Hi Florian,
Have a look at Serial Cloner - it's free, runs on OS X, Linux and Windows, and
is really quite powerful - including the ability to export single or multiple
sequences to FASTA format text files (however, it can only align two sequences
at the time I'm afraid):
http://serialbasics.free.fr/Serial_Cloner.html
HTH, Luca
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Karolinska Institutet
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On 27 Sep 2011, at 17:42 , Florian Schmitzberger wrote:
> Dear All,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thank you in advance.
>
> Florian
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