Apps tagged with 'biology'

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  1. iNaturalist icon
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    Get outside, and observe an individual organism. Pick something wild and take a clear, full frame photo. If you already have a photo of something wild, add it now. You can also use the iNaturalist mobile apps to record observations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
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  2. AliView icon
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    AliView is yet another alignment viewer and editor, but this is probably one of the fastest and most intuitive to use, not so bloated and hopefully to your liking.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Unlimited mouse wheel zoom in/out to see whole alignment
    Alternative Color schemes (SeaView)
    ClustalX consensus color scheme
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    View nucleotides colored as translated Amino Acids
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  3. WikiPathways icon
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    WikiPathways was established to facilitate the contribution and maintenance of pathway information by the biology community. WikiPathways is an open, collaborative platform dedicated to the curation of biological pathways.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. Sandboxels icon
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    Sandboxels is an in-browser falling sand simulation game, with mechanics such as heat simulation, electricity, density, chemical reactions, fire, explosions, and over 500 unique elements to play with.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Heat Ray melting various metals
    Water being poured over burning wood
    Heat Ray melting a city scene
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    Salt being poured into a glass bowl
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  5. BioRender icon
     3 likes

    BioRender is the world’s first tool to help scientists create and share beautiful, professional scientific figures.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    9 alternatives
  6. Proteopedia icon
     4 likes

    Protopedia is a wiki style database containing information on a wide array of biological macromolecules. The site offers generalized information about the molecule of interest in addition to providing 3D visuals on the structure of the molecule and information on its...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    12 alternatives
  7. PathVisio icon
     8 likes

    PathVisio is a free open-source pathway analysis and drawing software that allows drawing, editing and analysing biological pathways.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  8. WikiGenes icon
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    WikiGenes is the first wiki system to combine the collaborative and largely altruistic possibilities of wikis with explicit authorship.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. The electronic Biochemical Pathways allows the user to search the wall charts with keywords, set focus effects, activate filtering functions and zooming in on the details and elements of interest. Through a simple navigational tool, the digital version has greatly simplified the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. OpenCFU icon
     6 likes

    OpenCFU is a completely open source lightweight application designed to enumerate clustered circular objects such as bacterial colonies. It can handle digital pictures as well as live stream from a video device/webcam.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. EteRNA icon
     2 likes

    Eterna is a citizen science game where players learn to design RNA molecules for medical research by solving puzzles. Complete these puzzles to unlock lab access and participate in challenges where you can invent medicine!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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  12. Phylo icon
     2 likes

    Though it may appear to be just a game, Phylo is actually a framework for harnessing the computing power of mankind to solve a common problem; Multiple Sequence Alignments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  13. Delta icon
     4 likes

    The DELTA format (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) is a flexible and powerful method of recording taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It was adopted as a standard for data exchange by Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    2 alternatives
  14. Speculative Evolution is a 3D simulation and art project in which hybrid creatures populate a simulated landscape. Artificial intelligence and synthetic biology help you to optimize and control habitats and species.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
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  15. Lucid icon
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    Lucid tools are powerful and highly flexible knowledge management software applications designed to help users with identification or diagnostic tasks.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    2 alternatives
  16. Eureqa icon
     1 like

    Nutonian is the first robotic data scientist - providing answers to big data questions you never knew to ask, automatically. It is genetic software programming, it uses evolutionary algorithms to find out equations from just data.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
    2 alternatives
  17. PDRAW32 icon
     1 like

    Scientific software for the molecular biologist. Performs virtual DNA cloning, analyses DNA for restriction enzymes, homing enzymes and primer sites, dam and dcm methylation sites, finds and translates open reading frames. Calculates annealing temperatures for PCR.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     pDRAW32 on Windows 7 RC
     pDRAW32 on OS-X with Wineskin
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     pDRAW32 on Windows 8 Consumer Preview
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  18. SnapGene Viewer is revolutionary software that allows molecular biologists to create, browse, and share richly annotated DNA sequence files up to 1 Gb in length.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  19. Morphit icon
     1 like

    New spreadsheet technology used to handle multi-dimensional data. Morphit is designed specifically to deal with complex high dimensional problems. It provides the flexibility to deal with the changing nature of biological studies and simplifies the process of capturing and...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  20. TreeView X icon
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    TreeView X is an open source program to display phylogenetic trees on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms. It can read and display NEXUS and Newick format tree files (such as those output by PAUP*, .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  21. Wikispecies icon
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    Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aim is to create a comprehensive free content catalogue of all species; the project is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • MediaWiki
  22. Archaeopteryx is a software tool for the visualization, analysis, and editing of potentially large and highly annotated phylogenetic trees.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java
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