Basic researchers

UCSC Genome Browser

UCSC Genome Browser is an interactive website offering access to genome sequence data from a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate species and major model organisms, integrated with a large collection of aligned annotations. The Browser is a graphical viewer optimized to support fast, interactive performance. It is an open-source, web-based tool suite built on top of a MySQL database for rapid visualization, examination, and querying of data at many levels. 

Sequencher

Sequencher empowers the benchtop scientist by bringing the latest peer-reviewed NGS algorithms out of the command line and into an intuitive point and click interface. Whether performing reference-guided alignments, de novo assembly, variant calling, or SNP analyses.

Qlucore Omics Explorer

Qlucore Omics Explorer facilitates a dynamic, visualization-guided analysis of OMICs data, applicable to various phases of a discovery cycle. What differentiates Qlucore is the combination of speed, advanced analytics, seamless workflow, and simplicity. With Qlucore you can visualize, QC, apply statistics, and create publication-ready graphics, such as 3D Principal Component Analysis, heat maps, and various 2D plots.

eLabJournal: Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN)

eLabJournal is an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) application. It’s used in the lab to efficiently organize research data, collaborate and share information, and streamline communication. It is an intuitive electronic notebook that allows users to log data by adding text, protocols, drawings, images, and tables as well as setup sample types, storage units, and other relevant experiment sample information. eLab includes regulatory and compliance features such as electronic signatures, audit trails, and FDA compliance.

EndNote

EndNote is a product from Clarivate Analytics and is the industry-standard software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations, and references.

GenePattern

GenePattern is a powerful scientific workflow system that provides access to more than 220 genomic analysis tools. You can use the analysis tools as building blocks to design sophisticated analysis pipelines that capture the methods, parameters, and data used to produce analysis results. Pipelines can be used to create, edit, and share reproducible in silico results. For more information, please visit the Bioinformatics Service page.

Galaxy

Galaxy is a scientific workflow, data integration, and analysis platform that aims to make computational biology accessible to research scientists who do not have computer programming experience. Although it was initially developed for genomics research, it is largely domain agnostic and is now used as a general bioinformatics workflow management system. To learn more about NGS Analysis with Galaxy and IGV, please visit RCApps.

GraphPad Prism

GraphPad Prism, available for both PCs and Macs, is a powerful statistical tool that combines scientific graphing, nonlinear regression, understandable statistics, and data organization