CLC bio Alternatives

CLC bio is described as 'DNA analysis for the workbench' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to CLC bio for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best CLC bio alternative is VectorBee, which is free. Other great apps like CLC bio are Chromas, BioEdit, Genophore and Geneious.

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  1. VectorBee icon
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    Free platform for editing, analyzing, and visualizing DNA and protein sequences with tools for restriction digestion simulation, open reading frame detection, primer design, alignment, GC/CpG visualization, NCBI gene import, vector ordering, and project management.

    30 VectorBee alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Chromas icon
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    Two software applications are available from Technelysium: Chromas and ChromasPro.

    29 Chromas alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. 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.

    30 BioEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. 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)
     
  5. Geneious icon
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    Geneious combines all the major DNA and protein sequence analysis tools into one revolutionary software solution!

    30 Geneious alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Benchling icon
     12 likes

    Online lab notebook software, including DNA design tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. UGENE icon
     3 likes

    UGENE is free open-source cross-platform bioinformatics software.

    27 UGENE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. 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.

    33 SnapGene Viewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. 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.

    24 PDRAW32 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. 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
     
  11. 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.

    27 Serial Cloner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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