InforMax, Inc., a provider of molecular biology software and general
software solutions, has announced the availability of its Vector NTI
Viewer, FREE on the Internet (http://www.informaxinc.com) for personal,
academic and corporate use. The Viewer can be installed as a helper
application within WWW browsers, such as Netscape or Microsoft Internet
Explorer, to retrieve and visualize molecule data in Vector NTI Molecule
Document, GenBank, EMBL and FASTA formats. It also makes it possible to
visualize structures stored as MIME attachments in Internet mail messages.
The Viewer can read GenBank, EMBL, FASTA files and unannotated nucleotide
sequences from ASCII files and create and visualize virtual molecules for
them. The Viewer allows simple molecule analysis - searching for
restriction sites, ORFs, etc. Publication-quality graphics maps may be
printed, saved in an external file, or transferred via the clipboard to
other applications quickly and easily for inclusion in articles and
reports.
