Gene Inspector is a unique combination of a versatile electronic laboratory research notebook, a comprehensive sequence analysis product, and a powerful Illustration tool.

Gene Inspector can help you plan, organize, and finish your analyses and experimentsin such an innovative way that you will never want to go back to the way you are doing it now.

The Gene Inspector can perform many sophisticated DNA analysis and protein analysis tasks, but this software is much more than just another sequence analysis product.

Imagine having the ability to define an entire suite of analyses to be performed each time you have a new sequence, and to design custom style sheets which specify exactly how your output will look for each analysis. Because you can predefine and store analysis parameters for any DNA sequence analysis or protein sequence analysis to fit your needs, anyone in the lab will be able to obtain meaningful and consistent results, whether they are a novice just entering the lab, or an experienced researcher familiar with the analysis routines.

The combination of an electronic notebook with navigation and drawing tools and sophisticated analyses provides the ability to annotate experimental results and analyses in a single location, rather than keeping your sequence analyses separate from you lab notes.

Here are some key features of "Gene Inspector":

· Gene Inspector was designed from ground up to work the way you naturally work as a biologist – you are not constrained by the structure of the program to perform tasks in a predefined way.
· Gene Inspector is centered around a powerful notebook that serves not only as a container for analysis output but as a genuine laboratory notebook and illustration tool. The Gene Inspector Notebook can contain information or annotations that you previously kept in your old fashioned paper notebook along with all your sequence analysis and laboratory experimental results. Why keep these two parts of your research artificially separated when you can combine them in a single location?
· Gene Inspector has built in hotlinking, which allows you to connect a sequence to a set of analysis routines. Each time the sequence is changed, the output results can be set to be automatically updated.
· All analyses run in background so you can continue to work in your notebook or even in other programs without interrupting the progress of the analysis.
· Gene Inspector contains analysis suites, which provide a way to create a collection of analysis routines and associated parameters that meet your needs.
· Analysis suites can be recalled by selecting them from a menu and specifying a sequence (or several sequences) to be analyzed. This provides consistency and allows even beginners to produce results that can be compared directly with those of more experienced users in the group.
· Gene Inspector contains interactive analysis output objects that allow you to fine tune analysis results to examine exactly what you are interested in.
· Gene Inspector Notebook sheets can be adjusted to any size – great for designing posters, slides, or just making the notebook fit your screen - text automatically reformats to fit the notebook size.
· Gene Inspector Notebook appendices can store commonly needed information (like buffers, vector descriptions, etc.) which can be viewed at any time from any location in the notebook.
· Gene Inspector provides over 60 different nucleic acid and protein analyses including: sequence alignment, base composition/distribution, ORF determination and evaluation, restriction mapping, sophisticated multipartite find, dot matrix comparisons, antigenicity, hydropathy, transmembrane helices, helical wheel, Prosite motif searching, physical characteristics, signal sequence, protein structure prediction, and many more.
· Many analyses can be done using median sieving to bring out structures of a specific size (i.e. - membrane spanning)
· Gene Inspector allows you to easily navigate in the notebook through electronic bookmarks and aliases.
· Gene Inspector Notebook extension are instantly available with the click of your mouse button and can contain formatted table templates, analyses, graphics or text that you use often.


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