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DNAStar Lasergene 17.4 Software

Nov 04, 2022

DNAStar has released version 17.4 of its Lasergene software for DNA, RNA, and protein sequencing assembly and analysis. The latest release features updates to the company's sequence editing and sequence assembly applications. Notably, MegAlign Pro, a component of the Lasergene Molecular Biology package, now includes the ability to compute and analyze variants for multiple sequence alignments.

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