The new release of Geneious Pro 3.0 enables any scientist with a connection to the internet to search, organise, access, visualise and analyse genomic information - in a single desktop platform
Geneious has been developed in New Zealand over the past two years with input from leading scientists from Oxford and UCLA, and has a worldwide user base of over 50,000 downloads from more than 30 countries.
While many suppliers of science software have focused on delivering products that specialise in very specific areas of data analysis and research, Geneious Pro 3.0 delivers a 'backbone' application connecting the spectrum of biological science.
Geneious enables existing and future software research tools to 'talk' with each other in full inter-operability - said to be a world first.
In August 2006, the first commercial version of Geneious Pro was released and immediately the downloads hit number one on the Apple website.
Early feedback from beta testers of Geneious Pro 3.0 indicates that it has the potential to replace expensive applications such as Sequencher and Vector NTI through its ability to meet scientists' requirements from the lab bench to publishing findings.
When Stephen Quirk of Kimberly Clark was asked to review Geneious, he stated: "This is the single best bioinformatics tool available to scientists today.
"It has fundamentally altered how I interact with biological sequence information".
Teaching bioinformatics has never been easier, says Biomatters.
Geneious Pro 3.0 allows users to teach or learn bioinformatics interactively.
Mike Bunce of Murdoch University in Australia had this to say about Geneious: "An amazing cross-platform application.
"I can't recommend it highly enough.
"It has allowed my students to do bioinformatics in 1/6 of the time".
Students are guided through analysis and exercises with all the data and tools just a click away.
Geneious also allows teachers to create their own tutorials using live links to data and communicate with students using built-in collaboration features.
Geneious includes patented scientific document and data search-and-store functions that are valuable for IP consultants and knowledge managers, as well as scientists.
Special collaboration features within Geneious allow users to chat, share data and work on projects together anywhere in the world.
CEO of Biomatters, Candace Toner, believes the Geneious platform has the potential to become the unifying platform of the scientific community.
"Geneious can retrieve and categorise scientific information from any data source on the web, allow peers to collaborate in real time, interface with lab equipment and other applications and users can customise their own plug-ins.
"It really is the holy grail of science software."
