GeneView 8.5.1.102 was available to download from the developer's website when we last checked. We cannot confirm if there is a free download of this software available. The following versions: 8.5 and 2.0 are the most frequently downloaded ones by the program users.
The most frequent installation filename for the program is: GeneViewStart.exe. We recommend checking the downloaded files with any free antivirus. The software belongs to Development Tools. The actual developer of the free program is Ole Bents, Andreas Dieckmann, Ulrich Nerlich, Markus Reinsch, Torsten Will.
From the developer:
GeneView is a software tool that allows the visualization of genetic sequence data. The data to be visualized are taken from the GenBank of NIH (National Institute of Health), an annotated collection of publicly accessible DNA and RNA sequences.
It was entirely written in the programming language JAVA. The choice for JAVA was made in consideration of its capabilities for building embedded applications for the World Wide Web (so-called Applets).
You may want to check out more software, such as SnapGene Viewer, which might be related to GeneView.