The articles in this special issue reflect a convergence of developments in the fields of bioinformatics and plant genomics. Bioinformatics has its roots vaguely seated in the early 1980s, a time when personal computers began appearing in research laboratories and researchers began recognizing that those computers could be used as tools to organize, analyze and visualize their data. In the ensu...

bit is a collection of small scripts and programs that facilitate many common tasks in bioinformatics. It operates Unix-like command-line environment comprised bash python code. bit openly available on GitHub, archived with Zenodo, conda installable. The package useful for users who want to do things such as manipulate fasta files, calcul...