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First released almost 15 years ago, Sequencher is currently used for sequence analysis tasks in every major genomic and pharmaceutical company as well as numerous academic and government labs in over 40 countries around the world. It works with all automated sequencers and is widely known for its lightning-fast contig assembly, short learning curve, user-friendly editing tools, and superb technical support.
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ItÔÇÖs the feeling of using a familiar tool in a much more powerful way.Sequencher is the industry standard software for DNA sequence analysis. Attendees were excited about how we had integrated those algorithms into the Sequencher user experience. ItÔÇÖs also been on our web site for months and weÔÇÖve sent out thousands of mailings, so we expected this not to surprise anyone.ÔÇØ Asked what was brought up most by conference goers, Murray said, ÔÇ£It wasnÔÇÖt just seeing the speed of some of the algorithms being developed in the community. ÔÇ£Gene CodesÔÇÖ NGS software plans were part of the presentation when our president gave the opening keynote address at ABRF in Salt Lake City a few years ago.
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ÔÇ£We were overwhelmed with the response,ÔÇØ said Catherine Murray, Gene Codes Marketing Manager. I donÔÇÖt see why this is any different.ÔÇØ Our clients who were already paying for support got those improvements as part of our regular service. When data moved from autorads to fluorescent sequencers in the early 90ÔÇÖs, labs could produce a lot more data and we added a lot of functionality to Sequencher. We had never done that before and I saw no reason to start now. ÔÇ£Several companies that had software to support capillary sequencing created a new program for NextGen data that their customer could buy. We only showed some of what will be in Sequencher 5.0, and that is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what NGS analysis functions we plan to add over the next two years.ÔÇØĬash also noted that many did not immediately believe that the NGS version of Sequencher would not come at a higher price. This was just the next step in taking very complicated information and helping the user find their way through the data. Howard Cash, President of Gene Codes, said ÔÇ£Our focus at Gene Codes has always been on ease of use and building an intuitive and understandable interface to the software. "The interface is so clear and obvious that you don't really need someone to explain it." "This is just what we always liked getting from Gene Codes," said Morrison who has been using Sequencher since 1992. One of the conference attendees was Paul Morrison, Director of the Molecular Biology Core Facilities at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Associate Director of the Molecular Biology and Genomics Core Facility, Center for AIDS Research at Harvard University. Since the conference ended, the phones at Gene Codes headquarters have been ringing with scientists wanting early access. Conference attendees were given hands-on experience calling some of the alignment and visualization algorithms and tools that had been published in peer-reviewed journals and are now incorporated into Sequencher. At the annual meeting of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities in San Antonio, Gene Codes showed alignments with paired and unpaired reads from SOLiD, Illumina and 454 instruments.
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After the ABRF Conference: Gene Codes Flooded with Requests for Early Access to NextGen Software ToolsĪnn Arbor, Michigan - MaGene Codes Corporation has pulled back the curtain on some key features in its upcoming release of Sequencher┬« with support for Next Generation Sequencing data.