Welcome to the JABBA menagerie: a collection of animal-themed, bogus bioinformatics names…that have nothing to do with animals!
Bioinformaticians make the worst zookeepers:
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- 2011 — ANTELOPE: Analysis of Networks through TEmporal-LOgic sPEcifications …has nothing to do with antelopes
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- 2014 — BISON: BISulfite alignment On Nodes of a cluster …has nothing to do with bisons
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- 2011 — CORAL: CORrection with ALignments …has nothing to do with corals
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- 2010 — DODO: DOmain based Detection of Orthologs …has nothing to do with dodos
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- 2011 — EMU: Extractor of MUtations …has nothing to do with emus
- 2014 — EAGLE: Enhanced Artificial Genome Engine (no 'L'?!?) …has nothing to do with eagles
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- 2014 — FALCON: FAst Localization algorithm based on a CONtinuous-space formulation …has nothing to do with falcons
- 2015 — FROG: FingeRprinting Ontology of Genomic variations …has nothing to do with frogs
- 2017 — FROGS: Find, Rapidly, OTUs with Galaxy Solution …also has nothing to do with frogs
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- 2015 — GECKO: GEnome Comparison with K-mers Out-of-core …has nothing to do with geckos
- 2009 — GORILLA: Gene Ontology enRIchment anaLysis and visuaLizAtion …has nothing to do with gorillas
- 2018 — GRASShopPER: GPU overlap GRaph ASSembler using Paired End Reads …has nothing to do with grasshoppers
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- 2010 — HAMSTeRS: Haemophilia A Mutation, Structure, Test, and Resource Site…has nothing to do with hamsters
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- 2013 — INSECT: IN-silico SEarch for Co-occurring Transcription factors …has nothing to do with insects
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- 2014 — JAGuaR: Junction Alignments to Genome for RNA-seq reads … has nothing to do with jaguars
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- 2002 — MOUSE: Mitochondrial and Other Useful SEquences …has nothing to do with mice
- 2014 — MONGOOSE: MetabOlic Network GrOwth Optimization Solved Exactly …has nothing to do with mongooses
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- 2013 — ORCA: mOdel-dRiven disCovery and Analysis …has nothing to do with orcas
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- 2015 — PANDA: Pathway AND Annotation explorer …has nothing to do with pandas
- 2005 — PANTHER: Protein ANalysis THrough Evolutionary Relationships …has nothing to do with panthers
- 2014 — PIGEONS: Photographically InteGrated En-suite for the OligoNucleotide Screening …has nothing to do with pigeons
- 2014 — PuFFIN: Positioning for Fuzzy and FIxed Nucleosomes …has nothing to do with puffins
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- 2013 — RAVEN: Reconstruction, Analysis and Visualization of mEtabolic Networks …has nothing to do with ravens
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- 2006 — SPIDer: Saccharomyces Protein-protein Interaction Database …has nothing to do with spiders
- 2009 — SHRiMP: SHort Read Mapping Package …has nothing to do with shrimps
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- 2008 — TiGER: Tissue-specific Gene Expression and Regulation …has nothing to do with tigers
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- 2004 — ZEBRA: Zebra finch Expression BRain Atlas…has nothing to do with zebras
Other suggestions welcome! Only requirements are that:
- The name is bogus, i.e. not a straightforward acronym and worthy of a JABBA award
- The acronym is named after an animal (or animal grouping)
- The software/tool has nothing to do with the animal in question