Monday, January 4, 2010

New Features in Geneious Pro 4.8 Sequencing Software

Filed under: Genetics

Biomatters Ltd out of Auckland, New Zealand has released a new version of its Geneious software package for "manipulating, finding, sharing, and exploring biological data such as DNA sequences or proteins, phylogenies, 3D structure information, publications, etc."

Here are the new features of the software:

Imports SOLiD and Solexa sequences as well as 454 sequences. The new, fast de novo assembler is capable of assembling a 5 mb bacterial genome for half a million sequences generated by the Sanger and 454 high-throughput methods in under 30 minutes while maintaining the most user-friendly environment available for research in the life sciences. Other new features in Geneious Pro 4.8 include:

Ultra-fast de novo assembler

Primer extension support

Primer design on alignments and assemblies

Map primer to sequence

Trim by primers

Batch export

Import FastQ, CsFasta, Qual file formats

Add, remove and combine enzymes from lists

Find in translated sequence

Quality statistics on chromatograms

Statistics: read length and chromatogram quality

Bundled EMBOSS Tools

Product page: Geneious 4.8...

Press release: Geneious Pro 4.8 released - over 15 new features...

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