Biotech Research Tools Repository
A curated collection of bioinformatics tools to accelerate your research workflow
Research Tools
Primer Design Tools
Benchling Primer Design
Benchling
Part of the Benchling platform, this tool offers automated primer design with visualization in the context of your sequences and constructs.
IDT PrimerQuest Tool
Integrated DNA Technologies
A comprehensive primer design tool that creates custom primers and probes for PCR, qPCR, and sequencing applications with optimized design parameters.
Primer3
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
A widely used program for designing PCR primers, hybridization probes, and sequencing primers. It considers factors like melting temperature, GC content, and primer-dimer formation.
Primer3Plus
Andreas Untergasser et al.
A web interface to Primer3 for designing PCR primers with enhanced functionality and user-friendly interface
Primer-BLAST
NCBI
A tool for designing target-specific primers that combines Primer3 with BLAST to ensure specificity. It helps avoid amplification of non-target sequences.
CRISPR Design Tools
Benchling CRISPR Guide Design
Benchling
An integrated CRISPR design tool within the Benchling platform that helps researchers design, analyze, and manage CRISPR experiments.
Cas-Designer
Seoul National University
A tool for designing CRISPR/Cas-derived RNA-guided endonucleases with reduced off-target effects. It supports various Cas proteins and PAM sequences.
CHOPCHOP
Harvard University
A web tool for CRISPR/Cas9 and TALEN target site finding and validation. It ranks target sites based on potential off-target effects and efficiency scores.
CRISPOR
Tefor Infrastructure
A comprehensive tool for selecting and evaluating CRISPR/Cas9 guide sequences. It provides detailed off-target analysis and efficiency predictions.
E-CRISP
German Cancer Research Center
A comprehensive CRISPR target site identification and evaluation tool that focuses on efficiency scoring and off-target analysis for multiple Cas variants.
CRISPR Analysis Tools
Cas-OFFinder
Jeongbin Park et al.
A fast and versatile algorithm that searches for potential off-target sites of CRISPR/Cas-derived RNA-guided endonucleases
CRISPResso2
Pinello Lab
A software pipeline for the analysis of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing outcomes from deep sequencing data. It quantifies and visualizes editing efficiency, frameshift mutations, and more.
CrispRVariants
Bioconductor
An R package for visualizing and comparing sequence variants generated by CRISPR-Cas9 editing. It provides detailed analysis of editing outcomes and frequencies.
Foundation Models for Biotech
AlphaFold
DeepMind
A revolutionary AI system developed by DeepMind that predicts protein 3D structure with unprecedented accuracy, transforming structural biology research.
ColabFold
Söding Lab
A fast and user-friendly implementation of AlphaFold2 that runs efficiently on Google Colab, making protein structure prediction accessible to researchers without extensive computational resources.
DNABERT
University of Michigan
A bidirectional encoder representation from transformers for DNA sequences, enabling various genomic tasks like promoter prediction and variant effect analysis.
Enformer
DeepMind
A transformer-based model developed by DeepMind that predicts gene expression and identifies functional regions from DNA sequences with unprecedented accuracy.
ESM (Evolutionary Scale Modeling)
Meta AI Research
A family of protein language models that learn protein representations from millions of protein sequences, enabling various downstream tasks in protein science.
Geneformer
Broad Institute
A transformer-based foundation model for genomics that enables transfer learning across various genomic tasks, from gene expression prediction to cell type classification.
scGPT
Bo Wang Lab
Foundation model for single-cell multi-omics analysis using generative AI
Base and Prime Editing Tools
BE-Hive
Liu Lab, Broad Institute
A machine learning tool that predicts the outcomes of cytosine and adenine base editing. It helps researchers design more precise base editing experiments.
Prime Design
Broad Institute
A tool for designing prime editing guide RNAs (pegRNAs) for precise genome editing. It helps researchers design optimal pegRNAs for their target sequences.
Single-Cell Analysis Tools
CellBender
Broad Institute
A tool for removing technical artifacts from single-cell RNA-seq data, including ambient RNA and barcode swapping.
Cell Ranger
10x Genomics
A set of analysis pipelines that process Chromium single-cell RNA-seq output to align reads, generate feature-barcode matrices, and perform clustering and gene expression analysis.
Cell Ranger ARC
10x Genomics
Analysis pipeline for single cell multiome ATAC + Gene Expression data from 10x Genomics

CellTypist
Teichmann Lab, Wellcome Sanger Institute
An automated cell type annotation tool for single-cell RNA sequencing data
scGEN
Theislab
A generative model for single-cell RNA sequencing data that can predict cellular responses to perturbations, including gene edits.
scVI
YosefLab
A deep generative model for single-cell RNA sequencing data that can be used for dimensionality reduction, clustering, and differential expression analysis.

Squidpy
Helmholtz Center Munich
Spatial Molecular Data Analysis in Python - a package for spatial transcriptomics and proteomics data analysis
Molecular Design Tools
MolGPT
MIT
A generative pre-trained transformer model for molecular design that can generate novel molecules with desired properties.
MolT5
University of Washington
A transformer-based model for molecular understanding and generation that can translate between molecular structures and natural language descriptions.
PyMOL
Schrödinger
A molecular visualization system for structural biology that renders and animates 3D molecular structures
RNAfold
ViennaRNA team, University of Vienna
Predicts secondary structures of single RNA or DNA sequences using thermodynamic modeling
Rosetta
Baker Lab
A software suite for modeling macromolecular structures. It's useful for protein design, protein-protein docking, and protein structure prediction.
Data Analysis Tools
Bioconductor
Bioconductor Team
An open-source project that provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data using the R programming language.
Biopython
Biopython Contributors
A set of freely available tools for biological computation written in Python

Cellpose
Pachitariu Lab
A generalist algorithm for cell and nucleus segmentation
DeepVariant
Google Health
A deep learning-based variant caller that uses a convolutional neural network to call genetic variants from next-generation DNA sequencing data
Galaxy
Galaxy Team
An open, web-based platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational biomedical research. It provides tools for data analysis without programming experience.
Genozip
Divon Lan
A modern compressor for genomic files (FASTQ, SAM/BAM, VCF, FASTA, GVF, 23andMe) that provides high compression ratios and fast decompression
MAFFT
Kazutaka Katoh
Multiple Alignment using Fast Fourier Transform - a multiple sequence alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences

Napari
Napari team
A multi-dimensional image viewer for Python - designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing large multi-dimensional images
Scanpy
Helmholtz Center Munich
A Python-based toolkit for analyzing single-cell gene expression data, with preprocessing, visualization, clustering, trajectory inference and differential expression testing.
Seurat
Satija Lab
An R package designed for QC, analysis, and exploration of single-cell RNA-seq data. It provides tools for dimensionality reduction, clustering, and differential expression analysis.