Geneious combines all the major DNA and protein sequence analysis tools into one application.
- Sequence alignment
- Contig assembly
- Primers
- Cloning
- Restriction analysis
- BLAST
- Phylogenetics
- Automatic publication updates
What's New
Version 7.1.2:
- Workflows: Fixed import/export of multiple workflows that are linked to each other becoming detached.
- Sequence Viewer: Fixed hang when shift-clicking to select lots of sequences in large contigs.
- Sequence Viewer: Reverse complementing an entire alignment now reverse complements annotations on the consensus sequence too.
- Sequence Viewer: Changes made to consensus annotations were lost in some situations when clicking save.
- Sequence Viewer: Fixed crash in rare situations when editing alignments or contigs.
- Sequence Viewer: Fixed poor performance in some cases when lots of annotations are selected.
- Feature Finder: Stopped it rounding of ambiguity matches to the nearest number of whole matches when calculating similarity. Also improved documentation.
- Gibson Assembly: Fixed failure to run on some documents due to invalid editing history annotations.
- General: Fixed crash sometimes when clicking on documents.
- General: Fixed hang sometimes when when downloading or moving documents.
- Shared Database: Fix user list not being displayed correctly when there is a blank user name.
Version 7.1.2:
- Workflows: Fixed import/export of multiple workflows that are linked to each other becoming detached.
- Sequence Viewer: Fixed hang when shift-clicking to select lots of sequences in large contigs.
- Sequence Viewer: Reverse complementing an entire alignment now reverse complements annotations on the consensus sequence too.
- Sequence Viewer: more...
Requirements
- Intel
- OS X 10.6 or later
- Java 6 or later
- 64-bit mode requires at least 4 GB of RAM
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Geneious combines all the major DNA and protein sequence analysis tools into one application.
- Sequence alignment
- Contig assembly
- Primers
- Cloning
- Restriction analysis
- BLAST
- Phylogenetics
- Automatic publication updates
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Pete028 reviewed on 10 Jul 2009
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mikenz reviewed on 22 Aug 2006
The user interface of Geneious is both attractive and intuitive. While the software has some “bell and whistles” for more complex tasks one of its key attributes is a simple user interface. Earlier this year I used the Beta-release in some undergraduate teaching labs - with great success. Students did a Genbank search, downloaded files, did an alignment and built a phylogenetic tree (with bootstrapping) all in the blink of an eye. If you are looking for a piece of bioinformatics software for teaching purposes look no further than Geneious.
With the integration of sequence chromatograph viewing and editing of DNA sequences/alignments (new in version 2) Geneious is now firmly embedded in my research practices. As is the case with any new software there are a few features that don't work quite as well as you might like - but the good news is that if you write to them they will likely fix it up asap. My request to provide a variety of nucleotide colour schemes was implemented within 2 weeks. Moreover, the software is structured in such a way that “new” plugins can be written and incorporated with relative ease.
The Geneious team has made available a freeware version and a pro version that (for a price) allows you to access more functionality. Based on the hours of time this program has saved me already I would not even blink at the academic price tag of $133 (USD) - or cheaper for students.
The software almost has too many features to comment on in any one review (e.g. “agents” and collaboration modes) - the best advice I can give is to download it, do the tutorial and test drive it on a bioinformatics task that you regularly conduct - it won't disappoint.
Cheers,