Cytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of attribute data. A lot of plugins are available for various kinds of problem domains, including bioinformatics, social network analysis, and semantic web.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux



The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
table-based network visualizer, a command-line tool for producing static network visualizations from a node table and an edge table.



Genophore is an application for searching and designing proteins. It also provides a suite of bioinformatics utilities and collaboration tools.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Software as a Service (SaaS)



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

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


BioSciTools (Bioinformatics Science Tools), a desktop program developed based on Java 11, aims to make new exploration and contribution to the development of bioinformatics, and realize data analysis and visualization in the fields of sequence analysis, multi-omics...


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Kineviz GraphXR is a browser-based visualization platform for interactive analysis of big, high dimensional, and or connected data.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Software as a Service (SaaS)



DNA Baser Sequence Assembler is revolutionary bioinformatics software for manual and automatic DNA sequence assembly , DNA sequence analysis, contig editing, file format conversion and mutation detection.

Clustal Omega is a multiple sequence alignment program. It produces biologically meaningful multiple sequence alignments of divergent sequences. Evolutionary relationships can be seen via viewing Cladograms or Phylograms.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
The Snthesis Bio platform automatically integrates and harmonizes all your research data. Source agnostic. Search everything.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)


Mendelgen is an online DNA vector editing and manipulation tool. It offers features like MSA alignment, codon optimization, feature detection, and more. It's wrapped in a beautiful and intuitive design to make your experience easy and enjoyable.



With a rich palette of plot types, filter devices and an editable table of data Vortex enables your scientists to rapidly identify outliers and spot trends in multi-dimensional data.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online



Pathomx is a workflow-based tool for the analysis and visualisation of experimental data. Initially created as a tool for metabolomic data analysis is has been extended and can now be used for any scientific and non-scientific data analysis.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows

Fix42 is a growing collection of free online tools for everyday digital tasks. From viewing CSV files and converting images to learning German and exploring bioinformatics data, we provide simple solutions without sign-ups or complicated processes.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
Clone Manager is a commercial bioinformatics software work suite of Sci-Ed, that supports molecular biologists with data management and allows to perform certain in silico preanalysis.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
DNAssist provides an intuitive, single interface within which sequence files are displayed, edited and analyzed. The user can customize the display in editor windows by selecting the font, font size, and line length.

QIAGEN CLC Main Workbench is ideal for DNA, RNA, & protein sequence data analysis with a wide variety of features, no advanced computer skills required! The workbench is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

The Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) is a high-performance, easy-to-use, interactive tool for the visual exploration of genomic data. It supports flexible integration of all the common types of genomic data and metadata, investigator-generated or publicly available, loaded from...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online



This site's focus is bioinformatics, computational genomics and biological data analysis. We welcome posts that are detailed and specific, written clearly and simply.
Helix Insight automates clinical genetic variant interpretation using the ACMG/AMP 2015 framework. The platform integrates 8 reference databases, automated literature mining, HPO phenotype matching, and AI-powered clinical reporting.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online










































































