment.

URL: http://rrna.uia.ac.be/dcse/
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DNA Tools

Windows

DNATools is a comprehensive program package for routine handling and analysis of nucleotide and protein sequences. The program includes functions for batch renaming, editing and annotating sequences, restriction mapping, translation, automated blast search and information retrieval, codon analysis, primer design and ordering and a lot more...

URL: http://www.crc.dk/dnatools/
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DNA Club

Windows

PC program for Integrated analysis on DNA sequences.
URL: http://softwareseek.progenote.net/downloads/
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EMBOSS

Linux | Windows

EMBOSS, The European Molecular Biology Open Source Software Suite, is a package of high-quality FREE Open Source software for sequence analysis.

URL: http://emboss.sourceforge.net/
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FastA

Linux | Windows

The FastA program has been developed by Pearson & Lipman (1988) and is useful to find all protein sequences of a database such as Swiss-Prot, that are homologous to a given sequence.

URL: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/fasta33/
   

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FreeTree

Windows

Freeware program for construction and bootstrap (and jackknife) analysis of phylogenetic trees from binary data (RAPD, RFLP, AFLP etc.)

URL: http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~flegr/programs/freetree.htm
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GeneDoc

Windows

GeneDoc does sequence alignment editing and shading, as well as secondary structure shading and super family group support.
URL: http://www.psc.edu/biomed/genedoc/
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GeneTree

Windows

GeneTree is an experimental program for comparing gene and species trees.

URL: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~griff/software.html
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HMMER

Linux

A profile hidden Markov model that can be used to do sensitive database searching using statistical descriptions of a sequence family's consensus.

URL: http://hmmer.wustl.edu/
   

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HyPhy

Windows

It intended to perform maximum likelihood analyses of genetic sequence data and equipped with tools to test various statistical hypotheses. HYPHY was designed with maximum flexibility in mind and to that end it incorporates a simple high level programming language which enables the user to tailor the analyses precisely to his or her needs. These include relative rate and ratio tests, several methods of ML based phylogeny reconstruction, bootstrapping, model selection, positive selection, molecular clock tests and many more...

URL: http://www.hyphy.org/
   

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JalView

Linux | Windows

Graphical multiple alignment editor. Requires Java Virtual Machine.

URL: http://www.jalview.org/
   

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JEMBOSS

Windows

Jemboss is developed by the EMBOSS team. The software is free and part of the EMBOSS distribution.

URL: http://emboss.sourceforge.net/Jemboss/
   

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Mega3

Windows

MEGA is an integrated tool for automatic and manual sequence alignment, inferring phylogenetic trees, mining web-based databases, estimating rates of molecular evolution, and testing evolutionary hypotheses.

URL: http://www.megasoftware.net/
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MFold

Linux

Mfold is an RNA and DNA folding package.

URL: http://www.bioinfo.rpi.edu/~zukerm/export/mfold-3.html
   

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NCBI ToolKit

Linux | Windows

The NCBI Software Development Toolkit was developed for the production and distribution of GenBank, Entrez, BLAST, and related services by NCBI.

URL: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/
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PHYLIP

Linux | Windows

PHYLIP is a free package of programs for inferring phylogenies.

URL: http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.html
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PhyloDraw

Windows

PhyloDraw is a drawing tool for creating phylogenetic trees. It supports various kinds of multialignment programs (Dialign2, Clustal-W, Phylip format, and pairwise distance matrix) and visualizes various kinds of tree diagrams.

URL: http://pearl.cs.pusan.ac.kr/phylodraw/
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RNA DRAW

Windows

It is an integrated program for RNA secondary structure calculation and analysis.

URL: http://www.rnadraw.com/
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Readseq

Windows

Reads and writes nucleic/protein sequences in various formats. Data files may have multiple sequences.

URL: http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/soft/molbio/readseq/
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Seaview

Linux | Windows

SeaView is a graphical multiple sequence alignment editor. It is able to read and write various alignment formats (NEXUS, MSF, CLUSTAL, FASTA, PHYLIP, MASE). It allows to manually edit the alignment, and also to run DOT-PLOT or CLUSTALW programs to locally improve the alignment.
URL: http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/seaview.html
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Sequence Manipulation Suite

Linux | Windows

The Sequence Manipulation Suite is a collection of JavaScript programs for generating, formatting, and analyzing short DNA and protein sequences. It is commonly used by molecular biologists, for teaching, and for program and algorithm testing.

URL: http://bioinformatics.org/sms2/
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TreeView

Linux | Windows

TreeView X is an open source program to display phylogenetic trees. It can read and display NEXUS and Newick format tree files (such as those output by PAUP*, ClustalX, TREE-PUZZLE, and other programs).

URL: http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/treeviewx/index.html
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Vienna RNA Package

Linux | Windows

RNA Secondary Structure Prediction and Comparison.

URL: http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/~ivo/RNA/
   

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WinGene

Windows

A tool for the analysis of nucleotide sequences.

URL: http://www.ipw.agrl.ethz.ch/~lhennig/wingene.html
   

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X3DNA

Linux | Windows

3DNA is a versatile package for analyzing and rebuilding three-dimensional nucleic acid structures, based on a standard reference frame.

URL: http://rutchem.rutgers.edu/~xiangjun/3DNA/
   

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Genomics:
     
Artemis

Linux | Windows

Artemis is a free genome viewer and annotation tool that allows visualization of sequence features and the results of analyses within the context of the sequence, and its six-frame translation.

URL: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/
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Chromas

Windows

It will display and prints chromatogram files from ABI automated DNA sequencers, and Staden SCF files which the analysis programs for ALF, Li-Cor and Visible Genetics OpenGene sequencers can create.

URL: http://www.technelysium.com.au/chromas.html

 

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GenAl

Linux

GenAl is a program for genomic alignment, i.e. alignment of DNA sequences with coding regions. It is an implementation of the heuristic algorithm described in Hein, J. & J. Stoevlbaek (1994): Genomic Alignment. J. Mol. Evol.

URL: ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/unix/
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Glimmer

Linux

A system for finding genes in microbial DNA, especially the genomes of bacteria and archaea.Glimmer (Gene Locator and Interpolated Markov Modeler) uses interpolated Markov models (IMMs) to identify the coding regions and distinguish them from noncoding DNA.

URL: http://www.tigr.org/software/glimmer/
   

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Glimmer HMM

Linux

A fast and accurate gene finder based on a GHMM architecture,
developed specifically for eukaryotes. It incorporates splice site models adapted from the GeneSplicer program and uses interpolated Markov models for evaluating the coding regions.

 

URL: http://www.tigr.org/software/GlimmerHMM/
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Glimmer M

Linux

A gene finder derived from Glimmer, but developed specifically for eukaryotes. It is based on a dynamic programming algorithm that considers all combinations of possible exons for inclusion in a gene model and chooses the best of these combinations. The decision about what gene model is best is a combination of the strength of the splice sites and the score of the exons generated by an interpolated Markov model (IMM).

URL: http://www.tigr.org/software/glimmerm/
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MUMmer

Linux

MUMmer is a system for rapidly aligning entire genomes, whether in complete or draft form.

URL: http://www.tigr.org/software/mummer/
     
pDRAW

Windows

pDRAW32 is being developed as a free time hobby project. It is far from finished, but as it has reached a point where it could be helpful for many labs, it is now available to the scientific community.

URL: http://www.acaclone.com/
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PrimerDesign

Linux | Windows

Primer Design is a DOS-program to choose primer for PCR or oligonucleotide probes. It is tailored to check known sequences for repeats and unique sequences and subsequently to create prober primers according to this data. A lot of constrains are available to meet your conditions. It can handle up to 32000 base pairs.

URL: http://www.bioinf-club.com/software/
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Sequin

Linux | Windows

Sequin is a stand-alone software tool developed by the NCBI for submitting and updating entries to the GenBank, EMBL, or DDBJ sequence databases. It is capable of handling simple submissions that contain a single short mRNA sequence, and complex submissions containing long sequences, multiple annotations, segmented sets of DNA, or phylogenetic and population studies.

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sequin/
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Staden

Linux | Windows

The Staden Package consists of a series of tools for DNA sequence preparation (pregap4), assembly (gap4), editing (gap4) and DNA/protein sequence analysis (spin).

URL: http://staden.sourceforge.net/
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Proteomics:

     
ADVICE

Web

Automated Detection and Validation of Interaction by Co-Evolution (ADVICE) takes a list of protein sequences or sequence pairs as input and uses orthologous sequences to assess the similarity in the evolutionary history of the proteins. It is suggested that co-evolution of proteins is useful for predicting and validating protein-protein interactions.
 

URL: http://advice.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/
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ANTHEPROT

Windows

ANTHEPROT (ANalyse THE PROTeins) is to integrate into a single package most of the methods designed for protein sequence analysis.

URL: http://antheprot-pbil.ibcp.fr/
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CNplot

Windows

CNplot is a network visualization tool that can be used for large-scale networks, as long as they are pre-clustered.
 

URL: http://csb.stanford.edu/~nbatada/VCN.html
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Graphviz

Linux | Windows

Graph layout software for protein network.
 

URL: http://www.graphviz.org/
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InterViewer

Windows

InterWeaver is a tool employing two approaches to detect potential protein interactions by searching for and interpreting evidence available from on-line databases. The first approach finds homologues for a sequence and searches for interacting partners in protein interaction and literature databases, and the second finds sequence domains, and then searches for domain fusion events and possible domain interactions.
 

URL: http://wilab.inha.ac.kr/protein/
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Osprey

 Linux | Windows

Application for graphically representing physical and genetic biological interactions; is coupled with the General Repository of Interaction Datasets (The GRID); available for Unix and Windows.
 

URL: http://biodata.mshri.on.ca/osprey/servlet/Index
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Pajek

Windows

Program for Larger Network Analysis.
 

URL: http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/default.htm
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PIN

Windows

To visualize the protein's interaction and function annotations. The software allows the user to search for information on putative protein interactions and function classes.
 

URL: http://www.bioinfo.org.cn/PIN/
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Teverna

Windows

Taverna is a tool for creating and running bioinformatics workflows.
 

URL: http://taverna.sourceforge.net/
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WinPep

Windows

A versatile tool for the analysis of amino acid sequences.

URL: http://www.ipw.agrl.ethz.ch/~lhennig/winpep.html
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Systems Biology:
     
Cellware

Linux | Windows

Cellware has been designed to conduct modeling and simulation of gene regulatory and metabolic pathways and also offer an integrated environment for diverse mathematical representations, parameter estimation and optimization. In addition, a user-friendly graphical display and capability to run large and complex models would be provided by default. A very special feature of Cellware is that it would be the first grid based modeling and simulation tool in the field of Systems Biology.

URL: http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/research/sbg/cellware/
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CytoScape

Linux | Windows

Cytoscape is a visualization platform for use with molecular interaction networks. Interaction data can be integrated with other state data such as gene expression profiles. The input to Cytoscape includes lists of interaction pairs, and tab/space delimited files containing mRNA expression profiles. The nodes of the interaction networks can be filtered by such variables as GO annotations and number of interactions.
 

URL: http://www.cytoscape.org/
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E-Cell 3

Linux | Windows

E-Cell Project is an international research project aiming to model and reconstruct biological phenomena in silico, and developing necessary theoretical supports, technologies and software platforms to allow precise whole cell simulation.

URL: http://www.e-cell.org/
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Gepasi

Linux | Windows

Gepasi is a software package for modeling biochemical systems. It simulates the kinetics of systems of biochemical reactions and provides a number of tools to fit models to data, optimize any function of the model, perform metabolic control analysis and linear stability analysis.

URL: http://www.gepasi.org/
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Molecular Modeling:
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3D-Dock Suite

Linux

[FTDock, RPScore and MultiDock]

FTDock ( Fourier Transform Dock ) performs rigid-body docking on two biomolecules in order to predict their correct binding geometry. FTDock outputs multiple predictions that can be screened using biochemical information.

URL: http://www.bmm.icnet.uk/docking/
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ArgusLab

Windows

It is an incredible molecular modeling, graphics, and drug design program.

URL: http://www.planaria-software.com/
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Biodesigner

Windows

It is a molecular modeling and visualization program for personal computers which is capable of creating homologous models of proteins, evaluate, and refine the models.

URL: http://www.pirx.com/biodesigner/index.shtml
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Chem2Pac

Windows

Chem2Pac is intended to be a kind of computational chemistry integrator, which has a multiple document interface, a molecular rendering utility, and allows the manipulation of various files.

URL: http://www.ifi.unicamp.br/gsonm/chem2pac/
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Cn3D

Linux | Windows

Cn3D is a helper application for your web browser that allows you to view 3-dimensional structures from NCBI's Entrez retrieval service.

URL: http://ncbi.nih.gov/Structure/CN3D/cn3d.shtml
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Dang

Linux

Dang reads coordinates from a Protein DataBank (PDB) molecular structure file and generates a table of several useful geometric measurements for each residue or base. In its most basic form, it writes out dihedral angles (phi, psi, chi) hence the name. The output is formatted for easy parsing by awk, grep, sort and other UNIX utilities.

URL: http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/software/dang.php
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DomainFinder

Linux

It is an interactive program for the determination and characterization of dynamical domains in proteins. Its key features are computational efficiency: even large proteins can be analyzed using a desktop computer in a few minutes ease of use: a state-of-the-art graphical user interface export of results for visualization and further analysis (VRML, PDB, and MMTK object format).

URL: http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/DomainFinder/
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Easy Winbabel

Windows

It's a program for chemists and physicists dealing with molecular modeling. It uses the well known BABEL program as basis and provides a windows interface. The zip file includes BABEL ver 1.6.

URL: http://users.uoi.gr/nkourkou/babel.html
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EDPDB

Linux | Windows

EdPDB is a program to manipulate and extract information from Brookhaven Protein Databank (PDB) format coordinate file(s) of three-dimensional protein structures.

URL: http://omega.omrf.ouhsc.edu/zhangc/edpdb/edpdb.html
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Garlic

Linux

It is a free molecular visualization program, protein structure, DNA structure, PDB, molecular rendering, biological macromolecule, unix, linux, free software download, open source software.

URL: http://garlic.mefos.hr/garlic-1.0/
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Ghemical

Linux

Ghemical is a computational chemistry software package released under the GNU GPL. Geometry optimization, molecular dynamics and some visualization tools are currently available. If quantum-mechanical calculations are needed, Ghemical can be directly linked into the quantum chemistry program MPQC (which is also distributed under GNU GPL). Therefore Ghemical can serve as a graphical front-end for the MPQC program, currently providing various 3D-plots for electron densities, molecular orbitals and molecular orbital densities.

URL: http://www.uku.fi/~thassine/ghemical/
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gOpenMol

Linux | Windows

gOpenMol graphics interface to the OpenMol and can be used for the analysis and display of molecular dynamics trajectories and the display of molecular orbital's, electron densities and electrostatic potentials.

URL: http://www.csc.fi/gopenmol/
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GRAMM

Linux

GRAMM is a program for protein docking. To predict the structure of a complex, it requires only the atomic coordinates of the two molecules (no information about the binding sites is needed). The program performs an exhaustive 6-dimensional search through the relative translations and rotations of the molecules. The molecular pairs may be: two proteins, a protein and a smaller compound, two transmembrane helices, etc. GRAMM may be used for high-resolution molecules, for inaccurate structures (where only the gross structural features are known), in cases of large conformational changes, etc.

URL: http://www.chem.ac.ru/Chemistry/Soft/GRAMM.en.html
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GROMACS

Linux | Windows

GROMACS is a versatile package to perform molecular dynamics, i.