Aiming to bring easy-to-use sequence analysis to Mac-using biologists, BioX features graphical editors for sequences and multiple alignments, and supports many different sequence file formats. Analysis functions include searching for patterns, primers, restriction sites and repeats, translation and back translation, calculating DNA melting temperature, dot plots and ClustalW alignment.

BioX takes advantage of the Unix underpinnings of Mac OS X by using command line sequence analysis tools from the ebiotools package, but presents them to the user with a friendly interface.

It is developed by Erik Lagercrantz in collaboration with Dr. Erik Bongcam-Rudloff of the Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics in Uppsala, Sweden.