Geospiza Releases FinchTV – Now Available Free
Portland, OR – March 2004
Geospiza announces the release of the Finch® Trace Viewer, FinchTV, a freely available software utility for viewing DNA sequencing chromatogram files. For the first time research teams and scientists have at their disposal a single application that reads the common AB1 and SCF sequencing formats while providing interoperability across the Windows, Linux and Macintosh OS X operating systems. FinchTV is now available to download free of charge at www.finchtv.com.
Unique to Geospiza FinchTV is the ability to visually display the entire trace in a multi-pane view. The FinchTV utility displays the chromatogram trace as a single line or the entire file as one page in wrapped view. For more detailed analysis, scientists can dynamically adjust vertical and horizontal scales. They may also toggle on-or-off the actual base sequence, the base number and associated quality values. FinchTV can display more than 30 chromatogram file details which can include the format, sample ID, plate label, run start and stop times, spacing, mobility, lane and more.
Todd Smith, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO at Geospiza, said, “Our goal at Geospiza is to develop software systems and tools that make research teams and scientists more productive in their work. By offering FinchTV at no charge, Geospiza delivers a powerful and truly cost-effective way to view sequencing data across multiple data formats and computer platforms. The net result is scientists spend less time moving data files from system to system and more time investigating for scientific results.”
About Geospiza
Geospiza combines life sciences and IT expertise to deliver low-cost, high-productivity software systems to research teams and core labs worldwide. Geospiza’s system for DNA sequencing laboratory workflow, data management and analysis turns complex scientific processes into reliable, upgradeable and scalable every-day practices scientists and technicians can use to get their work done. Geospiza was founded in 1997 and serves more than 3,000 end-users in emerging biotechnology, academic, government and bio-pharmaceutical companies worldwide. More information is available at www.geospiza.com.
