BIRCH is a powerful framework for organizing and using bioinformatics. BIRCH comes with hundreds of commonly-used tools, and allows you to customize your BIRCH site by adding new ones.
# BIRCH * is a comprehensive desktop bioinformatics system integrating many of the commonly-used bioinformatics programs * is a framework of tools, files, and documentation for organizing and managing a bioinformatics core facility * can be customized by seamlessly merging 3rd party applications into BIRCH