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wEMBOSS is a web interface to the popular EMBOSS software package for biological sequence analysis. wEMBOSS started as a coordinated effort from Martin Sarachu^† of the Argentinian EMBnet Node and Marc Colet from the Belgian EMBnet node.

Features :

• Results from program runs remain stored permanently on the server.
• Each user has a personal workspace and can create project folders, nested at any depth, to manage rationally his data and results.
• Each program has a panel with dynamic hiding/unhiding of available options.
• On-line access to program manuals and a program search facility
• The site administrator can exclude EMBOSS programs from wEMBOSS.
• Some program outputs can be automatically opened with applets or plug-ins.

Requirements (most come included in any Linux distribution)

• Linux or another UNIX variant
• Perl and some modules (see INSTALL file)
• A C compiler
• A Web server
• EMBOSS

The wEMBOSS developers team presently consists of :

• Marc Colet
• Guy Bottu

The companion suite wrappers4EMBOSS allows to integrate under EMBOSS a number of popular bioinformatics software suites and databanks like BLAST, fastA, CLUSTAL, MUSCLE, PROSITE, InterPro, PhyML, ModelGenerator, CODEHOP and some selected EBI Web Services, as well as to use MRS as EMBOSS sequence access tool.
wrappers4EMBOSS works fine under wEMBOSS but can also be used at the UNIX command line.

There is a chapter about wEMBOSS in the EMBOSS book
EMBOSS User's Guide : Practical Bioinformatics
Authors P. M. Rice, A. J. Bleasby & J. C. Ison
Cambridge University Press, 2011
ch. 8 : pp. 170-182 : G. Bottu : Using EMBOSS under wEMBOSS

You can use the mailing list wemboss-users to post your questions and suggestions (do note that you must register to the mailing list before you can post).

Please cite wEMBOSS if you find it useful for your work. Paper freely available at Bioinformatics.
wEMBOSS: a web interface for EMBOSS
Martín Sarachu, and Marc Colet
Bioinformatics 2005 21(4):540-541

wEMBOSS is an Open Source software released under the GNU General Public License