QIAGEN CLC Main Workbench: The user-friendly solution for basic sequencing analysis
QIAGEN CLC Main Workbench is used by tens of thousands of researchers all over the world for DNA, RNA and protein sequence data analysis. Its wide variety of features are presented in an intuitive graphical user-interface, for which advanced computer skills are not required. QIAGEN CLC Main Workbench is available on Windows, macOS and Linux platforms. For the latest improvements click here.
Features of QIAGEN CLC Main Workbench
The Workbench’s many functionalities include sanger sequencing analysis, gene expression analysis, primer design, molecular cloning, phylogenetic analyses and sequence data management. Its full compatibility with all types of CLC workbenches provides strong support for efficient collaboration within research groups. This allows all researchers to easily share sequence data and research results.
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Equipping you with the essentials
Easy access to a large number of integrated research tools, an intuitive user interface, and our first-class tutorials mean your research work will be easy to carry out.
- Editor for graphically and algorithmically advanced primer design
- Multiple sequence alignment tools
- Whole genome alignment tools (recently updated in October 2020)
- Phylogenetic analysis tools
- Sanger sequencing analysis (workflow enabled with version 21)
- Sanger-based multilocus sequence typing (MLST)
- Molecular cloning
- RNA structure prediction and editing
- Gene expression analysis
- Integrated 3D molecule view
- Sharing of data among researchers
- All edits or other changes to files are logged automatically
- Import sequences and databases in Vector NTI and other formats: Learn more
- Explore here the additional plugins that are available.
System requirements
The CLC Main Workbench system requirements are available on our general system requirements page and also in the user manual.
Latest improvements
We frequently release updates and improvements such as new functionalities, bug fixes or plugins. To get a complete overview, please read the latest improvements.
