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github.com - Development packages for zlib and libbz2 are needed, as well as a standard compiler environment. On Ubuntu, this can be installed via: sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool automake zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev pkg-config On MacOS, the Apple...

GenBank release 257.0 is now available! This release has 25.10 trillion bases and 3.69 billion records.

github.com - pbalign aligns PacBio reads to reference sequences, filters aligned reads according to user-specific filtering criteria, and converts the output to either the SAM format or PacBio Compare HDF5 (e.g., .cmp.h5) format. The output Compare HDF5 file...

github.com - RopeBWT2 is an tool for constructing the FM-index for a collection of DNA sequences. It works by incrementally inserting one or multiple sequences into an existing pseudo-BWT position by position, starting from the end of the sequences. This...

www.softberry.com - FGENESH is the fastest (50-100 times faster than GenScan) and most accurate gene finder available - see the figure and the table below. In recent rice genome sequencing projects, it was cited "the most successful (gene finding) program (Yu et...

github.com - Kalign is a fast multiple sequence alignment program for biological sequences. Align sequences and output the alignment in MSF format: kalign -i BB11001.tfa -f msf -o out.msf Align sequences and output the alignment in clustal format: kalign...

IgBLAST 1.17 is now available with improved identification of productive V gene sequences

Palindromes are sequences of nucleotides that read the same backward as forward.

github.com - Jaeger is a tool that utilizes homology-free machine learning to identify phage genome sequences that are hidden within metagenomes. It is capable of detecting both phages and prophages within metagenomic assemblies. The performance of the Jaeger...

github.com - A program to detect recombination hotspots using population genetic data. More at https://github.com/auton1/LDhot