Getting Started with Geneious Prime

Learning how to use Geneious Prime is easy! We developed a few short videos to help guide you through the process. From how to import your data to aligning your first sequences, follow these tutorials and you will master the basics in no time.

Course Content

Import and Organize Your Files

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Learn how to import new files and sequences, organize the folder system, and search for documents.
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5 minutes

View Documents and Sequences

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Overview of the sequence viewing options, including how to zoom, annotate, split the view and change the colors of your sequences.
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6 minutes

Perform Analyses

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Run analyses such as BLAST, alignment, primer design and cloning, choose your method or algorithm, adjust settings and find more information.
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2 minutes

Annotate Sequences

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Display annotations on your sequence or in a table. Learn to import, transfer, and automatically add annotations to your sequences.
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6 minutes

Find and Analyze Restriction Enzymes

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Select enzymes to simulate an agarose gel, view and export fragment information, and create a custom enzyme set.
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5 minutes

Perform Restriction Cloning

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Select a vector and insert for restriction cloning, choose enzymes, add additional inserts or rearrange inserts, and view the final cloning product.
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3 minutes

How to Design Primers

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Automatically design new primers, adjust melting temperature, length, hairpin and GC content, and extract PCR product from a primer pair.
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6 minutes

Introduction to Sanger Sequencing

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Learn how to check sequence quality, trim the ends and map chromatogram sequences against a reference. Then view the contig and edit bases.
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5 minutes

Recommended Resources

Importing and Exporting Data

Learn to import raw data from different applications and export the results in a range of formats.

Managing Your Local Documents

Everything you need to know about managing your files in Geneious Prime.

Creating, Viewing and Editing Sequences

Learn how to view, edit, translate, complement and translate sequences.

Installing Geneious Prime FAQs

Commonly asked questions about installing Geneious Prime.

More Geneious Academy

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A practical exercise to BLAST your sequence against GenBank or custom databases to find similar sequences.
Practice simulating restriction cloning. Ligate PCR product into an expression vector and confirm CDS in-frame fusion.
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