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Unipro UGENE is free, open-source bioinformatics software that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The website states that UGENE 53.1 was released in March 2026. Users can find a Quick Start Guide, a full UGENE Manual, YouTube videos, a podcast covering recent versions, and a version history. Support is available through a public forum, a bug tracker, and source code downloads.
The UGENE team is cited in several publications describing the software. These include a 2012 Bioinformatics paper introducing Unipro UGENE as a unified bioinformatics toolkit, a 2014 PeerJ paper on its NGS pipelines and components for variant calling, RNA-seq, and ChIP-seq analyses, and a 2018 Bioinformatics paper on designing multiple metagenomics classification pipelines with UGENE.
The UGENE team also offers commercial services. These include fixing defects or adding features, building custom bio-pipelines, creating private customized versions of UGENE, developing new bioinformatics applications, and setting up bioinformatics software on remote servers. Interested users can contact the team for technical support or more information.
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