BioEdit Alternatives

BioEdit is described as 'Biological sequence alignment editor written for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/7. An intuitive multiple document interface with convenient features makes alignment and manipulation of sequences relatively easy on your desktop computer' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to BioEdit for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best BioEdit alternative is Chromas, which is free. Other great apps like BioEdit are UGENE, Genophore, Benchling and SnapGene Viewer.

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  1. Chromas icon
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    Two software applications are available from Technelysium: Chromas and ChromasPro.

    27 Chromas alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Chromas is the most popular Windows alternative to BioEdit.

    • Chromas is the most popular free alternative to BioEdit.

    • Chromas is Freemium and ProprietaryBioEdit is Free and Proprietary
  2. UGENE icon
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    UGENE is free open-source cross-platform bioinformatics software.

    25 UGENE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • UGENE is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to BioEdit.

    • UGENE is the most popular Open Source alternative to BioEdit.

    • UGENE is Free and Open SourceBioEdit is Free and Proprietary
  3. Genophore icon
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    Genophore is an application for searching and designing proteins. It also provides a suite of bioinformatics utilities and collaboration tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Genophore is the most popular Web-based, SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to BioEdit.

    • Genophore is Free Personal and ProprietaryBioEdit is Free and Proprietary
  4. Benchling icon
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    Online lab notebook software, including DNA design tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Comments about Benchling as an Alternative to BioEdit
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    Benchling is not designet to align and edit genetic sequenches.

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    • Benchling is Free Personal and ProprietaryBioEdit is Free and Proprietary
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    SnapGene Viewer is revolutionary software that allows molecular biologists to create, browse, and share richly annotated DNA sequence files up to 1 Gb in length.

    30 SnapGene Viewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Clustal X icon
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    Multiple sequence alignment software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. 4peaks icon
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    4Peaks - For Peaks, Four Peaks. The award winning 4Peaks helps molecular biologists to visualize and edit their DNA sequence trace files. Analyzing your sequence has never been so much fun!

    23 4peaks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Serial Cloner icon
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    Serial Cloner is a Molecular Biology software.

    It provides tools with an intuitive interface that assists you in DNA cloning, sequence analysis and visualization.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Geneious icon
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    Geneious combines all the major DNA and protein sequence analysis tools into one revolutionary software solution!

    28 Geneious alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Geneious is the most popular commercial alternative to BioEdit.

    • Geneious is Paid and ProprietaryBioEdit is Free and Proprietary
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    Ridom TraceEdit is a cross-platform graphical DNA trace viewer and editor. TraceEdit displays the chromatogram files from Applied Biosystems automated sequencers and files in the Staden SCF format.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. PDRAW32 icon
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    Scientific software for the molecular biologist. Performs virtual DNA cloning, analyses DNA for restriction enzymes, homing enzymes and primer sites, dam and dcm methylation sites, finds and translates open reading frames. Calculates annealing temperatures for PCR.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. DNADynamo icon
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    DNADynamo - for Windows, OSX and Linux. Download it now for abi/scf trace alignments, sub cloning and plasmid management, blast/sequence retrieval, sequence annotation and structure viewing - all in one integrated and easy to use bioinformatics program.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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