Run C/C++ genomics tools in the browser

Use bioinformatics command-line tools in your web apps with just a few lines of code. Powered by WebAssembly.

Supported Tools

Biowasm supports many C/C++ bioinformatics tools (samtools, bedtools, bcftools, bowtie2, minimap2, fastp, wgsim, etc.) and general data wrangling utilities (jq, gawk, grep, sed, etc.)

App	Why Biowasm?
sandbox.bio	Runs command-line tools in the browser to power interactive tutorials
42basepairs	Runs `samtools`, `bedtools`, `bcftools` and other tools to preview genomic files
CZ ID	Runs `htsfile` and `seqtk` to identify data issues before file upload
Nanopore	Runs `samtools` to generate `.bam` files after basecalling in the browser
Datagrok	Runs `kalign` in the browser for multiple-sequence alignment analysis
bedqc	Runs `bedtools` in the browser to validate .bed files
Ribbon	Runs `samtools` in the browser to parse, estimate coverage and subsample .bam files