Geneious Product Updates

Release notes for Geneious Prime and Geneious Biologics

Release Notes

Geneious Prime 2024.0

February 14, 2024

Geneious Prime 2024.0 Feature Overview

Watch for an overview of the new features in Geneious Prime 2024.0

Geneious Prime 2023.2

June 12, 2023

Geneious Prime 2023.2 Feature Overview

Watch for an overview of the new features in Geneious Prime 2023.2

Geneious Prime 2023.1

April 03, 2023

New Features in Geneious Prime 2023.1

Geneious Prime 2023.0

November 29, 2022

Geneious Prime 2023.0 Feature Overview

Watch for an overview of the new features in Geneious Prime 2023.0

  • Primer Specificity Testing: Design target-specific primers in one step with new primer specificity testing.
  • Cloning Validation: New visual tool for automating sequence alignment during batch plasmid validation
  • STAR RNA-seq mapper: Added STAR, a RNA-seq mapper that performs highly accurate spliced sequence alignment.
  • CRISPR Improvements: Added more PAMs and the ability to select individual sequences for specificity testing.

Geneious Prime 2022.2

July 11, 2022

What's New in Geneious Prime 2022.2?

  • In-Fusion cloning: Perform low or high throughput In-Fusion Cloning with pre-optimized settings.
  • Parts Cloning Support for Proteins: Scale up your construct engineering with combinatorial assembly of proteins.
  • Primer Extension Detection: Automatically detect and annotate extensions on your primer databases during import.

Geneious Prime 2022.1

March 14, 2022

What's New in Geneious Prime 2022.1?

  • Batch Golden Gate: Perform Golden Gate cloning in batch using sequence lists and stop doing your Golden Gate cloning operations one by one.
  • Parts Cloning: Scale up your cloning throughput with added support for Parts Cloning, combining every possible combination from your lists of parts.
  • Primer Import: Easily import and characterize primer databases stored in excel spreadsheets so you can take full advantage of the primer tool suite, including Test with Saved Primers.

Geneious Prime 2022.0

November 15, 2021

What's New in Geneious Prime 2022?

  • Annotate by BLAST - Automatically annotate your ORFs, CDS and mRNA regions using BLAST.
  • Command Line Interface - Run Geneious Prime operations and workflows as part of your broader bioinformatic pipelines locally or execute on more powerful servers.
  • Dark Mode - Comfortably analyze your data at any time of the day or night with Geneious Prime in dark mode
  • Experimental Features - Try out features we are experimenting with and let us know your thoughts
  • Apply Optimized Codon - Easily add and remove optimized codons to your sequence
  • Manage Document Table Columns - Quickly organize your data with multiple column selection
  • Highlight Mismatching Bases - Highlight mismatching base calls in your chromatograms

Geneious Prime 2021.2

July 12, 2021

What's New in Geneious Prime 2021.2?

  • Virtual gel improvements: Easily view multiple sequences with the display of restriction enzymes in lane headings, and quick access to an exportable list of fragments
  • View CRISPR cut sites: Easily view and compare CRISPR cut sites between your guide RNAs
  • View invalid CDS annotations: Improve your cloning workflows by quickly determining CDS annotations with premature stop codons
  • Batch edit annotations: Quickly add or edit annotations in batch by copying properties from other annotations, sequences or documents

Geneious Prime 2021.1

March 15, 2021

What's New in Geneious Prime 2021.1?

  • New filter interface: Locate documents quickly in any table with the new filter button added to the status bar.
  • Adjustable sequence selection: Adjust either end of the selected region in the Sequence View by dragging.
  • Amino acid numbering: Live numbering can now be shown alongside the translated amino acids on nucleotide sequences.

Geneious Prime 2021.0

November 30, 2020

What's New in Geneious Prime 2021?

  • Geneious Prime gets a new look: Enjoy the new look and feel of Geneious Prime with an updated design, including new icons and font.
  • Highlighted methylation sites for restriction enzymes: Quickly visualize restriction sites affected by Dam, Dcm and EcoKI methylation.
  • Accessible sequence viewer statistics: Easily sort and export your protein and nucleotide statistics within the document table.
  • New CRISPR on-target scoring method: Confidently design your guide RNAs using the Doench et al. 2016 CRISPR on-target scoring algorithm.

Geneious Prime 2020.2

July 13, 2020

Geneious Prime 2020 brings exciting new functionality to transform raw sequence data into meaningful visualizations.

  • Analyze CRISPR Editing Results
  • Enhanced Search Options
  • Codon Optimization Improvements

Geneious Prime 2020.1

March 09, 2020

Geneious Prime 2020.1 brings exciting new functionality to transform raw sequence data into meaningful visualizations.

  • Long-read de novo Assembly with Flye (external plugin)
  • Import Metadata on to Sequences and other Documents
  • Codon Optimization and Back Translation Improvements
  • Primer Specificity Testing

Geneious Prime 2020.0

November 04, 2019

Geneious Prime 2020 brings exciting new functionality to transform raw sequence data into meaningful visualizations.

  • Clustal Omega replaces ClustalW for better, faster alignments
  • Better back translate and codon optimization
  • More accurate annotation of CDS features onto your plasmids
  • Long-read sequence mapping with Minimap2 (external plugin)
  • Add your favorite tools to Geneious with improved Wrapper Plugin system

Geneious Prime 2019.2

June 17, 2019

Geneious Prime 2019 brings powerful analyses to increase accuracy and help transform collaboration.

  • Restriction Enzymes
  • Sanger Sequencing Primer Design
  • Easier Shared Database Rollout
  • Improved Text View Formatting of Sequences and Alignments

Geneious Prime 2019.1

March 04, 2019

Geneious Prime 2019 brings powerful analyses to increase accuracy and help transform collaboration.

  • Customizable Text View
  • Primer Specificity
  • Primer Design Improvements
  • Vector NTI Database Import

Geneious Prime 2019.0

October 22, 2018

Geneious Prime 2019 brings powerful analyses to increase accuracy and help transform collaboration.

  • Custom Codon Usage Tables
  • Rapid Manual Primer Design
  • Powerful Primer Annotation Display
  • Simplified Testing and Annotation of Existing Primers
  • Drag and Drop Sequence Export
  • Easy Extraction of PCR and Restriction Digest Products
  • Improved Protein Statistics
  • Improved GenBank Export
  • Publish Plugins via Internal Network

Geneious R11.1

March 05, 2018

  • SnapGene File Import
  • CRISPR-Cpf1 Specificity Scoring
  • Smart NGS Import
  • Better BLAST Server Management
  • NCBI BLAST Cloud Support
  • Concatenate by Index
  • CSV/TSV Export of Sequence Lists

Geneious R11.0

October 02, 2017

  • Volcano Plots for RNA-Seq Expression Analysis
  • Pretty PCA Plots
  • Silent Mutation Analysis for Restriction Sites
  • CRISPR Cpf1 Option
  • Create Enzyme Sets
  • Better FASTQ Import
  • Updated Mauve Plugin for Bacterial Genome Alignment

Geneious R10.2

June 05, 2017

  • RNA-Seq Expression Analysis
  • Cloning Workflows

Geneious R10.1

February 06, 2017

  • Improved Cloning
  • Annotate from Database
  • Zip Import
  • Sequence Viewer
  • SPAdes de novo assembler
  • Find CRISPR Sites

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