Vector NTI Advance

The Health Sciences Library System is pleased to announce the availability of institution-wide access to Vector NTI Advance (v 9.0) for PC users and Vector NTI Suite 7.1 for Mac OSX from Informax. Vector NTI Advance is an integrated sequence analysis and data management software package, which allows molecular biology and genetics resources to analyze, manipulate, construct, store and manage information about complex biological molecules.

The package consists of five independent yet interconnected components:

  • Vector NTI core: provides software tools for sequence analysis and molecule manipulation.
  • AlignX: a multiple sequence alignment tool
  • ContigExpress: a DNA sequence assembly and sequencing project management tool
  • GenomBench: a tool for genomic DNA sequence analysis and annotation
  • BioAnnotator: a tool for functional annotation of DNAs and proteins

Using Vector NTI molecular biologists can:

  • Perform routine sequence analysis tasks such as restriction mapping, identifying protein coding regions, or finding sequence motifs and carrying out sequence similarity searches
  • Generate recombinant cloning strategies and protocols
  • Design and analyze PCR primers
  • Catalog a growing number of plasmids and PCR primers, in order to track the origin and lineage of recombinant molecules
  • Run in silico gel electrophoresis
  • Perform and edit multiple sequence alignments on proteins and nucleic acids
  • Create publication quality graphics

HSLS has licensed Vector NTI Advance for 15 simultaneous users. While the license component resides on the HSLS Web server, the client application must be installed on users local computers to work in full functional mode. The software remains in demonstration mode on your local computer unless connected to one of the licenses on the HSLS Web server. If you would like to use Vector NTI Advance in full functional mode, please contact Ansuman Chattopadhyay, PhD, information specialist in molecular biology and genetics, at ansuman@pitt.edu or 412-648-1297.

--Ansuman Chattopadhyay

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