EMBOSS is a new, free Open Source software analysis package specially
developed for the needs of the molecular biology (e.g. EMBnet) user community. The software
automatically copes with data in a variety of formats and even allows
transparent retrieval of sequence data from the web. Also, as
extensive libraries are provided with the package, it is a platform to
allow other scientists to develop and release software in true open
source spirit. EMBOSS also integrates a range of currently available
packages and tools for sequence analysis into a seamless whole. EMBOSS
breaks the historical trend towards commercial software
packages.
The EMBOSS suite
Provides a comprehensive set of sequence analysis programs (approximately
100)
Provides a set of core software libraries (AJAX and NUCLEUS)
Integrates other publicly available packages
Encourages the use of EMBOSS in sequence analysis training.
Encourages developers elsewhere to use the EMBOSS libraries.
Supports all common Unix platforms including Linux, Digital Unix,
Irix, Tru64Unix and Solaris.
Within EMBOSS you will find around 100 programs (applications). These
are just some of the areas covered:
Sequence alignment
Rapid database searching with sequence patterns
Protein motif identification, including domain analysis
Nucleotide sequence pattern analysis, for example to identify CpG islands or repeats.
Codon usage analysis for small genomes
Rapid identification of sequence patterns in large scale sequence sets.
