InforMax, Inc., a provider of molecular biology software and general software solutions,
has released the MAC version of its FREE Vector NTI Viewer which can be downloaded
from http://www.informaxinc.com. The Viewer can be installed as a helper application
within WWW browsers, such as Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer, to retrieve and
visualize molecule data in Vector NTI Molecule Document, GenBank, EMBL and
FASTA formats. It also makes it possible to visualize structures stored as MIME
attachments in Internet mail messages. The Viewer can read GenBank, EMBL, FASTA
files and unannotated nucleotide sequences from ASCII files and create and visualize
virtual molecules for them. The Viewer allows simple molecule analysis - searching for
restriction sites, ORFs, etc. Publication-quality graphics maps may be printed, saved in an
external file, or transferred via the clipboard to other applications quickly and easily for
inclusion in articles and reports.