BoxShade Alternatives

BoxShade is described as 'Boxshade is a program for creating good-looking printouts from alignments of multiple protein or DNA sequences. The program does no alignment by itself, it takes as input a file preprocessed by a multiple alignment program or a multiple sequence editor, such as ClustalOmega' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are four alternatives to BoxShade for Windows, Linux, Mac and Web-based. The best BoxShade alternative is BioEdit, which is free. Other great apps like BoxShade are UGENE, SnapGene Viewer and Mendelgen.

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  1. BioEdit icon
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    BioEdit is a 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.

    28 BioEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    • BioEdit is the most popular free alternative to BoxShade.

    • BioEdit is Free and ProprietaryBoxShade is also 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 BoxShade.

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

    • UGENE is Free and Open SourceBoxShade 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
     
  4. Mendelgen icon
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    Mendelgen is an online DNA vector editing and manipulation tool. It offers features like MSA alignment, codon optimization, feature detection, and more. It's wrapped in a beautiful and intuitive design to make your experience easy and enjoyable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Mendelgen is the most popular Web-based alternative to BoxShade.

    • Mendelgen is Free and ProprietaryBoxShade is also Free and Proprietary
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