BioRuby
June 27, 2006
Four months ago BioRuby 1.0.0 has been released. You can download the tar.gz file here and here you can view changelog list.
BioRuby is one of the newest bioinformatic programming languages and this project aims to implement an integrated environment for bioinformatics with a Ruby language library and with a powerful interactive shell.
BioRuby currently allows you to work with sequences for several task as traslation, splicing, similarity search, multiple alignment and sorting and also more. You can also connect with several databases as GenBank, RefSeq, EMBL, TrEMBL, SwissProt, MEDLINE, PROSITE, TRANSFAC, KEGG, FANTOM and PDB.
A first BioRuby on-line tutorial can be found here and here. A comprensive BioRuby shell documentation is also here.
Enjoy programming.
