[Fsfe-france-sci] Is there a molecular biology suite project?

[Pablo Ibanez]

Hello
I am a post doc at the Dundee University, in Scottland, UK. I
mainly do genetics and I need to be able to see, edit and align .abi
files which are DNA sequence chromatogram files. In our lab, we used to
use vector NTI from invitrogen (http://www.invitrogen.com/site/us/en/home/LINNEA-Online-Guides/LINNEA-Communities/Vector-NTI-Community/Vector-NTI.html)
which was free for academy up to the last release... I never liked this
software but it was the one used in the lab, so... I usually use the
APE software (http://www.biology.utah.edu/jorgensen/wayned/ape/)
but it can't align multiple DNA sequence chromatograms, neither edit
them... I was wondering if there was a project that you know of aiming
at developping this kind of software or even a more complete one, since
I think that there is no really user friendly, complete and free (as in
freedom) such software. I have been talking with my boss and some
collegues, and there should be a possibility to look and hoppefully get
some funding for such project that could involve many different labs
(as far I know, most of the labs doing a bit of molecular biology would
be interested, and that means a lot of labs)!

Thanks a lot for your time.
Looking forward reading you

-- 
Pablo Ibáñez Cruceyra, PhD
Dr. Anton Gartner Lab
Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & _expression_
College of Life Sciences
The University of Dundee 
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