Open source

SeqMonk is a program to enable the visualisation and analysis of mapped sequence data. It was written for use with mapped next generation sequence data but can in theory be used for any dataset which can be expressed as a series of genomic positions. It's main features are:

• Import of mapped data from mapped data (BAM/SAM/bowtie etc)
• Creation of data groups for visualisation and analysis
• Visualisation of mapped regions against an annotated genome.
• Flexible quantitation of the mapped data to allow comparisons between data sets
• Statistical analysis of data to find regions of interest
• Creation of reports containing data and genome annotation

InterMine is an open source data warehouse built specifically for the integration and analysis of complex biological data. Developed by the Micklem lab at the University of Cambridge, InterMine enables the creation of biological databases accessed by sophisticated web query tools. Parsers are provided for integrating data from many common biological data sources and formats, and there is a framework for adding your own data. InterMine includes an attractive, user-friendly web interface that works 'out of the box' and can be easily customised for your specific needs, as well as a powerful, scriptable web-service API to allow programmatic access to your data.

MARender is a JavaScript 3D rendering system based on three.js (http://threejs.org/).

The rendering system is centred around a JavaScript class MARenderer and aimed at simple web-based visualisation of 3D bio-medical datasets, with particular emphasis on anatomy and mapped spatial data (eg gene expression).

Typical uses combine surface, section and point cloud renderings. Surfaces and point clouds are most readily read from VTK format files using the modified VTK loader https://github.com/ma-tech/three.js/blob/master/examples/js/loaders/MAVTKLoader.js and sections either from static images or from an IIP3D server (https://github.com/ma-tech/WlzIIPSrv).

The HaptiMOL suite enables interaction with protein structures using force feedback, through the use of a haptic feedback device:

• HaptiMOL ISAS enables users to interact with the solvent accessible surface of biomolecules, by probing the surface with a sphere. 
• HaptiMOL ENM enables users to apply forces to atoms in an elastic network model and to observe the resulting deformation. (A mouse version is also available).
• HaptiMOL RD (coming soon) will be designed for rigid molecular docking. 

Alvis is an open-source platform for the joint explorative analysis of MSAs and phylogenetic trees, employing Sequence Bundles as its main visualization method. Alvis combines the power of the visualization method with an interactive toolkit allowing detection of covariant sites, annotation of trees with synapomorphies and homoplasies, and motif detection. It also offers numerical analysis functionality, such as dimension reduction and classification. Alvis is user-friendly, highly customizable and can export results in publication-quality figures. It is available as a full-featured standalone version (http://www.bitbucket.org/rfs/alvis) and its Sequence Bundles visualization module is further available as a web application (http://science-practice.com/projects/sequence-bundles).

REACTOME is an open-source, open access, manually curated and peer-reviewed pathway database. Pathway annotations are authored by expert biologists, in collaboration with Reactome editorial staff and cross-referenced to many bioinformatics databases. These include NCBI Gene, Ensembl and UniProt databases, the UCSC Genome Browser, the KEGG Compound and ChEBI small molecule databases, PubMed, and Gene Ontology.

The rationale behind Reactome is to convey the rich information in the visual representations of biological pathways familiar from textbooks and articles in a detailed, computationally accessible format. The core unit of the Reactome data model is the reaction. Entities (nucleic acids, proteins, complexes, vaccines, anti-cancer theraputics and small molecules) participating in reactions form a network of biological interactions and are grouped into pathways. Examples of biological pathways in Reactome include classical intermediary metabolism, signaling, innate and acquired immune function, transcriptional regulation, apoptosis and disease.

Reactome provides an intuitive website to navigate pathway knowledge and a suite of data analysis tools to support the pathway-based analysis of complex experimental and computational data sets. Visualisation of Reactome data is facilitated by the Pathway Browser, a Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN)-based interface, that supports zooming, scrolling and event highlighting. It exploits the PSIQUIC web services to overlay molecular interaction data from the Reactome Functional Interaction Network and external interaction databases such as IntAct, ChEMBL, BioGRID and iRefIndex.

Pathway Analysis tools analyze user-supplied datasets permitting ID mapping, pathway assignment and over-representation or enrichment analysis. The curated human pathway data are used to infer orthologous events in 17 non-human species including mouse, rat, chicken, worm, fly, yeast and plant. Species Comparison tool allows users to compare predicted pathways with those of human to find reactions and pathways common to a selected species and human. Additional pathway databases based upon the Reactome data model have been created by collaborating groups for the fruit fly, the chicken, and the plant Arabidopsis.

xiNET is a visualization tool for exploring cross-linking/mass spectrometry results. The interactive maps of the cross-link network that it generates are a type of node-link diagram. In these maps xiNET displays: (1) residue resolution positional information including linkage sites and linked peptides; (2) all types of cross-linking reaction product; (3) ambiguous results; and, (4) additional sequence information such as domains. xiNET runs in a browser and exports vector graphics which can be edited in common drawing packages to create publication quality figures.

OneZoom is an interactive map of the evolutionary relationships between the species on our planet. Trees with millions of tips, richly embellished with additional data, can now be easily explored within the web browser of any modern hardware with a zooming user interface similar to that used in Google Maps.

VisRseq is a framework for analysis of sequencing datasets that provides a computationally rich and accessible framework for integrative and interactive analyses without requiring programming expertise. Features include R apps, which offer a semi-auto generated and unified graphical user interface for computational packages in R and repositories such as Bioconductor. To address the interactivity limitation inherent in R libraries, the framework includes several native apps that provide exploration and brushing operations as well as an integrated genome browser. The apps can be chained together to create more powerful analysis workflows.

panX is a powerful interactive platform for pan-genome exploration. It provides multiple different views on annotated genomes and allows rapid search by gene name, diversity, duplications, etc. Strain-specific meta data is integrated into the phylogenetic tree viewer such that associations between gene presence and phenotypes can be spotted.