Geneious
Geneious is a commercial, cross-platform bioinformatics application.
Features
Geneious comes in a basic version that is free for academic use, and a commercial Pro version with added features. Geneious tries to bundle various bioinformatics tools under one hood.
- Sequence alignment and Sequence viewing
- Motif search and open reading frames (ORFs)
- Phylogenetic tree building UPGMA, Neighbour joining with bootstrapping and consensus trees
- Contig assembly and chromatogram editing
- Restriction analysis - find and view restriction cut sites and perform restriction enzyme digests
- PCR Primer design - designing and testing, degenerate primers, mismatches and multiple primer searching
- Protein structure viewer
- Database integration - integrated searching with Genbank, PubMed, BLAST and UniProt
- Collaborate and share data over the internet
- Teach bioinformatics - Create tutorials with direct links to material in Genieous
- Public API to develop free bioinformatics plugin by the community
- Various standard bioinformatics applications such as ClustalW, MrBayes, EMBOSS, Mauve, MUSCLE and PAUP*
Popularity and awards
According to its authors, in May 2007 Geneious had 50,000 users from 30 countries, and it has gathered attention on GenomeWeb, BioInform, Bio-IT World and bioinformatics blogs. It was also awarded the 2007 World Summit Award in the category e-science, and a 2007 Computerworld Excellence award for innovative use of ICT.
Criticism
Geneious is sometimes criticized for trying to be everything to everyone, leading to obscure, not frequently used features and a long startup time. It has also been criticized for being commercial, and for not offering unique killer features not available in any of its competitors.
External links
- Geneious Official website
- Biomatters website
- List of phylogeny software, hosted at the University of Washington
Other Software
- Gbench
- pDRAW32
- QuickGene (beta)
- Discovery Studio
- Vector NTI
- CLC Main Workbench
- UGENE
- MacVector
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