BioEdit Alternatives for Mac

BioEdit is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is DNADynamo. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try UGENE or Clustal X. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to BioEdit and 17 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to BioEdit are Geneious, SnapGene Viewer, PDRAW32 and Serial Cloner.

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DNADynamo
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26 DNADynamo alternatives
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.
- - DNADynamo is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to BioEdit.
- - DNADynamo is the most popular commercial alternative to BioEdit.
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UGENE
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Free • Open Source
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25 UGENE alternatives
UGENE is free open-source cross-platform bioinformatics software.
- - UGENE is the most popular Open Source alternative to BioEdit.
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Geneious
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28 Geneious alternatives
Geneious combines all the major DNA and protein sequence analysis tools into one revolutionary software solution!
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Sequence Analysis
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Clustal X
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Free • Proprietary
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8 Clustal X alternatives
Multiple sequence alignment software.
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SnapGene Viewer
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Free Personal • Proprietary
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31 SnapGene Viewer alternatives
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.
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PDRAW32
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Freemium • Proprietary
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23 PDRAW32 alternatives
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.
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Serial Cloner
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Free • Proprietary
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25 Serial Cloner alternatives
Serial Cloner is a Molecular Biology software.

It provides tools with an intuitive interface that assists you in DNA cloning, sequence analysis and visualization.
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Discontinued
Last version, 2.6.1, was released on April 3rd, 2013.
ApE - A plasmid Editor
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Free • Proprietary
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23 ApE - A plasmid Editor alternatives
Software for viewing, editing and analyzing plasmid sequences.
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CLC Genomics Workbench
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23 CLC Genomics Workbench alternatives
Complete bioinformatics toolkit for a wide range of genomics analysis needs, including transcriptomics, variant calling, epigenomics, metagenomics, comparative genomics and many more.
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4peaks
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
23 4peaks alternatives
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!
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Sequencing
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DNASTAR Lasergene
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Paid • Proprietary
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24 DNASTAR Lasergene alternatives
The DNASTAR Lasergene package is the most robust of our software offerings, and includes all of the applications from our genomics, structural biology, molecular biology, and cloning suites.
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CLC Main Workbench
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28 CLC Main Workbench alternatives
QIAGEN CLC Main Workbench is ideal for DNA, RNA, & protein sequence data analysis with a wide variety of features, no advanced computer skills required! The workbench is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms.
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