It also has a growing suite of built-in tree building algorithms. First, Geneious has some awesome features for visualizing aligned datasets (see figure). Evolutionary biologists are particular lucky that Geneious' inventor - Alexei Drummond - is one of us.Īs far as phylogenetic applications go, Geneious absolutely blows Sequencher out of the water. This may be Geneious' greatest asset: a group of young developers who seem eager to respond to user requests and proactively expand their software's scope. The only important feature that was missing when I first used Geneious was a function to identify potentially heterozygous positions, but, to my great surprise and delight, the Geneious developers added this feature within just a few days of my requesting it. Geneious' beautiful graphical user interface offered all of the Sequencher utilities I was looking to replace (e.g., viewing and editing of electropherograms, generation of contigs from individual sequencing runs). Motivated by my desire to never purchase a single Sequencher key, I stumbled across this program when I was starting my lab a year or so ago. Are you looking for a fully featured program for the examination and analysis of DNA sequence data? Are you hoping for a way to avoid paying thousands of dollars for those über-annoying USB keys from Sequencher? The answer has arrived and it's name is Geneious.
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