Geneious

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Geneious
Developed by	Biomatters
Latest release	3.7.0 / 6 May 2008
OS	Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris
Genre	Bioinformatics
License	commercial (Pro), free for academic use (Basic)
Website	http://www.geneious.com

Geneious is a commercial, cross-platform bioinformatics application.

1 Features
2 Popularity and awards
3 Criticism
4 References
5 External links

[edit] 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, NJ 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 and Mauve.

[edit] Popularity and awards

According to its authors, in May 2007 Geneious had 50,000 users from 30 countries^[1], and it has gathered attention on GenomeWeb^[2], BioInform, Bio-IT World^[3] and bioinformatics blogs^[4]^[5]. It was also awarded the 2007 World Summit Award in the category e-science^[6], and a 2007 Computerworld Excellence award for innovative use of ICT^[7].

[edit] Criticism

Geneious is sometimes criticized for trying to be everything to everyone, leading to obscure, not frequently used features and a long startup time (citation needed). It has also been criticized for being commercial, and for not offering unique killer features not available in any of its competitors^[8].