EDGE bioinformatics is intended to help truly democratize the use of Next Generation Sequencing for exploring genomes and metagenomes. Given that bioinformatic analysis is now the rate limiting factor in genomics, we developed EDGE bioinformatics with a user-friendly interface that allows scientists to perform a number of tailored analyses using many cutting-edge tools. Users can explore those and other data sets using a free demo hosted on the LANL server. Researchers who wish to analyse their own sequences must install the software on their own systems (see JM Perkel, Nature 543:137, 2017) Registration required.