Cranes Software, Bangalore-based scientific software vendor, and partner firm The MathWorks have released Bioinformatics toolbox 2.0 for MATLAB in India, a release said. Scientists and researchers can now performs mass-spectrometry data analysis, perform statistical interference and prediction, view graphs and conduct enhanced genomic and proteomic sequence analysis, the release said.

The Bioinformatics Toolbox delivers greater power and versatility to biotech and pharmaceutical industries, providing more advanced technology capabilities for drug research, genetic engineering and other genomic and proteomics projects.

Most functions of the toolbox are implemented in the open MATLAB language, enabling users to customise the algorithms or develop their own. The new mass-spectrometry data analysis feature is specifically designed for pre-processing data, including baseline correction, smoothing, alignment and re-sampling. As a result, users can now perform customised analysis at a faster rate, the release said.