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A directory of tools, AI models, datasets, and research resources for biotech, bioinformatics, and other scientific fields. Aggregated from curated GitHub awesome-lists, HuggingFace, bio.tools, Bioconductor, and more.
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OpenTimsTDF is a standalone, cross-platform reader for Bruker timsTOF .tdf and .tdf_bin acquisition files, implemented in pure Rust with no dependency on vendor SDKs. Python bindings built on PyO3 expose frame, scan, and peak data as native Python objects, providing ion-mobility-aware access that can be assembled into a Pandas or Polars DataFrame.
OpenWRaw is a standalone, cross-platform reader for Waters MassLynx .raw acquisition directories, implemented in pure Rust with no dependency on vendor DLLs. Python bindings built on PyO3 expose functions, scans, and ion-mobility data as native Python objects from Waters QTof and SYNAPT instrument families, ready to be assembled into a Pandas or Polars DataFrame.
OpenTFRaw is a standalone, cross-platform reader for Thermo Fisher Scientific .raw mass-spectrometry files, implemented in pure Rust with no dependency on vendor DLLs or .NET. Python bindings built on PyO3 return NumPy arrays for spectral data, straightforward to load into Pandas or Polars. Covers format versions 8 through 66 (LCQ Classic through Orbitrap Astral and modern TSQ instruments), supporting both centroid and profile spectra.
Machine learning interatomic potentials
Local-first, open-source AI workbench for scientists — an open alternative to Claude Science (by ai4s-research, maintainers of this list; TypeScript, MIT, 2026)
Open software framework for Engineering AI built on transformer building blocks, enabling teams to build, train, and operate industrial simulation models across engineering verticals; includes ready-to-use recipes for CFD (AB-UPT on DrivAerML), external aerodynamics, and heat transfer (234+ stars, ENPL non-commercial license, 2026)
Multimodal deep learning framework integrating peptide-MHC protein sequence, structure, and biochemical properties to predict class-I immunogenicity for infectious disease epitopes and cancer neoepitopes with cancer-wildtype contrastive learning, enabling personalized vaccine design (Krishnaswamy Lab, Yale University)
SPAdes (St. Petersburg genome assembler) is an assembly toolkit containing various assembly pipelines and the de-facto standard for prokaryotic genome assemblies.
A Python package for protein dynamics analysis
Molecular dynamics analysis
First bioinformatics-native AI agent skill library enabling local-first, reproducible genomic and population-genetics research workflows built on OpenClaw (871+ stars, MIT License, 2026)
Descriptor computation(chemistry) and (optional) storage for machine learning.
A collection of object-oriented software tools for problems involving chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport processes.
Biocaml aims to be a high-performance user-friendly library for Bioinformatics.
Curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines, enabling reproducible social science research with AI agents (Stanford REAP & CoPaper.AI, 1.1K+ stars, 2026)
Official MathWorks toolkit connecting AI agents to MATLAB via the MATLAB MCP Server and curated skills, enabling trusted engineering and scientific computing workflows with idiomatic code generation, testing, and error diagnosis in Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini CLI (686+ stars, BSD-3-Clause, 2026)
PanAbyss is a tool for exploring and visualizing pangenome graphs. It allows users to search for and display regions of a pangenome using coordinates on a reference individual or based on annotations. It also enables searching for regions associated with a selected set of individuals (for example, those linked to a phenotype), computing proximity trees, and retrieving sequences from a given region.
Python Library for Automating Molecular Simulation: input preparation, job execution, file management, output processing and building data workflows.
PyTorch toolkit for deep neural networks in atomistic simulations, implementing SchNet, DimeNet++, PaiNN, and GemNet for molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry (900+ stars)
High-Throughput Molecular Dynamics: Programming Environment for Molecular Discovery.
Machine learning in Julia
Non-invasive decoding of typed sentences from MEG and EEG brain recordings using a convolutional encoder, transformer, and character-level language model; official code for the Nature Neuroscience paper and Meta blog post on brain-AI communication (Meta FAIR, 894+ stars, CC BY-NC 4.0, 2026)
SAMtools and BCFtools are widely used programs for processing and analysing high-throughput sequencing data. They include tools for file format conversion and manipulation, sorting, querying, statistics, variant calling, and effect analysis amongst other methods.
The main purpose of HTSlib is to provide access to genomic information files, both alignment data (SAM, BAM, and CRAM formats) and variant data (VCF and BCF formats). The library also provides interfaces to access and index genome reference data in FASTA format and tab-delimited files with genomic coordinates. It is utilized and incorporated into both SAMtools and BCFtools.
dadi is a bioinformatics tool for inferring demographic history and selection from genetic data using diffusion approximations, offering speed and flexibility in modeling population dynamics. It supports up to three populations with customizable parameters and provides efficient computational performance.
Meta's comprehensive ML ecosystem for materials/chemistry with 118M+ DFT calculations, EquiformerV2 models achieving top Matbench Discovery performance
Acausal modeling framework for automatically parallelized scientific machine learning (1.5k+ stars)
A library for processing, analyzing and modeling spectroscopic data.
AI-powered note linking and research graph navigation
Universal pretrained neural network potential with charge and magnetic moment awareness, trained on 1.5M+ Materials Project inorganic structures for charge-informed molecular dynamics and phase diagram prediction (Berkeley, Nature Machine Intelligence 2023 Cover)
PyTorch-based differentiable programming framework for physics-informed system identification, parametric constrained optimization, and model predictive control, integrating neural operators, neural ODEs, KANs, SINDy, and differentiable predictive control with 30+ tutorials (1.3k+ stars, BSD License)
Microsoft's foundation model for the Earth system supporting weather, air pollution, and ocean wave forecasting at multiple resolutions, trained on 1M+ hours of diverse atmospheric data (Nature 2025)
Composable computational-science methodology skills for AI research agents emphasizing pre-registration, reproducible workspaces, and red-team review to guard against p-hacking and HARKing; zero third-party dependencies and runs with any agent harness plus a POSIX shell (281+ stars, MIT License, 2026)
An object-oriented, webGL based JavaScript library for online molecular visualization.
Julia differential equations suite
Differentiable tokamak core transport simulator for fusion energy research, coupling PDE solvers with JAX auto-differentiation and neural-network surrogates for fast forward modelling, pulse-design, and trajectory optimization (Google DeepMind, Apache 2.0)
Frontier protein language models (300M/600M/6B) trained on billions of protein sequences, establishing a new unsupervised scaling frontier beyond ESM2 with emergent long-range structural understanding; ships with ESMFold2 structure prediction (SOTA DockQ pass-rates on Foldbench protein-protein and antibody-antigen complexes, lab-validated de novo binder/scFv design protocol) and the ESM Atlas mapping 6.8B proteins with sparse-autoencoder-interpretable world-model features (2.9K+ stars, 2025-2026)
Chemical reaction network and systems biology interface for scientific machine learning (SciML), enabling high-performance, GPU-parallelized simulation and analysis of complex biochemical systems with O(1) solvers (SciML, 518+ stars, Julia)
Library of descriptors to aid in the data-mining of materials properties, created by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines, enabling reproducible social science research with AI agents (Stanford REAP & CoPaper.AI, 3K+ stars, 2026)
Scientific Computing for Chemists with Python is a Jupyter book teaching basic python in chemistry skills, including relevant libraries, and applies them to solving chemical problems.
Flow-based generative model for atomistic protein binder design with test-time optimization, SOTA on binder benchmarks (ICLR 2026 Oral, NVIDIA)
Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline-External caller scripts and documentation
Freely available tools for biological computing in Python, with included cookbook, packaging and thorough documentation. Part of the [Open Bioinformatics Foundation](http://open-bio.org/). Contains the very useful [Entrez](https://biopython.org/DIST/docs/api/Bio.Entrez-module.html) package for API access to the NCBI databases.
A package to 'build' collections of materials properties from the output of computational materials calculations.
BCFtools is a set of utilities that manipulate variant calls in the Variant Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF. All commands work transparently with both VCFs and BCFs, both uncompressed and BGZF-compressed.