What Is OBF (Open Bioinformatics Foundation)?

OBF (Open Bioinformatics Foundation) is a non-profit, volunteer-run group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development and Open Science within the biological research community.

Currently, OBF supports the following open source software projects:

• BioJava - A collection of free and open source Java toolkit for computational molecular biology
• BioPerl - A collection of free and open source Perl toolkit for computational molecular biology
• Biopython - A collection of free and open source Python toolkit for computational molecular biology
• BioRuby - A collection of free and open source Ruby toolkit for computational molecular biology
• BioSQL - a generic relational database model covering sequences, features, sequence and feature annotation, a reference taxonomy, and ontologies (or controlled vocabularies)
• DAS -
• EMBOSS - A high-quality package of free, Open Source software for molecular biology.
• BioJS - an open-source library of JavaScript components to visualise biological data
• BioHaskell - Bioinformatic libraries in Haskell
• Biocaml - bioinformatics library in the functional programming language OCaml
• BioPHP - A collection of free and open source PHP toolkit for computational molecular biology
• BioSmalltalk - Bioinformatics in a pure objects environment
• CGL - Comparative Genomics Library
• BioMake & Skam - Task management tool, similar to makefiles

For more information, visit open-bio.org.

⇒ Biopython - Tools for Biological Computation

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⇑ About OBF (Open Bioinformatics Foundation)

⇑⇑ OBF (Open Bioinformatics Foundation) Tools