Biotech Research Tools Repository

A curated collection of bioinformatics tools to accelerate your research workflow

Research Tools

Primer Design Tools

Benchling Primer Design

Benchling Primer Design

Benchling

4.5

Part of the Benchling platform, this tool offers automated primer design with visualization in the context of your sequences and constructs.

PCR
Cloning
Integrated Platform
IDT PrimerQuest Tool

IDT PrimerQuest Tool

Integrated DNA Technologies

4.6

A comprehensive primer design tool that creates custom primers and probes for PCR, qPCR, and sequencing applications with optimized design parameters.

PCR
qPCR
Probe Design
Primer3

Primer3

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

4.8

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.

PCR
Primer Design
Open Source
Primer3Plus

Primer3Plus

Andreas Untergasser et al.

4

A web interface to Primer3 for designing PCR primers with enhanced functionality and user-friendly interface

pcr
oligo
sequencing
+1
Primer-BLAST

Primer-BLAST

NCBI

4.7

A tool for designing target-specific primers that combines Primer3 with BLAST to ensure specificity. It helps avoid amplification of non-target sequences.

PCR
Primer Design
Specificity Check

CRISPR Design Tools

Benchling CRISPR Guide Design

Benchling CRISPR Guide Design

Benchling

4.6

An integrated CRISPR design tool within the Benchling platform that helps researchers design, analyze, and manage CRISPR experiments.

CRISPR
Workflow Management
Integrated Platform
Cas-Designer

Cas-Designer

Seoul National University

4.5

A tool for designing CRISPR/Cas-derived RNA-guided endonucleases with reduced off-target effects. It supports various Cas proteins and PAM sequences.

CRISPR
Cas Variants
Target Design
CHOPCHOP

CHOPCHOP

Harvard University

4.9

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.

CRISPR
Cas9
Target Design
+1
CRISPOR

CRISPOR

Tefor Infrastructure

4.7

A comprehensive tool for selecting and evaluating CRISPR/Cas9 guide sequences. It provides detailed off-target analysis and efficiency predictions.

CRISPR
Guide RNA
Off-target Analysis
E-CRISP

E-CRISP

German Cancer Research Center

4.5

A comprehensive CRISPR target site identification and evaluation tool that focuses on efficiency scoring and off-target analysis for multiple Cas variants.

CRISPR
Target Design
Efficiency Scoring

CRISPR Analysis Tools

Cas-OFFinder

Cas-OFFinder

Jeongbin Park et al.

4

A fast and versatile algorithm that searches for potential off-target sites of CRISPR/Cas-derived RNA-guided endonucleases

off-target
sgRNA
cas9
+1
CRISPResso2

CRISPResso2

Pinello Lab

4.8

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.

CRISPR
Sequencing Analysis
Editing Outcomes
CrispRVariants

CrispRVariants

Bioconductor

4.6

An R package for visualizing and comparing sequence variants generated by CRISPR-Cas9 editing. It provides detailed analysis of editing outcomes and frequencies.

CRISPR
R Package
Variant Analysis

Foundation Models for Biotech

AlphaFold

AlphaFold

DeepMind

4.9

A revolutionary AI system developed by DeepMind that predicts protein 3D structure with unprecedented accuracy, transforming structural biology research.

Protein Structure
AI
Deep Learning
ColabFold

ColabFold

Söding Lab

4.7

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.

Protein Structure
AlphaFold
Colab
DNABERT

DNABERT

University of Michigan

4.5

A bidirectional encoder representation from transformers for DNA sequences, enabling various genomic tasks like promoter prediction and variant effect analysis.

DNA
Transformer
Genomics
Enformer

Enformer

DeepMind

4.8

A transformer-based model developed by DeepMind that predicts gene expression and identifies functional regions from DNA sequences with unprecedented accuracy.

Gene Expression
Regulatory Genomics
Transformer
ESM (Evolutionary Scale Modeling)

ESM (Evolutionary Scale Modeling)

Meta AI Research

4.7

A family of protein language models that learn protein representations from millions of protein sequences, enabling various downstream tasks in protein science.

Protein Language Model
Deep Learning
Sequence Analysis
Geneformer

Geneformer

Broad Institute

4.6

A transformer-based foundation model for genomics that enables transfer learning across various genomic tasks, from gene expression prediction to cell type classification.

Genomics
Transformer
Gene Expression
scGPT

scGPT

Bo Wang Lab

4

Foundation model for single-cell multi-omics analysis using generative AI

single-cell
multi-omics
AI
+2

Base and Prime Editing Tools

BE-Hive

BE-Hive

Liu Lab, Broad Institute

4.6

A machine learning tool that predicts the outcomes of cytosine and adenine base editing. It helps researchers design more precise base editing experiments.

Base Editing
Machine Learning
Outcome Prediction
Prime Design

Prime Design

Broad Institute

4.7

A tool for designing prime editing guide RNAs (pegRNAs) for precise genome editing. It helps researchers design optimal pegRNAs for their target sequences.

Prime Editing
pegRNA
Genome Editing

Single-Cell Analysis Tools

CellBender

CellBender

Broad Institute

4.6

A tool for removing technical artifacts from single-cell RNA-seq data, including ambient RNA and barcode swapping.

Single-cell RNA-seq
Data Cleaning
Technical Artifacts
Cell Ranger

Cell Ranger

10x Genomics

4.8

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.

Single-cell RNA-seq
Pipeline
10x Genomics
Cell Ranger ARC

Cell Ranger ARC

10x Genomics

4

Analysis pipeline for single cell multiome ATAC + Gene Expression data from 10x Genomics

multiome
atac-seq
rna-seq
+1
CellTypist

CellTypist

Teichmann Lab, Wellcome Sanger Institute

4.7

An automated cell type annotation tool for single-cell RNA sequencing data

annotation
classification
machine-learning
+1
scGEN

scGEN

Theislab

4.5

A generative model for single-cell RNA sequencing data that can predict cellular responses to perturbations, including gene edits.

Single-cell RNA-seq
Generative Models
Perturbation Analysis
scVI

scVI

YosefLab

4.7

A deep generative model for single-cell RNA sequencing data that can be used for dimensionality reduction, clustering, and differential expression analysis.

Single-cell RNA-seq
Deep Learning
Variational Inference
Squidpy

Squidpy

Helmholtz Center Munich

4.7

Spatial Molecular Data Analysis in Python - a package for spatial transcriptomics and proteomics data analysis

spatial
transcriptomics
image-analysis
+1

Molecular Design Tools

MolGPT

MolGPT

MIT

4.5

A generative pre-trained transformer model for molecular design that can generate novel molecules with desired properties.

Molecular Design
GPT
Drug Discovery
MolT5

MolT5

University of Washington

4.4

A transformer-based model for molecular understanding and generation that can translate between molecular structures and natural language descriptions.

Molecular Design
Text-to-Molecule
Natural Language
PyMOL

PyMOL

Schrödinger

4

A molecular visualization system for structural biology that renders and animates 3D molecular structures

structural-biology
visualization
protein
+1
RNAfold

RNAfold

ViennaRNA team, University of Vienna

4

Predicts secondary structures of single RNA or DNA sequences using thermodynamic modeling

RNA
secondary-structure
thermodynamics
+1
Rosetta

Rosetta

Baker Lab

4.7

A software suite for modeling macromolecular structures. It's useful for protein design, protein-protein docking, and protein structure prediction.

Protein Design
Structure Prediction
Docking

Data Analysis Tools

Bioconductor

Bioconductor

Bioconductor Team

4.7

An open-source project that provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data using the R programming language.

Genomics
R
Statistical Analysis
Biopython

Biopython

Biopython Contributors

4

A set of freely available tools for biological computation written in Python

python
bioinformatics
sequence-analysis
+1
Cellpose

Cellpose

Pachitariu Lab

4.7

A generalist algorithm for cell and nucleus segmentation

segmentation
deep-learning
microscopy
+1
DeepVariant

DeepVariant

Google Health

4

A deep learning-based variant caller that uses a convolutional neural network to call genetic variants from next-generation DNA sequencing data

genomics
variant-calling
deep-learning
+1
Galaxy

Galaxy

Galaxy Team

4.6

An open, web-based platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational biomedical research. It provides tools for data analysis without programming experience.

Workflow Platform
NGS
No-code
Genozip

Genozip

Divon Lan

4

A modern compressor for genomic files (FASTQ, SAM/BAM, VCF, FASTA, GVF, 23andMe) that provides high compression ratios and fast decompression

compression
genomics
storage
+1
MAFFT

MAFFT

Kazutaka Katoh

4

Multiple Alignment using Fast Fourier Transform - a multiple sequence alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences

alignment
sequence-analysis
phylogenetics
+1
Napari

Napari

Napari team

4.6

A multi-dimensional image viewer for Python - designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing large multi-dimensional images

imaging
visualization
annotation
+1
Scanpy

Scanpy

Helmholtz Center Munich

4.7

A Python-based toolkit for analyzing single-cell gene expression data, with preprocessing, visualization, clustering, trajectory inference and differential expression testing.

Single-cell RNA-seq
Python
Trajectory Analysis
Seurat

Seurat

Satija Lab

4.8

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.

Single-cell RNA-seq
R
Clustering