CLC bio
Encyclopedia
CLC bio is a bioinformatics
solution provider based in Aarhus
, Denmark
. CLC bio's software workbenches have more than 75,000 users in more than 100 countries around the globe.
, Windows
, and Linux
.
, Smith-Waterman and ClustalW. CLC Bioinformatics Cube http://clccube.com and CLC Bioinformatics Cell http://clccell.com have garnered considerable positive attention in independent industry publications such as Bio-IT World.
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...
solution provider based in Aarhus
Aarhus
Aarhus or Århus is the second-largest city in Denmark. The principal port of Denmark, Aarhus is on the east side of the peninsula of Jutland in the geographical center of Denmark...
, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
. CLC bio's software workbenches have more than 75,000 users in more than 100 countries around the globe.
Software
The company started out making a free desktop workbench for basic bioinformatics, CLC Sequence Viewer (originally called CLC Free Workbench), which was released in July 2005. Commercial workbenches for advanced bioinformatics have been added since. CLC bio's software is platform independent and can thus be used for both Mac OS XMac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
, Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
, and Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
.
Hardware
The company has also developed high-performance computing solutions, focusing on accelerating scientifically proven algorithms such as HMMERHMMER
HMMER is a free and commonly used software package for sequence analysis written by Sean Eddy. Its general usage is to identify homologous protein or nucleotide sequences. It does this by comparing a profile-HMM to either a single sequence or a database of sequences...
, Smith-Waterman and ClustalW. CLC Bioinformatics Cube http://clccube.com and CLC Bioinformatics Cell http://clccell.com have garnered considerable positive attention in independent industry publications such as Bio-IT World.