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Bioinformatics and molecular science software

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AutoDock

AutoDock is an open-source molecular docking suite developed at Scripps Research since 1989 that predicts how drug candidates bind to receptors, including AutoDock 4, Vina, and AutoDock-GPU.

CLC Genomics Workbench

CLC Genomics Workbench is a commercial desktop software package from QIAGEN for analyzing, comparing, and visualizing next-generation sequencing data, developed by CLC bio and acquired in 2013.

DNASTAR Lasergene

DNASTAR Lasergene is a commercial sequence analysis software package for molecular biology, genomics, and protein research, sold as annual licenses by DNASTAR, Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin.

Geneious

Geneious is a commercial desktop bioinformatics suite for molecular biology and sequence analysis, first released in 2005 by Biomatters of Auckland, New Zealand and now part of Dotmatics.

GraphPad Prism

GraphPad Prism is a commercial scientific software application for statistical analysis, curve fitting, and graphing, developed by GraphPad Software and aimed at laboratory and clinical researchers rather than professional statisticians.

Marvin (software)

Marvin is a family of chemical structure programs from ChemAxon, comprising MarvinSketch for drawing structures and reactions, MarvinView for viewing, and Molconvert for converting file formats; a JavaScript editor, Marvin JS, serves web environments.

PyMOL

PyMOL is a molecular visualization system for rendering and producing publication-quality images of proteins and biomolecules, created by Warren DeLano and first released in December 1999.

SnapGene

SnapGene is a commercial desktop application for molecular biology that lets researchers plan, simulate, and document DNA cloning and PCR procedures before doing them at the bench.

Thermo-Calc

Thermo-Calc is a commercial computational thermodynamics software package, first written at KTH in Stockholm in 1981, that calculates phase diagrams and material properties using the CALPHAD method.

UCSF ChimeraX

UCSF ChimeraX is a free-for-academic-use molecular visualization program from UC San Francisco, successor to UCSF Chimera, first released in 2020 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.