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Geneious is a commercial, cross-platform bioinformatics
application developed by Biomatters Ltd.
Features
Geneious comes in a Basic version that is free for academic use,
and a commercial Pro version with added features. Geneious bundles
various bioinformatics tools under one hood with an easy-to-use
email-client-like interface. See the release notes for a full
list of features.
- Fast de novo and reference assembly
- Sequence searching (NCBI,
PFam, Uniprot, BLAST) and publication searching (PubMed, Entrez)
- Automated search agents and smart agents - smart agents can be
trained to search for other related documents
- Sequence alignment and sequence
viewing - BLAST, MUSCLE, translation alignment,
ClustalW on Greenbutton super-computer
- Motif search and open reading frame prediction
- Genome and protein annotations
- Phylogenetic tree building UPGMA, Neighbour joining
with bootstrapping and consensus trees, PAUP* and PhyML plugin
- Contig assembly and chromatogram
editing
- in silico cloning and Gateway cloning - Restriction
digest, insert and ligate into vector, add attB sites, PB reaction,
LR reaction
- PCR Primer
design - designing and testing, degenerate primers, mismatches and
multiple primer searching, implementation of Primer3
- Protein
structure viewer
- Collaborate and share data over the internet
- Teach bioinformatics - Create tutorials with direct links to
material in Geneious
- Public API
to develop free bioinformatics plugin by the community
- Sassafras K2 license server support
- Various standard bioinformatics applications such as ClustalW, MrBayes, EMBOSS, Mauve, MUSCLE and PAUP*
Popularity
As of 2009, Geneious has over 100,000 user downloads from over
900 universities and institutes in more than 50 countries. The
commercial version, Geneious Pro, is used by researchers at all 20
of the world's top 20 universities, as ranked by Times Higher
Eduction in 2009[1][2
]. It has gathered attention on GenomeWeb,[3]
BioInform, Bio-IT World[4]
and bioinformatics blogs.[5][6][7]
Geneious was the #1 bioscience download on apple.com in 2006,
and remains the #1 bioinformatics software download on apple.com to
this day.
Awards
In 2009, Biomatters Ltd. was awarded the Westpac Emerging Exporter of the Year at the Air New Zealand
Cargo Auckland Export Awards.[8]
Also in 2009, Biomatters Ltd. was awarded the Recruit IT
Innovative Software Product Award at the PriceWaterhouseCoopers New Zealand Hi-Tech
Awards for Geneious in conjunction with Massive
software[9] and
Geneious was a Global Finalist in the IT and Informatics category
at the Bio-IT World Awards in Boston.
In 2007, Geneious was awarded the World Summit Award in the
category e-science[10] and a
Computerworld Excellence award for innovative use of ICT.[11]
Also in 2007, the co-founder of Geneious and Director of the
Board at Biomatters, Dr Alexei Drummond won the Royal Hamilton
Memorial Prize for Contributions to Computational Biology for
developing Geneious.[12
]
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