Industrial magic

Plot[]

Think your in-laws are scary? Try meeting Paige Winterbourne’s potential father-in-law: CEO of the Cortez Cabal, a multinational corporation…and the supernatural equivalent of the Mafia.

Lucas Cortez has devoted his life to ruining the Cabals, though that doesn’t stop his father from expecting him to take over the family business someday. Benicio’s favorite ploy is to appeal to Lucas’s quixotic ideals by asking him to investigate Cabal cases of injustice.

After years of failure, Benicio finally has the perfect case: a teenage witch attacked and left for dead. Refusing will be difficult enough for Lucas…near impossible for his new witch girlfriend. Paige and Lucas soon discover that the young witch wasn’t the first Cabal teenager attacked.

When the infighting among the Cabals threatens to let the killer continue his spree, Paige and Lucas decide it’s up to them to stop him. The chase takes them on a cross-country hunt through the supernatural world, where allies can be found in the strangest places, including a celebrity necromancer, a wise-cracking Celtic deity, a pissed-off ghost, a half-mad clairvoyant, and a group of vampires who’d really rather be in an Anne Rice novel.

Characters[]

Major Characters

• Lucas Cortez — Sorcerer Lawyer and Lover of Paige Winterbourne Son of Benicio Cortez and heir of Cortez Cabal.
• Paige Winterbourne — Witch and Former Head of American Coven. Lover of Lucas Cortez.
• Savannah Levine — 14 year old witch and ward of Paige Winterbourne. Daughter of Eve Levine (Witch & Aspicio half Demon) & Kristof Nast (Sorcerer & heir to Nast Cabal)

Members of the Cortez Cabal

• Dorinda — Cortez Cabal Secretary
• Erin — Cortez Cabal Employee
• Gloria — Cortez Cabal Employee
• Griffin Sorenson — Ferratus Half-demon bodyguard of Benicio
• Jim — Half-Demon Cortez Cabal employee who previously worked for St Clouds
• Morris — Half-demon bodyguard for Benicio
• Simon — Shaman working for Cortez Cabal
• Reuben Aldrich — Necromancer and Head of Actuarial Department
• Faye Ashton — Clairvoyant
• Benicio Cortez — Head of Cortez Cabal and Father of Lucas
• Carlos Cortez — Youngest legitimate son of Benicio Cortez
• Delores Cortez — Wife of Benicio Cortez
• Hector Cortez — Eldest son of Benicio
• William Cortez — Middle son of Benicio Cortez
• Randy MacArthur — Exaudio Half-Demon employed by Cortez Cabal
• Dennis Malone — Half-Demon and Head of Cortez Cabal investigative unit
• Troy Morgan — Tempestras Half-demon employed by Benicio as bodyguard

Other Characters

• Aaron Darnell — Vampire and former lover of Cassandra.
• Brigid Drescher — Vampire
• Esus — Druid deity. God of woodland and water.
• Fates, The — Deities in charge of the afterlife (see Moirae)
• John ‘Hans’ Lang — Vampire
• Natasha — Ghost vampire.
• Ronald — Vampire.
• Julia Aiken — Witch and younger sister of Wendy
• Wendy Aiken — Witch
• Clayton Danvers — Werewolf and lover of Elena.
• Jeremy Danvers — Pack’s Alpha Werewolf
• Cassandra DuCharme — Vampire on Inter-Racial Council.
• Eve Levine — Witch, Aspicio Half-demon and mother of Savannah. Now dead.
• Elena Michaels — Female werewolf and friend of Paige.
• Sean Nast — Son of Kristof Nast and Savannah’s half-brother.
• Thomas Nast — Head of Nast Cabal.
• Lionel St. Cloud — Head of St Cloud Cabal
• Adam Vasic — Exustio Half-demon and friend of Paige.
• Robert Vasic — Half-demon, husband of Talia and stepfather of Adam.
• Talia Vasic — Mother of Adam and Wife of Robert.
• Jaime Vegas — Necromancer

Deaths

• Edward Hagen — Vampire lover of the now deceased Natasha, both immortality questers.
• Jacob — Son of Griffin
• Dana MacArthur — Witch, Daughter of Randy MacArthur
• Joey Nast — Grandson of Thomas Nast. Killed outside courthouse after Everett’s execution.
• Stephen St. Cloud — Son of Lionel St Cloud
• Matthew Tucker — 19 year old son of Lionel St Cloud’s personal assistant
• Everett Weber — Druid and Cabal Computer specialist. Executed by Cabals after being found (incorrectly) guilty of attacks on Cabal children.

A complex piece of software for genome analysis that comes equipped with multiple advanced features such as alignment and an HMM builder

What’s new in Unipro UGENE 40.1:

This release includes fixes for several major regressions introduced by version 40.0 in MSA and Sanger editors.

Read the full changelog

Unipro UGENE is a powerful piece of software that provides you with advanced tools for creating, editing and annotating nucleic acid and protein sequences. In addition, the application also helps you view and edit chromatograms.

Right off the bat, before you even get started using this app, we strongly recommend that you take a quick look at the app’s online documentation, tutorials and built-in manuals, which do a great job at shortening the learning period.

Bioinformatics program with a streamlined interface

The main window of Unipro UGENE is not what you would call airy, as it features access to almost all its main features in plain sight, with the help of an all-encompassing toolbar and an unobtrusive menu bar. Despite its somewhat crowded main window, with a bit of practice, you can easily find your way around.

If we were to nitpick, we would say that some slightly larger buttons would have made the toolbar look even nicer and would provide quicker access to its features.

Comes with advanced features for editing and analyzing nucleic sequences

In terms of features, let us just say that the application does not suffer any kind of shortages. It comes with support for multiple biological data formats and it provides visualization modules for objects ranging from next-generation sequencing data all the way up to phylogenetic trees and other complex 3D structures.

Furthermore, you can construct dotplots for nucleic acid sequences, search for a pattern of algorithm results in a nucleic acid sequence and search for direct, inverted and tandem repeats in DNA sequences with its built-in query designer.

You can combine various algorithms into custom working sequences with its workflow designer feature. For data analysis, you can rely on its Tuxedo and Cistrome pipeline, as well as on its built-in chromatogram viewer.

Comprehensive genome analysis software solution

Taking all of the above into careful consideration, Unipro UGENE is a complex computational tool that provides bioinformatics researchers with a new way to process NGS data.

The application is fairly lightweight when compared to other apps of this sort, comes with a hefty documentation and lots of tutorials, and packs extensive tools for viewing, analyzing, creating, editing and sharing your work in bioinformatics.