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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 :

Latest news


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 is included in the wEMBOSS release and is also distributed as a stand-alone package for people who prefer to run EMBOSS at the command line or under some other GUI.


You can use the mailing list wemboss-users to post your questions and suggestions. Thank you for your interest and feedback.

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

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