Section: Software and Platforms
VARNA
Participants : Yann Ponty [correspondant] , Alain Denise.
A lightweight Java Applet dedicated to the quick drawing of an RNA secondary structure. VARNA is open-source and distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL license. Automatically scales up and down to make the most out of a limited space. Can draw multiple structures simultaneously. Accepts a wide range of documented and illustrated options, and offers editing interactions. Exports the final diagrams in various file formats (svg,eps,jpeg,png,xfig) [55] ...
VARNA currently ships in its 3.9 version, and consists in 50 000 lines of code in 250 classes.
Impact: Downloaded 10 000 times and is cited by more than 170 research manuscripts (source: Google Scholar).
Availability: Distributed under the terms of the GPL v3 licence since 2009 on simple demand to the author(s) at http://varna.lri.fr .