Lasergene Supported File Types

File Types Imported By Lasergene
File Format EditSeq GeneQuest MegAlign PrimerSelect Protean SeqBuilder SeqMan Pro
454 Life Sciences® output files
(*.sff; *.fas and *.qual)
Lasergene DNA
(*.seq)
7 7 7 7 7
Lasergene Protein (*.pro) 7 7 7
Zip1 (*.zip) 8 7
Gzip1 (*.gz) 7
FastA (*.fas, *.fap, *.nt, *.aa, *.txt) 11 9 11
FastA nucleic acid file 454/NCBI
(*.fna)
8
DNA Multi-seq2
(*.mseq)
7
File of Filenames3 (*.fof)  
Extended File of Files (*.eff) 8
ABI (*.abi, *.ab1, *.abd)
SCF24 (*.scf)
SCF3 (*.scf)
ALX (*.alx)      
BAF (*.baf)
EMBL (*.embl, *.txt)
Text (*.txt) 8
GenBank (*.gbk, *.gb) 8 8 8 8
GCG (*.seq, *.gcg, *.pro, *.pep) 7 8
MacVector (*.mvs, *.mvp) 7
Phred (*.phd.*) 10 10
VectorNTI (*.gb, *.gp) 8
GeneQuest Doc5
(*.dad)
8 10 10 11
MapDraw Doc5
(*.mpd)
8 10 10 11
MegAlign Doc5
(*.meg)
8 10 9 11
PrimerSelect Doc5
(*.pcr)
8 10 9 11
Protean Docs
(*.pad)
10 10
SeqBuilder Doc5
(*.sbd)
8 10 10 9 11
SeqBuilder Project5
(*.sbp)
         
SeqMan Pro Docs
(*.sqd)
8
Phrap Projects
(*.ace)
Sequencher 4.2 Assembly Projects
(*.spf)
GCG Pileup (*.msf)
RNA Fold files (*.ct)
1 Only zip files containing ABI, SCF3, Lasergene protein or Lasergene DNA files. All other files will be ignored.
2 Multiple Lasergene DNA sequence files can be created by EditSeq, SeqMan Pro, and MegAlign.
3 FOF can not contain reference to another multiple sequence file format such as FastA, DNA* mseq, or Zip.
4 Program will translate to BAF.
5 Referred to collectively as "Lasergene Documents" in "Files of Type" or "Show pull-down menus".
7 GenBank formatted features will be parsed.
8 Through "drag and drop" only. These files are not supported through the menu system.
9 Projects or files must contain protein sequence data.
10Only the sequence, features and comments of the file will be read in.
11Only DNA sequences will be read in.
File Types Exported By Lasergene
File Format EditSeq GeneQuest MegAlign PrimerSelect Protean SeqBuilder SeqMan Pro
Lasergene DNA
(*.seq)
Lasergene Protein (*.pro)
FastA (*.fas), (*.fap) 14 14 14 13 14 14
DNA Multi-seq
(*.mseq)
File of Filenames (*.fof)
Extended File of Files (*.eff)
GenBank (*.gbk)
EMBL (*.embl, *.txt)
GCG (*.gcg)
GCG Protein File (*.pep)    
GenVision - Data Visualization
(*.gnv)
PAUP 4.0 Files (*.nex)
PAUP 3.0 Files (*.pau) 15
Text (*.txt)
GCG Pileup Files
(*.msf)
Phylip Tree Files
(*.dnd)
GeneQuest Doc
(*.dad, *.dao)
12
MegAlign Doc
(*.meg)
12 12 12
PrimerSelect Doc
(*.pcr)
12 12 12
Primer Catalog
(*.pri)
Protean Docs
(*.pad, *.pao)
12
SeqBuilder Doc
(*.sbd)
12 12
SeqBuilder Project
(*.sbp)
SeqMan Pro Docs
(*.sqd)
Phrap Projects
(*.ace)
RNA Fold files (*.ct)

12File-Save will save back as original file type
13 *.fap only
14 *.fas only
15 Only the alignment report.