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Software on Mac

Dr. P.L. Taylor ptaylor at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
Thu Jun 6 11:07:13 EST 1996


>> Try MacVector.  That's the best and easy-to-use sequence analysis 
>> software on Mac OS, as far as I know.  Price is quite expensive; more 
>> than $2000.  It's from Eastman Kodak, 
>
>I called Oxford Molecular, who have taken MacVector over from Eastman
>Kodak, a few days ago. While the software works well for most things (hate
>the sequence alignments it gives) the price is $2450 US for the basic
>license. I also asked about upgrading our 4 user personal copies to a 4
>user network version - the price for getting almost equivalent usage but
>without having to unplug the EVE key each time you want to go to a
>different computer over $5000 US !!!! I hate to think what the price of
>the Network version would be from scratch.

At the risk of being accused of advertising on this group, may I suggest
that you take a look at my program GeneJockeyII, which offers similar
functionality to MacVector et al, but costs $1000 and is not copy-
protected.  Call BioSoft on (314) 524 8029 (USA) or 01223 68622 (UK)
for a demo.

Phil Taylor
mbplt at seqnet.dl.ac.uk




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