BaCON

BaCON

BaCON (Bioinformatic CONtext menus) adds a right-click menu, containing various quick-tools to use with selected biological data.

What is BaCON?
BaCON is a chrome extension called Bioinformatic CONtext menus. It adds a right-click menu with various quick-tools for selected biological data. BaCON allows you to directly use tools on interesting sequences without saving them or finding the correct website.
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By: BaCON
Users: 208 ▲ 5
Rating: 5.00 (3)
Version: 1.2 (Last updated: 2016-01-30)
Creation date: 2016-01-21
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • storage
  • <all_urls>
  • clipboardWrite
  • system.display
  • tabs
Size: 155.65K
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Summary

BaCon is a chrome extension that gives you access to all kinds of bioinformatic tools in a handy right-click context menu. Whenever you select a sequence with your mouse and right-click on the selection, you will see the BaCON menu, containing a lot of tools both for nucleotide sequences and protein sequences. The tools you want to have in the menu is fully customizable and contains many commonly used tools, such as BLAST and many tools from the EMBOSS package. BaCON allows you to use these tools directly when you find an interesting sequence, without having to save it to file or finding the correct web site to enter your data. To use BaCON, just mark the sequence, right-click, and select your tool. That’s all there is to it.

User reviews
Mycket bra verktyg för enkel sekvensanalys.
by A Google user, 2014-11-04
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Safety
Risk impact

BaCON is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install BaCON if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

BaCON has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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