Geneious Product Updates

Release notes for Geneious Prime and Geneious Biologics

Release Notes

Geneious Prime 2025.1

March 11, 2025

Geneious Prime 2025.1

  • Apple Silicon: Speed up your analyses by up to 40% or more on macOS with Geneious Prime now running natively on Apple Silicon (ARM64 architecture).
  • Cloning Validation Enhancements:Easily group and batch align your sequencing data to virtual clones with usability and performance improvements to the cloning validation tool.
  • Cloud Workspace: Backup your data and streamline collaboration in the cloud. This release includes performance improvements, support for restoring Deleted Items, and extended sharing options.

Geneious Biologics March 2025

March 03, 2025

New feature highlights for Geneious Biologics include mAb and fAb Protein Statistics, NGS/Barcode/UMI support for Peptide Annotator and more.

Geneious Prime 2025.0

October 30, 2024

Geneious Prime 2025.0

  • QC Report for NGS Sequences: Quickly visualise overall NGS data quality in the new QC Report tab, calculated using the FastQC tool from Babraham Bioinformatics.
  • Geneious Cloud: Backup your data and streamline collaboration with significant performance enhancements and improved sharing options for Geneious Cloud.

Geneious Biologics October 2024

October 13, 2024

New feature highlights for Geneious Biologics include cluster relationships visualization, assay data heat maps for circular trees and other improvements.

Geneious Biologics March 2024

March 25, 2024

New feature highlights for Geneious Biologics include support for non-antibody therapeutic peptides and the ability to share your analysis options with your team.

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 Biologics October 2023

October 01, 2023

Exciting new features for Geneious Biologics include manual sequence editing, dual nanobody (VHH-VHH) support, and protein scaffold reference databases.

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 Biologics July 2021

July 07, 2021

In Q2 2021 we have focused on improving visualizations and overall usability in Geneious Biologics. Highlights include Graph Usability Improvements, Moveable Folders, and REST API.

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.

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