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.
Changes: Fast de novo assembly is now possible, and is capable of assembling 100,000 454 reads or 500,000 Illumina Solexa reads without a reference sequence in a few minutes on a desktop machine. A new dotplot is used that is capable of dotplotting genome sized sequences with brand-new controls. Handling of next-gen sized data was greatly improved in terms of speed and memory efficiency when dealing with large next-gen data sets. A restriction site or other extension can be added to primers and Geneious takes this in to account when testing the primer and using it for other analysis. Much more was also done.
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