best software

[Anders Gorm Pedersen]

ql wrote:
> 
> At this time we are looking for a software package, which is suitable for a
> normal molecular biology lab. It should perform sequence assembly (not
> genome scale), multiple alignment, tree building, primer select, restriction
> mapping, protein analysis, etc. We are now using the DNASTAR package for
> windows, for the most part, this package is rather good, but we are

Another alternative is Phrap/Phred/Consed which is available freely to academic
users in the linux/UNIX versions:

  http://www.phrap.org/

You can also buy windows and mac-versions (I'm not affiliated and haven't tried
these):

  http://www.phrap.com/

Best regards
Anders Gorm Pedersen


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