BioX 1.0b2 review

The goal of BioX is to bring easy-to-use sequence analysis to Mac-using biologists.

License: GPL OS: Mac OS X File size: 510K Developer: Erik Lagercrantz Price: $0.00 Updated: 13 Feb 2006

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The goal of BioX is to bring easy-to-use sequence analysis to Mac-using biologists. It features graphical editors for sequences and multiple alignments, and supports opening and saving of many different sequence file formats.

Analysis functions currently include searching for primers, restriction sites and repeats, calculating DNA melting temperature, translation and back translation, multiple alignment and more.

BioX takes advantage of the Unix underpinnings of Mac OS X by using command line sequence analysis tools from the ebiotools package (which contains software from the EMBOSS project, among others). By presenting these Unix tools in the form of a Mac application, BioX leverages the best of both worlds.

What's New:
Changed delete behaviour in alignment and added support for Cut.
Ignore extra characters when pasting sequence.
Fixed error messages that weren't shown.
Other small bug fixes.

Requirements:
Ebiotools.