AutoGene is an all-encompassing plasmid design suite meant to streamline the process of both annotating and building sequences. Consisting of two modules — AutoPlasmid and AutoDesign — it first uses a highly curated database of features to search an imported plasmid, scanning the sequence for both perfect and imperfect alignments, and generating an interactive visualization of the annotated plasmid.
Implications
The first module--Autogene’s plasmid mapper--is intended for scientists investigating unknown sequences. It’s annotation capabilities are meant to quickly identify the contents of a plasmid, allowing the scientist to quickly and easily begin the next stage of their research. Autoplasmid can also be used to provide biological imformation to engineers. A computer scientist may have to process a sequence without any knowledge of its contents, and we hope that this tool will help to bridge the gap between the computer science, and the biological science portions of bio informatics by quickly providing feature annotations that previously could only be identified by a trained eye.
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