DNASTAR Lasergene 10 Software for next-generation sequence analysis and assembly

DNASTAR has announced the release of Lasergene 10 as a Sanger and next-generation sequence analysis and assembly software upgrade, with major enhancements to its flagship desktop software suite for molecular biologists. Among other improvements, the product introduces SeqNinja, a tool for manipulating and modifying large or complex sets of genomic data or editing sequence data and annotations across large data sets very quickly.

Other features include extended next-gen sequence assembly and analysis support for Ion Torrent and Pacific Biosciences data and applications; incorporation of dbSNP, Cosmic and GERP database information into sequence assembly and analysis projects; the ability to create custom SNP tables; and detection of splice site sequence variations.

The product includes Protean 3D, an integrated macromolecular sequence and structure viewer with bioinformatic method analysis. The upgraded version now includes the ability to draw 2D chemical structures of residues and ligands as well as the incorporation of the Prosite database within this application.

The product also includes the integration of GenVision into the Lasergene Core Suite, so that all Lasergene Core Suite users will have the ability to create publication-quality graphics of integrated data sets as part of the core suite functionality.