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Provides a comprehensive suite of functions to design and annotate CRISPR guide RNA (gRNAs) sequences. This includes on- and off-target search, on-target efficiency scoring, off-target scoring, full gene and TSS contextual annotations, and SNP annotation (human only). It currently support five types of CRISPR modalities (modes of perturbations): CRISPR knockout, CRISPR activation, CRISPR inhibition, CRISPR base editing, and CRISPR knockdown. All types of CRISPR nucleases are supported, including DNA- and RNA-target nucleases such as Cas9, Cas12a, and Cas13d. All types of base editors are also supported. gRNA design can be performed on reference genomes, transcriptomes, and custom DNA and RNA sequences. Both unpaired and paired gRNA designs are enabled.

Plain-text, git-tracked electronic lab notebook (ELN) for reproducible bioinformatics — threads your R & Python figures into living lab notes with full provenance. Built for single-cell / CyTOF / flow cytometry; works with Obsidian, Quarto & Jupyter.

Free, open-source desktop AI research assistant that runs locally and turns natural-language requests into real data analysis, literature search, figure generation, and manuscript review; ships with 149 scientific skills, 326 workflow templates, and 229 databases across genomics, proteomics, drug discovery, and materials science, plus a living lab notebook, 60+ scientific file previews, and LaTeX editing (K-Dense-AI, 908+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Spatial transcriptomic technologies have helped to resolve the connection between gene expression and the 2D orientation of tissues relative to each other. However, the limited single-cell resolution makes it difficult to highlight the most important molecular interactions in these tissues. SpaceMarkers, R/Bioconductor software, can help to find molecular interactions, by identifying genes associated with latent space interactions in spatial transcriptomics.

multiHiCcompare provides functions for joint normalization and difference detection in multiple Hi-C datasets. This extension of the original HiCcompare package now allows for Hi-C experiments with more than 2 groups and multiple samples per group. multiHiCcompare operates on processed Hi-C data in the form of sparse upper triangular matrices. It accepts four column (chromosome, region1, region2, IF) tab-separated text files storing chromatin interaction matrices. multiHiCcompare provides cyclic loess and fast loess (fastlo) methods adapted to jointly normalizing Hi-C data. Additionally, it provides a general linear model (GLM) framework adapting the edgeR package to detect differences in Hi-C data in a distance dependent manner.

DeepTaxa is a hybrid CNN-BERT deep learning framework for multi-rank taxonomic classification of 16S rRNA gene sequences. It predicts all seven Linnaean ranks from domain to species in a single forward pass and provides pre-trained checkpoints for full-length 16S and V3-V4 amplicons.

standR is an user-friendly R package providing functions to assist conducting good-practice analysis of Nanostring's GeoMX DSP data. All functions in the package are built based on the SpatialExperiment object, allowing integration into various spatial transcriptomics-related packages from Bioconductor. standR allows data inspection, quality control, normalization, batch correction and evaluation with informative visualizations.

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

Tools to compute and visualize overlaps between gene sets or genomic regions. Venn diagrams with proportional areas are provided, while UpSet plots are recommended for larger numbers of sets. The package supports GRanges and GRangesList inputs, and integrates with analysis workflows for ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, and other genomic interval data. It generates clean, interpretable, and publication-ready figures.

A package for creating fast and accurate interatomic potentials.

Learning operators in Fourier space

Toolkit for identification and statistical testing of RNA editing signals from within R. Provides support for identifying sites from bulk-RNA and single cell RNA-seq datasets, and general methods for extraction of allelic read counts from alignment files. Facilitates annotation and exploratory analysis of editing signals using Bioconductor packages and resources.

Ensemble of automated QM workflows that can be run through jupyter notebooks, command lines and yaml files.

Deep learning-based bioacoustic monitoring framework for automated bird species identification from audio recordings, supporting 6,000+ species globally with real-time analysis, batch processing, and API deployment; foundational tool in biodiversity research, conservation biology, and ecological acoustic monitoring (Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 1.5K+ stars, MIT License)

Compare differential gene expression results with those from known cellular perturbations (such as gene knock-down, overexpression or small molecules) derived from the Connectivity Map. Such analyses allow not only to infer the molecular causes of the observed difference in gene expression but also to identify small molecules that could drive or revert specific transcriptomic alterations.

Open-source biomedical AI platform integrating multimodal foundation models (BioMedGPT, PharmolixFM, LangCell) with agentic workflows and 45+ Claude Code skills for drug discovery, protein engineering, and single-cell omics analysis (PharMolix & Tsinghua AIR, 1K+ stars, 2023-2026)

Utilities for working with CSV/Tab-delimited files.

Long-context generative genomic foundation model using 6-mer tokenization for DNA sequence modeling and generation, with v2 model families for prokaryote and eukaryote genomes and pretrained weights available on HuggingFace (GenerTeam, 460+ stars, MIT License, 2025-2026)

Interactive explorer for single-cell transcriptomics data enabling visualization of UMAP/t-SNE embeddings, differential expression analysis, and cross-dataset comparison through a fast web-based interface; widely adopted for exploring atlas-scale single-cell datasets and integrating with AI/ML analysis workflows (773+ stars, MIT License)

LLM papers for scientific discovery

"rhinotypeR" is designed to automate the comparison of sequence data against prototype strains, streamlining the genotype assignment process. By implementing predefined pairwise distance thresholds, this package makes genotype assignment accessible to researchers and public health professionals. This tool enhances our epidemiological toolkit by enabling more efficient surveillance and analysis of rhinoviruses (RVs) and other viral pathogens with complex genomic landscapes. Additionally, "rhinotypeR" supports comprehensive visualization and analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and amino acid substitutions, facilitating in-depth genetic and evolutionary studies.

Family of large language models for materials research via continued pretraining of LLaMA-2/3 on ~30B materials science tokens, outperforming commercial LLMs on materials science tasks while identifying "adaptation rigidity" in overtrained models; includes MatNLP benchmark and CIF crystal generation capabilities (IIT Delhi M3RG, MIT License)

Polymathic AI's large omnimodal foundation model for astronomical surveys, seamlessly integrating 39 distinct data modalities including imaging, spectra, photometry, and catalog entries for similarity search, property prediction, and generative modeling across legacy surveys (MIT)

Galaxy Tool Shed repositories maintained and developed by the GalaxyP community

compareMS2 is a tool for comparing sets of (tandem) mass spectra for clustering samples, molecular phylogenetics, identification of biological species or tissues, and quality control. compareMS2 currently consumes Mascot Generic Format, or MGF, and produces output in a variety of common image and distance matrix formats.

This package addresses two broad areas. It allows for in-depth analysis of spatial transcriptomic data by identifying tissue neighbourhoods. These are contiguous regions of tissue surrounding individual cells. 'CatsCradle' allows for the categorisation of neighbourhoods by the cell types contained in them and the genes expressed in them. In particular, it produces Seurat objects whose individual elements are neighbourhoods rather than cells. In addition, it enables the categorisation and annotation of genes by producing Seurat objects whose elements are genes.

Medical time series foundation model pretrained on 454B time points from heterogeneous clinical corpora spanning ICU physiological signals and hospital EHR, with continuous-time rotary positional encoding, frequency-specialized Mixture-of-Experts, and neural ODE extrapolation for zero-shot forecasting across irregular and multimodal temporal health data (Microsoft, 399+ stars, MIT License)

Semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, supporting Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, and OpenCode across ideation, coding, experiments, writing, and publication (Galaxy-Dawn, 4.5K+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Gene regulatory networks model the underlying gene regulation hierarchies that drive gene expression and observed phenotypes. Epiregulon infers TF activity in single cells by constructing a gene regulatory network (regulons). This is achieved through integration of scATAC-seq and scRNA-seq data and incorporation of public bulk TF ChIP-seq data. Links between regulatory elements and their target genes are established by computing correlations between chromatin accessibility and gene expressions.

MCP server, CLI, and agent skills for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple open sources (arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, CORE, Europe PMC, etc.) with unified, deduplicated, LLM-friendly retrieval and an OA-first download fallback chain (OpenAGS, 1.9K+ stars, MIT License, 2025)

First agentic LLM for autonomous data science with end-to-end pipeline from data to analyst-grade reports

scToppR provides an easy-to-use API wrapper for the ToppGene web platform, used for gene ontology and functional enrichment research. The package also integrates visualization tools, making it a convenient tool directly connecting ToppGene to code-based workflows in R. The tool can also easily save results into different formats.

Perform fast functional enrichment on feature lists (like genes or proteins) using the hypergeometric distribution. Tailored for speed, this package is ideal for interactive platforms such as Shiny. It supports the retrieval of functional data from sources like GO, KEGG, Reactome, Bioplanet and WikiPathways. By downloading and preparing data first, it allows for rapid successive tests on various feature selections without the need for repetitive, time-consuming preparatory steps typical of other packages.

Deep learning with spiking neural networks in Python, providing gradient-based training of SNNs via PyTorch autodifferentiation for brain-inspired computing and neuromorphic research, with online learning capabilities and extensive tutorials (1.9K+ stars, actively maintained)

A set of tools to for machine and deep learning in R from amino acid and nucleotide sequences focusing on adaptive immune receptors. The package includes pre-processing of sequences, unifying gene nomenclature usage, encoding sequences, and combining models. This package will serve as the basis of future immune receptor sequence functions/packages/models compatible with the scRepertoire ecosystem.

Tools For analyzing Illumina Infinium DNA methylation arrays. SeSAMe provides utilities to support analyses of multiple generations of Infinium DNA methylation BeadChips, including preprocessing, quality control, visualization and inference. SeSAMe features accurate detection calling, intelligent inference of ethnicity, sex and advanced quality control routines.

The package implements an algorithm for fast gene set enrichment analysis. Using the fast algorithm allows to make more permutations and get more fine grained p-values, which allows to use accurate stantard approaches to multiple hypothesis correction.

Cython + HTSlib == fast VCF parsing; even faster parsing than pyVCF.

Provides hurdle negative binomial models for differential expression analysis with long-read RNA-Seq data.

Provides a streamlined workflow for clustering and visualizing gene expression patterns, particularly from time-series RNA-Seq and single-cell experiments. The package is designed to integrate seamlessly within the Bioconductor ecosystem by operating directly on standard data classes such as `SummarizedExperiment` and `SingleCellExperiment`. It implements common clustering algorithms (e.g., k-means, fuzzy c-means) and generates a suite of publication-ready visualizations to explore co-expressed gene modules. Functions are also included to facilitate the visualization of clustering results derived from other popular tools.

Autonomous AI scientist research

R Package for interactive visualization and browsing NGS data. It contains a browser for both transcript and genomic coordinate view. In addition a QC and general metaplots are included, among others differential translation plots and gene expression plots. The package is still under development.

R package for analysis of transcript and translation features through manipulation of sequence data and NGS data like Ribo-Seq, RNA-Seq, TCP-Seq and CAGE. It is generalized in the sense that any transcript region can be analysed, as the name hints to it was made with investigation of ribosomal patterns over Open Reading Frames (ORFs) as it's primary use case. ORFik is extremely fast through use of C++, data.table and GenomicRanges. Package allows to reassign starts of the transcripts with the use of CAGE-Seq data, automatic shifting of RiboSeq reads, finding of Open Reading Frames for whole genomes and much more.

RBPBench is a multi-function tool to evaluate CLIP-seq and other related genomic region data using a comprehensive collection of known RNA-binding protein (RBP) binding motifs. RBPBench can be used for a variety of purposes, from RBP motif search (database or user-supplied RBP motifs) in genomic regions, over motif enrichment and co-occurrence analysis, in-depth comparisons over multiple datasets via sequence and genomic annotation statistics, to benchmarking CLIP-seq peak caller methods as well as comparisons across cell types and CLIP-seq protocols. RBPBench supports both sequence and structure motifs, as well as regular expressions (sequence and structure patterns). Moreover, users can easily provide their own motif collections.

A powerful, high-performance bioinformatics framework for discovering, evaluating, and verifying microRNA (miRNA) interactions across DNA, RNA, and protein target sequences. The mirnaprotpred package provides two core modules: SeqFinder: A discovery engine to find all potential miRNA interactions across a genome or target sequence. Validator: A targeted verification engine to test specific, user-provided miRNAs against a target sequence. Both modules are powered by a shared, rigorous biological engine that evaluates exact seed matching, wobble pairing, AU-rich context, and RNAduplex thermodynamic stability.

PhantasusLite – a lightweight package with helper functions of general interest extracted from phantasus package. In parituclar it simplifies working with public RNA-seq datasets from GEO by providing access to the remote HSDS repository with the precomputed gene counts from ARCHS4 and DEE2 projects.

This package implements a metabolic network analysis pipeline to identify an active metabolic module based on high throughput data. The pipeline takes as input transcriptional and/or metabolic data and finds a metabolic subnetwork (module) most regulated between the two conditions of interest. The package further provides functions for module post-processing, annotation and visualization.

Cross-domain foundation model for continuum dynamics trained on 19 physical scenarios spanning 63 variables, featuring adaptive compute via stride modulation and patch jittering for long-run stability (Polymathic AI, 293+ stars, MIT License)

Provides a reproducible and modular workflow for absolute microbial quantification using spike-in controls. Supports both single spike-in taxa and synthetic microbial communities with user-defined spike-in volumes and genome copy numbers. Compatible with 'phyloseq' and 'TreeSummarizedExperiment' (TSE) data structures. The package implements methods for spike-in validation, preprocessing, scaling factor estimation, absolute abundance conversion, bias correction, and normalization. Facilitates downstream statistical analyses with 'DESeq2', 'edgeR', and other Bioconductor-compatible methods. Visualization tools are provided via 'ggplot2', 'ggtree', and related packages. Includes detailed vignettes, case studies, and function-level documentation to guide users through experimental design, quantification, and interpretation.

Autonomous multi-agent AI scientist that mirrors a PhD workflow: literature review → grounded hypothesis → real ML experiments → self-critique → write-up; features a deterministic harness with frozen-metric scoring, edit allowlists, and a verified registry to make reward-hacking and hallucination impossible, plus 108 unit tests runnable without API keys or GPUs (461+ stars, MIT License, 2026)