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Biosciences Software available at OSC

Amber- a molecular simulation program

bioperl - offers a set of perl modules which can be used for sequence manipulation

BLAST - tools for searching DNA and protein databases for sequence similarity to identify homologs to a query sequence

BLAT - a sequence analysis tool which performs rapid mRNA/DNA and cross-species protein alignments

ClustalW - a general purpose multiple sequence alignment program for DNA or proteins

EMBOSS - a sequence analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology user community

ExtractProp* - a portable application for extracting properties from computational biology applications

Galaxy - a program for dynamic transitive closure analysis

HMMER - profile HMMs for protein sequence analysis

MrBayes - a program for the Bayesian estimation of phylogeny

NAMD - a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems

NCBI Toolkit - a collection of utilities developed for the production and distribution of GenBank, Entrez, BLAST, and related services by the National Center for Biotechnology Information

Ohio BioSciences Library* - a suite of high-performance bioinformatics applications designed for use on large memory SMP and cluster computing systems alike

Partek Pro* - Partek Pro is an integrated, scalable software environment capable of analysis and transformation of millions of records or millions of variables

PAUP -- a leading program for performing phylogenetic analysis for bioinformatics sequences

PCBL (Portable Cray Bioinformatics Library) - a portable implementation of the Cray Bioinformatics Library interface.

Stata - a complete, integrated statistical package that provides everything needed for data analysis, data management, and graphics

* Indicates software available through OSC's Statewide Software License Distribution

Availability by machine

Name
Altix
BALE
Cluster
Itanium 2
Cluster
Glenn
Cluster
AMBER
No
bioperl
No
No
No
No
BLAST
No
No
No
BLAT
No
No
No
ClustalW
No
No
No
EMBOSS
No
No
No
ExtractProp*
Available for download
Galaxy
No
No
No
HMMER
No
No
No
MrBayes
No
No
No
No
NAMD
No
No
NCBI
No
No
Ohio BioSciences Library*
Available through OSC's Statewide Software License Distribution
Partek Pro*
Available through OSC's Statewide Software License Distribution
PAUP
No
No
No
PCBL
No
No
Stata
No
No