Vector NTI®
Suite v.6 expands upon the features of this industry-leading sequence
analysis and data management program by adding enhanced internet
connectivity that connects users with relevant websites directly from
program applications without requiring a web browser. Expanded
database
capabilities allow the results of BLAST and Entrez searches to be saved
for later use. Retrieved sequences also contain hyperlinks to
the relevant
internet databases. 3D-Mol, a desktop protein molecule viewer with a
wide variety of display options and the ability to show structural comparisons between aligned protein sequences, has
also been added.
Vector NTI Suite consists of four major application programs:
Vector NTI for mapping and illustration, primer design and analysis, and
strategic recombinant
design; BioPlot for protein and nucleic acid sequence analysis; AlignX
for multiple sequence alignment; and ContigExpress for sequencing project management and fragment assembly.
What's New in Version 6.0
Text Pane now contains hotlinks to PubMed citations and other
Web-based resources. A simple click on accession numbers found in the
Text
Pane will
directly download sequences from NCBI into Vector NTI.
Powerful
Entrez search and citations viewer can be used to open and display
PubMed and MedLine citations, either from those saved in
the database or
from hyperlinks. Citations saved in the database can be formatted for
specific publications and quickly pasted as a bibliographic
entry into a
manuscript in preparation.
Dedicated
BLAST launcher and results viewer graphically maps and display's
statistics for each High Scoring Pair. Text Pane displays BLAST
hits as
hyperlinks so a simple mouse click will download sequence files directly
from NCBI. BLAST results and any downloaded hits can be saved to the database.
New AlignX® blocks program can rapidly identify areas of
similarity in multiple protein sequences and aid in manual sequence
alignments.
New
Back-Translation utility allows one to convert a protein sequence to a
DNA sequence using a variety of codon biases and degrees of
ambiguity.
New 3D-Mol
for viewing .pdb and .ent protein structure files. Viewer links
the sequence
selection to its graphic.
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