Project Summary
BioJava is an open-source project dedicated to providing a Java framework for processing biological data. It include objects for manipulating biological sequences, file parsers, DAS client and server support, access to BioSQL and Ensembl databases, tools for making sequence analysis GUIs and powerful analysis and statistical routines including a dynamic programming toolkit.
BioJava is used in several real-world bioinformatics applications and has been used for bioinformatics analysis in a number of published studies.
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took an estimated 295 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in September, 2009
ending with its most recent commit about 1 month ago
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