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<h2>Open source</h2>

<p>The project is hosted, developed, and maintained on GitHub.</p>

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<h2>Protein structures</h2>

<p>BioJava provides an API to maintain local installations of the PDB, load and manipulate structures, perform standard analysis such as sequence and structure alignments and visualize them in 3D.</p>

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<h2>Biological sequences</h2>

<p>BioJava supports reading and writing popular sequence file formats, translating DNA sequences into proteins and other common bioinformatics routines.</p>

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<h2>Get in touch</h2>

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Questions, comments, and communications regarding BioJava can be done either on <a href="https://github.com/biojava/biojava/issues">

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<h3>Tutorial</h3>

<p>The tutorial offers an introduction into some of the features provided by BioJava.</p>

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<h3>CookBook</h3>

<p>The Cookbook provides simple coding recipes to common bioinformatics problems using BioJava.</p>

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<p>BioJava is available from Maven Central.</p>

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<h3>Legacy Javadoc API</h3>

<p>The Javadocs for BioJava legacy 1.x versions.</p>

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