DNASTAR
| Privately held company | |
| Industry | Bioinformatics Software |
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| Headquarters | Madison, Wisconsin, United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Products | Software |
| Website | www |
DNASTAR is a global bioinformatics software company incorporated in 1984 that is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. DNASTAR develops and sells software for sequence analysis in the fields of genomics, molecular biology, and structural biology.
DNASTAR software (Lasergene) first gained popularity in the 1980s and 1990s for its sequence assembly and analysis capabilities of Sanger sequencing data. Lasergene 14 was released in September 2016. DNASTAR software is available for desktop computers running Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux as well as for use on Amazon Web Services.
In 2007, DNASTAR expanded their offerings to include software for next-generation sequencing and structural biology. DNASTAR's next-gen software supports data from Illumina, Ion Torrent, Pacific Biosciences, and Roche 454 and allows the user to assemble, align, analyze and visualize genomic data. Lasergene's use in next-generation sequence assembly and analysis was contributed as a chapter, written by company scientists, to the 2008 book Next Generation Genome Sequencing edited by Michael Janitz.
DNASTAR software is utilized by pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, and clinical researchers in more than 90 countries.
Writing in The Scientist, David R. Smith gave positive reviews to several bioinformatics software packages including DNAstar, but said that his bioinformatics skills plateaued and the licensing and upgrading costs were a significant proportion of his lab's operating budget.
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