Vortex for Bioinformatics from Dotmatics (Bishops Stortford, U.K.) is an easy-to-use program that allows bioscientists to analyze and visualize their data to make better-informed decisions. The software can handle whole genome, antibody, protein and peptide data types, and scale to handle massive amounts of data, including whole genomes on a laptop. With novel methods to relate biologic structure and sequence to activity, the program helps users understand assay results and drive the design of biologics with high-performance analysis and visualization.
Once the user loads bioinformatics data from files or directly from databases, Vortex for Bioinformatics displays the live sequences in a variety of formats. A selection of analysis algorithms includes alignment, cross-alignment, clustering and search. The software makes intelligent selections of the correct methods to use based on the number and type of sequences being analyzed.