NEW:

Introducing blreads: BioLegato GUI that makes it easy to run programs involving sequencing reads including

• read trimming, error correction and quality control
• genome assembly and quality assessment
• transcriptome assembly and quality assesment
• generation of differential expression data from reads

BIRCH is

• a comprehensive desktop bioinformatics system which comes with many of the commonly-used bioinformatics programs pre-installed
• a framework of tools, files, and documentation for organizing and managing a bioinformatics core facility
• an expandable system that allows you to merge 3rd party programs and documentation seamlessly into the standard BIRCH distribution

Available for MacOSX, Linux

See http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~psgendb/doc/Release_Notes.html

See BIRCH in action on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9_3TfH3sjE0YdToVMChq-w?view_as=public