DNAssist Alternatives

DNAssist is described as 'Provides an intuitive, single interface within which sequence files are displayed, edited and analyzed. The user can customize the display in editor windows by selecting the font, font size, and line length' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to DNAssist for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best DNAssist alternative is BioEdit, which is free. Other great apps like DNAssist are Chromas, Genophore, SnapGene Viewer and Geneious.

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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 DNAssist.

    • BioEdit is the most popular free alternative to DNAssist.

    • BioEdit is Free and ProprietaryDNAssist is Free and Open Source
  2. 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
     
  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 DNAssist.

    • Genophore is Free Personal and ProprietaryDNAssist is Free and Open Source
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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
     
    • SnapGene Viewer is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to DNAssist.

    • SnapGene Viewer is Free Personal and ProprietaryDNAssist is Free and Open Source
  5. 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 DNAssist.

    • Geneious is Paid and ProprietaryDNAssist is Free and Open Source
  6. 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
     
  7. GENtle icon
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    GENtle is a software for DNA and amino acid editing, database management, plasmid maps, restriction and ligation, alignments, sequencer data import, calculators, gel image display, PCR, and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • GENtle is the most popular Open Source alternative to DNAssist.

    • GENtle is Free and Open SourceDNAssist is also Free and Open Source
  8. 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
     
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    GeneStudio Pro is a modern suite of molecular biology applications for the Windows platform built on our sequence format conversion engine, SeqVerter. All manipulations with sequences of different formats are thus seamless and transparent for the user.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Electron App for Open Vector Editor. This packages the open-vector-editor web app as an electron tool that can be used on Windows, Mac and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. PlasmaDNA icon
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    PlasmaDNA is a free DNA analysis and manipulation software. It is simple to learn and to use, and contains multiple features designed to help with:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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