Thursday November 22, 2007. 06:19 AM
FreshMeat
Geneious is an integrated bioinformatics tool suite for manipulating, finding, sharing, and exploring biological data such as linear and circular DNA sequences, proteins, phylogenies, chromatograms, 3D structure information, publications, etc. It features sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis, restriction analysis, contig assembly, access to biological databases at NCBI and elsewhere (PubMed, Nucleotide, PopSet, SNP, Structure, PFAM, etc.), BLAST, and more. It includes an API for creating your own plugins.
License: Free for non-commercial use
Changes:
Support for motif finding, MUSCLE sequence alignment, using SQL databases as a storage backend, degenerate primer design, alignment via consensus, and improvements for trace trimming, dot plot, and the sequence viewer. Numerous bugs were fixed.