UGENE is a free cross-platform genome analysis suite. It works perfectly on Windows, Mac OS or Linux and requires only a few clicks to install.
Features:
Main Features:
- Multiple sequence alignment using MUSCLE 3 and MUSCLE 4;
- HMM profiles build and search, based on the source of HMMER 2 and HMMER 3;
- PCR Primers design using Primer 3;
- Protein secondary structure prediction using GOR IV and PSIPRED;
- Search for restriction enzymes and integration with REBASE;
- Extremely fast repeat finder;
- Search for transcription factor binding sites using SITECON;
- ORF finder;
- Complete Smith-Waterman algorithm implementation.
User Interface:
- Visual and interactive genome browsing;
- Chromatograms visualization;
- 3D viewer for files in PDB and MMDB formats;
- Multiple sequence alignment editor;
- Easy to use workflow designer for custom computational workflows.
High performance computing in UGENE:
- Complete support of modern multicore processors and SSE instructions;
- Out of the box support of modern GPUs using NVIDIA CUDA and ATI Stream;
- Integrated solutions for Cell Broadband Engine;
- Private solutions for supercomputers and distributed computing.
Cooperation:
- Can be used for education in schools and universities;
- Features to be included into the next release are initiated by users;
- UGENE team is ready for collaboration in related projects, both free or commercial.