Unipro releases a new version of free, cross-platform and open-source UGENE software suite: http://ugene.unipro.ru

Main features of the release:

• Significant improvement of DotPlot Viewer plugin
• Support for Clustal and MAFFT alignments
• Creation of new Workflow Designer diagram elements using embedded scripting language
• Running workflows on public Amazon EC2 server
• A lot of minor usability improvements and bug-fixes

Watch all the changes in our special video podcast episode:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYX9kLjucOw
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPWLEeDRs-c

Download link: http://ugene.unipro.ru/download.html

About the software:

UGENE is a free open-source bioinformatics software. It has friendly
user interface, runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS and Solaris, contains a
library of highly optimized algorithms and have very moderate
hardware requirements to run.

Most of the features that comes with each new release are the result of collaboration of UGENE development team and end-users. The best way to request a new feature or report an issue is using UGENE board: http://genome.unipro.ru/forum/