MOTIVATION: In recent years, public image resources have emerged, but finding quality data efficiently remains a challenge, therefore limiting reuse. RESULTS: IDR searcher is an open-source search engine designed to facilitate the exploration of datasets hosted in public bioimaging resources. The application offers a fast, efficient, cost-effective solution for discovering datasets and has the potential to address current disparities in finding quality datasets for exploratory research and can be combined with metadata visualization tools to enhance usability for the scientific community. AVAILABILITY: IDR searcher is deployed using Ansible playbooks and released under the GPL v2 license. The source code associated with this manuscript is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20641515.

UNLABELLED: TOPALi v2 simplifies and automates the use of several methods for the evolutionary analysis of multiple sequence alignments. Jobs are submitted from a Java graphical user interface as TOPALi web services to either run remotely on high-performance computing clusters or locally (with multiple cores supported). Methods available include model selection and phylogenetic tree estimation using the Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood (ML) approaches, in addition to recombination detection methods. The optimal substitution model can be selected for protein or nucleic acid (standard, or protein-coding using a codon position model) data using accurate statistical criteria derived from ML co-estimation of the tree and the substitution model. Phylogenetic software available includes PhyML, RAxML and MrBayes. AVAILABILITY: Freely downloadable from http://www.topali.org for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris.