Hi Darren,
much much "easier" than VectorNTI is ApE (http://www.biology.utah.edu/jorgensen/wayned/ape/
), which is multi-platform and very easy to use for simple tasks.
Please, could you post a summary of the answers?
Thanks,
ciao
Sebastiano
On Jan 28, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
> Hello,
> After several years of offering the molecular biology software
> VectorNTI
> free to the academic community (their "open access program") and
> building
> up a huge user base, Invitrogen have suddenly announced that they
> will no
> longer renew these free licences and the existing ones will be left to
> expire within the year. There are heavy renewal fees for anyone
> wishing to
> continue use of this software.
>
> Can anyone recommend decent alternative PC compatible alternatives?
> Main
> uses are construct and primer design, plus simple quick alignments,
> sequence data analysis etc. The database structure for storing
> sequences
> was pretty useful also.
>
> Ideally free, otherwise reasonably priced. I've seen CLCbio and
> Geneious
> have products, both free and paid. Any experience?
>
> Thanks,
> Darren
> EMBL Grenoble
>
> ps anyone using VNTI might consider a backup of their work by
> exporting
> files to .gb format. I don't know if a locked up (expired) version
> permits
> this and you will have no notice that it is about to expire.
>
>
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