.NET Bio is an open source bioinformatics and genomics library created to enable simple loading, saving and analysis of biological data. It was designed for .NET Standard 2.0 and was part of the Microsoft Biology Initiative in the eScience division.
History
.NET Bio was originally built and released by Microsoft Research under the name Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) and was later repackaged and released by the Outercurve Foundation as a fully public and open source project under the Apache License 2.0.
Capabilities
The library consists of a set of object-oriented classes written in C# to perform common bioinformatic tasks such as:
Read and write standard alignment and sequence-oriented data files such as FASTA and GenBank. Access online web services such as NCBI BLAST to search known databases for sequence fragments. Algorithms for local and global alignments. Algorithms for sequence assembly, including a parallel DeNovo assembler implementation.
Even though the library itself is written in C#, it may be used from any .NET compatible language and has samples of various usages including from IronPython scripting.
See also
Genome Compiler
Open Bioinformatics Foundation
BioJava, BioPerl, BioPython, BioRuby
Bioclipse
References
External links
.NET Bio Website
Original MBF Website
Microsoft Biology Initiative
.NET software
Software that uses Mono (software) Bioinformatics software Free and open-source software Microsoft free software Software using the Apache license