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awesome-bioinfo-tools

A curated list of awesome Bioinformatics tools.
https://github.com/RipollJ/awesome-bioinfo-tools

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Assembly tools

Correction tools

Genome & Transcriptome de novo assembly

  • Velvet
  • SPAdes
  • Trinity - Seq data.
  • Minia - read assembler based on a de Bruijn graph, capable of assembling a human genome on a desktop computer in a day.

Metagenome & Metatranscriptome assembly

  • MetaSPADES
  • Megahit - fast single-node solution for large and complex metagenomics assembly via succinct de Bruijn graph
  • MetaVelvetSL
  • Minia for metagenome - Minia-Pipeline is a de novo assembly pipeline for Illumina data. It can assemble genomes and metagenomes.

Viewers

Awesome existing topics related to bioinformatics

Bioinformatic analysis informations

Alternative-splicing

MASS-SPEC

Merip-seq

Metabarcoding

Metagenomic

Metatranscriptomic

mi-CLIP

Proteomics

Ribo-seq

Counting tools

Correction tools

Mapping tools

aligner

splice-aligner

  • Tophat2 - Seq reads.
  • CRAC - Seq mapping software that include the discovery of transcriptomic and genomic variants like splice junction, chimeric junction, SNVs, Indels in a single analysis step using a built-in error detection method enabling high precison and sensitivity.
  • STAR

Multiviewer

demultiplexing

Others

Annotations tools

  • Trinotate - model organisms.
  • gProfiler
  • TransDecoder - Seq transcript assembly using Trinity, or constructed based on RNA-Seq alignments to the genome using Tophat and Cufflinks.

Clustering & homology

  • STRUCTURE - locus genotype data to investigate population structure.
  • HMMER
  • CD-HIT - HIT is a very widely used program for clustering and comparing protein or nucleotide sequences.

Exploration tools

  • IGET - scale gene expression and protein behavior dynamics.
  • RNA-Ribo Explorer (RRE) - alone, and graphical software for analysing, viewing and mining both transcriptome (typically RNA-seq) and translatome (typically Ribosome profiling or Ribo-seq) datasets.

Metabarcoding databases

Network & Interaction visualisation

Ontology & Pathway databases

  • KEGG - level functions and utilities of the biological system, such as the cell, the organism and the ecosystem, from molecular-level information, especially large-scale molecular datasets generated by genome sequencing and other high-throughput experimental technologies.
  • RNAcentral - coding RNA sequence database
  • DAVID
  • Gene Ontology
  • PANTHER

Phylogenomics

Aligner

Model test

  • jModelTest2 - fit models of nucleotide substitution.
  • ModelTest-NG - NG is a tool for selecting the best-fit model of evolution for DNA and protein alignments.
  • SMS - based criteria (e.g., AIC).

Phylogenetic inference

  • RAxML - Randomized Axelerated Maximum Likelihood.
  • PhyML
  • FastTree - maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees from alignments of nucleotide or protein sequences.
  • FastME
  • MrBayes

Platform

Tree comparison

  • Phylo.io
  • CompPhy - based collaborative platform for comparing phylogenies

Visualization

Quality analysis & trimming tools

demultiplexing

  • fastq-multx - end sequences, and also to allow the "guessing" of barcode sets based on master lists of barcoding protocols (fluidigm, truseq, etc.)
  • NextGenSeqUtils
  • UMI-tools - Seq cell barcodes.

quality analysis checking

read merger

trimming

  • Cutadapt - A tails and other types of unwanted sequence from your high-throughput sequencing reads.
  • trimgalore - digested RRBS-type (Reduced Representation Bisufite-Seq) libraries.
  • Sortmerna
  • Sickle
  • trimmomatic
  • bbduk - quality-related trimming, filtering, and masking operations into a single high-performance tool.

Specific workflow

Alternative splicing

Community analysis

  • QIIME2 - generation microbiome bioinformatics platform that is extensible, free, open source, and community developed.
  • Mothur - source, expandable software to fill the bioinformatics needs of the microbial ecology community.
  • Vsearch

Statistical analysis tools

Alternative-splicing

Metabarcoding | Community Ecology

Metagenomics

RIBO-seq

  • Anota2Seq - wide analysis of translational efficiency using anota2seq.
  • Xtail - wide assessment of differential translations with ribosome profiling data.

RNA-seq

Suite tools

  • GATK
  • samtools
  • EA-Utils - line tools for processing biological sequencing data. Barcode demultiplexing, adapter trimming, etc. Primarily written to support an Illumina based pipeline - but should work with any FASTQs.
  • BBtools

Variant calling & alternative splicing tools

Correction tools

Learning tools

Motif discovery

  • MaxENTScan - adjacent as well as adjacent dependencies between positions.

Peak calling

  • MACS2 - sequencing experiment.
  • m6a Viewer - platform java application for detecting and visualising peaks in ME-RIP/ m6a-seq data.

variant calling

  • Farline
  • SplAdder - Seq alignment data.
  • Whippet
  • VarScan
  • KisSplice
  • freebayes - nucleotide polymorphisms), indels (insertions and deletions), MNPs (multi-nucleotide polymorphisms), and complex events (composite insertion and substitution events) smaller than the length of a short-read sequencing alignment.