NCBI has released a beta version of a new Sequence Viewer, a tool that provides a graphical view of Entrez Nucleotide (aka GenBank) and Protein records. The direct link to the tool is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/sviewer/
There are some nice example views linked from this page.
At first glance, the tool is a considerable improvement over the previous viewer. They've mercifully gone to a horizontal viewing mode, and the labeling seems more intuitive (IMO). There's a mechanism to customize a page view (to show a particular section of a gene, or series of genes, for example) and then create a link to that view, that you can (for example) bookmark, send in an email, or post on a web site.
Help for the product is available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/sviewer/help/, or click the question mark in the upper right of the Viewer page. I'm told the Sequence Viewer shares code base with the NCBI Genome Workbench, if any of you use that downloadable software package.
