Viewing chromatograms on linux

Question

[axelwilhelm]

What tools do you use to view chromatograms (*.ab1)?

Mesquite is being difficult and I was thinking of an alternative but the forest seems to be blocking the trees.

... linux friendly viewer...

Answer 1

[colindaven]

UGENE is good, and here are some more choices:

https://github.com/gear-genomics/tracy

https://github.com/roblanf/sangeranalyseR

https://github.com/ponnhide/sangerseq_viewer

[Mark]

Good list, tracy has a web interface worth mentioning: https://www.gear-genomics.com/

Answer 2

[Mark]

UGENE handles sanger data nicely, it's free and open source. https://ugene.net/

It does a whole bunch of other things as well, it's similar to Geneious in that it's a graphical bioinformatics software suite. For somethings I think it does a better job than Geneious