PLoS Computational Biology (Feb 2019)

BioJava 5: A community driven open-source bioinformatics library.

  • Aleix Lafita,
  • Spencer Bliven,
  • Andreas Prlić,
  • Dmytro Guzenko,
  • Peter W Rose,
  • Anthony Bradley,
  • Paolo Pavan,
  • Douglas Myers-Turnbull,
  • Yana Valasatava,
  • Michael Heuer,
  • Matt Larson,
  • Stephen K Burley,
  • Jose M Duarte

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006791
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 2
p. e1006791

Abstract

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BioJava is an open-source project that provides a Java library for processing biological data. The project aims to simplify bioinformatic analyses by implementing parsers, data structures, and algorithms for common tasks in genomics, structural biology, ontologies, phylogenetics, and more. Since 2012, we have released two major versions of the library (4 and 5) that include many new features to tackle challenges with increasingly complex macromolecular structure data. BioJava requires Java 8 or higher and is freely available under the LGPL 2.1 license. The project is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/biojava/biojava. More information and documentation can be found online on the BioJava website (http://www.biojava.org) and tutorial (https://github.com/biojava/biojava-tutorial). All inquiries should be directed to the GitHub page or the BioJava mailing list (http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l).