Department of Genome Informatics, Genome Information Research Center, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan.
Bioinformatics. 2010 Oct 15;26(20):2617-9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq475. Epub 2010 Aug 25.
The BioRuby software toolkit contains a comprehensive set of free development tools and libraries for bioinformatics and molecular biology, written in the Ruby programming language. BioRuby has components for sequence analysis, pathway analysis, protein modelling and phylogenetic analysis; it supports many widely used data formats and provides easy access to databases, external programs and public web services, including BLAST, KEGG, GenBank, MEDLINE and GO. BioRuby comes with a tutorial, documentation and an interactive environment, which can be used in the shell, and in the web browser.
BioRuby is free and open source software, made available under the Ruby license. BioRuby runs on all platforms that support Ruby, including Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. And, with JRuby, BioRuby runs on the Java Virtual Machine. The source code is available from http://www.bioruby.org/.
BioRuby 软件工具包包含了一套全面的免费开发工具和库，用于生物信息学和分子生物学，这些工具和库是用 Ruby 编程语言编写的。BioRuby 有用于序列分析、途径分析、蛋白质建模和系统发育分析的组件；它支持许多广泛使用的数据格式，并提供了对数据库、外部程序和公共 Web 服务（包括 BLAST、KEGG、GenBank、MEDLINE 和 GO）的轻松访问。BioRuby 附带了一个教程、文档和一个交互式环境，可以在 shell 中以及在网络浏览器中使用。
BioRuby 是免费的开源软件，根据 Ruby 许可证提供。BioRuby 可在支持 Ruby 的所有平台上运行，包括 Linux、Mac OS X 和 Windows。并且，通过 JRuby，BioRuby 可以在 Java 虚拟机上运行。源代码可从 http://www.bioruby.org/ 获取。
