<s>
.NET	B-Application
Bio	I-Application
is	O
an	O
open	B-License
source	I-License
bioinformatics	O
and	O
genomics	O
library	O
created	O
to	O
enable	O
simple	O
loading	O
,	O
saving	O
and	O
analysis	O
of	O
biological	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
designed	O
for	O
.NET	B-Application
Standard	O
2.0	O
and	O
was	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Microsoft	O
Biology	O
Initiative	O
in	O
the	O
eScience	O
division	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
.NET	B-Application
Bio	I-Application
was	O
originally	O
built	O
and	O
released	O
by	O
Microsoft	O
Research	O
under	O
the	O
name	O
Microsoft	O
Biology	O
Foundation	O
(	O
MBF	O
)	O
and	O
was	O
later	O
repackaged	O
and	O
released	O
by	O
the	O
Outercurve	O
Foundation	O
as	O
a	O
fully	O
public	O
and	O
open	B-License
source	I-License
project	O
under	O
the	O
Apache	B-Application
License	I-Application
2.0	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
library	O
consists	O
of	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
object-oriented	O
classes	O
written	O
in	O
C#	B-Application
to	O
perform	O
common	O
bioinformatic	O
tasks	O
such	O
as	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Read	O
and	O
write	O
standard	O
alignment	O
and	O
sequence-oriented	O
data	O
files	O
such	O
as	O
FASTA	B-Application
and	O
GenBank	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Access	O
online	O
web	O
services	O
such	O
as	O
NCBI	O
BLAST	B-Application
to	O
search	O
known	O
databases	O
for	O
sequence	O
fragments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Even	O
though	O
the	O
library	O
itself	O
is	O
written	O
in	O
C#	B-Application
,	O
it	O
may	O
be	O
used	O
from	O
any	O
.NET	B-Application
compatible	O
language	O
and	O
has	O
samples	O
of	O
various	O
usages	O
including	O
from	O
IronPython	B-Application
scripting	O
.	O
</s>
