Bioinformatics Links Directory : Bio-* Programming ToolsThis section contains links that include information on software development tools, such as BioJava and BioPerl. Other application programming interfaces (API) which are specifically designed for processing biological data are also listed here.Bioconductor- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Bioconductor is an open source and open development software project that aims to provide access to a wide range of powerful statistical and graphical methods for the analysis of genomic data.http://www.bioconductor.org/ Seqhound API- (Found July 2, 2008 ) SeqHound is a bioinformatics application programming platform that provides access to biological sequence, structure and functional annotation data. An application programming interface (API) is available to programmers using C, C++, Java and PERL.http://www.blueprint.org/seqhound/api_help/seqhound_help_guides.html R- (Found July 2, 2008 ) System for statistical computation and graphics; an interpreted computer language which allows branching and looping as well as modular programming using functions.http://www.r-project.org/ PyMOL- (Found July 2, 2008 ) PyMOL is a molecular graphics system with an embedded Python interpreter designed for real-time visualization and rapid generation of high-quality molecular graphics images and animations.http://pymol.sourceforge.net/ Open Bioinformatics Foundation- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is a non profit, volunteer run organization focused on supporting open source programming in bioinformatics.http://www.open-bio.org/ NCBI C++ toolkit- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The NCBI C++ Toolkit is a collection of C++ modules developed by the NCBI for writing bioinformatics software and applications.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=toolkit.TOC&de... Ensembl API- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Ensembl is a freely available software system for genomic analysis. The documentation page at Ensembl is the best place to get information on the Ensembl application programming interface (API). In particular, the tutorial document includes lots of examples of scripts and exercises for you to try.http://www.ensembl.org/info/software/index.html CCT- (Found July 2, 2008 ) CCT (Current Comparative Table) is a software package that you can install and set-up on your own system to help you to maintain and search databases.http://sourceforge.net/projects/orb-cct BioRuby- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The BioRuby project aims to implement an integrated environment for bioinformatics with Ruby.http://bioruby.org/ BioPython- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The Biopython Project is an international association of developers of freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology.http://biopython.org/ |