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Bioinformatics Resources Directory

117+ free and open-source bioinformatics tools and databases, organized by research area — genomics, proteomics, drug discovery, cancer, microbiology, and more. Built for scientists, students, and researchers who don't have a budget for paid platforms.

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🔗 Also Explore — Recommended External Tools

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HDOCK

Template-based and ab initio protein–protein and protein-DNA/RNA docking. Free academic use, results returned in ~10–20 min.

Structural Bioinformatics

SAVES / ERRAT / PROCHECK

UCLA structure validation suite: ERRAT, Verify3D, PROCHECK, WHATCHECK — the standard tools for validating homology models before publication.

Structural Bioinformatics

PDBsum

Graphical summary of any PDB entry — secondary structure, ligand interactions, Ramachandran and more, all on one page.

Structural Bioinformatics

ProTox-3 — Toxicity Prediction

Predict oral toxicity, hepatotoxicity, and other endpoints for a compound from SMILES. Free, no registration required.

Pharmacology & Drug Discovery

ABCpred — B-Cell Epitope Prediction

Predict linear B-cell epitopes in an antigen sequence using a recurrent neural network — useful for vaccine design workflows.

Immunoinformatics

SwissTargetPrediction

2D+3D similarity-based target prediction for small molecules across human, mouse, and rat proteomes. No registration needed.

Pharmacology & Drug Discovery

STS Bioinformatics — Gel Simulator

UIC's online gel electrophoresis simulator — useful as a reference alongside our built-in Gel Electrophoresis tool.

General Bioinformatics Portals

GenScript Online Tools

Suite of molecular biology tools including codon optimization, primer design, and protein analysis. Some features require a free account.

General Bioinformatics Portals

ADMETlab 3.0 (full platform)

The complete ADMETlab 3.0 web platform — 119 ADMET endpoints, batch mode, molecular editor, and decision-support features beyond our built-in ADMET tool.

Pharmacology & Drug Discovery

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