Everything about Go software

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Go softwareA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Software update: The ORCA program system—Version 5.0Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Go Programming LanguageThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction NetworksCited 47,820 times
5. Go sideways: Internet Go serverA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: KGS Go ServerA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks

  Paul Shannon, Andrew Markiel, Owen Ozier · 2003 · Genome Research · 47,820 citations

• MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

  K. Katoh, D. M. Standley · 2013 · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 46,137 citations

• QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

  Paolo Giannozzi, Stefano Baroni, Nicola Bonini · 2009 · Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter · 23,960 citations

• MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) Software Version 4.0

  K. Tamura, J. Dudley, M. Nei · 2007 · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 23,531 citations

• The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners

  Paul A. Harris, Robert Taylor, Brenda L. Minor · 2019 · Journal of Biomedical Informatics · 23,106 citations

• Phaser crystallographic software

  Airlie J. McCoy, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve, Paul D. Adams · 2007 · Journal of Applied Crystallography · 20,837 citations

• Detecting the number of clusters of individuals using the software structure : a simulation study

  G. EVANNO, S. REGNAUT, J. GOUDET · 2005 · Molecular Ecology · 19,926 citations

• Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

  Patrick D. Schloss, Sarah L. Westcott, Thomas Ryabin · 2009 · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 19,558 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Software update: The ORCA program system—Version 5.0

  Frank Neese · 2022 · WIREs Computational Molecular Science · 5,255 citations

• Blue applicability grade index (BAGI) and software: a new tool for the evaluation of method practicality

  Natalia Manousi, Wojciech Wojnowski, Justyna Płotka-Wasylka · 2023 · Green Chemistry · 1,729 citations

• Software Update: The ORCA Program System—Version 6.0

  Frank Neese · 2025 · WIREs Computational Molecular Science · 1,472 citations

• CASA, the Common Astronomy Software Applications for Radio Astronomy

  The CASA Team, Ben Bean, Sanjay Bhatnagar · 2022 · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 1,236 citations

• Large Language Models for Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review

  Xinyi Hou, Yanjie Zhao, Yue Liu · 2024 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 1,110 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Go Programming LanguageAlan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan · 2015
• Mastering GoMihalis Tsoukalos · 2018
• The Go programming language phrasebookDavid Chisnall · 2012
• Go in ActionWilliam Kennedy, Brian Ketelsen · 2015
• Programming in GoMark Summerfield · 2012
• Go Design PatternsMario Castro Contreras · 2017
• GRPCKasun Indrasiri, Danesh Kuruppu · 2020
• The Go Programming LanguageAlan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan · 2015

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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