Forum:Most Exciting Bioinformatics Software Released In 2013

Question

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What is in your personal opinion the most exciting piece of bioinformatics software released in 2013 and why?

[Giovanni M Dall'Olio]

See also the discussion: Top Bioinformatics Contributions of 2013

Answer 1

[Neilfws]

To be honest, "exciting" isn't the adjective that comes to mind when I think of software :)

No one item in particular, but I think Bioconductor has really progressed and expanded a lot this year.

Answer 2

[Biojl]

Express http://bio.math.berkeley.edu/eXpress/overview.html

Finally a well programmed (C++), easy and extremely fast tool to quantify expression for RNAseq, I was sick of having RSEM running forever with very big transcriptomes.

[Eric Normandeau]

Have you used it yet? What are your impressions?

[Biojl]

It's really fast but most important it's scalability it's awesome! I'm still testing it, though.