Bioinformatics Support and Documentation :: Command line tools

The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics provides access to several bioinformatics analysis software through the command line. A CGB Research Computing account is required to access the software. To request an account please use our support form.

Command-line tools Overview

The following is a collection of all bioinformatics software installed and supported by The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics. Anyone having CGB Research Computing account can use the software by following appropriate instructions. If you wish to use a tool not present in this list, please send us a request.

Command-line tools Usage

A user can simply type 'use software_name' to initialize the environment and then directly use the appropriate command. For instance if you wish to run some emboss commands, you will type 'use emboss' on the terminal prompt, and then use the appropriate tool from emboss suite by running its command, like 'transeq'.
A user can also type 'use -l' to see all the available software. Another way is to directly include a group of software. A group of software is initialized the same way as a single software by executing 'use group_name', eg. 'use alignment'.

Group Description and Components
alignment Alignment tools
est EST analysis tools
gene-finding Gene search tools
oligo Oligo design tools
other Misc tools
phred-phrap Phred-Phrap Sequencing tools
phylogeny Phylogeny tools
sequence Sequence format and Analysis
molbio All the tools
Initialize the entire set of bioinformatics tools on research by just typing 'use molbio'

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