Benchling Alternatives

Benchling is described as 'Online lab notebook software, including DNA design tools' and is an website in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Benchling, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux and SaaS apps. The best Benchling alternative is Chromas, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Benchling are BioEdit, Genophore, Labstep and SnapGene Viewer.

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  1. Chromas icon
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    Two software applications are available from Technelysium: Chromas and ChromasPro.

    27 Chromas alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. BioEdit icon
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    BioEdit is a biological sequence alignment editor written for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/7. An intuitive multiple document interface with convenient features makes alignment and manipulation of sequences relatively easy on your desktop computer.

    28 BioEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Genophore icon
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    Genophore is an application for searching and designing proteins. It also provides a suite of bioinformatics utilities and collaboration tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  4. Labstep icon
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    Labstep is a secure research environment that combines electronic notebook, inventory, applications and data. The unified solution is ideal for team workflows, IP protection and compliance.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. SnapGene Viewer is revolutionary software that allows molecular biologists to create, browse, and share richly annotated DNA sequence files up to 1 Gb in length.

    30 SnapGene Viewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    You can view more than a few hundred base pairs at a time

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    • SnapGene Viewer is Free Personal and ProprietaryBenchling is also Free Personal and Proprietary
  6. PDRAW32 icon
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    Scientific software for the molecular biologist. Performs virtual DNA cloning, analyses DNA for restriction enzymes, homing enzymes and primer sites, dam and dcm methylation sites, finds and translates open reading frames. Calculates annealing temperatures for PCR.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Geneious icon
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    Geneious combines all the major DNA and protein sequence analysis tools into one revolutionary software solution!

    28 Geneious alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Findings icon
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    Findings is your lab notebook, reinvented. With Findings, you can easily keep track of your experiments and your research: your lab notebook is always with you and always up to date, be it on the field, at the bench, or at a conference.

    3 Findings alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  9. Serial Cloner icon
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    Serial Cloner is a Molecular Biology software.

    It provides tools with an intuitive interface that assists you in DNA cloning, sequence analysis and visualization.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. DNADynamo icon
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    DNADynamo - for Windows, OSX and Linux. Download it now for abi/scf trace alignments, sub cloning and plasmid management, blast/sequence retrieval, sequence annotation and structure viewing - all in one integrated and easy to use bioinformatics program.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Snthesis icon
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    The Snthesis Bio platform automatically integrates and harmonizes all your research data. Source agnostic. Search everything.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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