Code bioFOX aims at implementing various bioinformatics tools as an extension on the Firefox browser. Analysis of your favorite gene(s) usually require(s) retrieving it from a database like NCBI or Swiss-Prot and then performing one or more tasks including but not limited to:

• Translation of a nucleotide sequence
• Blast search (For eg. blastn, blastp etc.) of the desired nucleotide/protein sequence.
• Calculation of properties (like PI, charge, molecular weight, AT/GC content etc.) of a protein/nucleotide sequence.
• Conversion between formats (Genbank, Fasta, Swiss-Prot etc.)
• Prediction of sequence for sub-cellular localization (PREDOTAR, TargetP, pSORT etc)

Each of these tasks requires at least the following 4 steps:

• Visiting one of the sequence database websites,
• searching for the gene using its name or accession ID (ACC ID),
• copying the gene sequence
• and importing it to other bioinformatics websites for further analysis.

bioFOX makes analysis of desired sequences easier. For example, selecting a sequence and submitting it directly to a particular website of interest.

Updates

bioFOX v1.1.4

Support for Firefox 2.0, Seamonkey, Netscape

Added KEGG

Some other minor URL fixes

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