Sequencher is a DNA Sequence Assembly Software

Sequencher is the biologists choice for DNA sequence assembly and analysis software. Sequencher includes:

Multiple, configurable DNA assembly algorithms Comprehensive DNA sequence editing tools Full support of sequence data confidence values Powerful Reference Sequence and the Variance Table find SNPs quickly and easily. Comprehensive Restriction Mapping Extensive data import & export capabilities, including customizable GenBank Feature handling

Specialized tools for Forensic mtDNA profiling Comprehensive HTML Help throughout

How Sequencher Will Help You...

Are you frustrated that most bioinformatics software programs are hard to learn? Imagine DNA software that is so easy to learn and fast to use that you save hours a week, giving you more time in the lab...What could you do with all that extra time?

Sequencher from Gene Codes Corporation helps you go from DNA sequence data to results easier and faster than ever! Almost 20 years of daily use by biologists in labs around the world have refined Sequencher's tools and interface. You get the power & speed to get accurate results from your DNA analysis, and get back into the lab more quickly!

BioEdit is a mouse-driven, easy-to-use sequence alignment editor and sequence analysis program designed and written by a graduate student who knows how frustrating and time consuming it can be to rely upon word-processors and command-line programs for sequence manipulation. BioEdit is intended to supply a single program that can handle most simple sequence and alignment editing and manipulation functions that researchers are likely to do on a daily basis, as well as a few basic sequences analyses.

BioEdit offers a variety of useful features:

Four modes of manual alignment: select and slide, dynamic grab and drag, gap insert and delete by mouse click, and on-screen typing which behaves like a text editor.

In-color alignment and editing with separate nucleic acid and amino acid color tables and full control over background colors.

Plasmid drawing interface for automated creation of plasmid vector graphic from a DNA sequence. Easily mark positions, add features with arrows and curved boxes, and mark restriction enzyme cut sites. Also show detail of polylinker and draw moveable arrows and shapes with drawing tools.

Dynamic information-based alignment shading. Point-and-click color table editing Display and print ABI chromatograms with professional-looking output. Group sequences into groups or families. Lock alignment of grouped sequences for synchronized hand alignment adjustments.

Annotate sequences with graphical features with dynamic view in alignment windows including feature annotation information tooltips.

Lock sequences to prevent accidental edits. Specify characters to be considered valid for calculations in amino acid and nucleotide sequences.

Sort sequences by name, LOCUS, DEFINITION, ACCESSION, PID/NID, REFERENCES, COMMENTS or by residue frequency in a selected column.

Merge alignments through a reference sequence. Append one alignment to the end of another. Rudimentary phylogenetic tree viewer (for phylip-format trees) that allows node flipping and printing.

Verbally read back sequences in single sequence editor to verify hand-typed sequence entries.

Reads and writes Genbank, Fasta, Phylip 3.2, Phylip 4, and NBRF/PIR formats. Now also reads GCG and Clustal formats

Utilizes Don Gilbert's ReadSeq to automatically import and export 11 additional formats, including MSF, ASN.1, IG/Stanford and EMBL.

Allows import of compatible formats directly from the clipboard without saving to a file first.

Easy customization of menu shortcuts for editor window RNA comparative analysis, including covariation, potential pairings and mutual information analysis (currently capable of generating matrices up to 10,000 x 10,000 -but this would be a 600+ Mb file) with matrix plotter for 2-D matrix output tables and

area graphing for individual rows of a data matrix. Matrix plotter and line graphs both have point-and-click data selection and the matrix plotter and 1-D line graphs of matrix data are now dynamically linked

View sections of very large matrices with plotter (tested on up to a 5183 x 5183 matrix = 180 Mb file)

View and manipulate alignments up to 20,000 sequences. Binary file format (BioEdit Project format) for fast open and save of large alignments -the 6205 sequences of the prokaryotic 16S rRNA alignment (29 Mb file) open and save in less than 10 sec on a 233 MHz Pentium.

ORF searching with user-defined preferences Formatted translations of nucleic acid sequences with codon usage summary, choice of one- or three-letter amino acid codes, translation of selected region only of nucleic acid, and choice of start/stop codons

Split window view for simultaneous and synchronized editing of two different places in the same file -- split window vertically or horizontally

Amino acid and nucleotide composition analyses and plots Align protein-encoding nucleic acid sequences through amino acid translation. ClustalW multiple sequence alignment (interface internal, external program by Des Higgins et. al.) with auto-update of aligned protein full titles and GenBank field information, as well as nucleotide coding sequence when aligned from a protein view of nucleotide sequences.

Protein hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity plots Protein hydrophobic moment matrix plots (0-180 dgrees)

Full choice of system fonts now available in edit window Restriction mapping with any or all-frame translation, multiple enzyme choice and output options, and circular DNA capability

Browse restriction enzymes by manufacturer Sequences at least 4.6 Mb in length can be manipulated (the largest sequence tested so far is the E. coli genome (4.6 Mb) -- E. coli was opened, reverse complemented, translated into 10,125 codon stretches >=100 amino acids, and opened and saved with full GenBank annotation).

Six-frame translations capable of raw translation of entire genomes (tested with the E. coli genome -- ca. 4.6 Mb)

Save GenBank format Entrez files with LOCUS, DEFINITION, ACCESSION, PID, NID, DBSOURCE, KEYWORDS, SOURCE, REFERENCE, COMMENT, and FEATURES fields intact. Modify or add your own information. Multiple sequence files saved in GenBank format retain any entered information. This information is also saved in the BioEdit Project file format.

Configure and run accessory applications via the BioEdit graphical application configuration interface. BioEdit currently comes with:

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TreeView (install package -- install separately) CAP assembly FastDNml Phylip programs including:

DNADist DNAmlk

Fitch Kitch ProtDist ProtPars

Full NCBI package of local BLAST programs, database creation, and internet BLAST client 2.0, with sample protein database of E. coli open reading frames.

Shaded graphical output with identity and similarity (for protein) shading and several formatting options.

Rich text export of formatted, shaded alignments On-line help system (always a couple of versions behind the program). Entropy (information lack) plotting. Multiple document interface. Basic sequence manipulations (reverse/complement, translate, DNA->RNA->DNA) Easy text export and configurable text printing.

BioEdit is a biological sequence alignment editor written for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP. An intuitive multiple document interface with convenient features makes alignment and manipulation of sequences relatively easy on your desktop computer. Several sequence

manipulation and analysis options and links to external anaylsis programs facilitate a working environment which allows you to view and manipulate sequences with simple point-and-click operations.

Several modes of hand alignment Automated ClustalW alignment Automated Blast searches (local and WWW) Plasmid drawing and annotation Accessory application configuration Restriction mapping RNA comparative analysis tools Graphical matrix data viewing tools Shaded alignment figures Translation-based nucleic acid alignment ABI trace viewing, editing and printing Customizable ... other features