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http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/seqtools

Software for multiple sequence alignment viewing, editing and phylogeny. It includes a set of user-configurable modes to color residues used to create high-quality reference alignments.

Proper citation: Belvu (RRID:SCR_015989) Copy   

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http://www.aevol.fr/

Simulation software for experimental evolution of microorganisms. Aevol is a digital genetics model for the study of structural variations of the genome (e.g. number of genes, synteny, proportion of coding sequences).

Proper citation: Aevol (RRID:SCR_015966) Copy   

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https://bioinf.eva.mpg.de/anfo/

Software for short read alignment and mapping of sequencing reads where the DNA sequence is somehow modified and/or there is more divergence between sample and reference than what fast mappers will handle.

Proper citation: Anfo (RRID:SCR_015972) Copy   

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http://disulfind.dsi.unifi.it/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 28,2023, Software for predicting the disulfide bonding state of cysteines and their disulfide connectivity, starting from a protein sequence alone and may be useful in other genomic annotation tasks.

Proper citation: DISULFIND (RRID:SCR_016072) Copy   

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https://github.com/osallou/cassiopee-c

Software to scan an input genomic sequence (dna/rna/protein). It searchs for a subsequence that has an exact match, substitutions (Hamming distance), and/or insertion/deletions with supporting alphabet ambiguity.

Proper citation: Cassiopee (RRID:SCR_016056) Copy   

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http://cdbfasta.sourceforge.net/

Software tool for indexing and retrieval of nucleotide sequences from FASTA (DNA and protein sequence alignment software) record databases. It has the option to compress data records.

Proper citation: Cdbfasta (RRID:SCR_016057) Copy   

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http://www.xavierdidelot.xtreemhost.com/clonalframe.htm

Software package for the inference of bacterial microevolution using multilocus sequence data. It is used to identify the clonal relationships between the members of a sample, while also estimating the chromosomal position of homologous recombination events that have disrupted the clonal inheritance.

Proper citation: Clonalframe (RRID:SCR_016060) Copy   

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https://dazzlerblog.wordpress.com

Software alignment tool to find all significant local alignments between long and noisy, up to 15% on average reads encoded in a Dazzler database. Used for DNA sequence assembly, specifically for next generation long-read sequencers such as the Pacbio RS II and Sequel sequencers.

Proper citation: Daligner (RRID:SCR_016066) Copy   

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http://hyphy.org/

Open source software package for comparative sequence analysis using stochastic evolutionary models. Used for analysis of genetic sequence data in particular the inference of natural selection using techniques in phylogenetics, molecular evolution, and machine learning.

Proper citation: HyPhy (RRID:SCR_016162) Copy   

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http://abacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk/software/indelible/

Software that generates nucleotide, amino acid and codon sequence data by simulating insertions and deletions (indels) as well as substitutions. It is used for biological sequence simulation of multi-partitioned nucleotide, amino-acid, or codon data sets through the processes of insertion, deletion, and substitution in continuous time.

Proper citation: Indelible (RRID:SCR_016163) Copy   

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http://fastml.tau.ac.il/

Web application for the reconstruction of ancestral sequences. It computes maximum likelihood ancestral sequence reconstruction based on the phylogenetic relations between homologous sequences.

Proper citation: Fastml (RRID:SCR_016092) Copy   

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https://sanger-pathogens.github.io/gubbins/

Software application as an algorithm that iteratively identifies loci containing elevated densities of base substitutions while concurrently constructing a phylogeny based on the putative point mutations outside of these regions. It is used for phylogenetic analysis of genome sequences and generating highly accurate reconstructions under realistic models of short-term bacterial evolution., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: Gubbins (RRID:SCR_016131) Copy   

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http://www.zucic.org/garlic/

Software application for visualization and editing of biomolecules. Used for the investigation of membrane proteins, visualization of other proteins and geometric objects, and analysis of protein sequences.

Proper citation: Garlic (RRID:SCR_016118) Copy   

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http://www.fishbrowser.org/software/LR_Gapcloser/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 18th, 2023. Software that uses long reads to close gaps in the assemblies.

Proper citation: LR Gapcloser (RRID:SCR_016194) Copy   

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http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/seqtools

Software for sequence alignment that is a graphical dot-matrix program for detailed comparison of two sequences.

Proper citation: Dotter (RRID:SCR_016080) Copy   

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http://genome.imim.es/software/gfftools/GFF2APLOT.html

Software application to visualize the alignment of two genomic sequences together with their annotations. Used to generate print-quality images for comparative genome sequence analysis.

Proper citation: Gff2aplot (RRID:SCR_016128) Copy   

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http://gentle.magnusmanske.de

Software for DNA and amino acid editing, database management, plasmid maps, It can also be used for restriction and ligation, alignments, sequencer data import, calculators, gel image display, PCR, and more.

Proper citation: Gentle (RRID:SCR_016127) Copy   

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https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/vertebrate-genomics/software/exonerate

Software package for sequence alignment of pairwise sequence comparison. Exonerate can be used to align sequences using many alignment models, exhaustive dynamic programming, or a variety of heuristics., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: Exonerate (RRID:SCR_016088) Copy   

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https://huttenhower.sph.harvard.edu/humann2

Software for profiling the presence/absence and abundance of microbial pathways in a community from metagenomic or metatranscriptomic sequencing data Used for millions of short DNA/RNA reads. This process, referred to as functional profiling, aims to describe the metabolic potential of a microbial community and its members.

Proper citation: HUMAnN2 (RRID:SCR_016280) Copy   

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http://rulai.cshl.edu/LSPD/

LSPD provides liver specific gene. It lists ~300 promoter regions responsible for liver specific transcriptions, collect ~400 experimentally verified regulatory regions and elements, provide information on transcription regulation of liver genes, compare transcription regulation of functionally or evolutionarily related genes, and retrieve sequences of the promoter region. Its regulatory elements provides information on transcription regulatory elements, reports the methods for verification of the elements, records binding affinity and regulatory function, and summarizes the site distribution and sequence consensus.

Proper citation: LSPD (RRID:SCR_002125) Copy   

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