GenBeans

Sequence Management: Sequence files are recognized on your hard drive and presented in a distinctive way in the Explorer; subsequences in multi-sequences files can be accessed directly without opening the files. Operations on sequences are easily made thought a context-sensitive menu accessed by simple clicks from the mouse. On this example you can rearrange the subsequences in this FASTA sequence file by simple drag and drop without ever opening the file.

Sequence viewing: Viewing nucleotide sequences with all its features is an important key to the successful design of new constructs and the analysis of common database records. Since version 3.6, sequences in GenBank and EMBL format can be opened, edited and saved in the Viewer. Restriction sites, translation in all 6 frames, and features including primers and CDS are fully supported. For example you can edit the sequence while monitoring translation at the same time and finally create a coding sequence (CDS); no more out-of-frame surprise at the end of your cloning experiments!

Sequence editing: Text editors are available for the most important sequence formats. These are 'smart' editors with specific color schemes to highlight sequence features and it has been never so easy to manipulate sequence in the widely used FASTA format.

Restriction Analysis: GenBeans includes a powerful restriction analysis toolbox. For example, finding exclusive and unique restriction sites between two sequences is just a mouse click away. You can create complex selections of sites, apply varied filters to modulate their characteristics, output multiple analyses at the same time, printed or savedthem for latter use.

Primer Design: GeanBeans offers rapid analyses of short nucleotide sequences for primer design that include a new algorithm to detect possible harming secondary structures. Did you see this self-dimer?

More to come: Genbeans is evolving rapidly and new features will become available shortly.