[sci]phone apps
Posted by razor | Filed under Bioinformatika, English
Since the end of december I own an iPhone, and when I’m not drooling over it, I’m trying to test the free or cheaper apps, somehow related to bioinformatics, genomics or in general, science. Some of them are listed below.
The genomePad app provides a mobile phone interface for the UCSC genome browser. You can search the genomes of all species available in the browser, examine a given region and it’s annotation in detail, bookmark and share them, or copy and paste an URL from other sources.
BioGPS is a gene portal, supporting the human, mouse and rat species. As the creators say, it is a work in progress, but they wanted a flexible, easy-to-use, customizable and extensible interface for various gene related data, including expression profiles, annotations, protein domains, reagents, etc. The iPhone app provides a simple but usable interface for all of this.
The Molecules app allows you to view 3D representations of various molecules, rotate them and zoom in on the details. You can also have a look at the amino acid/nucleotide sequence, full name, or the journal and article originally describing it. Additional 3D structures are available to download at the RCSB Protein Data Bank.
LabCal calculates molarities, dilute stock concentrations and mols to grams. The pro app also includes a pH, pH to molarity, PPM to molarity and RPM to g-force calculators.
GeneticCode [iTunes link] and PeriodicLite [iTunes link], as their names suggest, contain data about base triplets and their corresponding amino acids or the various properties of the periodic elements.
BioBrick Studio Mobile (and the original BioBrick Studio) is an experimental IDE that tries to facilitate the review, annotation and design of standard biological parts from DNA, RNA and protein sequences.
PubMed On Tap Lite [iTunes link] is, well, a search interface for PubMed. You can search in the literature, save, email and organize the results, and read the abstracts. If available, you can also take a look at the full article texts.
There are also scores of unit converters, scientific calculators, various other periodic tables and genetic code converters, books, educational resources, not to mention the medical apps excluded from this list now.
Any more suggestions, favourites, useful or useless but interesting applications?
Tags: apps, biobrick, biogps, bioinformatics, genomepad, iphone, labcal, molecules, pubmed, software
January 7th, 2010 at 22:24
Might not fit your definition of free/cheap but don’t miss Papers, especially useful if you use the Mac version too.
January 7th, 2010 at 22:43
I’ll take a look at it, but unfortunately (or fortunately, I have to say), I got rid of my Mac after 3 years, so I can only use the iPhone version.
Compared to Mendeley (if you know it), which one is better?