The program is based upon an original creation by Jim Berry under the program name of Bg Tracker. The code base was Delphi visual basic with FoxPro as the database back end. This new version uses .NET Framework version 4.5 with SQL Server Compact Edition for a very light program footprint.
BioCSharp is an open-source project designed to provide a bioinformatics .NET framework for processing biological data. It will include objects for manipulating sequences, file parsers, DAS, database access and analysis and statistical routines.