Several libraries to develop biological applications are just included in Debian. You can find a list of them at the Debian Med tasks page bio-dev. Here you can find libraries which are not yet included in Debian.

Library

Purpose

Language

Licence

Package

BioHaskell

General

Haskell

LGPL

Bio++

sequence analysis, phylogenetics, molecular evolution and population genetics

C++

CeCILL

?BioCocoa =< 1.7

General

Objective C

(L)GPL

main

?BioCocoa2

General

Objective C

Creative Commons

main

BioPHP

General

PHP

GPL

Biomolecule Toolkit

structural modelling

C++

LGPL

Portable CBL

Sequences

C

LGPL

COGENT

Sequence analysis

Python

GPL

no

MolTools-lib

Sequence manipulation and analysis

Java

(L)GPL

NCBI C++ Toolkit

Web IO?

C++

Public domain + LGPL

Closed ITP (150636)

PAL

Phylogenetic Analysis Library

Java

LGPL

no

Perl Objects for Sequence Analysis

Chromatograms, SNPs

Perl

pygr

Graph database interfaces development

Python

GPL

no

libseq

Sequence manipulation

C++

GPL

libseqio

Sequence analysis

C++

LGPL

libsbml

System Biology Markup Language Library

Cross-language

LGPL

ITP (241111)

libtfbs

Sequence analysis

Perl

Artistic

packaged (unofficial)

SNPfile

SNP dataset manipulation

C++

GPL

Swissknife

Manipulate ?SwissProt files

Perl

GPL

Trace Utilities

Chromatograms, SNPs

(L)GPL


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