Hi Florian, May be you can try the software from CLC bio. The full version can be used as trial for four weeks and the free limited one forever! I think you can do most of your things with the limited one. The link to download the software is www.clcbio.com/index.php?id=532.
Regards, Mahmudul Hasan PhD Student Dept of Biochemistry and Structural Biology Center for Molecular Protein Science PO Box 124 221 00 Lund Sweden On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Florian Schmitzberger <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > What type of software are people commonly using these days for > vector/plasmid map editing, making/visualizing vector maps, and aligning > (small to medium size) DNA sequencing data? Preferably, it should not be too > expensive and be able to write text files, readable by other programs. > I am familiar with VectorNTI, which is great for vector visualization and > editing; but I find it somewhat expensive. Sequencher seems good to quickly > align DNA sequences (such as from DNA sequencing) with templates, but is not > free. I have been using ApE for while for alignments, but aligning many > sequences is more cumbersome than in Sequencher; I have not tested if > Sequencher is good at visualizing and editing plasmid maps. > Ideally, I would like to have a single program for both purposes (vector > editing and DNA sequence comparison). Does something like that exist? What > are the alternatives to above programs? > Thank you in advance. > Florian > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Florian Schmitzberger, PhD > Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology > Harvard Medical School > 250 Longwood Avenue, Seeley G. Mudd 123 > Boston, MA 02115, US > Tel: 001 617 432 5603 > > > > > > > > > > > > >
