BioRuby: bioinformatics software for the Ruby programming language

被引:101
作者
Goto, Naohisa [2 ]
Prins, Pjotr [3 ,4 ]
Nakao, Mitsuteru [5 ]
Bonnal, Raoul [6 ]
Aerts, Jan [7 ]
Katayama, Toshiaki [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Tokyo, Lab Genome Dis, Ctr Human Genome, Tokyo 1138654, Japan
[2] Osaka Univ, Dept Genome Informat, Genome Informat Res Ctr, Microbial Dis Res Inst, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan
[3] Wageningen Univ, Dept Nematol, Wageningen, Netherlands
[4] Univ Groningen, Groningen Bioinformat Ctr, Groningen, Netherlands
[5] Res Org Informat & Syst, Database Ctr Life Sci, Tokyo, Japan
[6] Fdn Ist Nazl Genet Mol, Integrat Biol Program, Milan, Italy
[7] Wellcome Trust Sanger Inst, Cambridge, England
关键词
ENVIRONMENT; TOOLKIT; BIOLOGY; LIFE;
D O I
10.1093/bioinformatics/btq475
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The BioRuby software toolkit contains a comprehensive set of free development tools and libraries for bioinformatics and molecular biology, written in the Ruby programming language. BioRuby has components for sequence analysis, pathway analysis, protein modelling and phylogenetic analysis; it supports many widely used data formats and provides easy access to databases, external programs and public web services, including BLAST, KEGG, GenBank, MEDLINE and GO. BioRuby comes with a tutorial, documentation and an interactive environment, which can be used in the shell, and in the web browser.
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页码:2617 / 2619
页数:3
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