You can make a icon that you can put on your dock in order to launch BioEdit quickly. It would be nicer not having to go to the Terminal everytime you want to use BioEdit. $ wine BioEdit.exe Make an short cut for launching BioEdit (optional) To run BioEdit, type in Terminal: $ cd ~/.wine/drive_c/BioEdit Then on the Terminal window type again: $ sh winetricks mdac27 Run BioEdit Download the software from the website and put it in /Users/YOURNAME/Library/Caches/winetricks/mdac27 The Terminal will open the webpage in your browser. In the Terminal window, type: $ sudo port install winetricks To make BioEdit work, you’ll have to do some additional installations. XQuartz will open (if it isn’t already), and soon you will the installer. Open Terminal and run the installer through Wine by using this command: $ wine setup.exe Save the BioEdit installer file in your user directory (it should show up on the Places in your Finder, below your Desktop icon, and shows up as a little house icon). To install a BioEdit program, first download the installer file. Follow his guide until you finish Part 3 Install Wine using MacPorts. Some users have had success while others had some problems). To install Wine on your Mac, you’ll need an Intel Mac and should follow David Baumgold’s guide on how to install Wine on Mac OS X (check the comments below. This tutorial will show you how to install BioEdit on a Mac without the use of Parallels Desktop or other virtual desktop software running Windows in the background. It was written by Tom Hall and it was made only for Windows. BioEdit is a very popular sequence alignment editor.

Bioedit software for mac