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19 Nov 2024 isoquant updated to version 3.6.2
IsoQuant is used to analyze long read RNA sequencing data
18 Nov 2024 cellranger updated to version 9.0.0
Cell Ranger is a set of analysis pipelines that processes Chromium single cell 3’ RNA-seq output to align reads, generate gene-cell matrices and perform clustering and gene expression analysis.
18 Nov 2024 libjpeg-turbo updated to version 3.0.90
libjpeg-turbo is a JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, NEON) to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on x86, x86-64, and ARM systems.
18 Nov 2024 PMT (pb-metagenomics-tools) updated to version 2.1.0.
PB-metagenomics-tools is a suite of tools for performing metagenomic analyses using HiFi sequencing data. It comprises four pipelines: HiFi-MAG-Pipeline, Taxonomic-Profiling-Diamond-Megan, Taxonomic-Profiling-Minimap-Megan and Taxonomic-Profiling-Sourmash.
18 Nov 2024 steinbock updated to version 0.16.3
steinbock is a toolkit for processing multiplexed tissue images
16 Nov 2024 rgt updated to version 1.0.2
Regulatory Genomics Toolbox: Python library and set of tools for the integrative analysis of high throughput regulatory genomics data. http://www.regulatory-genomics.org
15 Nov 2024 diann updated to version 1.9.2
DIA-NN - a universal software for data-independent acquisition (DIA) proteomics data processing
15 Nov 2024 pychopper updated to version 2.7.10
Pychopper v2 is a tool to identify, orient and trim full-length Nanopore cDNA reads. The tool is also able to rescue fused reads.
14 Nov 2024 fastp updated to version 0.24.0
A tool designed to provide fast all-in-one preprocessing for FastQ files. This tool is developed in C++ with multithreading supported to afford high performance.
13 Nov 2024 sniffles updated to version 2.5.2
Sniffles is a structural variation caller using third generation sequencing (PacBio or Oxford Nanopore). It detects all types of SVs (10bp+) using evidence from split-read alignments, high-mismatch regions, and coverage analysis.
13 Nov 2024 quast updated to version 5.3.0
QUAST stands for QUality ASsessment Tool. The tool evaluates genome assemblies by computing various metrics. The package includes the general QUAST tool for genome assemblies, MetaQUAST, the extension for metagenomic datasets, and Icarus, interactive visualizer for these tools.
13 Nov 2024 Genome Browser updated to version 473
The Genome Browser Mirror Fragments is a mirror of the UCSC Genome Browser. The URL is https://hpcnihapps.cit.nih.gov/genome. Users can also access the MySQL databases, supporting files directly, and a huge number of associated executables.
8 Nov 2024 NAMD updated to version 3.0.1
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics program for UNIX platforms designed for high-performance simulations in structural biology. VMD, the associated molecular visualization program, is also available.
8 Nov 2024 R updated to version 4.4.2
R (the R Project) is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is similar to S, and provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques (linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering, ...).
8 Nov 2024 spiwalk updated to version 1.15.0
Simulates the behavior of spins under a specific # MR sequence within a microvascular network.
8 Nov 2024 uv updated to version 0.5.0
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.
7 Nov 2024 PhaseFinder updated to version 1.0-20240110
PhaseFinder detects DNA inversion mediated phase variation in bacterial genomes using genomic or metagenomic sequencing data. It works by identifying regions flanked by inverted repeats, mimicking their inversion in silico, and identifying regions where sequencing reads support both orientations.
7 Nov 2024 mriqc updated to version 24.0.2
MRIQC is an MRI quality control tool
7 Nov 2024 rseqc updated to version 5.0.4
Rseqc comprehensively evaluate RNA-seq datasets generated from clinical tissues or other well annotated organisms such as mouse, fly and yeast.
6 Nov 2024 braker updated to version 3.0.8
A pipeline for fully automated prediction of protein coding gene structures with GeneMark-ES/ET and AUGUSTUS in novel eukaryotic genomes.
6 Nov 2024 Freesurfer updated to version 8.0.0-beta
Freesurfer is a set of automated tools for reconstruction of the brain's cortical surface from structural MRI data, and overlay of functional MRI data onto the reconstructed surface.
6 Nov 2024 connectome-workbench updated to version 2.0.1
Tools to browse, download, explore, and analyze data from the Human Connectome Project (HCP). Allows users to compare their own data to that of the HCP.
5 Nov 2024 uropa updated to version 4.0.3
UROPA is a command line based tool for genomic region annotation
5 Nov 2024 Beagle updated to version 5.4_29Oct24
Beagle is a package for imputing genotypes, inferring haplotype phase, and performing genetic association analysis. BEAGLE is designed to analyze large-scale data sets with hundreds of thousands of markers genotyped on thousands of samples.
5 Nov 2024 tedana updated to version 24.0.2
Tedana is an application to denoise multi-echo fMRI datasets
5 Nov 2024 fmriprep updated to version 24.1.1
A Robust Preprocessing Pipeline for fMRI Data
4 Nov 2024 pigz updated to version 2.8
pigz (parallel implementation of gzip) is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.
4 Nov 2024 nodejs updated to version 22.11.0
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. module name: nodejs
4 Nov 2024 LAST updated to version 1595
LAST is designed for moderately large data (e.g. genomes, DNA reads, proteomes). It's especially geared toward:
  • Finding rearrangements and recombinations (last-split)
  • Finding DNA-versus-protein related regions, especially protein fossils.
  • Unusual data, e.g. AT-rich DNA, because it can fit parameters to the data and calculate significance.
  • Sensitive DNA-DNA search, due to fitting, sensitive seeding, and calculating significance.
4 Nov 2024 ant updated to version 1.10.15
Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other.
4 Nov 2024 Mathematica updated to version 14.1.0
Mathematica is an interactive system for doing mathematical computation. It performs numerical, symbolic and graphical computations, and incorporates a high-level programming language.
4 Nov 2024 PartekFlow updated to version 12.2.0
Web interface designed specifically for the analysis needs of next generation sequencing applications including RNA, small RNA, and DNA sequencing.
3 Nov 2024 Mascot updated to version 3.0
The Mascot search engine uses mass spectrometry data to identify proteins from primary sequence databases. Mascot searches can be run directly on the NIH Mascot server at https://biospec.nih.gov, or by using the Mascot daemon on your own desktop PC.
1 Nov 2024 dorado updated to version 0.8.2
Dorado is a high-performance, easy-to-use, open source basecaller for Oxford Nanopore reads.
31 Oct 2024 medaka updated to version 2.0.1
medaka is a tool to create a consensus sequence from nanopore sequencing data. This task is performed using neural networks applied from a pileup of individual sequencing reads against a draft assembly.
31 Oct 2024 trinity updated to version 2.15.2
Trinity, developed at the Broad Institute and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, represents a novel method for the efficient and robust de novo reconstruction of transcriptomes from RNA-seq data.
31 Oct 2024 jvarkit updated to version 20240825
Java tools for bioinformatics
30 Oct 2024 biomodal updated to version 1.1.0
biomodal duet multiomics solution bioinformatics pipeline
29 Oct 2024 svfsi updated to version 7bdb74c
Finite element solver for computational modeling of the cardio vascular system.
28 Oct 2024 DEPICT updated to version v1_rel194
DEPICT is an integrative tool that employs predicted gene functions to systematically prioritize the most likely causal genes at associated loci, highlight enriched pathways and identify tissues/cell types where genes from associated loci are highly expressed. DEPICT is not limited to genes with established functions and prioritizes relevant gene sets for many phenotypes.
28 Oct 2024 VADR updated to version 1.6.4
VADR stands for Viral Annotation DefineR. It is a suite of tools for classifying and analyzing sequences homologous to a set of reference models of viral genomes or gene families. It has been mainly tested for analysis of Norovirus, Dengue, and SARS-CoV-2 virus sequences in preparation for submission to the GenBank database.
28 Oct 2024 LoMA updated to version 1.1.3.
LoMA is localized assembly method that constructs highly accurate consensus sequences (CSs) from long reads. LoMA's algorithm employs minimap2 and MAFFT and classifies diploid haplotypes based on structural variants and CSs. It allows analyzing human samples sequenced with the Oxford Nanopore sequencer.
24 Oct 2024 novocraft updated to version 4.04.02
Package includes aligner for single-ended and paired-end reads from the Illumina Genome Analyser. Novoalign finds global optimum alignments using full Needleman-Wunsch algorithm with affine gap penalties.
24 Oct 2024 bpipe updated to version 0.9.13
Bpipe provides a platform for running big bioinformatics jobs
23 Oct 2024 mc updated to version 4.8.32
GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, with a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the subshell. Type module load mc and then the command mc to get started.
23 Oct 2024 texinfo updated to version 7.1.1
Texinfo is the official documentation format of the GNU project
23 Oct 2024 SciTE updated to version 5.5.3
SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor. Lightweight and built for speed, it is designed mainly for source editing, and performs syntax highlighting and inline function reference for many different languages.
22 Oct 2024 parallel updated to version 20241022
GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers.
22 Oct 2024 fastq_screen updated to version 0.16.0
FastQ Screen allows you to screen a library of sequences in FastQ format against a set of sequence databases so you can see if the composition of the library matches with what you expect.
22 Oct 2024 diamond updated to version 2.1.9
DIAMOND is a new high-throughput program for aligning DNA reads or protein sequences against a protein reference database such as NR, at up to 20,000 times the speed of BLAST, with high sensitivity.
21 Oct 2024 singularity updated to version 4.1.5
Singularity is a container platform focused on supporting ``Mobility of Compute``. It allows users to emulate, and share custom Linux environments allowing for the creation of self-contained development stacks.
18 Oct 2024 msisensor-pro updated to version 1.3.0
evaluates Microsatellite Instability (MSI) for cancer patients with next generation sequencing data.
18 Oct 2024 picard updated to version 3.3.0
Picard comprises Java-based command-line utilities that manipulate SAM files, and a Java API (SAM-JDK) for creating new programs that read and write SAM files. Both SAM text format and SAM binary (BAM) format are supported.
17 Oct 2024 pggb updated to version 0.7.0
pangenome graph builder.
17 Oct 2024 hifiasm updated to version 0.20.0
Hifiasm is a fast haplotype-resolved de novo assembler initially designed for PacBio HiFi reads. Its latest release supports telomere-to-telomere assembly by utilizing ultralong Oxford Nanopore reads. It can produce better haplotype-resolved assemblies when given parental short reads or Hi-C data.
15 Oct 2024 rust updated to version 1.81.0
A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
15 Oct 2024 Aspera updated to version 4.2.12
High-speed fasp-powered file transfers. Mostly used to download data from NCBI, which has an Aspera server. See the data transfer page for details.
15 Oct 2024 scvitools updated to version 1.2.0
scvi-tools (single-cell variational inference tools) is a package for end-to-end analysis of single-cell omics data primarily developed and maintained by the Yosef Lab at UC Berkeley.
10 Oct 2024 FSL updated to version 6.0.7.14
FSL is a comprehensive library of image analysis and statistical tools for FMRI, MRI and DTI brain imaging data.
8 Oct 2024 svsolver updated to version cf1e3b3
Parallel computational fluid dynamics (CFD) finite element solver incorporating boundary conditions useful for blood flow simulations
7 Oct 2024 golang updated to version 1.23.2
The Go programming language
7 Oct 2024 globus-cli updated to version 3.30.1
Globus command line interface
5 Oct 2024 snakemake updated to version 8.16.0
Snakemake aims to reduce the complexity of creating workflows by providing a fast and comfortable execution environment, together with a clean and modern domain specific specification language (DSL) in python style. It is well suited for bioinformatic workflows.
4 Oct 2024 selscan updated to version 2.0.3
selscan is a tool for haplotype-based scans to detect natural selection, which are useful to identify recent or ongoing positive selection in genomes. It is an efficient multithreaded application that implements Extended Haplotype Homozygosity (EHH), Integrated Haplotype Score (iHS), and Cross-population EHH (XPEHH). selscan accepts phased genotypes in multiple formats, including TPED.
4 Oct 2024 scFEA updated to version 1.1
A graph neural network model to estimate cell-wise metabolic using single cell RNA-seq data
3 Oct 2024 pairtools updated to version 1.1.0
Pairtools is a simple and fast command-line framework to process sequencing data from a Hi-C experiment. Pairtools perform various operations on Hi-C pairs and occupy the middle position in a typical Hi-C data processing pipeline. Pairtools aim to be an all-in-one tool for processing Hi-C pairs.
2 Oct 2024 iphop updated to version 1.3.3
iPHoP stands for Integrated Phage Host Prediction. It is an automated command-line pipeline designed to predict the host genus of novel bacteriophages and archaeoviruses based on their genome sequences.
2 Oct 2024 deepdewedge updated to version 240913
DeepDeWedge is A Deep Learning Method for Simultaneous Denoising and Missing Wedge Reconstruction in Cryogenic Electron Tomography".
1 Oct 2024 bcl-convert updated to version 4.1.23
The Illumina BCL Convert is a standalone local software app that converts the Binary Base Call (BCL) files produced by Illumina sequencing systems to FASTQ files. BCL Convert also provides adapter handling (through masking and trimming) and UMI trimming and produces metric outputs.
30 Sep 2024 spaceranger updated to version 3.1.1
10x pipeline for processing Visium spatial RNA-seq data
30 Sep 2024 Phenix updated to version 1.21.2-5419
PHENIX is a software suite for the automated determination of macromolecular structures using X-ray crystallography and other methods.
26 Sep 2024 mise updated to version 2024.9.9
mise is a development environment setup tool. Using its .mise.toml config file, you'll have a consistent way to setup and interact with your projects no matter what language they're written in.
25 Sep 2024 flye updated to version 2.9.5
Fast and accurate de novo assembler for single molecule sequencing reads
24 Sep 2024 samtools updated to version 1.21
The samtools package now provides samtools, bcftools, tabix, and the underlying htslib library.
24 Sep 2024 RBNS_pipeline updated to version 20240907
The BNS (RNA Bind-N-Seq Analysis) pipeline is a set of bioinformatics tools to analyze data from high-throughput sequencing experiments of protein-bound RNAs. The current version includes read splitting, calculation of kmer frequencies and enrichments, QC metrics, production of motif sequence logos, and RNA secondary structure analysis.
23 Sep 2024 trgt updated to version 1.2.0
TRGT is a tool for targeted genotyping of tandem repeats from PacBio HiFi data. In addition to the basic size genotyping, TRGT profiles sequence composition, mosaicism, and CpG methylation of each analyzed repeat. TRGT can also create a visualization of reads overlapping the repeats.
23 Sep 2024 stow updated to version 2.4.1
GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place.
23 Sep 2024 kallisto updated to version 0.51.1
kallisto is a program for quantifying abundances of transcripts from RNA-Seq data, or more generally of target sequences using high-throughput sequencing reads. It is based on the novel idea of pseudoalignment for rapidly determining the compatibility of reads with targets, without the need for alignment.
23 Sep 2024 modkit updated to version 0.4.1
A bioinformatics tool for working with modified bases from Oxford Nanopore. Specifically for converting modBAM to bedMethyl files using best practices, but also manipulating modBAM files and generating summary statistics.
23 Sep 2024 eza updated to version 0.19.4
A modern, maintained replacement for ls. A replacement for the now-unmaintained exa.
19 Sep 2024 Hyperqueue updated to version 0.19.0
HyperQueue (HQ) lets you build a computation plan consisting of a large amount of tasks and then execute it transparently over a system like SLURM/PBS. It dynamically groups tasks into SLURM/PBS jobs and distributes them to fully utilize allocated nodes.
19 Sep 2024 pod5 updated to version 0.3.15
Tool for manipulating the pod5 format of nanopore reads
17 Sep 2024 MotionCor2 updated to version 1.6.4
MotionCor2 is a multi-GPU accelerated program that provides iterative, patch-based motion detection combining spatial and temporal constraints and dose weighting for both single particle and tomographic cryo-electon microscopy images.
13 Sep 2024 RepeatMasker updated to version 4.1.7-p1
RepeatMasker is a program that screens DNA sequences for interspersed repeats and low complexity DNA sequences. The output of the program is a detailed annotation of the repeats that are present in the query sequence as well as a modified version of the query sequence in which all the annotated repeats have been masked (default: replaced by Ns). On average, almost 50% of a human genomic DNA sequence currently will be masked by the program.
13 Sep 2024 nvtop updated to version 3.1.0
NVTOP stands for Neat Videocard TOP, a (h)top like task monitor for GPUs and accelerators. It can handle multiple GPUs and print information about them in a htop-familiar way.
13 Sep 2024 gdc-client updated to version 2.3.0
The GDC Data Transfer Tool provides an optimized method of transferring data to and from the GDC, and enables resumption of interrupted transfers.
12 Sep 2024 abyss updated to version 2.3.9
Abyss represents Assembly By Short Sequences - a de novo, parallel, paired-end sequence assembler. The parallel version is implemented using MPI and is capable of assembling larger genomes.
12 Sep 2024 Bsoft updated to version 2.3.0
Bsoft is a collection of programs and a platform for development of software for image and molecular processing in structural biology. Problems in structural biology are approached with a highly modular design, allowing fast development of new algorithms without the burden of issues such as file I/O. It provides an easily accessible interface, a resource that can be and has been used in other packages.
11 Sep 2024 deeppolisher updated to version 0.1.0
DeepPolisher is a transformer-based sequencing correction method similar to DeepConsensus. DeepPolisher is designed to identify errors in genome assemblies. DeepPolisher takes haplotype-specific reads aligned to phased assemblies and produces a VCF file containing potential errors in the assembly.
10 Sep 2024 deepsomatic updated to version 1.6.1
DeepSomatic is a google developed analysis pipeline that uses a deep neural network to call somatic variants from tumor-normal sequencing data.
10 Sep 2024 cryosparc updated to version 4.6.0
CryoSPARC (Cryo-EM Single Particle Ab-Initio Reconstruction and Classification) is a state of the art HPC software solution for complete processing of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data. CryoSPARC is useful for solving cryo-EM structures of membrane proteins, viruses, complexes, flexible molecules, small particles, phase plate data and negative stain data.
8 Sep 2024 MPSAN-MP updated to version 20240817
The MPSAN_MP application employs neural networks implementing the Message Passing or Self-Attention mechanism for Molecular Property prediction. It takes as input a set of molecules represented by either graphs or SMILES strings. For each molecule, it predicts a propery value (PV), which may be either a discrete/binary label (classification task) or a continuous value (regression task). of molecular property prediction:
This application is been be used as a biological example by the class #7 of the course "Deep Learning by Example on Biowulf".
5 Sep 2024 verkko updated to version 2.2
Verkko is a hybrid genome assembly pipeline developed for telomere-to-telomere assembly of PacBio HiFi and Oxford Nanopore reads.
5 Sep 2024 SAMsrc updated to version v5-20210705
Synthetic Aperture Magnetometry - The SANsrcV3 suite implements the latest advances in MEG source localization.
5 Sep 2024 graphaligner updated to version 1.0.19
Seed-and-extend program for aligning long error-prone reads to genome graphs.
4 Sep 2024 quarto updated to version 1.5.57
Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc
4 Sep 2024 homer updated to version 5.1
HOMER (Hypergeometric Optimization of Motif EnRichment) is a suite of tools for Motif Discovery and ChIP-Seq analysis.
3 Sep 2024 Rosetta updated to version 2024.09
The Rosetta++ software suite can perform de novo protein structure predictions, identify low free energy sequences for target protein backbones, predict the structure of a protein-protein complex from the individual structures of the monomer components, incorporate NMR data into the basic Rosetta protocol to accelerate the process of NMR structure prediction, and more...
30 Aug 2024 eog updated to version 42.0
Eye of Gnome image viewer
29 Aug 2024 boost updated to version 1.86
Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad spectrum of applications.
28 Aug 2024 postgresql updated to version 16.4
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with over 35 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.
27 Aug 2024 hyphy updated to version 2.5.62
HyPhy (Hypothesis Testing using Phylogenies) is an open-source software package for the analysis of genetic sequences (in particular the inference of natural selection) using techniques in phylogenetics, molecular evolution, and machine learning.
27 Aug 2024 Julia updated to version 1.10.4
high level, dynamic language for technical computing
Scientific Databases updated in last 3 months

For a full list of scientific databases available and updated on the NIH HPC systems, see HPC Reference Data