From Geneious support "Thank you for your email, I'm afraid we no longer offer perpetual license for Geneious."
20 years ago, we all switched from VectorNTI to Geneious.
At that time, it was the beginning of whole genomes sequencing, VNTI was the leader of the market but had the really bad idea to move from cheap academic perpetual licenses to expensive annual licenses. Geneious was new, user friendly and free.
We had the impression to fight against the system and to build a new world, with also the birth of open access movement.
Few years ago, Geneious became important on the market and moved from free licenses to cheap academic licenses (annual or perpetual). VNTI lost almost all its customers and was bought by ThermoScientific.
2020, VNTI is dead, Geneious is leader of the market and no longer offers perpetual licenses but only expensive annual licenses.
Why does Geneious did not learn from the past and the history of its concurrents?
Now, all academics will begin to search for better alternatives (even free), especially at that time of big data.
In 5-8 years, Biomatters will sell Geneious.
In 20 years, Geneious will be dead.
Too bad. It was a tremendous software but greed is definitely a cardinal sin.
Without academics, there is no market for these kind of softwares.
A now former angry and so disappointed customer.
I do have the same issue, also support for version 9 is over. I explored Ugene, but it lacks of the majority of functions available in Geneious
MEGA freeware (https://www.megasoftware.net/) is pretty good for extracting from GenBank, aligning, editing, and running bog standard phylogenetic analyses. BioEdit and AliView are other freeware alternatives for extracting, aligning, and editing sequences. MAFFT aligning can be done at https://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/software/.
For phylogenetic inference, you could use phyml, raxml, iqtree, mrbayes or beast (for dated trees), and figtree or the tree visualizer of MEGA to explore the trees.
In current, Geneious is leading due to some important features including visualization of .sam file, mapping of raw reads and getting consensus file for further use, adjusting annotations of genome, performing mauve alignment with easy approach, exporting data in various formats. I used recently MEGA but it was found really difficult to deal that simple analysis which are easily done in Genious. Some of the features are good of MEGa but for that I always used the special software such as for phylogenetic RAxML and IQ-tree using CIPRES gateway, for assembly Novoplasty, Novowrap, Velvet, Spades etc. So in current Geneious is leading and a good alternate is not available.
Dear Damien F Meyer. Maybe MEGA or Sequencher, and work with the free version for 15 days!. In CIPRES an open source software is available, which may interest you, it is called POY: https://www.amnh.org/research/computational-sciences/poy
Alternatives: https://eurofinsgenomics.com/en/resources/design-tools/tools-to-view-seq-data/
The change in Geneious's licensing policy is completely absurd. The lines of financial support for research, in most countries, are not continuous and equal, normally established by projects that are cyclical. How to keep the software running in times of limited or non-existent financial resources? Not to mention the cost that, in the current world moment, becomes completely absurd.
I was also Geneious user but since I cannot afford their current price system right now, so I am switching to UGENE from Unipro (http://ugene.net). It is totally free GUI open access bioinformatics software. Give it a try.
Cheers.
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