BioInformatics software

By drc at Sun, Nov 1 2009 3:08am |

I was recently reading BMC Bioinformatics and came across two papers by Daniel Frank that I thought might be of interest. The first describing XplorSeq a software package that facilitates the compilation, management and phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences. XplorSeq was developed for, but is not limited to, high-throughput analysis of environmental rRNA gene sequences.

The second paper describes two other tools, Barcrawl a software program that facilitates the design of barcoded primers, for multiplexed high-throughput sequencing. The program Bartab can be used to deconvolute DNA sequence datasets produced by the use of multiple barcoded primers.There is more information on the Phyloware website.

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Sun, 2009-11-01 09:17 — Guillaume Chapron

More articles about software on the Mac?

Thanks for sharing this paper. I was wondering if there are other papers describing scientific software for OS X, and explaining the power of Objective and Cocoa. I searched in scopus but didnot find a lot.

In general, have you ever got comments from reviewers or editors telling your software should not use proprietary frameworks, or should not be bound to a single plateform with a low market share?

Sun, 2009-11-01 10:12 — dfrank

Publishing Mac software

I've only published one Mac-software paper and there were no issues about platform or market share. The only requirement was free release of an executable and/or code to the academic community.