Sequencing Software Manufacturers

With DNA sequencing and gene mapping growing at exponential rates, scientists have come to rely more & more on sophisticated software to collect, analyze, catalogue & interpret the data. But today an array of software tools are available for scientists to manage sequencing projects, no matter how large or small. Some of these tools have been around for years & continue to meet the needs of many conventional labs, others have been released only in the past several months & make use of the latest graphical interfaces & search and assembly algorithms, as well as on-line functionality, to keep pace with the ever-increasing demand for faster & more intuitive computer analysis tools. The software packages are available on a variety of platforms, they provide an extensive array of base calling, nucleic acid & protein analysis features & they handle multiple sequence alignment, contiain assembly, primer & probe design and database searching.