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<h2>BioJava is open source<br />

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<p>It's hosted, developed, and maintained on GitHub.<br/>

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<h2>Protein Structure Modules<br />

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<p>provide an API that allow to</p>

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<li>Maintain local installations of PDB</li>

<li>Load structures and manipulate them</li>

<li>Perform standard analysis such as sequence and structure alignments</li>

<li>Visualize structures</li>

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<h2>Biological Sequences<br />

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<p>BioJava allows to</p>

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<li>Perform basic operations on biological sequences</li>

<li>Read and Write popular sequence file formats</li>

<li>Translate DNA sequences into protein sequences</li>

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<h2>Mailing lists</h2>

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BioJava has two main mailing lists.

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<h3>Tutorial</h3>

<p>The tutorial offers an introduction into some of the features that are provided by BioJava.</p>

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<h3>Cookbook</h3>

<p>The Cookbook provides simple coding recipes that follow a "How do I ..." approach.</p>

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<h3>Javadoc API</h3>

<p>Read the</p>

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<a href="http://www.biojava.org/docs/api1.9.1/index.html" >legacy 1.9.1 API</a>

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<h3>Wiki</h3>

<p>All pages from the legacy wiki site have been migrated to markdown pages</p>

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<h3>Javadoc API</h3>

<p>We are hosting a copy of the javadocs.</p>

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