Retrieve, cache and search for bioconda packages and their descriptions.
🌐 Website: corebio.info/biocondor
Bioconda is a distribution of bioinformatics software packaged for the conda package manager, hosting thousands of tools used in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and related fields. Finding the right tool — or understanding what a package does — often requires browsing multiple sources.
BioCondor addresses this by locally caching bioconda package metadata (fetched from the Anaconda and GitHub APIs) and exposing fast, regex-powered search across package names, descriptions, and other fields.
A script based on the installation of the package extracts the list of binaries specific to each package. This can be viewed online (example, the subread package).
| Script | Purpose |
|---|---|
getBiocondaCache.py |
Download and cache all bioconda package metadata |
grep_conda.py |
Search cached packages with regex |
package_info.py |
Display detailed info for a specific package |
get_field.py |
Extract a specific field across all packages |
bioconda-get-binaries.py |
Retrieve binary package information |
Full documentation is in the 📖 repository wiki.