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EMBOSS is "The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite ".
EMBOSS is a free Open Source software analysis package
specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology user
community. The software automatically copes with data in a variety
of formats and even allows transparent retrieval of sequence data
from the web. Also, as extensive libraries are provided with the
package, it is a platform to allow other scientists to develop and
release software in true open source spirit. EMBOSS
also integrates a range of currently available packages and tools
for sequence analysis into a seamless whole. EMBOSS
breaks the historical trend towards commercial software packages.
The EMBOSS suite
Within EMBOSS you will
find around 100 programs (applications). These are just some of the
areas covered:
- Sequence alignment
- Rapid database searching with sequence patterns
- Protein motif identification, including domain analysis
- Nucleotide sequence pattern analysis, for example to identify CpG islands or repeats.
- Codon usage analysis for small genomes
- Rapid identification of sequence patterns in large scale sequence sets.
- Presentation tools for publication
- And much more.
The EMBOSS Services
A EMBOSS/GCG
tools comparison chart is here |
