We recently released an open-source Python-based software package:

BARCODE: Biomaterial Activity Readouts to Categorize, Optimize, Design and Engineer

This user-friendly, material agnostic tool enables high throughput screening of dynamically restructuring soft materials. BARCODE produces a unique ‘barcode’ of performance metrics that visually and quantitatively encodes dynamic material properties with minimal file size. BARCODE significantly reduces data complexity, while providing rich, multiparametric outputs and rapid tractable characterization of material properties.

The freely available software, documentation and tutorials are available on:

Github: https://github.com/softmatterdb/barcode

Zenodo: 10.5281/zenodo.17585070, and our DMREF project website: https://www.livingbam.org/software

The software is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License, Regents of the University of California (2025).