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BIOSZEN is an open-source R package and modular Shiny application for reproducible analysis and visualization of experimental biological data from Excel or CSV files. It supports statistical testing, control-based normalization, replicate-aware quality control, and customizable scientific plots. Its microbial growth-curve module analyzes optical-density time series and automatically extracts quantitative growth parameters, including maximum specific growth rate (µMax), doubling time, lag time, maximum optical density (ODmax), time to maximum growth, area under the curve (AUC), and initial optical density (OD0). Results can be exported as processed datasets, statistical summaries, analysis metadata, scientific graphics, and editable PowerPoint figures.

A library of core preprocessing routines.

MiRA (Multilayer Interactive Rendering Application) is a free, browser-based, installation-free tool for interactive visualisation of multilayer networks in ecology and biology. While developed with biology in mind, MiRA can render any multilayer network. Available as a standalone web app and also fully integrated into the emln R package.

Segment Anything Model for microscopy: interactive and automatic segmentation of light, electron, and fluorescence microscopy images in 2D and 3D, with domain-specific fine-tuning workflows for scientific imaging (1.5K+ stars)

Provides an R interface for various subsampling algorithms implemented in python packages. Currently, interfaces to the geosketch and scSampler python packages are implemented. In addition it also provides diagnostic plots to evaluate the subsampling.

Chemical Information from the Web.

AI co-author covering the entire research lifecycle — from an under-specified research direction to a published paper; includes ResearchStudio-Idea for evidence-grounded research ideation and ResearchStudio-Reel for turning finished papers into posters, narrated videos, blogs, and interactive reels; runs as skills on Claude Code and Codex (1.2K+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

RejuvenationKit is an open-source Python toolkit for reproducible auditing and analysis of longitudinal preclinical rejuvenation studies. It provides protocol-aware missingness checks, experimental-confounding diagnostics, attrition and analysis-readiness profiling, covariance-aware multichannel change detection, sequential response monitoring, randomized longitudinal inference, visualization, and integrity-tracked report bundles.

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)

GAIn is a platform for annotating genetic variants, genomic positions, and regions with reproducible, declarative pipelines using curated Genomic Resource Repositories.

Self-evolving AI scientist with 6 specialized sub-agents (plan/research/code/debug/analyze/write) and persistent memory, #1 on DeepResearch Bench II and AstaBench, supporting multi-provider LLMs and multi-channel deployment (Apache 2.0, 2026)

197 bioinformatics and life science skills for Claude Code and AI agents, achieving 92.0% accuracy on BixBench. Covers RNA-seq, single-cell analysis, drug discovery, proteomics, and more. Powers OmicsHorizon (195+ stars, 2026)

Regional Association of Methylome variability with the Exposome and geNome (RAMEN) is an R package whose goal is to identify genome-wide Variable Methylated Loci (VML) from microarray DNA methylation data; then, using genomic and exposomic data, it can identify which model out of the following explains best the DNA methylation variability at each VML: genetic (G), environmental (E), additive (G+E) or interactive (GxE).

Curated open dataset collection of 602M+ observational and perturbational single-cell profiles for accelerating virtual cell model creation, integrating Tahoe-100M and scBaseCount data with Google Cloud Marketplace distribution (Arc Institute, 2025-2026)

Markerless pose estimation of user-defined features with deep learning for all animals including humans, enabling quantitative behavioral analysis in neuroscience and ethology (Nature Neuroscience 2018, 5.6K+ stars)

It is a web-application for visual and interactive gene expression analysis. Phantasus is based on Morpheus – a web-based software for heatmap visualisation and analysis, which was integrated with an R environment via OpenCPU API. Aside from basic visualization and filtering methods, R-based methods such as k-means clustering, principal component analysis or differential expression analysis with limma package are supported.

A compressor of common genomic file formats (BAM, CRAM, FASTQ, VCF etc).

MetaboLights is one of the main public repositories for storage of metabolomics experiments, which includes analysis results as well as raw data. The MsBackendMetaboLights package provides functionality to retrieve and represent mass spectrometry (MS) data from MetaboLights. Data files are downloaded and cached locally avoiding repetitive downloads. MS data from metabolomics experiments can thus be directly and seamlessly integrated into R-based analysis workflows with the Spectra and MsBackendMetaboLights package.

Implements R bindings to C++ code for analyzing single-cell (expression) data, mostly from various libscran libraries. Each function performs an individual step in the single-cell analysis workflow, ranging from quality control to clustering and marker detection. Additional wrappers are provided for easy construction of end-to-end workflows involving Bioconductor objects like SingleCellExperiments.

FAIR EVA: Evaluator, Validator & Advisor has been developed to check the FAIRness level of digital objects from different repositories or data portals. It requires the object identifier (preferably persistent and unique identifier) and the repository to check. It also provides a generic and agnostic way to check digital objects. This software started to be developed within IFCA-Advanced-Computing receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857647.

A much faster analytical implementation of chromVAR, with additional features, used to infer TF activity from (bulk or single-cell) ATAC-seq data and motif annotations (or binding probabilities). The package also includes the CVnorm normalization method based on the chromVAR logic.

Accessible protein design platform via Google Colab integrating AlphaFold2, RoseTTAFold, and ProteinMPNN for de novo hallucination, fixed backbone design, and binder design (Sergey Ovchinnikov, 2022+)

Offline-first scientific writing workspace powered by Claude, integrating LaTeX, Python, and 100+ scientific skills with local execution, Zotero integration, and privacy-focused design (2026)

Curated list of atomistic ML projects for materials science

Vendors an assortment of useful header-only C++ libraries. Bioconductor packages can use these libraries in their own C++ code by LinkingTo this package without introducing any additional dependencies. The use of a central repository avoids duplicate vendoring of libraries across multiple R packages, and enables better coordination of version updates across cohorts of interdependent C++ libraries.

SOTA multimodal document parsing with 1.2B parameters outperforming GPT-4o, converts PDFs to LLM-ready Markdown/JSON

This package provides functions for handling and analyzing immune receptor repertoire data, such as produced by the CellRanger V(D)J pipeline. This includes reading the data into R, merging it with paired single-cell data, quantifying clonotype abundances, calculating diversity metrics, and producing common plots. It implements the E-M Algorithm for clonotype assignment, along with other methods, which makes use of ambiguous cells for improved quantification.

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)

Diffusion-based generative model for inorganic materials design, steering generation by chemistry, symmetry, bulk modulus, band gap, or magnetic properties, 2× more likely to produce stable novel structures than prior methods, experimentally validated with synthesized TaCr₂O₆ (Microsoft, Nature 2025)

The miaViz package implements functions to visualize TreeSummarizedExperiment objects especially in the context of microbiome analysis. Part of the mia family of R/Bioconductor packages.

Implements exact and approximate methods for singular value decomposition and principal components analysis, in a framework that allows them to be easily switched within Bioconductor packages or workflows. Where possible, parallelization is achieved using the BiocParallel framework.

The 'msa' package provides a unified R/Bioconductor interface to the multiple sequence alignment algorithms ClustalW, ClustalOmega, and Muscle. All three algorithms are integrated in the package, therefore, they do not depend on any external software tools and are available for all major platforms. The multiple sequence alignment algorithms are complemented by a function for pretty-printing multiple sequence alignments using the LaTeX package TeXshade.

From https://anndata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ "Python package for handling annotated data matrices in memory and on disk, positioned between pandas and xarray."

A teaching platform for computer-aided drug design (CADD) using open source packages and data.

Exon-intron split analysis (EISA) uses ordinary RNA-seq data to measure changes in mature RNA and pre-mRNA reads across different experimental conditions to quantify transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. For details see Gaidatzis et al., Nat Biotechnol 2015. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3269. eisaR implements the major steps of EISA in R.

Open-source construction ERP with AI-powered cost matching, BOQ generation, and PDF/CAD/BIM takeoff; 42 regional catalogues, 21 languages, 71 modules (DataDrivenConstruction, 717+ stars, AGPL-3.0, 2026)

Biological simulation tools

Multi-modal geospatial ML platform for agriculture and sustainability, fusing satellite imagery (RGB, SAR, multispectral), drone imagery, weather data, and sensor data for crop identification, carbon footprint estimation, and microclimate prediction (Microsoft Research, MIT License)

Python wrapper for [bedtools](https://github.com/arq5x/bedtools).

Oxford Nanopore's official deep-learning basecaller for nanopore sequencing, converting raw electrical signals into DNA/RNA sequences with integrated modified-base (methylation) detection and efficient CPU/GPU inference; foundational tool for long-read genomics, epigenetics, and real-time sequencing analysis (nanoporetech, 846+ stars, actively maintained)

Reads Bruker NMR data directories both zipped and unzipped. It provides automated and efficient signal processing for untargeted NMR metabolomics. It is able to interpolate the samples, detect outliers, exclude regions, normalize, detect peaks, align the spectra, integrate peaks, manage metadata and visualize the spectra. After spectra proccessing, it can apply multivariate analysis on extracted data. Efficient plotting with 1-D data is also available. Basic reading of 1D ACD/Labs exported JDX samples is also available.

High-accuracy RAG for scientific PDFs with citation support, agentic RAG, and contradiction detection

Software comprehensive pan-genome variant detection pipeline to identify genetic variations across diverse populations. It supports execution on both local machines and Sun Grid Engine (SGE) clusters. Leveraging pan-genome references, the tool enables high-precision detection of Single Nucleotide Variants (SNVs), INDELs.

PhyloProfile is a tool for exploring complex phylogenetic profiles. Phylogenetic profiles, presence/absence patterns of genes over a set of species, are commonly used to trace the functional and evolutionary history of genes across species and time. With PhyloProfile we can enrich regular phylogenetic profiles with further data like sequence/structure similarity, to make phylogenetic profiling more meaningful. Besides the interactive visualisation powered by R-Shiny, the package offers a set of further analysis features to gain insights like the gene age estimation or core gene identification.

World's first fully open, accelerated weather AI software stack with Medium Range forecasting and Nowcasting models using generative AI (January 2026)

BOLD-Local-DB converts the public TSV/tar.gz data package downloaded from BOLD Systems into a local, indexed SQLite database that can be searched entirely offline. It has two components: a Creator (desktop GUI) that filters, imports, indexes, and optionally adds full-text search to the downloaded data; and a local web viewer for advanced field search, full-text search, batch search by term list, and CSV/FASTA export. Intended for researchers who need to query large BOLD exports (DNA barcode records, taxonomy, collection metadata) repeatedly without depending on an internet connection or BOLD's rate limits.

blue-crab is a tool to convert from ONT POD5 format to the community maintained SLOW5/BLOW5 format. Lossless nanopore pod5 s/blow5 file conversion.

A library containing basis sets for use in quantum chemistry calculations. In addition, this library has functionality for manipulation of basis set data.

FlowVision is offline flow cytometry analysis software for Windows and macOS. It supports FCS 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 file formats, polygon/rectangle/ellipse/quadrant gating with auto-fit (snap to cluster), spillover compensation, biexponential and hyperlog scales, MFI statistics (median, geometric mean, CV%), multi-file batch analysis with per-file gate overrides, and hierarchical gating. Spectral unmixing supports linear, NNLS, and Poisson-weighted least squares algorithms, with autofluorescence extraction and spillover spreading matrix. UMAP dimensionality reduction with reproducible seed and landmark mode for high-parameter panels. Imports FlowJo .wsp (compensation matrix) and exports gates to FlowJo .wsp and Gating-ML 2.0 (ISAC open standard) for interoperability with FlowJo, R/flowWorkspace/CytoML, and FCS Express.

pathlinkR is an R package designed to facilitate analysis of RNA-Seq results. Specifically, our aim with pathlinkR was to provide a number of tools which take a list of DE genes and perform different analyses on them, aiding with the interpretation of results. Functions are included to perform pathway enrichment, with muliplte databases supported, and tools for visualizing these results. Genes can also be used to create and plot protein-protein interaction networks, all from inside of R.