The list of bioinformatics software tools can be split up according to the license used:
Alternatively, here is a categorization according to the respective bioinformatics subfield specialized on:
- Sequence analysis software
- List of sequence alignment software
- List of alignment visualization software
- Alignment-free sequence analysis
- De novo sequence assemblers
- List of gene prediction software
- List of disorder prediction software
- List of Protein subcellular localization prediction tools
- List of phylogenetics software
- List of phylogenetic tree visualization software
- Category:Metagenomics_software
- Structural biology software
- List of molecular graphics systems
- List of protein-ligand docking software
- List of RNA structure prediction software
- List of software for protein model error verification
- List of protein secondary structure prediction programs
- List of protein structure prediction software
- Category:Molecular dynamics software
- Structural alignment software
- Other