Important changes in this major release include:

• Shared storage: sharing of bioinformatics data in a lab. For details, see this page – http://ugene.unipro.ru/shared-db.html.
• UGENE Public Storage: the storage can be remotely accessed from any UGENE instance. It contains common genomes and hundreds of plasmids.
• NGS:
  
  • BWA-MEM tool for aligning short reads was integrated. The tool is available in the GUI dialog and in the Workflow Designer.
  • Different workflow elements for sorting, merging and filtering and trimming of NGS data were added (BAM and FASTQ files).

An overview video about the new UGENE version is available here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlFQNZcE0LU.

AVAILABILITY

http://ugene.unipro.ru