Support for Genome Workbench will end on March 31 2024. You may still use the application, but supporting documentation will not be available after this date. Read more.
Third Party Tools and Libraries
Third Party Packages
Currently NCBI Genome Workbench uses the following third party tools and libraries:
| Package | Comment |
|---|---|
| BitMagic | C++ library of compressed bitsets and succinct containers |
| Boost Test | Free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries |
| GL2PS | OpenGL to PostScript printing library |
| libbzip2 | File compression program |
| libjpeg | Library for handling the JPEG (JFIF) image format |
| libpng | Official PNG reference library |
| libtiff | Library provides support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data |
| libungif | A library and utilities for processing GIFs |
| libuv | Multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O |
| libxml2 | XML C parser and toolkit |
| libxslt | XSLT C library |
| LZO | Portable lossless data compression library |
| Nghttp2 | HTTP/2 C Library |
| PCRE | Set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5 |
| SQLite3 | C-language library that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine |
| wxWidgets | C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages. |
| zlib | A Massively Spiffy Yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library |
Current Version is 3.8.2 (released December 12, 2022)
General
Help
Tutorials
- Basic Operation
- Using Active Objects Inspector
- Configure tracks and track display settings
- Working with Non-Public Data
- Viewing Multiple Alignments and Trees
- Broadcasting
- Genes and Variation
- Generating and Viewing Sequence Overlap Alignment
- Working with BAM Files
- Loading Tabular Data
- Working with VCF Files
- Sequence View Markers
- Opening Projects in Genome Workbench
- Publication quality graphics (PDF/SVG image export)
- Editing in Genome Workbench
- Create Protein Alignments using ProSplign
- GFF-CIGAR export for alignments
- Exporting Tree Nodes to CSV
- Generic Table View
- Running BLAST search against custom BLAST databases
- Using Phylogenetic Tree
- Coloring methods in Multiple Alignment View
- Displaying translation discrepancies
- Searching in Genome Workbench
- Graphical View Navigation and Manipulation
- Using the Text View to Review and Edit a Submission
- BAM haplotype filtering
- Displaying new non-NCBI molecules with annotations
- Creating phylogenetic tree from precalculated multiple alignment
- Creating phylogenetic tree starting from search
- Video Tutorials
General use Manuals
- Tree Viewer Formatting
- Tree Viewer Broadcasting
- Genome Workbench Macro
- Query Syntax in Genome Workbench and Tree Viewer
- Multiple Sequence Aligners
- Running Genome Workbench over X Window System
NCBI GenBank Submissions Manuals
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Genome Submission Wizard
- Save Submission File
- Reports
- Import
- Sequences
- Add Features
- Add Publication
- Comments
- Editing Tools