and more distinguished among other biological sequence alignment programs (Table 1).

With many citations in peer reviewed journals, BioEdit became very important bioinformatics tool for molecular biologist. BioEdit was used for molecular studies of different organisms such as Virus genomes (Ron et al., 2005, Chen et al., 2006), Bacterial genome (Aquifer Robert et al., 2003) plant genome (Klaas et al., 2002) and animal genome (Hong et al., 2008).

Contribution to research Many researchers in the field of Molecular biology have used BioEdit modules in during their original research. The program was used extensively ever since and quoted in many article in high ranking journals and used in many novel and diverse research application (Antonis et al., 2003 Ron et al., 2005 Chen et al., 2006 Aquifer Robert et al., 2003 Klaas et al., 2002). History In 1999, Tom Hall (Hall, 1999) has published his work on a user-friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program while he was working in the department of microbiology, North Carolina State University. The freeware license and its efficient up to date modules beside its quick ability to produce results make it one of the most popular programs for molecular biologist nowadays. It became one of the widely used programs in molecular biology with its multipurpose toolsin molecular biology. However, in the last few years it was developed dramatically to integrate many other features and functions and useful molecular tools for molecular biologist such as several modes of hand alignment, plasmid drawing and annotation, restriction mapping and much more.

It contains many features for sequence alignments modes of easy hand alignment, Split window view, user defined color, information based shading and auto integration with other programs such as ClustalW and Blast. It was developed initially as a biological sequence alignment editor written for Windows only. Ahmed Mansour Alzohairy Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Egypt.Ībstract BioEdit is one of the most common program used in molecular biology studies. GERF Bulletin of Biosciences June 2011, 2(1):60-61īioEdit: An important software for molecular biology Author: Tom Hall, Ibis biosciences, Carlsbad, Ca License: Freeware Copyright 1991- 2007 Tom Hall.

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