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Advancing Julia
Repos that advance Julia as a compelling scientific programming language.Biology in the Frontend
Interactive simulations, visualizations, and demos served in the browser.Command-line Utilities
Future-facing command-line tools written in innovative languages or that raise the bar in some other way.Data Visualization
Know your data by seeing it.Database Innovation
Database innovations for a new era of realtime, distributed data engineering, with a focus on bioinformatics applications.Design as Code
Functional Programming
Writing composable, refactorable, and robust code with an FP paradigmGenomic epidemiology🦠🧬
Get started in Bioinformatics
Looking for inspiration to get started with making sense of noisy biological data? These repos punch above their weight.GIS
Spatial statistics, cartography, and other spatially explicit methodsGleam is cool
Glimpses of Jai
Early looks at the Jai programming language, which remains in closed betaGo in Bioinformatics
Tools built in Go that can be interfaced with in the command line, or in Go source code.Learning Me a Haskell
Finally giving in and learning Haskell—I may never be the sameMetagenomics is hard :(
but fun?Python as a Glue Language
Python is beautiful...but slow. These tools help bring out its best side: as an elegant glue language connecting faster pieces of software.R in Science
"The best thing about R is it was designed by statisticians. The worst thing about R is it was designed by statisticians."Rust in Bioinformatics (and Beyond)
Tools built in Rust that can be interfaced with in the command line, or in Rust source code.Scientific Reproducibility
Tools that make doing reproducible science—a very difficult task!—easier.Simulations
A list that celebrates simulations' central role in biology and scientific computing writ large.Software for Biodiversity
Software developed to help understand and solve the biodiversity crisis and advance our understanding of ecology and evolution in general.Standards for Excellent Programs
TypeScript Eats the World
We all give into TypeScript eventually...Workflow Orchestration
Tools for deploying many steps of dataflow across a variety of infrastructuresStars
#1 OpenCode Plugin- Battery included. ASYNC SUBAGENTS (YES LIKE CLAUDE CODE) · Curated agents with proper models · Crafted tools like LSP/AST included · Curated MCPs · Claude Code Compatible Layer …
A decoder that automatically detects compression format (gzip, bzip2, xz, zstd) via external crates. Includes encoder as well.
Efficient gzip to BGZF transcoder using half-decompression (2-4x faster than decompress+recompress)
Const equivalents of std functions, compile-time comparison, and parsing.
A high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler with built-in NumPy support
The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript (Works in the browser, Node.js, Deno, Bun)
Rust Backend for PyRanges Operations. More featureful and much faster replacement for the NCLS library
A template for developing DuckDB extensions in Zig
Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second : used by Facebook/Meta Velox, the Node.js runtime, ClickHouse, WatermelonDB, Apache Doris, Milvus, StarRocks
Code examples for the book titled Spatial Data Management with DuckDB
Fast, parallel Rust implementation of Prodigal for prokaryotic gene prediction in microbial genomes
Fast, simple and cross-platform Python application packaging
ts-error-translator for any and all editors
A tool for exploring large trees in the browser
Powerful expense tracker that lives in your terminal.
Javascript library for manipulating phylogenetic trees
Python and Rust library for loading, saving, and manipulating taxonomic trees