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bioFOX: A Firefox Extension for Biomed Geeks January 3, 2008

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Bioinformatics, Health 2.0, Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, science, Web 2.0.
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I’ve been using Firefox for years now and I would never use any other web browser. One of my reasons is the fantastic database of useful extensions. For example, here is bioFOX:

Code bioFOX aims at implementing various bioinformatics tools as an extension on the Firefox browser. Analysis of your favorite gene(s) usually require(s) retrieving it from a database like NCBI or Swiss-Prot and then performing one or more tasks including but not limited to:

  • Translation of a nucleotide sequence
  • Blast search (For eg. blastn, blastp etc.) of the desired nucleotide/protein sequence.
  • Calculation of properties (like PI, charge, molecular weight, AT/GC content etc.) of a protein/nucleotide sequence.
  • Conversion between formats (Genbank, Fasta, Swiss-Prot etc.)
  • Prediction of sequence for sub-cellular localization (PREDOTAR, TargetP, pSORT etc)

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You can download it here.

Another tool is Biobar which provides access to major biological data resources (Genomic, Proteomic, Functional, Literature, Taxonomic, Structural, Plant and Animal-specific databases).

(Hat tip: GooMedic.com)

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