EMBOSS

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EMBOSS

EMBOSS (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite) is a free Open Source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology user community. The software automatically copes with data in a variety of formats and allows other scientists to develop and release software in true open source spirit. It also integrates many available packages and tools for sequence analysis into a seamless whole. Hundreds of programs (applications) are included within EMBOSSS, covering areas such as

  • Sequence alignment,
  • Rapid database searching with sequence patterns,
  • Protein motif identification and domain analysis
  • Nucleotide sequence pattern analysis
  • Presentation tools for publication,

and much more.

Among them, some applications are considered very popular, such as:

  • infoseq: Displays some simple information about sequences.
  • water: Smith-Waterman local alignment.
  • pepstats: Protein statistics.
  • showfeat: Show features of a sequence.
  • palindrome: looks for inverted repeats in a nucleotide sequence.
  • eprimer3: Picks PCR primers and hybridization oligos.
  • extractseq: Extract regions from a sequence.
  • tfscan: Scans DNA sequences for transcription factors.
  • patmatmotifs: Compares a protein sequence to the PROSITE motif database.
  • abiview: Reads ABI file and display the trace.
  • tranalign: Align nucleic coding regions given the aligned proteins.
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