RNAdbtool – Update and Cleanup of Structural RNA Databases

RNAdbtool

:: DESCRIPTION

RNAdbtool is a collection of tools which can be used to perform semi-automated update of RNA structural databases.

::DEVELOPER

Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health (RTH)

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux

:: DOWNLOAD

 RNAdbtool

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation:

Bioinformatics. 2001 Jul;17(7):642-5.
Semi-automated update and cleanup of structural RNA alignment databases.
Gorodkin J, Zwieb C, Knudsen B.

BioGUI 0.2 – GUI for highly used Bioinformatics Tools

BioGUI 0.2

:: DESCRIPTION

BioGUI is a set of graphical user Interface (GUI) applications for highly used bioinformatics tools.
The following GUIs are available:

GUI Seq: A GUI for biological sequence transformation.
GUI Blast: A GUI for running NCBI BLAST.
GUI Blast Parser: A GUI for parsing BLAST output.

::DEVELOPER

Wubin Qu

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux/Windows
  • Python

:: DOWNLOAD

 BioGUI

:: MORE INFORMATION

BioGUI Blog

BioMyn – Mining Gene and Protein Knowledge

BioMyn

:: DESCRIPTION

BioMyn is a comprehensive online resource that integrates information related to human genes and proteins from over a dozen external databases. It includes Gene Ontology annotations of human genes and proteins, sequence family classifications, protein domain architectures, metabolic and signaling pathways, protein interactions and protein complexes, and disease associations.

::DEVELOPER

Max-Planck-Institut Informatik

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux

:: DOWNLOAD

 BioMyn

:: MORE INFORMATION

CalSpec 1.3 – Calculate Spectra

CalSpec 1.3

:: DESCRIPTION

CalSpec (Calculate Spectra) is a software module for fast processing of mass spectrometric data in 13C Metabolic Flux Analysis(MFA). Efficient MFA requires a straightforward approach that can be parallelized and automated for all steps involved. A time-consuming and error prone step in the whole procedure of MFA is the extraction of labeling patterns from mass spectrometric spectra. CalSpec for identification of amino acids TBDMS derivates, addresses this problem and provides a software module for automated identification of specified analytes in the MS spectrum, quantification of labeling patterns and estimation of the analyte peak quality.

::DEVELOPER

Max-Planck-Institut Informatik

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows

:: DOWNLOAD

 CalSpec

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Talwar P, Wittmann C, Lengauer T, & Heinzle E (2003)
Software tool for automated processing of 13C labeling data from mass spectrometric spectra.
Biotechniques 35(6):1214-1215.

FluxEs 2.0 – Metabolic Flux Estimation

FluxEs 2.0

:: DESCRIPTION

FluxEs is a program for metabolic flux analysis using NMR spectra of tracer experiments.

::DEVELOPER

The Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics VU

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows/Unix

:: DOWNLOAD

 FluxEs

:: MORE INFORMATION

FluxEs 1.0 is freely available via web interface. FluxEs 2.0 is a development version and will be made available via web interface upon request.

C3Part/Isofun – Local Alignement of two or more Graphs Representing Biological Data

C3Part/Isofun

:: DESCRIPTION

The C3Part/Isofun package implements a generic approach to the local alignement of two or more graphs representing biological data, such as genomes, metabolic pathways or protein-protein interactions, in order to infer functional coupling between them.

::DEVELOPER

Alain Viari

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux/Windows/MacOsx
  • Java

 C3Part/Isofun

:: MORE INFORMATION

Ref.

[1] Syntons, Metabolons and Interactons: an exact graph-theoretical approach for exploring neighbourhood between genomic and functional data. F. Boyer, A. Morgat, L. Labarre, J. Pothier and A. Viari Bioinformatics 21:4209-4215 (2005)
[2] Multiple alignment of biological networks: A flexible approach. Y.-P. Deniélou, F. Boyer, M.-F. Sagot, and A. Viari. In CPM’09, volume 5542 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 173-185. Springer-Verlag, 2009.
[3] Bacterial syntenies an exact approach with quorum. Y.-P. Deniélou, F. Boyer, M.-F. Sagot, and A. Viari. BMC Bioinformatics – submitted 2011

C3P/CCCPart – Merging Two or More Graphs Representing Biological Data

C3P/CCCPart

:: DESCRIPTION

C3P is a package to compute the Common Connected Components (CCC) of a multigraph.

::DEVELOPER

Alain Viari

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux/Darwin/Solaris/Irix

:: DOWNLOAD

 C3P

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Bioinformatics. 2005 Dec 1;21(23):4209-15. Epub 2005 Oct 10.
Syntons, metabolons and interactons: an exact graph-theoretical approach for exploring neighbourhood between genomic and functional data.
Boyer F, Morgat A, Labarre L, Pothier J, Viari A.

BioRAT 2.0 – Information Extraction for Biological Research

BioRAT 2.0

:: DESCRIPTION

BioRAT (Biological Research Assistant for Text mining) is a search engine and information extraction tool for biological research.A large and growing amount of information is published every year in scientific journals. In the biomedical field, there are thousands of journals, each publishing many issues annually, any one of which could contain information that is relevant to a researcher. However, no one has time to read every paper. One solution is to use a software tool to search through publications to identify important results in response to the users’ queries. BioRAT is such a tool.

::DEVELOPER

Bioinformatics Group – University College London

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

:: DOWNLOAD

 BioRAT

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Corney, D. P. A., Buxton, B. F., Langdon W.B. and Jones, D. T. (2004)
BioRAT: Extracting Biological Information from Full-length Papers“,
Bioinformatics (Nov 22 2004; vol. 20(17); pp.3206-13).

ViewCommonPaths – Visualization of Sequences with the Same Start and End Elements

ViewCommonPaths

:: DESCRIPTION

ViewCommonPaths program helps to simultaneously visualize a set of numeric sequences that have the same start and end elements by drawing them into a common directed acyclic graph (DAG). In particular, ViewCommonPaths helps to simultaneously visualize a set of allosteric communication paths with the same start and end residues. Given a set of allosteric paths (each a sequence of residues), ViewCommonPaths creates a DAG from the set of individual pathways and allows a quick visual analysis of these pathways and the relationships among the residues along these paths.

::DEVELOPER

ViewCommonPaths Team

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows / MacOsX /  Linux
  • Java

:: DOWNLOAD

 ViewCommonPaths

:: MORE INFORMATION

CAFA 0.41 – Capillary Automated Footprinting Analysis

CAFA 0.41

:: DESCRIPTION

CAFA is Capillary Automated Footprinting Analysis algorithms. The use of capillary electrophoresis with fluorescently labeled nucleic acids revolutionized DNA sequencing, effectively fueling the genomic revolution. We present an application of this technology for the high-throughput structural analysis of nucleic acids by chemical and enzymatic mapping (‘footprinting’). We achieve the throughput and data quality necessary for genomic-scale structural analysis by combining fluorophore labeling of nucleic acids with novel quantitation algorithms.The accuracy, throughput and reproducibility of CAFA analysis are demonstrated using hydroxyl radical footprinting of RNA. The versatility of CAFA is illustrated by dimethyl sulfate mapping of RNA secondary structure and DNase I mapping of a protein binding to a specific sequence of DNA. Our experimental and computational approach facilitates the acquisition of high-throughput chemical probing data for solution structural analysis of nucleic acids.

::DEVELOPER

CAFA Team

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux/Windows/MacOsX

:: DOWNLOAD

 CAFA

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Mitra S, Shcherbakova IV, Altman RB, Brenowitz M, Laederach A,
High-throughput single-nucleotide structural mapping by capillary automated footprinting analysis,
Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jun;36(11):e63. Epub 2008 May 13 (2008)