Starting a shameless self promotion exercise, I would like to present two easy to use interfaces (with completely different target users and objectives) in the field of Bioinformatics.
The first one is BACA, a multiple mitochrondrial genome retriever, organizer and visualizer. BACA, allows the retrieval of multiple complete mitochondrial genomes. It will split all of them in features (cDNA, origins of replication, tRNA, …) creating FASTA files per genome (ie a FASTA with all components from a single genome) and type of annotation (ie a FASTA file will a certain gene from all genomes downloaded. BACA also provides an SVG visualizer, allowing to visually compare multiple genomes. Its main purpose is to help biologists download and organize mitochondrial data from GenBank, ie, its targeted at users which no nothing about scripting at all.
BACA was published on Molecular Ecology Notes. It is a (ugh!!!) Perl application.
It was developed as a toy in a Phylogenetics course in my MSc and ended up as a publication and public web service… But it is not much more than a useful toy really.
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