Geneious 1.0 is due April 2006 and provides an intuitive user interface for searching, sorting and storing biomolecular sequence data and scientific publications
Gerton Lunter, one of Europe's leading experts in bioinformatics, is Biomatters's first distinguished overseas expert in a new programme designed to build collaboration between Biomatters and the global bioinformatics research community.
"It is our great privilege to have Dr Lunter here as he is a world authority on statistical alignment of genome sequences," Daniel Batten, Biomatters CEO said.
"This is a key area in comparative genomics which is an essential part of identifying the right drug candidates.
"Dr Lunter is co-hosted by Biomatters and the Bioinformatics Institute and will be speaking this week at the University of Auckland on groundbreaking research into the detection of functional regions of the human genome.
"He has recently been awarded a fellowship at Oxford to study the function and evolution of non-coding DNA in the human genome.
"He has come to New Zealand to work with Biomatters whose Geneious software he rates as excellent for helping scientists rapidly speed up discovery through simple systems for sequence analysis".
"It is a great to be able to have input on such novel software," Lunter said.
"The team at Biomatters are successfully solving some important key problems facing scientists in the field of bioinformatics software.
"And as they continue to seek further answers to new challenges they will be making an important contribution to the whole process of speeding up biological and health research".
Scientists can download Geneious without charge.
Key features and benefits: Geneious 1.0 is due April 2006 and provides an intuitive user interface for searching, sorting and storing biomolecular sequence data and scientific publications, including the following features:.
Creates an auto-updating personal database of organized, searchable sequences and publications.
Abstracts, PDFs and bibliographic information.
Links to Google scholar, and the full publication.
Storage of sequence data, trees, alignments and more.
Rapid sequence similarity searching within your own local database.
NCBI Blast interface.
3D protein structure viewing.
Tree building and visualization.
Direct access to NCBI, Uniprot databases.
Refine and filter information on the fly as it downloads - saving in some cases hours of NCBI page-scrolling.
Graphical viewer of sequence annotations such as genes, dotplots, motifs and primer positions.
Multiple alignment (no need for tedious cut and paste into Fasta files, then exporting to another alignment program).
Interoperability between Newick, Nexus, Fasta, Endnote and more.
Unlimited undo and redo capability.
It's free.
