Geneious Updates and Downloads

Downloads and release notes for Geneious Prime and Geneious Biologics

Release Notes

Geneious Prime 2027.0

November 03, 2026

Geneious Prime 2027.0

  • Enhanced CRISPR off-target analysisA new Off-Target viewer surfaces the 100 highest-scoring off-target sites for a guide of interest, so you can investigate each in detail. The CFD off-target score (Doench et al 2016) is now available, and you can run multiple on-target and off-target scoring algorithms in a single operation. Off-target searching across genomes is also up to three times faster, and you can filter results by setting a threshold for each score, returning only guides that meet it.
  • More flexible cloningCloning gives you more control over your backbone and inserts. In Gibson and In-Fusion cloning you can choose any backbone fragment from the tag dropdown when a circular backbone is digested into multiple pieces. Golden Gate cloning now supports adding spacers, and changes to your input documents can be propagated through to a Parts cloning result.
  • Align circular sequencesYou can now align circular sequences. This is specifically for aligning circular sequences: Geneious treats them as circular rather than linear, so you no longer need to linearize them first. Alignments of linear sequences are unaffected.

Geneious Biologics 2026

July 15, 2026

New feature highlights for Geneious Biologics include Analysis Workflows for batching NGS Antibody Annotation, a Most Common Representative Sequence option, interactive graphs with colorblind-friendly palettes, and more.

Geneious Prime 2026.1

April 28, 2026

Geneious Prime 2026.1

  • One-step multiple insertion point Parts Cloning (Enterprise only)Quickly build constructs with non-contiguous fragments inserted at multiple locations within your backbone vector in a single step. Circular backbones are now accepted and can be linearized by selecting a cut point, or by excising an annotation or interval to create the insertion site.
  • Run multiple CRISPR algorithms at onceThe Find CRISPR Sites operation now runs multiple algorithms simultaneously from the Cloud Workspace, saving time when evaluating guide RNA candidates across different scoring methods. Two new scoring algorithms have been added: the Cutting Frequency Determination off-target score published by Doench et al. (2016), and a new on-target scoring algorithm published by Doench et al. (2022) that accounts for tracrRNA variants.


Geneious Prime 2026.0

November 17, 2025

Geneious Prime 2026.0

  • Pin Favorite folders for easy accessAdd folders from your Cloud and Local databases to the new favourites  section, for quick and easy access to your most commonly used files.  Favourites are remembered across devices when connected to the cloud workspace.
  • SnapGene History ImportImport of SnapGene *.dna files now creates Fragment annotations for the first-level History, showing a record of the simulation method for certain cloning types, and enabling resurrection of parent files directly within Geneious Prime.

Geneious Prime 2025.2

July 14, 2025

Geneious Prime 2025.2

  • Create and save custom Primer Extensions: Choose sequences from your Geneious database to use as primer extensions when designing primers, with annotations carried through to your PCR products.
  • Advanced Cloud Workflow sharing: Save workflows in the Cloud, and share them with colleagues. You can now share Cloud Workflows with specific people or groups within your organisation, in read-only mode.

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.

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