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 VectorBee, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to BioEdit and 18 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to BioEdit are UGENE, SnapGene Viewer, Clustal X and 4peaks.

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  1. VectorBee icon
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    VectorBee is a highly user-friendly genetic engineering software created by VectorBuilder for viewing, editing and analyzing DNA and protein sequences.

    12 VectorBee alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  2. UGENE icon
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    UGENE is free open-source cross-platform bioinformatics software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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.

    32 SnapGene Viewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    29 Geneious alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. 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
     
  9. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Complete bioinformatics toolkit for a wide range of genomics analysis needs, including transcriptomics, variant calling, epigenomics, metagenomics, comparative genomics and many more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. 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.

    24 DNASTAR Lasergene alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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