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…