Benefits of Geneious Pro

The benefits of using Geneious Pro™ are numerous, so start discovering them today by downloading the unrestricted 14-day free trial and see for yourself!

To help you learn more about those benefits, here are a few we know you'll love.

Benefits for End-users

• Geneious Pro is designed to look like and behave like an email client, so learning how it works is easy and researching with it everyday is stress free.
• The support team for Geneious is legendary. Just check out our response times and our customer satisfaction on the forums or try it yourself by sending an email to support@geneious.com.
• Geneious Pro is developed in Java, so you get high performance computing on the operating system of your choice – Mac, PC or Linux!
• With Geneious Pro, you don't have to be a computer scientist to utilize powerful bioinformatic tools. We make software for biologists and bring the powerful bioinformatic tools to you in a simple common framework.
• Geneious Pro has stunning visualizations that make learning bioinformatics and genetic analysis easier than ever. Check out some example images that can be copied directly into your publication, presentation or poster from our screenshot gallery.
• Purchasing and registration can be done completely electronically and online with Geneious Pro. But, of course, we handle your purchase orders swiftly too!
• Activation of Geneious Pro is entirely electronic, which makes it almost instantaneous if you purchase online. You'll get a license registration key emailed to you in minutes.
• Geneious Pro development follows an open technologies approach with no black boxes! Whenever possible, we use industry-leading open source algorithms and applications so you always know you can trust your results. Examples of this include, ClustalW, MUSCLE, PhyML, PAUP*, Primer3, MAFFT and ModelTest.
• Geneious Pro supports an enormous number of file formats with autodetect. We import and export all major file formats for DNA sequence analysis, so just drag and drop and let Geneious Pro do the rest.
• Geneious Pro has a drag and drop importer for Vector NTI data. Rescue your old data in an instant.
• Geneious Pro can import .caf files, so you can rescue your old Sequencher project files with drag and drop.
• Geneious Pro developers hear your suggestions. Geneious Pro is constantly being improved by the suggestions our customers make. Simply suggest something in the userforums and it will be added to the product development queue. The more times the feature is requested, the sooner it gets added in to Geneious Pro.
• Geneious Pro has a regular and rapid release cycle. We have three major releases per year, and more than 10 minor ones. Allow yourself to be notified of beta releases and get new functionality earlier while helping us tailor the software to your precise needs.

Benefits for Administrators

• Geneious Pro concurrent licenses come as either Sassfrass keyserver licenses or as FLEXnet licenses for easy administration.

Benefits for Departments

• With a departmental license, users can share data more easily than ever before inside Geneious Pro using the Collaboration Tools or the Server Database.
• The Server Database feature of Geneious Pro is completely secure, so only users authenticated by the department can access the data securely.
• Going site-wide saves everyone money with bulk discounts for purchases over 20 licenses.

Benefits for Developers

• Geneious Pro has a free public API, so extension is limitless! With just a few programming skills, you can harness all the power of the Geneious Pro framework to do something specific just for you.
• Want to have your plugin instantly distributed to tens of thousands of Geneious users? If you write a plugin and you want to share it with other people, we'll put it on our website and send information about it to our entire customer database!