Google Summer of Code Registered
Open Bioinformatics Foundation: Promoting practice & philosophy of OSS & Open Science in biological research.
National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB): The National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB) organizes the development of free, open source software to enable network-based visualization, analysis, and biomedical discovery.
INCF: INCF advances data reuse and reproducibility in brain research by coordinating the development of Open, FAIR, and Citable tools and resources for neuroscience.
Computational Biology @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Our organization develops tools for bioinformatics and computational biology research. Our goal is to further knowledge in health through data visualization and analysis.
Biomedical Informatics, Emory University: Big Data for Healthcare and Biomedical Research
Ensembl: The Ensembl project maintains and updates databases that annotate a wide number of genome sequences and distributes them freely to the worldwide research community.
R project for statistical computing: R provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. R is often the tool of choice for research in statistical methodology.
InterMine: InterMine integrates biological data sources and makes it easy to query, visualise, and analyse the data via a graphical user interface or via APIs in Python, R, Perl, and more.
NumFOCUS: NumFOCUS supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific software.
PEcAn Project: PEcAn is an integrated ecoinformatics toolbox that consists of a set of scientific workflows that wrap around ecosystem models and manage flow of information in and out of models
Project-based community
Bioconductor: It provide tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data.
galaxyproject: Galaxy is an open, web-based platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational biomedical research.
bioconda: A channel for the conda package manager specializing in bioinformatics software.
biopython: An international association of developers of freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology.
samtools: Tools (written in C using htslib) for manipulating next-generation sequencing data.
opengene: Open source tools for NGS data analysis.
MultiQC: Aggregate results from bioinformatics analyses across many samples into a single report.
Gatk: GATK4 aims to bring together well-established tools from the GATK and Picard codebases under a streamlined framework, and to enable selected tools to be run in a massively parallel way on local clusters or in the cloud using Apache Spark. It also contains many newly developed tools not present in earlier releases of the toolkit.
nextflow: A bioinformatics workflow manager that enables the development of portable and reproducible workflows.
spack: A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
omicX: Reap the rewards of a biological insight engine.
cbioportal: The cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics provides visualization, analysis, and download of large-scale cancer genomics data sets.
Others
bioinformatics.org: Bioinformatics community open to all people.
Bioinformatics at EMBL: The EMBL community provides bioinformaticians with excellent opportunities for collaboration with experimental scientists and other bioinformaticians, access to state-of-the-art computing resources and other support infrastructure. Computational analysis of biological data is important at all EMBL locations, including almost 200 bioinformaticians in Heidelberg and 500 at the EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.
ACACIA: The Bioinformatics Community of Practise aims to build a self-sustaining network to enable Africa reapthe benefits of the genomicera in improvingits agricultural productivity.
ETWG Bioinformatics Community of Practice: A group to share information related to Bioinformatics tools, data handling, methods, and resources.
Biostars: Q&A in bioinformatics.
Zenodo: Built and developed by researchers, to ensure that everyone can join in Open Science.
ResearchGate: The professional network for scientists and researchers. Over 15million members from all over the world use it to share, discover, and discuss research. We’re guided by our mission to connect the world of science and make research open to all.
Biotrainee: Chinese community in Bioinformatics
biocoder: Chinese community in Bioinformatics
Zhihu | Bioinformatics: Chinese Q&A Community.
muchong: Chinese BBS for scientific research.
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