BioRuby

News

2023/09/27
BioRuby 2.0.5 released (ChangeLog)
2022/09/13
BioRuby 2.0.4 released (ChangeLog)
2021/11/06
BioRuby 2.0.3 released (ChangeLog)
2020/12/31
BioRuby 2.0.2 released (ChangeLog)
2019/09/06
BioRuby 2.0.1 released (ChangeLog)
2019/06/14
BioRuby 2.0.0 released (ChangeLog)
2018/09/20
BioRuby 1.5.2 released (ChangeLog)
2016/09/07
BioRuby 1.5.1 released (ChangeLog)
2015/07/10-11
BOSC 2015 (Abstract)
2015/07/01
BioRuby 1.5.0 released (ChangeLog)
2010/12/24
BioRuby plugin system is released
2010/08/25
BioRuby paper is published
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Links

Ruby
+ bio | RubyGems.org
Open-Bio.JP
+ ChemRuby
O|B|F
+ BioPerl
+ Biopython
+ BioJava
+ BioDAS
+ BioMOBY
Misc
+ Biohaskell
+ Biocaml
+ BioBIKE (BioLisp)
+ Bioinformatics.org

BioRuby

Open source bioinformatics library for Ruby

Announcements

BioRuby 2.0.5 is released on September 27, 2023. (Download) (Release Notes) (ChangeLog)
Biogem is community developed plugins for the BioRuby. See the complete list, generic information, README, HOWTO and Tutorial.

Overview

BioRuby comes with a comprehensive set of free development tools and libraries for bioinformatics and molecular biology, for the Ruby programming language. BioRuby has components for sequence analysis, pathway analysis, protein modelling and phylogenetic analysis; it supports many widely used data formats and provides easy access to databases, external programs and public web services, including BLAST, KEGG, GenBank, MEDLINE and GO.
BioRuby comes with a tutorial, documentation and an interactive environment, which can be used in the shell, and in the web browser.
BioRuby is supported by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation or O|B|F.

Reference

BioRuby: Bioinformatics software for the Ruby programming language
Naohisa Goto, Pjotr Prins, Mitsuteru Nakao, Raoul Bonnal, Jan Aerts and Toshiaki Katayama
Bioinformatics (2010) 26(20): 2617-2619. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq475