A nice and free sequence (chromatogram) viewer - (Jun/11/2005 )
It is free, and for multiple platform including PC, MAC, Linux, Solaris.
Download from here: http://www.geospiza.com/finchtv/download/index.html
FinchTV is the must have tool for anyone working with DNA sequence data. It is used to read chromatogram files from the most popular formats. Simply drag and drop AB1 or SCF files, even those compressed with gzip, into the viewing window to display a multi-color sequence. FinchTV also displays quality values, when available, and can adjust the scale in both vertical and horizontal directions in both single and multipane views.
With FinchTV, you can print your data, edit your data, export FASTA sequences to your favorite programs, and see all the details stored in your sequence files.
Enjoy.
I'm partial to Chromas. it to is a free ware sequence viewer with all the bells and whistles. Can be downloaded from www.technelysium.com.au/chromas.html. Seems to be frequently updated and the full version of the program (ChromasPro) which allows contig assembly, sequence alignments etc. is very cheap and well worth it.
Cheers,
Scott
I have never used the commercial version of Chromas, but think FinchTV definitely beats the free version of Chromas.
I'll check it out.
Thanks for the tip.
Scott
hi
I've startedchromatograph analysis with a simplier software, Bioedit (free too).
Bioedit is quite good too, but Finch TV is actually better. 
For information : Bioedit homepage
fred
En, I personally liked bioedit a lot, but this Finch TV seems pretty good too!
I've startedchromatograph analysis with a simplier software, Bioedit (free too).
Bioedit is quite good too, but Finch TV is actually better.
For information : Bioedit homepage
fred
Hi!
can all programs discussed show T-RFLP-patterns? I've only tried Chromas so far, at least I only got Chromas to work with T-RFLP... Don't remember the names of the other programs I've tried =)
Also, try DNA BASER.
I never understood why the software producer rips us of with those HUGE prices for DNA assembly software. We used CodonCode because we do not even dare to think to buy Vector NTI because of the price!
DNA Baser is an affordable alternative to the expensive software on the market.
The price for academic license is only 490$ and 790$ for business (discounts will apply for more than one license).
The program is here DNA Baser.
You do not need to register or, to fill a form, and to wait several days for an unlock key.
The program have only 1MB and it is the most damn small and fast program for DNA Assembly I ever seen and it run smooth even on my ancient Pentium 1 laptop (32MB RAM).
PS:
I never liked free software because there is a reason why it is free!
The most common is because the software in not old enough (is beta) and the programmers do not trust the code and let you to find the bugs for them.
Why somebody will give a free program while Invitrogen sell it with few 5,000 dollars?
DNA for Windows v2.2 has not only a lot of tools for manipulation of sequences but also a "open Trace" option