Databases, tools, and other resources

These services developed by Bork Group, are mainly designed and maintained for research and academic purposes. Most of services are published and documented in one or more papers (here only a few of them are listed). Please refer to the corresponding publications.




proMGE logo

proMGE: A resource for the retrieval of Mobile Genetic Elements from genomes




GMGC logo

GMGC: An integrated, consistently-processed, gene catalog of the microbial world, combining metagenomics and high-quality sequenced isolates

In collaboration with Luis Pedro Coelho





SIDER: A database of drugs and side effects



NGLess: A domain-specific language for NGS (next-generation sequencing data) processing

In collaboration with Luis Pedro Coelho



ETE 3 logo

ETE 3: A Python framework for the analysis and visualization of trees.

In collaboration with Jaime Huerta-Cepas




Enterotyping: Enterotyping: R tutorials



AQUA: An automatic quality improvment for multiple sequence alignment


PAL2NAL: Conversion of protein sequence alignments into the codon alignments + Ka/Ks-Calculations


PolyPhen: Prediction of functional effect of human nsSNPs


For commercial users: All our tools can be completely customized and integrated into your existing framework. This service is provided by the company biobyte solutions GmbH. Please visit their tools and services pages for full details and more information. Standard commercial licenses for our tools are also available through biobyte solutions GmbH.