Hi Darren, I can recommend another free tool: pDRAW32 ( http://www.acaclone.com/ ). It runs natively under Windows but I am using it with the emulator wine on Linux.
Cheers, christian 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. > > _______________________________________________________________________ Dr. Christian Biertümpfel Laboratory of Molecular Biology NIDDK/National Institutes of Health phone: +1 301 402 4647 9000 Rockville Pike, Bldg. 5, Rm. B1-03 fax: +1 301 496 0201 Bethesda, MD 20892-0580 USA _______________________________________________________________________
