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24 alternatives to Phage Explorer
I got really interested in biology and genetics a few months ago, just for fun. This was largely inspired by the work of Sydney Brenner, which became the basis of my brennerbot.org project. In particular, I became very fascinated by phages, which are viruses that attack bacteria. They're the closest thing to the "fundamental particles" of biology: the minimal units of genetic code that do something useful that allows them to reproduce and spread. They also have some incredible properties, like having a structure that somehow encodes an icosahedron. I always wondered how the DNA of these…
Phage Explorer is a tool for exploring the biology and genetics of bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria. It helps users investigate how phage DNA translates into physical three-dimensional structures, bridging… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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I made a web game inspired by Geoguessr and Wordle, where you get shown a 3D model of a random human protein each day, and you have to triangulate its gene name using similarity clues. My background is in wet lab molecular biology and I intend this game to be engaging mostly to other biologists. But if you're outside the field, I'm interested to know if you can still solve it with browser use LLMs, and if you learned something interesting doing so. Let me know what you think. I made it with Claude over the last 2 months. My coding experience is limited to basic python data analysis and…
Dec 2025 · geneguessr.brinedew.bio · its alternatives →
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I've been working on nodes.bio - an interactive tool for visualizing biological networks and systems thinking. The tool features interactive network visualization powered by Cytoscape.js, with real-time graph editing and manipulation capabilities. It supports JSON import/export and provides a responsive design that works seamlessly on the desktop (mobile-friendly version coming later). The tech stack combines modern frontend technologies with robust backend architecture. The frontend uses Next.js 14 with TypeScript and Cytoscape.js for the visualization engine. The backend is built with…
2025 · nodes.bio · its alternatives →
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When I read papers, I have to jump between multiple tabs to find the dataset, code, videos, peer reviews, and so on. I tried to fix this with this project. It started as a project just for papers on arXiv, but after its initial success on Twitter (got like 1.9k views: the most I have gotten for a post), I have now expanded it to include other openly available papers from PubMed Central, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and eLife. These papers have been linked with their genes, proteins, diseases, drugs, clinical trials, 3D protein structures, code, and cited and similar papers. This project now has four…
Jul 2026 · tomesphere.com · its alternatives →
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Online DNA and Protein Sequence Tools, Alignments, Reverse complement, Translation, Sequence annotation, design Primers
2017 · genewarrior.com · its alternatives →
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BioSciTools▲67BioSciTools for biology and bioinformatics researchers
2023 · bioscitools.podia.com · its alternatives →
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Hey! This is an open source plasmid and vector (Short, often circular segments of DNA) editor, with features related to primer quality checks, PCR cloning, and protein analysis. I plan to add more restriction-enzyme-based features in the near future. It has some extras like a solution-mixing helper, automatic feature annotation. From a technical standpoint, this is a standalone binary written using the EGUI library in rust. A project goal is performance, with small memory footprint, and small application and file sizes. This is a continuous work-in-progress, and I'm open to any and all…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to medical breakthroughs and get rewarded
2018 · nebula.org · its alternatives →
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I started this trying to understand two things: why my Asian friends turn red after drinking, and why several friends all seemed to have migraine clusters. I was reading medical papers and textbooks, but kept getting lost jumping between topics. I thought: what if I could just Cmd+Click through this like code? What if "ALDH2 gene" was actually clickable, and took me to the variant, the phenotype, the population frequencies? So I started modeling human biology in Rust with my Ralph agent (Claude in a loop, ty ghuntley). Turns out the type system is perfect for this. Every biological entity is…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m Sergey. When my son was diagnosed with several health conditions, a doctor told us to “learn to live with it.” I refused and started looking for answers. I spent the next seven years teaching myself genetics and cellular biology. That search led me to build Gene Inspector and have my family’s DNA sequenced. I now study genomic data from 14 family members across three generations. Gene Inspector turns raw DNA data into a shortlist of findings people can investigate. Instead of searching through millions of variants, users can quickly find potentially interesting ones, explore how…
2025 · gene-inspector.pro · its alternatives →
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Hi HN — I’ve been working on Gene, a general-purpose, homoiconic language with a Lisp-like surface syntax, but with a core data model that’s intentionally not just “lists all the way down”. What’s unique: the Gene data type Gene’s central idea is a single unified structure that always carries (1) a type, (2) key/value properties, and (3) positional children: (type ^prop1 value1 ^prop2 value2 child1 child2 ...) The key point is that the type, each property name, each property value, and each child can themselves be any Gene data. Everything composes uniformly. In practice this is…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We’ve built Synergetica, an open-source desktop app for end-to-end genetic circuit design. It supports node-based or code-based editing, interactive simulations, and automated DNA sequence generation. You can find the repo and docs here: - GitHub: https://github.com/khokao/synergetica - Docs: https://khokao.github.io/synergetica/
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Static analysis tool that detects potential ransomware in PE and ELF files through heuristic analysis - seekbytes/MicroSCOPE
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · demo.helix.io · its alternatives →
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Static analysis tool that detects potential ransomware in PE and ELF files through heuristic analysis - seekbytes/MicroSCOPE
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · leverlabs.io · its alternatives →
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Sequence Bio▲69Unlocked Newfoundland’s genetics for drug discovery
2019 · sequencebio.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’ve been working on a Python library and formal framework to make Agentic AI systems less fragile. The core premise is that biological cells are essentially distributed information processors that solved "hallucinations" (noise), "infinite loops" (cancer), and "resource exhaustion" (ischemia) billions of years ago. Instead of just using this as a loose metaphor, I used Applied Category Theory (specifically Polynomial Functors in Poly) to rigorously map Gene Regulatory Networks to Software Agents. Key concepts implemented in the library: * Metabolic Coalgebras: We model token budgets…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Wrote a program in FreeBASIC to try and find out how Genetic Algorithms work. It's a quick hack that I wrote to try some theories with because the Wikipedia Article on GAs reads like greek to me. So I built it from the general principles i knew at the time. The "genome" per individual is an array of 9000 integers but I used only monochrome pictures with either black or white; An individual also has a fitness score. There are 1000 individuals in the population and only two are selected to reproduce. So that makes 9 million (yes, MEELION as El Reg would write) data points and the scoring…
2015 · its alternatives →
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SeqBench▲5Sequence workbench for cloning, CRISPR, primers + MCP/API
Jul 2026 · seqbench.com · its alternatives →
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