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Category listing - biology: ports with commits on branch 2026Q2
Software related to biology. - Number of ports in this category (with commits on branch 2026Q2: 7

Ports marked with a * actually reside within another category but have biology listed as a secondary category.

htslib C library for high-throughput sequencing data formats
1.23.1 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 1.23.1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: jwb@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-04-21 20:18:18
Also Listed In: devel
License: BSD3CLAUSE MIT
USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • htslib>0:biology/htslib
kmcp Accurate metagenomic profiling & fast large-scale genome searching
0.9.4_26 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 0.9.4_29Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: yuri@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-04-10 17:07:00
License: MIT
USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • kmcp>0:biology/kmcp
ncbi-entrez-direct Access to the NCBI's suite of interconnected databases
14.9.20210423_42 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 14.9.20210423_45Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: jwb@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-04-10 17:07:00
Also Listed In: perl5
License: PD
USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • ncbi-entrez-direct>0:biology/ncbi-entrez-direct
seqkit Cross-platform and ultrafast toolkit for FASTA/Q file manipulation
2.11.0_7 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 2.13.0_5Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: yuri@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-05-09 17:54:55
License: MIT
USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • seqkit>0:biology/seqkit
taxonkit Practical and efficient NCBI taxonomy toolkit
0.19.0_17 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 0.20.0_5Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: yuri@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-04-10 17:07:00
License: MIT
USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • taxonkit>0:biology/taxonkit
ugene Integrated bioinformatics toolkit
53.1_1 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 53.1_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: makc@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-04-19 18:13:00
Also Listed In: science
License: GPLv2+
USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • ugene>0:biology/ugene
unikmer Toolkit for nucleic acid k-mer analysis, set operations on k-mers
0.20.0_21 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 0.20.0_24Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: yuri@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-04-10 17:07:00
License: MIT
USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • unikmer>0:biology/unikmer