15-11-2006

CLC bio New Hardware Accelerator

CLCbio have created the ‘CUBE’. A hardware unit which runs Smith Waterman up to 125 times faster than a 3 GHz desktop computer.

Using the Cube instead of BLAST, improves the quality of the data you're working with! read more..

CLC bio Free Workbench

Bioinformatics features in Free Workbench

Multiple alignment of DNA, RNA, and proteins (two algorithms)
Consensus sequence determination and management
Conservation score along alignments
Basic gene finding
Translation from DNA to proteins (all genetic translation tables)
Translation from DNA to RNA and from RNA to DNA
Reports with residue composition, molecular weight and iso electric point (for proteins)
Neighbor-joining and UPGMA phylogenies
Restriction site analysis and viewing
Create reverse complement
Shuffle sequence
Option of viewing and graphical manipulation of bioinformatics analyses made in commercial workbenches from CLC bio

Other features in Free workbench

Full integration of data input, data management, calculations results, and data export. This eliminates time spent on manual data transfers between different programs and databases
All types of files can be saved in local projects and launched from the program
Detailed history log
Easy access to web-based protein and nucleotide search in GenBank, including download facilities and full graphical overview of sequence annotations of your choice
User-friendly graphical tools used in order to find and work with relevant regions of DNA, RNA and protein sequences
Text-based sequence view
Easy printing of reports and graphics
Export of user-defined figures to various graphics file formats
Import and export of data in a large number of file formats
Option of working with different files and in different file projects at the same time
Option of working in several active workspaces at a time, enabling simultaneous work on multiple projects