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Open source software is software that can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone. Open source software is made by many people, and distributed under licenses that comply with the Open Source Definition.The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a global non-profit that supports and promotes the open source movement. Followings are the OS bioinformatics projects/software :

.NET Bio

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/archive/2011/10/18/microsoft-biology-foundation-evolves-into-new-toolkit-net-bio.aspx

A language-neutral bioinformatics toolkit built using the Microsoft 4.0 .NET Framework to help developers, researchers, and scientists.

AMPHORA ("AutoMated Phylogenomic infeRence Application")

http://wolbachia.biology.virginia.edu/WuLab/Software.html

Metagenomics analysis software

Anduril

http://www.anduril.org/anduril/site/

Component-based workflow framework for data analysis

Armadillo workflow platform

Tool for designing and executing phylogenetic workflows

AutoDock

http://autodock.scripps.edu/

suite of automated docking tools

Biochemical Algorithms Library (BALL)

http://www.ball-project.org/

C++ library and framework for molecular modeling and visualization designed for rapid prototyping

Bio4j

http://bio4j.com/

Bio4j is a bioinformatics platform and graph based database built around most data available in UniProt KB(Swiss-Prot + TrEMBL), Gene Ontology (GO), UniRef (50,90,100), RefSeq, NCBI taxonomy, and Expasy Enzyme DB

Bioclipse

www.bioclipse.net

Visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP).

Bioconductor

http://www.bioconductor.org/

R (programming language) language toolkit

Bioinformatics Learning Tutorial (BLT)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/biotutorial/

Educational interactive tutorials and 3D animations for Replication, Transcription, and Translation

BioHaskell

http://biohaskell.org/

Haskell (programming language)

BioJava

http://biojava.org/wiki/Main_Page

Java (programming language)

BioMOBY

http://biomoby.org/

registry of web services

BioPerl

http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Main_Page

Perl language toolkit

BioPHP

http://www.biophp.org/

PHP language toolkit

Biopython

http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page

Python language toolkit

BioRails

https://github.com/biorails

a data management system designed to support researchers in drug discovery

BioRuby

http://bioruby.org/

Ruby language toolkit

BioSmalltalk

https://code.google.com/p/biosmalltalk/

Smalltalk language toolkit

BioUno

http://www.biouno.org/

BioUno is a project that applies Continuous Integration tools and techniques in Bioinformatics. It uses Jenkins and its plug-in API to create biology workflows and manage computer clusters.

caCORE

ontologic representation environment

caArray

https://cabig-stage.nci.nih.gov/community/tools/caArray

ontologic representation environment

EMBOSS

http://emboss.sourceforge.net/

Suite of packages for sequencing, searching, etc.

Gaggle

https://www.gaggle.net/

A framework for interoperability between systems biology software

Galaxy

http://galaxyproject.org/

Scientific workflow and data integration system

GenePattern

http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/software/genepattern/

Scientific workflow system that provides access to more than 150 genomic analysis tools

GeWorkbench

http://wiki.c2b2.columbia.edu/workbench/index.php/Home

Genomic data integration platform

GMOD

http://www.gmod.org/wiki/Main_Page

Toolkit for addressing many common challenges at biological databases.

GeneProf

http://www.geneprof.org/GeneProf/

A web-based, bioinformatics software suite for the analysis of functional genomics experiments, e.g. RNA-seq or ChIP-seq.

GeneTalk

http://www.gene-talk.de/

Tool for filtering sequence variants in VCF files. Network for scientists and clinicians for expertise and knowledge exchange. Database of annotations aboute sequence variants with clinically relevant information.

GenGIS

http://kiwi.cs.dal.ca/GenGIS/Main_Page

Application that allows users to combine digital map data with information about biological sequences collected from the environment.

GenomeSpace

http://www.genomespace.org/

Centralized web application that provides data format transformations and facilitates connections with other bioinformatics tools

GENtle

http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/GENtle

An equivalent to the proprietary Vector NTI, a tool to analyze and edit DNA sequence files

Integrated Genome Browser

http://bioviz.org/igb/

Java-based desktop genome browser

Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV)

http://www.broadinstitute.org/igv/

High-performance desktop tool for interactive visual exploration of diverse genomic data

IntAct

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/intact/

molecular interaction database

InterMine

http://intermine.github.io/intermine.org/

Extensive data warehouse system for the analysis and integration of biological datasets

Java Treeview

http://jtreeview.sourceforge.net/

microarray data viewer

LabKey Server

http://labkey.com/

platform for integrating, analyzing and sharing data

OpenClinica

https://www.openclinica.com/

software for capturing and managing data in clinical trials

PromKappa

http://xbioinformatics.wordpress.com/tag/promkappa/

PromKappa (Promoter analysis by Kappa) software program used for promoter pattern generation and promoter analysis.

MeV: Multi-Experiment Viewer

http://www.tm4.org/mev.html

a desktop application for the analysis, visualization and data-mining of large-scale genomic data

PathVisio

http://www.pathvisio.org/

a desktop software for drawing, analysis and visualization of biological pathways

REDCRAFT

software for determining tertiary protein structure given assigned Residual Dipolar Coupling data

SAM Tools

Data format (SAM) and accompanying tool suite, for storing large nucleotide sequence alignments

Staden Package

Sequence assembly, editing and analysis, primarily consisting of gap4, gap5 and spin.

STAMP

Software package for analyzing metagenomic profiles that promotes ‘best practices’ in choosing appropriate statistical techniques and reporting results.

supraHex

An open-source R/Bioconductor package for omics data analysis using a supra-hexagonal map

Taverna workbench

Tool for designing and executing workflows

TGAC Browser

Genome Browser, visualisation solutions for big data in the genomic era

T-REX WebServer

Bioinformatics and phylogenetics webserver (NJ, PhyML, RAxML, MAFFT, MUSCLE, Newick viewer, Horizontal gene transfer detection, Reticulograms, Substitution models)

UGENE

integrated bioinformatics tools

Visomics

bioinformatics tools for omics data

Genome Analysis Toolkit 1.0 (GATK 1.0)

a software package to analyse next-generation resequencing data