CLC bio’s modern and flexible IT architecture facilitates easy development of plug-ins for all of our bioinformatics workbenches, through our open API. When one or more plug-ins is installed on your computer, it is fully integrated with your CLC workbench – it runs as if it were one single (expanded) application.

You can develop your own plug-ins using our Developer Kit, or you can choose to use plug-ins developed by us or by third parties.

Click here if you are interested in being a third party plug-in developer, using our SDK.

We classify plug-ins in two groups, depending on their size and complexity

• Extensions are relatively small plug-ins with one or few features
• Modules are larger plug-ins that provide multiple features

	Plug-ins for connecting to a server	CLC Genomics Server	CLC Science Server	CLC Bioinformatics Database
	CLC Genomics Workbench
	CLC Main Workbench
	CLC DNA Workbench
	Manuals

 

	Extensions
	SignalP This plug-in can be used for prediction of signal peptides.
	BIOBASE TRANSFAC The TRANSFAC extension can be used to search for putative transcription factor binding sites in DNA sequences.
	Transmembrane helix prediction The TMHMM plug-in can be used for prediction of transmembrane helices.
	Sequence reader Reads a sequence aloud. To be used when comparing a sequence on the screen with a printed sequence.
	Extract annotations This plug-in extracts user-defined annotations from a sequence. An example is extracting all coding regions of a genomic sequence for further analysis.
	Recent items Gives you easy access to the sequences that you have recently worked with.
	Bookmarks The bookmarks plug-in can be used to bookmark elements in the Navigation Area so that they can easily be found later on
	Vector NTI import For Vector NTI users switching to a CLC Workbench: convert all your data in a single step (pre-installed when you download the Workbench)
	Targeted resequencing The targeted resequencing extension is designed to facilitate the analysis of targeted re-sequencing experiments using a variety of technologies such as RainDance, Agilent (SureSelect) and Nimblegen (sequence capture) and Febit in combination with high-throughput sequencing.
	Annotate Sequence with GFF File The Annotate Sequence with GFF File makes it very easy to annotate a sequence with annotations from a GFF file (Generic Feature Format).

	Modules
	Additional alignments This module allows for use of five other alignment methods which are otherwise not distributed with the program.
	MLST MLST is a portable and precise state-of-the-art technique for typing bacteria and yeast isolates.