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http://www.ccb.jhu.edu/

Center for Computational Biology as a joint research center in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, spanning the School of Medicine, the Whiting School of Engineering, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. Multidisciplinary center dedicated to research on genomics, genetics, DNA sequencing technology, and computational methods for DNA and RNA sequence analysis.

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https://www.gencodegenes.org

Human and mouse genome annotation project which aims to identify all gene features in the human genome using computational analysis, manual annotation, and experimental validation.

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/tbl2asn2/

Software tool as a command-line program that automates the creation of sequence records for submission to GenBank. Records need no additional manual editing before submission.

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https://github.com/asdcid/Gene-conservation-informed-contig-alignment

Software tool for separation haplotigs from genome assembly. Method to separate haplotigs based on sequence similarity.

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https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Rsubread.html

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.

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https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Biostrings.html

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.

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http://prosightlite.northwestern.edu/

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.

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http://cab.spbu.ru/software/rnaspades/

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.

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https://software.broadinstitute.org/software/discovar/blog/

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.

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http://cqb.pku.edu.cn/ZhuLab/PPR_Meta

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.

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http://www.cisreg.ca/cgi-bin/NHR-scan/nhr_scan.cgi

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.

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https://github.com/TGAC/RAMPART

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.

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https://github.com/FeeLab/seqNMF

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.

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http://www.clustal.org/clustal2/

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.

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https://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/psa/emboss_matcher/

Software tool for pairwise sequence alignment. Identifies local similarities in two input sequences. One of EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools.

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https://github.com/aidenlab/juicer.git

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.

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http://trimal.cgenomics.org/

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.

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https://github.com/JosephCrispell/homoplasyFinder/wiki

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.

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https://github.com/SionBayliss/PIRATE

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.

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https://www.beast2.org/

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.

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