RESEARCH RESOURCE DIRECTORY

Research tools and resources

Search 251 tools, models, databases, and infrastructure entries by research task, pricing, platform, and source availability.

Databases

Google Scholar

A broad scholarly search service for articles, theses, books, patents, and citation records across disciplines.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
scholarly searchcitations
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AI Tools

Semantic Scholar

A free research discovery service from Ai2 that supports paper search, citation exploration, and programmatic access.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
research discoverycitation graph
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AI Tools

Consensus

A research search service that retrieves evidence from scholarly papers and presents structured responses to research questions.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFreemium
evidence searchresearch questions
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AI Tools

Elicit

A research assistant for finding papers, extracting study information, and comparing evidence in structured tables.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFreemium
paper searchevidence extraction
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AI Tools

Connected Papers

A visual discovery tool that builds a graph of related research from a seed paper.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFreemium
paper graphrelated work
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AI Tools

ResearchRabbit

A literature discovery tool for exploring connections among papers, authors, and citation networks.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
citation networkvisual discovery
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AI Tools

scite

A citation analysis service that shows whether later papers support, mention, or contrast with a cited claim.

Literature Search & DiscoveryPaid
citation contextevidence assessment
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Databases

Dimensions

A linked research information platform covering publications, grants, patents, clinical trials, and policy documents.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFreemium
research intelligencegrants
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Databases

The Lens

A search and analysis platform that connects scholarly works with patents and biological sequence information.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
patentsscholarly search
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Databases

OpenAlex

An open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, and their relationships.

Literature Search & DiscoveryOpen sourceOpen source
open dataAPI
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AI Tools

SciSpace

A research reading service for finding papers, asking questions about PDFs, and obtaining explanations of technical passages.

Research Paper ReadingFreemium
PDF questionspaper reading
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AI Tools

Explainpaper

A paper-reading tool that explains selected passages in the context of an uploaded document.

Research Paper ReadingFreemium
passage explanationPDF
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AI Tools

Scholarcy

A document summarization tool that turns papers and reports into structured summary cards with key points and references.

Research Paper ReadingFreemium
structured summariesreferences
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AI Tools

Humata

A document question-answering and summarization service designed for working with long uploaded files.

Research Paper ReadingFreemium
document questionssummaries
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AI Tools

NotebookLM

A source-grounded research notebook from Google that answers questions and creates summaries from materials supplied by the user.

Research Paper ReadingFreemium
source-grounded notesdocument synthesis
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AI Tools

ChatPDF

A web service for asking questions about a PDF and navigating back to relevant parts of the document.

Research Paper ReadingFreemium
PDF questionsdocument reading
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AI Tools

Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant

AI-assisted document features within Acrobat for summarizing files, asking questions, and generating responses linked to document sources.

Research Paper ReadingPaid
PDFdocument assistant
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AI Tools

Unriddle

A workspace for reading, taking notes, and drafting with information drawn from multiple documents.

Research Paper ReadingFreemium
research notesmulti-document reading
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Infrastructure

ReadCube Papers

A reference-management and reading platform with literature search, annotation, sharing, and citation tools.

Research Paper ReadingPaid
reference managementannotation
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Infrastructure

LiquidText

A document workspace for connecting excerpts, annotations, and notes across multiple sources.

Research Paper ReadingFreemium
deep readingannotation
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AI Tools

Litmaps

A literature discovery service that maps citation relationships and can monitor a collection for newly published work.

Literature & Systematic ReviewFreemium
literature mapsalerts
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Infrastructure

Rayyan

A review-management platform for screening records, collaborating with reviewers, resolving conflicts, and handling duplicates.

Literature & Systematic ReviewFreemium
systematic reviewscreening
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Infrastructure

Covidence

A systematic-review platform covering citation screening, full-text review, data extraction, and risk-of-bias assessment.

Literature & Systematic ReviewPaid
systematic reviewdata extraction
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AI Tools

ASReview

Open-source screening software that uses active learning to prioritize records during systematic reviews.

Literature & Systematic ReviewOpen sourceOpen source
active learningscreening
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AI Tools

EPPI-Reviewer

A collaborative platform for managing, screening, coding, and synthesizing evidence in complex reviews.

Literature & Systematic ReviewPaid
evidence synthesiscollaboration
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Infrastructure

DistillerSR

A workflow platform for systematic reviews, literature surveillance, and regulatory evidence management.

Literature & Systematic ReviewContact for pricing
systematic reviewworkflow
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Infrastructure

Sysrev

A collaborative review platform for screening documents, defining labels, and extracting structured information.

Literature & Systematic ReviewFreemium
screeningdata extraction
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AI Tools

Iris.ai

A research-discovery platform with tools for literature mapping, summarization, and information extraction.

Literature & Systematic ReviewContact for pricing
research discoverydata extraction
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AI Tools

Undermind

A research search service that iteratively explores scholarly literature from a user-defined question.

Literature & Systematic ReviewFreemium
iterative searchresearch questions
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AI Tools

Colandr

An open-source platform for evidence synthesis, including citation screening, full-text review, and data extraction.

Literature & Systematic ReviewOpen sourceOpen source
evidence synthesisopen source
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AI Tools

Paperpal

An academic writing service for language editing, manuscript checks, and publication-oriented revision.

Academic WritingFreemium
language editingmanuscript checks
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AI Tools

Writefull

An academic-language service that provides suggestions for research writing, titles, abstracts, and paraphrasing.

Academic WritingFreemium
academic languageediting
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AI Tools

Grammarly

A general English writing assistant for grammar, clarity, tone, and revision suggestions.

Academic WritingFreemium
grammarclarity
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AI Tools

Trinka

A language and style checker developed for academic and technical writing.

Academic WritingFreemium
academic editingtechnical writing
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AI Tools

QuillBot

A writing service with paraphrasing, grammar checking, summarization, and citation-related utilities.

Academic WritingFreemium
paraphrasingsummarization
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AI Tools

LanguageTool

An open-source, multilingual checker for spelling, grammar, and style, available through browser and office integrations.

Academic WritingFreemiumOpen source
grammaropen source
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Infrastructure

Zotero

An open-source reference manager for collecting, organizing, annotating, citing, and synchronizing research materials.

Academic WritingOpen sourceOpen source
reference managementcitations
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Infrastructure

EndNote

A commercial reference-management application for collecting literature, sharing libraries, and formatting citations.

Academic WritingPaid
reference managementcitation styles
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Infrastructure

Overleaf

A collaborative, browser-based LaTeX editor for papers, reports, and technical documents.

Academic WritingFreemiumOpen source
LaTeXcollaboration
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AI Tools

Jenni AI

A writing service with drafting, rewriting, citation assistance, and document question-answering features.

Academic WritingFreemium
draftingcitations
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AI Tools

Julius AI

A conversational analysis service for working with tabular data, running statistical operations, and producing visualizations.

Research Data AnalysisFreemium
tabular dataconversational analysis
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AI Tools

ChatGPT Data Analysis

A ChatGPT capability that runs code to inspect uploaded data, perform analyses, and produce tables or charts.

Research Data AnalysisFreemium
code executiondata analysis
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Infrastructure

Wolfram Mathematica

A technical computing system for symbolic mathematics, numerical methods, modeling, and visualization.

Research Data AnalysisPaid
symbolic computationscientific computing
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Infrastructure

MATLAB

A programming and numerical-computing environment used for algorithm development, data analysis, simulation, and engineering models.

Research Data AnalysisPaid
numerical computingengineering
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Infrastructure

JupyterLab

An open-source interactive computing environment that combines code, data, narrative, and visual output.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
notebooksopen source
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Infrastructure

KNIME Analytics Platform

An analytics platform for assembling data access, transformation, modeling, and machine-learning workflows from visual nodes.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
visual workflowsdata analysis
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Infrastructure

Orange Data Mining

An open-source visual programming application for data exploration, machine learning, and teaching.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
visual programmingmachine learning
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AI Tools

Dataiku

A collaborative data platform for preparation, machine learning, generative-AI projects, deployment, and governance.

Research Data AnalysisContact for pricing
data platformgovernance
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AI Tools

DataRobot

An enterprise platform for automated machine learning, model deployment, monitoring, and AI governance.

Research Data AnalysisContact for pricing
automated MLmodel governance
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AI Tools

Akkio

A web-based analytics service that combines natural-language interaction with low-code analysis, prediction, and reporting.

Research Data AnalysisPaid
low codepredictive analysis
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AI Tools

BioRender

A web-based illustration platform with life-science icons and templates for figures, mechanisms, posters, and graphical abstracts.

Scientific VisualizationFreemium
life scienceresearch figures
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Infrastructure

GraphPad Prism

A desktop application that combines biostatistical analysis, curve fitting, and scientific graphing.

Scientific VisualizationPaid
biostatisticsscientific graphs
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Infrastructure

Plotly

Open-source graphing libraries for interactive visualization in Python, R, and JavaScript, with related application tooling.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
interactive chartsPython
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Infrastructure

RAWGraphs

An open-source web application that converts tabular data into a range of conventional and less common visual forms.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
open sourcecharts
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Infrastructure

Datawrapper

A browser-based tool for creating and publishing charts, maps, and tables without programming.

Scientific VisualizationFreemium
chartsmaps
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Infrastructure

Flourish

A template-based platform for interactive visualizations, animated charts, maps, and data stories.

Scientific VisualizationFreemium
data storiesinteractive graphics
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Infrastructure

Tableau

A visual analytics platform for connecting data, exploring relationships, building dashboards, and sharing results.

Scientific VisualizationPaid
visual analyticsdashboards
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Infrastructure

OriginPro

A Windows application for scientific data analysis, curve fitting, and publication-oriented graphing.

Scientific VisualizationPaid
scientific graphingcurve fitting
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Infrastructure

ggplot2

An open-source R package based on a grammar of graphics for building reproducible statistical visualizations.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
Ropen source
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Infrastructure

Matplotlib

An open-source Python library for static, animated, and interactive visualizations.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
Pythonopen source
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Models

AlphaFold

DeepMind's protein-structure prediction system, with open AlphaFold 2 code and a public database of predicted structures.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
proteinsstructure prediction
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Infrastructure

Benchling

A cloud platform for biotechnology research that combines electronic lab records, sequence tools, and research data management.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchContact for pricing
electronic lab notebooksequence design
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Infrastructure

DeepChem

An open-source Python library for applying machine learning to drug discovery, quantum chemistry, biology, and materials problems.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
drug discoverymachine learning
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Infrastructure

NVIDIA BioNeMo

A collection of frameworks, models, and deployment tools for generative AI in biomolecular and drug research.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchContact for pricing
biomolecular AIdrug research
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Models

OpenFold

A trainable open-source implementation of AlphaFold 2 intended for protein-structure research and model development.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
proteinsopen model
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AI Tools

ColabFold

An open-source workflow that combines accelerated sequence search with AlphaFold-based structure prediction.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
proteinsstructure prediction
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Infrastructure

NCBI BLAST

NCBI sequence-search tools for finding local similarity between nucleotide or protein queries and sequence databases.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchFreeOpen source
sequence searchbioinformatics
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Infrastructure

Galaxy

An open web platform for running, documenting, and sharing reproducible computational biology workflows.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
bioinformaticsreproducible workflows
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Infrastructure

CellProfiler

Open-source software for building pipelines that measure cellular and other biological features in microscopy images.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
microscopycell analysis
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Infrastructure

MONAI

An open-source framework built on PyTorch for developing and deploying deep-learning workflows in medical imaging.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
medical imagingdeep learning
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Databases

Materials Project

An open resource of computed materials data with web and API tools for exploring structures and predicted properties.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFreeOpen source
materials databasecomputed properties
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Models

GNoME

A Google DeepMind research system and dataset for predicting the stability of candidate inorganic materials with graph neural networks.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFree
materials discoverygraph neural networks
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Models

MatterGen

An open-source generative model from Microsoft Research for proposing inorganic crystal structures, including property-conditioned generation.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
generative modelinorganic materials
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AI Tools

IBM RXN for Chemistry

A machine-learning platform for reaction prediction and retrosynthesis. IBM states that the hosted service and APIs will close on October 28, 2026; a self-hostable version is available.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFree
reaction predictionretrosynthesis
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Infrastructure

ChemDraw

A professional chemistry application for drawing structures and reactions and working with chemical information.

Chemistry & Materials SciencePaid
chemical drawingstructures
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Infrastructure

RDKit

An open-source cheminformatics toolkit for molecular representations, descriptors, substructure search, and modeling workflows.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
cheminformaticsPython
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Databases

PubChem

An open chemical information resource from NCBI covering compounds, substances, identifiers, properties, and biological activities.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFree
chemical databasecompounds
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Databases

ChEMBL

An open EMBL-EBI database of curated bioactivity data for drug-like molecules and their biological targets.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFreeOpen source
bioactivitydrug data
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Databases

CAS SciFinder

A commercial research platform for searching chemical substances, reactions, literature, and supplier information.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceContact for pricing
chemical searchreactions
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Infrastructure

Quantum ESPRESSO

An open-source suite for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling based on plane waves and pseudopotentials.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
electronic structurefirst principles
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Infrastructure

Biopython

An open-source Python toolkit for computational biology, including sequence, structure, database, and file-format operations.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
bioinformaticsPython
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Infrastructure

Scanpy

An open-source Python toolkit for preprocessing, reducing, clustering, and visualizing single-cell gene-expression data.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
single celltranscriptomics
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Infrastructure

scvi-tools

An open-source Python package that provides probabilistic generative models and a shared interface for single-cell omics.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
single cellprobabilistic models
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Infrastructure

Nextflow

An open-source workflow system for portable and scalable computational pipelines, widely used in bioinformatics.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
workflowsreproducible computing
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Infrastructure

Snakemake

An open-source workflow manager that expresses analysis steps and their dependencies as rules.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
workflowsdata pipelines
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Infrastructure

nf-core

A community project that maintains Nextflow pipelines under shared development, testing, and release practices.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
bioinformatics pipelinesNextflow
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AI Tools

DeepVariant

An open-source pipeline that uses a deep neural network to call genetic variants from aligned sequencing reads.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
variant callingdeep learning
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AI Tools

Cellpose

Open-source deep-learning software for segmenting cells and other objects in microscopy images.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
microscopysegmentation
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AI Tools

ilastik

An open-source desktop application for interactive machine-learning workflows such as pixel and object classification.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
bioimage analysisinteractive learning
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Infrastructure

napari

An open-source Python viewer for inspecting, annotating, and analyzing multidimensional scientific images.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
multidimensional imagingannotation
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Infrastructure

QuPath

Open-source desktop software for digital pathology and whole-slide image analysis.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
digital pathologywhole-slide imaging
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Infrastructure

Fiji

A distribution of ImageJ bundled with plugins and update sites for scientific image analysis, especially in life sciences.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
scientific imagingImageJ
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Infrastructure

OMERO

An open platform for managing, viewing, sharing, and analyzing microscopy images with their metadata.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
image data managementmicroscopy
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Infrastructure

AutoDock Vina

An open-source program for predicting and scoring candidate binding poses between small molecules and receptors.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
molecular dockingvirtual screening
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Infrastructure

OpenMM

An open-source molecular simulation toolkit with a Python API and support for GPU acceleration.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
molecular dynamicsGPU
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Infrastructure

OpenFE

An open-source toolkit and community project for setting up, running, and analyzing relative binding free-energy calculations.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
binding free energydrug discovery
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Models

DiffDock

Research code that applies a diffusion-based generative model to predict protein-small-molecule ligand binding poses.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
molecular dockingdiffusion model
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AI Tools

AiZynthFinder

An open-source retrosynthesis planning tool that combines Monte Carlo tree search with learned reaction models.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
retrosynthesisroute planning
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AI Tools

REINVENT 4

An open-source command-line system for generative molecular design and multi-objective optimization using recurrent and Transformer models.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
molecular generationdrug design
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Infrastructure

pymatgen

An open-source Python library for representing, transforming, and analyzing materials structures and computational outputs.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
materials informaticsPython
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Infrastructure

Atomic Simulation Environment

An open-source Python toolkit for setting up, running, and analyzing atomistic simulations across multiple calculators.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
atomistic simulationPython
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Infrastructure

LAMMPS

An open-source parallel simulation engine for classical molecular dynamics and particle-based materials modeling.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
molecular dynamicsparallel computing
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Databases

NOMAD

An open materials-science platform for storing, normalizing, searching, and analyzing computational research data.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFreeOpen source
materials dataresearch infrastructure
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Databases

AFLOW

A research platform providing high-throughput computational materials data, crystal prototypes, and programmatic search interfaces.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFree
high-throughput computingmaterials database
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Infrastructure

DeePMD-kit

An open-source package for training deep neural-network interatomic potentials and using them in molecular simulation.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
machine-learned potentialsmolecular simulation
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Infrastructure

SchNetPack

An open-source PyTorch toolbox for developing and training atomistic machine-learning models.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
atomistic machine learningPyTorch
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Infrastructure

ParaView

An open-source application for interactive analysis and visualization of large two- and three-dimensional scientific datasets.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
3D visualizationscientific computing
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Infrastructure

UCSF ChimeraX

Desktop software for visualization and analysis of molecular structures, density maps, and related biomedical data.

Scientific VisualizationFreemium
molecular visualizationstructural biology
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Infrastructure

VMD

Software for displaying, analyzing, and rendering molecular systems and simulation trajectories.

Scientific VisualizationFree
molecular visualizationsimulation trajectories
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Infrastructure

seaborn

An open-source Python statistical-graphics library built on Matplotlib with a high-level, data-frame-oriented interface.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
statistical graphicsPython
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Infrastructure

Seurat

An open-source R package for quality control, analysis, integration, and visualization of single-cell transcriptomic data.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
single cellR
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Infrastructure

Bioconductor

An open bioinformatics software ecosystem built around R, with analysis, annotation, experiment-data, and workflow packages.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
bioinformaticsR
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Infrastructure

GATK

An open-source genomics toolkit from the Broad Institute focused on variant discovery, genotyping, and related sequencing-data processing.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
variant callinggenomics
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AI Tools

DeepSomatic

Open-source software that uses a deep neural network to call somatic variants from tumor-normal or tumor-only sequencing data.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
somatic variantsdeep learning
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Infrastructure

STAR

An open-source splice-aware aligner designed for RNA sequencing reads.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
RNA-seqalignment
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Infrastructure

Salmon

An open-source command-line tool for estimating transcript abundance from RNA-seq data using selective alignment or sketching methods.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
RNA-seqquantification
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Infrastructure

kallisto

An open-source tool that uses pseudoalignment to estimate transcript abundance from bulk or single-cell RNA-seq data.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
RNA-seqpseudoalignment
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Infrastructure

Hail

An open-source Python framework for scalable genomic data analysis across local, cloud, and Spark environments.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
population genomicsdistributed computing
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Infrastructure

PLINK 2

An open-source command-line toolset for genome-wide association studies, genotype quality control, and population-genetic analysis.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
GWASgenotypes
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Infrastructure

SAMtools

An open-source command-line suite for reading, converting, sorting, indexing, and summarizing SAM, BAM, and CRAM alignment files.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
alignment filessequencing
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Infrastructure

MultiQC

An open-source tool that aggregates outputs from many bioinformatics programs and samples into a unified quality-control report.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
quality controlbioinformatics reports
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Infrastructure

Cell Ranger

A set of 10x Genomics pipelines for processing Chromium single-cell data, including barcode handling, UMI counting, and selected immune-receptor analyses.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchFree
single-cell sequencing10x Genomics
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Infrastructure

BCFtools

An open-source command-line suite for manipulating, querying, filtering, summarizing, and calling variants in VCF, BCF, and gVCF data.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
variant filesgenomics
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Infrastructure

Ensembl VEP

An open-source Ensembl tool that annotates the potential consequences of genomic variants on transcripts, proteins, and regulatory regions.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
variant annotationfunctional consequences
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Databases

Ensembl

An open research resource providing vertebrate genomes, gene annotation, comparative genomics, and variation data through browsers and programmatic interfaces.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
genome databasegene annotation
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Databases

UniProt

A public knowledgebase that integrates protein sequences, functional information, and cross-references, with both reviewed and computationally annotated records.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchFree
protein databasefunctional annotation
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Databases

InterPro

A public resource that integrates protein signatures from member databases to classify families and identify domains and functional sites.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchFree
protein familiesdomains
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Infrastructure

IGV

An open-source genome viewer for interactively examining sequencing, variation, annotation, and other data positioned on reference genomes.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
genome browservisualization
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AI Tools

StarDist

Open-source deep-learning software for instance segmentation of approximately star-convex objects in two- and three-dimensional microscopy images.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
microscopyinstance segmentation
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Infrastructure

ImageJ

Extensible open-source desktop software for displaying, processing, measuring, and analyzing scientific images.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
scientific imagesimage analysis
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Infrastructure

Micro-Manager

Open-source software for controlling automated microscope hardware and running time-lapse, multichannel, and z-stack acquisitions.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
microscope controlimage acquisition
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Infrastructure

Squidpy

An open-source Python tool for spatial molecular data analysis, including neighborhood graphs, spatial statistics, and tissue-image integration.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
spatial omicssingle cell
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Infrastructure

SpatialData

An open-source data framework, schema, and serialization format for representing, transforming, and querying uni- and multimodal spatial omics data.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
spatial omicsdata framework
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AI Tools

GNINA

An open-source command-line program that integrates convolutional-neural-network scoring and ligand optimization into molecular docking.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
molecular dockingdeep learning
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Infrastructure

TorchDrug

An open-source PyTorch toolbox for graph representation learning in drug discovery, with components for molecules, proteins, reactions, and knowledge graphs.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
drug discoverygraph neural networks
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Databases

Therapeutics Data Commons

An open research resource and Python package providing therapeutic machine-learning tasks, datasets, evaluation functions, benchmarks, and leaderboards.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
therapeutic dataML benchmarks
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Infrastructure

DeepPurpose

An open-source deep-learning toolkit for drug-target interaction, molecular-property, and related biomedical prediction tasks.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
drug-target interactiondeep learning
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Infrastructure

GROMACS

Open-source high-performance software for molecular-dynamics simulation, energy minimization, and trajectory analysis.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
molecular dynamicssimulation
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Infrastructure

SwissDock

A free research service for submitting protein-small-molecule docking jobs through a web interface and examining candidate poses.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchFree
molecular dockingweb service
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Infrastructure

SwissADME

A free web tool that calculates molecular descriptors and predicts selected ADME, pharmacokinetic, and drug-likeness properties.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchFree
ADMEpharmacokinetics
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Models

Boltz

An open-source family of models and inference software for biomolecular complex structure and selected binding-affinity predictions.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
biomolecular structurebinding affinity
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Models

RFdiffusion

Open-source research code and model weights for diffusion-based generation of protein backbones, motif scaffolds, and symmetric structures.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
protein designdiffusion model
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Databases

OQMD

An open quantum-materials database of structures, formation energies, and stability data derived from density-functional-theory calculations.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFree
materials databaseDFT
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Infrastructure

NequIP

An open-source framework for training E(3)-equivariant machine-learning interatomic potentials, with integrations for ASE and LAMMPS workflows.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
machine-learning potentialsequivariant networks
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Infrastructure

MACE

An open-source PyTorch framework for training and deploying machine-learning interatomic potentials with higher-order equivariant message passing.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
machine-learning potentialsatomistic simulation
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Models

CHGNet

A pretrained graph-neural-network potential and open-source tools for charge-informed atomistic prediction and fine-tuning.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
neural potentialsmaterials simulation
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Infrastructure

MatGL

An open-source Python library for graph deep learning, property prediction, and machine-learning potential development in materials science and chemistry.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
materials graph learningmachine-learning potentials
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Infrastructure

DScribe

An open-source Python package that converts atomic structures into fixed-size numerical descriptors such as SOAP and MBTR.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
atomic descriptorsmaterials ML
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Infrastructure

phonopy

Open-source software for phonon spectra, density-of-states, and thermal-property calculations within harmonic and quasi-harmonic approximations.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
phononslattice dynamics
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Infrastructure

GPAW

Open-source Python software for density-functional-theory calculations using the projector-augmented-wave method and the Atomic Simulation Environment.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
DFTelectronic structure
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Infrastructure

CP2K

Open-source high-performance software for quantum chemistry and atomistic simulation of solids, liquids, molecules, and biological systems.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
quantum chemistryatomistic simulation
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Infrastructure

VASP

Proprietary research software for first-principles electronic-structure, materials-property, and quantum molecular-dynamics calculations.

Chemistry & Materials SciencePaid
first principleselectronic structure
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Infrastructure

ABINIT

An open-source suite for DFT, perturbation-theory, and many-body electronic-structure calculations on materials and molecules.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
DFTmany-body methods
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SIESTA

Open-source software that uses strictly localized atomic orbitals for electronic-structure and first-principles molecular-dynamics calculations on molecules and solids.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
DFTlocalized orbitals
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OpenMX

Open-source software using pseudo-atomic localized basis functions for electronic-structure, molecular-dynamics, and transport calculations in nanoscale materials.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
DFTnanomaterials
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Vega-Lite

An open-source high-level grammar and toolchain for defining interactive statistical graphics with concise declarative JSON specifications.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
declarative visualizationinteractive charts
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Vega-Altair

An open-source Python library that builds declarative statistical visualizations on the Vega-Lite specification.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
statistical visualizationPython
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Infrastructure

Bokeh

An open-source Python library for interactive browser graphics, data applications, and linked visual exploration.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
interactive visualizationPython
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Infrastructure

PyVista

An open-source Python library for three-dimensional visualization and mesh analysis, with a NumPy-oriented interface over VTK.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
3D visualizationmesh analysis
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Infrastructure

OVITO

Scientific software for visualizing and analyzing atomistic, molecular, and particle-simulation data, available as open-source Basic tools and a proprietary Pro edition.

Scientific VisualizationFreemiumOpen source
particle simulation3D analysis
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VisIt

An open-source application for interactive and parallel visualization and quantitative analysis of mesh-based scientific data.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
scientific visualizationparallel analysis
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Infrastructure

Cytoscape

An open-source desktop platform for visualizing, analyzing, and extending complex networks, with broad use in molecular and biological network research.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
network analysisbiological networks
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Infrastructure

Gephi

Open-source software for interactively exploring, laying out, filtering, and presenting complex networks on desktop or in a browser.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
network visualizationgraph analysis
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RStudio IDE

An integrated development environment for R and selected Python workflows, available in open-source desktop and server editions and commercial variants.

Research Data AnalysisFreemiumOpen source
Rintegrated development environment
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Infrastructure

Quarto

An open-source scientific publishing system that renders Markdown, notebooks, and executable code into articles, reports, presentations, websites, and books.

Academic WritingOpen sourceOpen source
reproducible publishingtechnical writing
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Infrastructure

DVC

An open-source data version control tool that records large datasets, models, and machine-learning pipelines alongside Git-managed code.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
data version controlreproducible workflows
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Infrastructure

MLflow

An open-source platform for recording machine-learning experiments, managing models and artifacts, and supporting self-hosted collaboration.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
experiment trackingmodel management
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Infrastructure

Weights & Biases

A hosted platform and client tools for recording, comparing, and collaboratively managing machine-learning experiments, models, and data artifacts.

Research Data AnalysisFreemium
experiment trackingML collaboration
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Infrastructure

Imaris

Proprietary modular software for visualizing, segmenting, tracking, and quantitatively measuring two- to four-dimensional microscopy images.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchContact for pricing
microscopy imaging3D analysis
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AI Tools

HALO

A proprietary digital-pathology platform for quantitative analysis of whole-slide images through configurable tissue, cell, and biomarker modules.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchContact for pricing
digital pathologywhole-slide imaging
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AI Tools

Aivia

A proprietary platform for visualizing, segmenting, tracking, and phenotyping two- to five-dimensional microscopy images.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchContact for pricing
microscopy imagingimage analysis
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AI Tools

ZEISS arivis Pro

Proprietary software for visualizing, segmenting, and building repeatable analysis pipelines for large two-, three-, and four-dimensional microscopy datasets.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchPaid
microscopy imagingimage segmentation
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Infrastructure

DOCK 6

An open-source command-line suite for small-molecule docking, virtual screening, and scoring candidate receptor-ligand poses.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
molecular dockingvirtual screening
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Amber

A molecular-dynamics software suite for biomolecular simulation. AmberTools is free and mostly open source, while Amber26 has a separate license and fee structure.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFreemiumOpen source
molecular dynamicsbiomolecular simulation
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Infrastructure

Schrödinger Platform

A proprietary integrated platform for molecular modeling, simulation, informatics, and computational research in drug discovery and materials science.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceContact for pricing
molecular modelingcomputational drug discovery
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MOE

Molecular Operating Environment is a proprietary integrated platform for molecular modeling, drug design, cheminformatics, and simulation.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceContact for pricing
molecular modelingdrug design
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Mayavi

An open-source Python library and interactive application for two- and three-dimensional scientific-data visualization built on VTK.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
3D visualizationPython
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Databases

PubMed

A free NLM service for searching biomedical and life-sciences citations and abstracts, with links to full text when available elsewhere.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
biomedical literatureMeSH
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Databases

Europe PMC

A free life-sciences literature resource covering articles, preprints, and an open-access full-text collection, with programmatic services for reuse.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
life sciences literatureopen access
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AI Tools

Open Knowledge Maps

A visual discovery service that uses natural-language processing to group related research outputs into topical knowledge maps.

Literature Search & DiscoveryOpen sourceOpen source
knowledge mapsvisual discovery
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Infrastructure

FastQC

Open-source software for checking raw high-throughput sequencing data and producing modular plots, tables, and HTML reports.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
sequencing QCFASTQ
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Infrastructure

Chemprop

An open-source machine-learning package for training message-passing neural networks on molecular and reaction property data.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
molecular propertiesmessage passing
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Infrastructure

AiiDA

Open-source Python infrastructure for running computational-science workflows and recording the provenance of their data and processes.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
workflow automationdata provenance
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Infrastructure

NumPy

The foundational open-source Python library for multidimensional arrays, vectorized numerical operations, linear algebra, and related numerical routines.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
numerical computingarrays
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Infrastructure

pandas

An open-source Python library for reading, cleaning, transforming, joining, and summarizing tabular and time-series data.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
tabular datadata processing
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Infrastructure

SciPy

An open-source scientific-computing library built on NumPy, with maintained algorithms for optimization, integration, signals, sparse computation, statistics, and more.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
scientific computingnumerical methods
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Infrastructure

scikit-learn

An open-source Python machine-learning library covering supervised and unsupervised estimators, preprocessing, pipelines, model selection, and evaluation.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
machine learningmodel evaluation
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Infrastructure

PyMC

An open-source probabilistic-programming library for specifying Bayesian models in Python and fitting them with MCMC or variational inference.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
Bayesian modelingprobabilistic programming
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Infrastructure

Stan

An open-source probabilistic-programming language and cross-language toolkit for Bayesian statistical modeling and posterior inference.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
Bayesian inferenceprobabilistic programming
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Infrastructure

VTK

An open-source toolkit for processing and visualizing scientific data, with capabilities spanning 2D plots, image processing, volume rendering, and 3D graphics.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
scientific visualization3D rendering
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Infrastructure

HoloViews

An open-source Python library that uses declarative objects to connect data semantics with static or interactive visualizations.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
Pythondeclarative visualization
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Infrastructure

Datashader

An open-source Python rasterization pipeline that projects, aggregates, transforms, and shades large datasets into viewable representations.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
large-scale datarasterization
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plotnine

An open-source Python visualization package based on a grammar of graphics, using layers and aesthetic mappings to compose statistical plots.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
Pythongrammar of graphics
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Infrastructure

VisPy

An open-source Python library that uses GPU and OpenGL acceleration for interactive two- and three-dimensional data visualization.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
GPUinteractive visualization
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Infrastructure

Mol*

An open-source web technology stack for visualizing and analyzing large macromolecular structures and associated experimental data.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
molecular visualizationstructural biology
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Infrastructure

fastp

An open-source command-line tool for quality control and preprocessing of short-read FASTQ data, including filtering, trimming, and HTML or JSON reporting.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
FASTQ preprocessingshort-read sequencing
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Cutadapt

An open-source tool that finds and removes specified adapters, primers, poly-A tails, and other unwanted sequences from high-throughput sequencing reads.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
adapter trimmingFASTQ
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SeqKit

A cross-platform open-source command-line toolkit for querying, transforming, summarizing, sampling, and indexing FASTA and FASTQ files.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
sequence filesFASTA/FASTQ
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minimap2

An open-source aligner for mapping DNA or mRNA sequences to a reference, with modes for long reads, short reads, spliced transcripts, and assembly comparison.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
sequence alignmentlong reads
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Bowtie 2

An open-source FM-index aligner for mapping sequencing reads to long reference sequences in local, end-to-end, gapped, and paired-end modes.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
short-read alignmentreference genome
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BEDTools

An open-source command-line suite for intersecting, merging, comparing, covering, and otherwise analyzing genomic intervals.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
genomic intervalsset operations
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Infrastructure

statsmodels

An open-source Python package for statistical modeling and econometrics, with model estimation, statistical tests, diagnostics, and structured result summaries.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
statistical modelingeconometrics
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Infrastructure

Polars

An open-source DataFrame query engine written in Rust, with eager and lazy execution, query optimization, and streaming support.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
DataFramesquery engine
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Infrastructure

DuckDB

An open-source in-process analytical SQL database for querying local files, object storage, and in-memory data without a separate database server.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
analytical databaseSQL
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Infrastructure

JAX

An open-source Python library for high-performance array computing and composable transformations including automatic differentiation, compilation, batching, and parallelization.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
automatic differentiationaccelerated computing
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Infrastructure

Optuna

An open-source framework for automated hyperparameter optimization with dynamic search spaces, trial pruning, parallel execution, and study visualization.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
hyperparameter optimizationexperiment search
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Infrastructure

PyTorch

An open-source deep-learning library for tensor computation, automatic differentiation, neural networks, and distributed training on CPUs and supported accelerators.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
deep learningtensor computation
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Infrastructure

TensorFlow

An open-source framework for building, training, evaluating, and deploying machine-learning models, with related components for servers, browsers, and mobile devices.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
machine learningmodel deployment
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Infrastructure

Kedro

An open-source Python framework for organizing modular, maintainable, and reproducible data-science code through pipelines, configuration, and a data catalog.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
data pipelinesreproducible computing
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Infrastructure

DataLad

An open-source distributed data-management tool built on Git and git-annex for versioning, retrieving, and sharing research datasets of any size.

Research Data AnalysisOpen sourceOpen source
data version controlresearch data management
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Databases

Crossref Metadata Search

A free service for searching Crossref-registered metadata by title, author, publication, or DOI.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
DOI metadatabibliographic search
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Databases

CORE

An open-access research aggregator indexing records from repositories, preprint servers, and journals, with search, available full text, and programmatic access.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFreemium
open accessfull-text aggregation
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Databases

BASE

A multidisciplinary academic search service operated by Bielefeld University Library that aggregates metadata from repositories and other scholarly sources.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
academic searchinstitutional repositories
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Databases

ERIC

A public education-research database supported by the U.S. Institute of Education Sciences, indexing journal and non-journal literature with full text for some records.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
education researchliterature database
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Databases

dblp

An open computer-science bibliography covering publications, authors, journals, and conferences, with data downloads and search interfaces.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
computer sciencebibliographic database
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Databases

OpenReview

An open scholarly-communication platform for submissions, peer review, author responses, and discussion, with configurable workflows and a database API.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFreeOpen source
peer reviewscholarly communication
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Infrastructure

CADIMA

A free web application for organizing systematic reviews and systematic maps, including import, deduplication, screening, data extraction, and process documentation.

Literature & Systematic ReviewFree
systematic reviewsevidence maps
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SWIFT-Active Screener

A collaborative web application for systematic-review screening that uses active learning to reprioritize unscreened records as decisions accumulate.

Literature & Systematic ReviewContact for pricing
literature screeningactive learning
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Infrastructure

revtools

An open-source R package for importing and deduplicating bibliographic data and interactively screening titles, abstracts, and topics for evidence synthesis.

Literature & Systematic ReviewOpen sourceOpen source
evidence synthesisR
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Infrastructure

JabRef

An open-source cross-platform reference manager centered on BibTeX and BibLaTeX libraries, with metadata import, organization, citation, and export tools.

Academic WritingOpen sourceOpen source
reference managementBibTeX
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Databases

Scopus

An Elsevier abstract and citation database covering journals, conference papers, books, and preprints, with author, institution, and citation analysis.

Literature Search & DiscoveryContact for pricing
citation databasebibliometrics
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Databases

Web of Science

A Clarivate research platform that provides bibliographic, citation, and research-impact data through Web of Science Core Collection and related databases.

Literature Search & DiscoveryContact for pricing
citation databaseresearch impact
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Databases

Engineering Village

An Elsevier engineering-literature platform that provides institutionally licensed access to databases including Compendex, Inspec, and GEOBASE.

Literature Search & DiscoveryContact for pricing
engineering literaturespecialist databases
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Infrastructure

Mendeley Reference Manager

A reference-management service for importing, organizing, reading, annotating, and citing papers through web, desktop, and browser components.

Academic WritingFreemium
reference managementpaper reading
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Infrastructure

Paperpile

A commercial web-centered reference manager for collecting papers, managing PDFs, collaborating, and citing in Microsoft Word or Google Docs.

Academic WritingPaid
reference managementcollaborative writing
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Infrastructure

BWA-MEM2

An optimized implementation of the BWA-MEM algorithm for aligning short-read DNA sequencing data to a reference genome and producing SAM output.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
short-read alignmentgenomics
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HISAT2

An open-source sequence aligner built on hierarchical graph FM indexes, with splice-aware alignment for RNA sequencing reads against genomes or transcript sets.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
RNA-seqsplice-aware alignment
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VCFtools

An open-source command-line suite for filtering, summarizing, and converting genetic-variant data in VCF format.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
VCFvariant processing
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SnpEff

An open-source variant annotation program that predicts gene-, transcript-, and protein-level consequences using a selected genome annotation database.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
variant annotationfunctional consequences
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CNVkit

An open-source Python toolkit for inferring and visualizing copy-number variation from targeted, exome, or whole-genome sequencing data.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
copy-number variationsequencing analysis
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scVelo

An open-source Python toolkit for estimating RNA velocity, latent time, and transcriptional dynamics from spliced and unspliced counts in single-cell transcriptomic data.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
RNA velocitysingle-cell dynamics
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Monocle 3

An open-source R toolkit for clustering, trajectory reconstruction, pseudotime ordering, and differential analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
single-cell trajectoriespseudotime
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CellTypist

An open-source Python tool that uses logistic-regression classifiers and built-in or custom reference models to predict cell types in single-cell RNA sequencing data.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
cell-type annotationmachine learning
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AI Tools

nnU-Net

An open-source biomedical image-segmentation framework that adapts preprocessing, U-Net configuration, training, and inference to a dataset.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
medical image segmentationdeep learning
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AI Tools

DeepLabCut

An open-source deep-learning toolbox for markerless estimation of user-defined animal or object keypoints from video.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
pose estimationbehavior analysis
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Infrastructure

Open Babel

An open-source cheminformatics toolkit for converting, filtering, and manipulating chemical file formats through command-line, graphical, and programming interfaces.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
chemical file formatscheminformatics
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Infrastructure

PySCF

An open-source quantum-chemistry framework with a Python-first interface for electronic-structure calculations on molecules and periodic systems.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
quantum chemistryelectronic structure
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Infrastructure

Psi4

An open-source quantum-chemistry package supporting Hartree–Fock, density-functional, perturbation, coupled-cluster, and intermolecular-interaction methods.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
quantum chemistryab initio methods
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xTB

An open-source program implementing GFN semiempirical extended tight-binding methods and related force fields for energies, structures, frequencies, and dynamics.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
semiempirical quantum chemistrytight binding
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CREST

An open-source command-line program for automated exploration of low-energy molecular chemical space and generation of conformer, rotamer, and related structure ensembles.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
conformer samplingmolecular ensembles
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Avogadro

An open-source cross-platform desktop application for building, editing, visualizing, and inspecting molecules and materials, with plugins and computational-output parsing.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
molecular editing3D visualization
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Infrastructure

PLUMED

An open-source library and command-line tool that adds enhanced sampling, free-energy methods, collective variables, and trajectory analysis to molecular-dynamics workflows.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
enhanced samplingfree-energy calculations
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Infrastructure

MDAnalysis

An open-source Python library for reading, selecting, transforming, and analyzing molecular-dynamics trajectories and topology formats.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceOpen sourceOpen source
molecular dynamicstrajectory analysis
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Infrastructure

Typst

An open-source markup-based typesetting system for producing research documents with text, equations, references, and figures.

Academic WritingOpen sourceOpen source
scientific typesettingmarkup language
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Infrastructure

Manubot

An open-source set of tools and workflows for writing, citing, and publishing scholarly manuscripts with Markdown, Git, and automated builds.

Academic WritingOpen sourceOpen source
scholarly writingversion control
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Infrastructure

Hypothesis

A web service and browser extension for creating private, group, or public annotations on web pages and PDFs.

Research Paper ReadingFreemiumOpen source
web annotationcollaborative reading
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Infrastructure

NGL Viewer

An open-source JavaScript viewer that uses WebGL to display proteins, nucleic acids, other molecular structures, and trajectories in a browser.

Scientific VisualizationOpen sourceOpen source
molecular visualizationWebGL
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Infrastructure

ITK-SNAP

An open-source desktop application for navigating, annotating, and segmenting three-dimensional medical images through manual and semi-automatic methods.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
medical imagingimage segmentation
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Infrastructure

UGENE

An open-source cross-platform bioinformatics suite that combines sequence viewing, alignment, annotation, phylogenetics, and visual workflows.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
sequence analysisbioinformatics workbench
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Infrastructure

ORCA

A general-purpose quantum-chemistry package covering density-functional, correlated wave-function, multireference, and spectroscopic methods.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFree
quantum chemistryelectronic structure
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Infrastructure

NAMD

A parallel molecular-dynamics program for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems on multicore, cluster, and GPU platforms.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFree
molecular dynamicshigh-performance computing
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