Bioinformatics Open Source Projects

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1-60 of 534 projects
82,540 stars

Developer-Y/cs-video-courses

List of Computer Science courses with video lectures.

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Stars82,540
24,335 stars

plotly/dash

Data Apps & Dashboards for Python. No JavaScript Required.

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Stars24,335
5,124 stars

biopython/biopython

Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)

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Stars5,124
4,173 stars

danielecook/Awesome-Bioinformatics

A curated list of awesome Bioinformatics libraries and software.

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Stars4,173
3,808 stars

seandavi/awesome-single-cell

Community-curated list of software packages and data resources for single-cell, including RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, etc.

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Stars3,808
3,756 stars

google/deepvariant

DeepVariant is an analysis pipeline that uses a deep neural network to call genetic variants from next-generation DNA sequencing data.

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Stars3,756
3,444 stars

nextflow-io/nextflow

A DSL for data-driven computational pipelines

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Stars3,444
2,522 stars

scverse/scanpy

Single-cell analysis in Python. Scales to >100M cells.

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Stars2,522
2,400 stars

OpenGene/fastp

An ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor (QC/adapters/trimming/filtering/splitting/merging...)

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Stars2,400
2,218 stars

lh3/minimap2

A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences

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Stars2,218
2,110 stars

soedinglab/MMseqs2

MMseqs2: ultra fast and sensitive search and clustering suite

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Stars2,110
2,023 stars

stephenturner/oneliners

Useful bash one-liners for bioinformatics.

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Stars2,023
1,984 stars

gokceneraslan/awesome-deepbio

A curated list of awesome deep learning applications in the field of computational biology

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Stars1,984
1,976 stars

broadinstitute/gatk

Official code repository for GATK versions 4 and up

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Stars1,976
1,974 stars

allenai/scispacy

A full spaCy pipeline and models for scientific/biomedical documents.

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Stars1,974
1,848 stars

bioconda/bioconda-recipes

Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.

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Stars1,848
1,818 stars

rust-bio/rust-bio

This library provides implementations of many algorithms and data structures that are useful for bioinformatics. All provided implementations are rigorously tested via continuous integration.

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Stars1,818
1,814 stars

galaxyproject/galaxy

Data intensive science for everyone.

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Stars1,814
1,758 stars

lh3/bwa

Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment)

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Stars1,758
1,584 stars

harvardinformatics/learning-bioinformatics-at-home

resources for learning bioinformatics

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Stars1,584
1,581 stars

shenwei356/seqkit

A cross-platform and ultrafast toolkit for FASTA/Q file manipulation

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Stars1,581
1,547 stars

lh3/seqtk

Toolkit for processing sequences in FASTA/Q formats

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Stars1,547
1,479 stars

MultiQC/MultiQC

Aggregate results from bioinformatics analyses across many samples into a single report.

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Stars1,479
1,400 stars

crazyhottommy/getting-started-with-genomics-tools-and-resources

Unix, R and python tools for genomics and data science

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Stars1,400
1,265 stars

steineggerlab/foldseek

Foldseek enables fast and sensitive comparisons of large structure sets.

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Stars1,265
1,263 stars

mims-harvard/TDC

Therapeutics Commons (TDC): Multimodal Foundation for Therapeutic Science

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Stars1,263
1,217 stars

scikit-bio/scikit-bio

scikit-bio: a community-driven Python library for bioinformatics, providing versatile data structures, algorithms and educational resources.

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Stars1,217
1,190 stars

lightaime/deep_gcns_torch

Pytorch Repo for DeepGCNs (ICCV'2019 Oral, TPAMI'2021), DeeperGCN (arXiv'2020) and GNN1000(ICML'2021): https://www.deepgcns.org

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Stars1,190
1,184 stars

a-r-j/graphein

Protein Graph Library

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Stars1,184
1,170 stars

kexinhuang12345/DeepPurpose

A Deep Learning Toolkit for DTI, Drug Property, PPI, DDI, Protein Function Prediction (Bioinformatics)

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Stars1,170
1,165 stars

shenwei356/csvtk

A cross-platform, efficient and practical CSV/TSV toolkit in Golang

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Stars1,165
1,135 stars

Starlitnightly/omicverse

A python library for multi omics included bulk and single cell RNA-seq analysis.

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Stars1,135
1,117 stars

shenwei356/rush

A cross-platform command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel

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Stars1,117
1,113 stars

scipipe/scipipe

Robust, flexible and resource-efficient pipelines using Go and the commandline

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Stars1,113
1,108 stars

moshi4/pyCirclize

Circular visualization in Python (Circos Plot, Chord Diagram, Radar Chart)

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Stars1,108
1,086 stars

plotly/react-plotly.js

A plotly.js React component from Plotly 📈

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Stars1,086
1,082 stars

kblin/ncbi-genome-download

Scripts to download genomes from the NCBI FTP servers

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Stars1,082
1,074 stars

broadinstitute/cromwell

Scientific workflow engine designed for simplicity & scalability. Trivially transition between one off use cases to massive scale production environments

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Stars1,074
1,070 stars

hail-is/hail

Cloud-native genomic dataframes and batch computing

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Stars1,070
1,056 stars

bigdatagenomics/adam

ADAM is a genomics analysis platform with specialized file formats built using Apache Avro, Apache Spark, and Apache Parquet. Apache 2 licensed.

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Stars1,056
1,009 stars

MareesAT/GWA_tutorial

A comprehensive tutorial about GWAS and PRS

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Stars1,009
975 stars

grailbio/reflow

A language and runtime for distributed, incremental data processing in the cloud

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Stars975
966 stars

biotite-dev/biotite

A comprehensive library for computational molecular biology

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Stars966
939 stars

samtools/htslib

C library for high-throughput sequencing data formats

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Stars939
939 stars

BaranziniLab/KG_RAG

Empower Large Language Models (LLM) using Knowledge Graph based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (KG-RAG) for knowledge intensive tasks

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Stars939
924 stars

tanghaibao/jcvi

Python library to facilitate genome assembly, annotation, and comparative genomics

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Stars924
918 stars

COMBINE-lab/salmon

🐟 🍣 🍱 Highly-accurate & wicked fast transcript-level quantification from RNA-seq reads using selective alignment

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Stars918
874 stars

hsiaoyi0504/awesome-cheminformatics

A curated list of Cheminformatics libraries and software.

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Stars874
856 stars

openwdl/wdl

Specification for the Workflow Description Language (WDL).

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Stars856
851 stars

bwa-mem2/bwa-mem2

The next version of bwa-mem

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Stars851
807 stars

awslabs/dgl-lifesci

Python package for graph neural networks in chemistry and biology

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Stars807
805 stars

danforthcenter/plantcv

Plant phenotyping with image analysis

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Stars805
803 stars

BenLangmead/bowtie2

A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner

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Stars803
802 stars

google/nucleus

Python and C++ code for reading and writing genomics data.

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Stars802
801 stars

BioContainers/containers

Bioinformatics containers

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Stars801
795 stars

mims-harvard/PrimeKG

Precision Medicine Knowledge Graph (PrimeKG)

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Stars795
790 stars

chhylp123/hifiasm

Hifiasm: a haplotype-resolved assembler for accurate Hifi reads

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Stars790
790 stars

dib-lab/khmer

In-memory nucleotide sequence k-mer counting, filtering, graph traversal and more

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Stars790
762 stars

deeptools/deepTools

Tools to process and analyze deep sequencing data.

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Stars762
762 stars

shenwei356/awesome

Awesome resources on Bioinformatics, data science, machine learning, programming language (Python, Golang, R, Perl) and miscellaneous stuff.

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Stars762
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