Ongoing Discussion for Bioinformatics Core Facilities

Tools popular with biologists

This is a list of the tools that were mentioned in our discussion on "bioinformatics for the biologists" on Feb 4th, 2008.

<a href="http://base.thep.lu.se">BASE</a> from Lund University, Sweden (basic analysis and database)
<a href="http://www.tm4.org/">Multiple Experiment Viewer from Quackenbush Group at Harvard Univ </a>
<a href="http://bioinformatics.skcc.org/webarray/"> WebArray: Web interface, based on bioconductor and mySQL </a>
<a href="https://carmaweb.genome.tugraz.at/carma">CarmaWeb </a>
<a href="http://www.bioinformatics.bbsrc.ac.uk/projects/chipmonk/">ChipMonk</a> for ChIP-on-chip data, e.g. from Nimblegen
<A HREF="http://biosun1.harvard.edu/complab/dchip/">DChip</A>: basic analysis (e.g. get a list of differentially expressed genes)
<A HREF="http://bioinfo.bgu.ac.il/bsu/microarrays/links/">A good links site</A> for multiple applications

<A HREF="http://pymol.sourceforge.net/">PyMOL</A>
AutoDock for docking
DiscoveryStudio (?)
<a href="http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu">Kinmage</a> for 3D Macromolecule analysis from Richardson Lab at Duke
<a href="http://swissmodel.expasy.org/spdbv/">DeepView</a> for structure analysis and modeling from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and GlaxoSmithKline R&D
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/CN3D/cn3d.shtml">Cn3D</a> for structure veiwer from NCBI

<A HREF="http://cytoscape.org/">Cytoscape</A>
<A HREF="http://reactome.org/">Reactome</A> including <A HREF="http://www.reactome.org/cgi-bin/skypainter2?DB=gk_current">Skypainter</A> and the latest biomart interface <A HREF="http://brie8.cshl.org/cgi-bin/mart">Reactome Mart</A>
<A HREF="http://www.bioinformatics.ed.ac.uk/epe/">EPE</A> Edinburgh Pathway Editor

<A HREF="http://taverna.sourceforge.net/">Tavera</a> Best uses in conjunction with in-house web services to ensure reliability. Most command line applications can be converted to a web service using <A HREF="http://wwww.ebi.ac.uk/soaplab/">Soaplab</A>. Version 2 of taverna should handle large file sizes a lot better.
<A HREF="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/208">Alternatives:</a> A paper highlighting Seahawk (<A HREF="http://biomoby.org/">Biomoby</A>) but also mentions both Taverna and Remora

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