West Lebanon, NH  09|28|2011

Textco BioSoftware today released GCK version 3.5.2, available to current customers as a FREE download from the updates section of the website.

Modifications and fixes included in this release can be reviewed by visiting the ‘Revision History‘ page.

All current GCK 3.0 and 3.5 license holders are encouraged to update to this latest release for improved performance.

GCK 3.5 is compatible with Mac OS 10.4 and higher (Including OS 10.7, “Lion”); and Windows 7, Windows Vista & Windows XP.

New customers can evaluate Gene Construction Kit 3.5 by downloading the free demo version.

Contact Textco BioSoftware for more information.

Contact for Sales/Marketing:

Brant Hackett; 480-241-2191

Roberta Brucks Gross; 603-643-1471

About Textco BioSoftware

Textco BioSoftware (formerly Textco, Inc.), has been developing high quality productivity tools for molecular biologists for over 25 years. Our unwavering commitment to customer service, and our focus on quality has generated a loyal customer following. Since 1984, we have provided solutions to scientists who are breaking new ground in genetic engineering, basic biology research, drug development, and biotechnology – at academic, government, and corporate institutions in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Textco BioSoftware today announced the public beta testing for Gene Inspector version 2.0 for Mac. The Windows beta release will be available soon. GI 2.0 is compatible with Lion (Mac OS 10.7), as well as previous versions of Mac OS (10.4 or higher).

Users will notice faster analysis processing, smoother font and analysis display via anti-aliasing, and GI 2.0 is a Universal Binary release – taking advantage of the Intel processors found inside the latest Macs.

We are beginning an open beta-test for GI 2.0 and encourage you to participate by signing up here.

Contact for Sales/Marketing:

Textco BioSoftware today released GCK version 3.5.1, available to current customers as a FREE download from the updates section of the website.

Modifications and fixes included in this release can be reviewed by visiting the ‘Revision History‘ page.

All current GCK 3.0 and 3.5 license holders are encouraged to update to this latest release for improved performance.

GCK 3.5 is compatible with Mac OS 10.4 and higher (Including OS 10.7, “Lion”); and Windows 7, Windows Vista & Windows XP.

New customers can evaluate Gene Construction Kit 3.5 by downloading the free demo version.

Contact Textco BioSoftware for more information.

Contact for Sales/Marketing:

Brant Hackett; 480-241-2191

Roberta Brucks Gross; 603-643-1471

About Textco BioSoftware

Textco BioSoftware (formerly Textco, Inc.), has been developing high quality productivity tools for molecular biologists for over 25 years. Our unwavering commitment to customer service, and our focus on quality has generated a loyal customer following. Since 1984, we have provided solutions to scientists who are breaking new ground in genetic engineering, basic biology research, drug development, and biotechnology – at academic, government, and corporate institutions in more than 50 countries worldwide.

West Lebanon, NH 05|24|2011

Textco BioSoftware today announced the release of an upgraded version of their award-winning DNA plasmid mapping software, Gene Construction Kit® (GCK 3.5).

GCK version 3.5 includes enhancements for both Windows and Mac. Users will notice increased speed when working with files accessed over the network, and GCK 3.5 offers a number of other improvements designed to increase efficiency.

In anticipation of the pending Apple operating system upgrade, this GCK release is compatible with Mac OS 10.7 “Lion”. The Mac version of GCK 3.5 takes full advantage of the processors found inside the Intel Macs and is completely updated to Universal Binary.

A FREE Upgrade is being offered to current GCK 3.0 license holders. Those customers can simply visit our support page to follow the complimentary update instructions.

To mark the release of GCK 3.5, Textco BioSoftware is offering special ‘Introductory Discount‘ pricing to both new customers -and- labs looking to expand the use of GCK to additional users.

Since it’s introduction more than 20 years ago, Gene Construction Kit® has been the molecular cloning software of choice for tens of thousands of researchers worldwide. GCK has proven the test of time, and its unique, graphical approach to cloning has not been matched. Lauded by leading researchers as the ‘Easy-to-learn AND Easy-to-Use’ cloning package – researchers rely on GCK to simplify the management of their cloning projects. This upgraded version of GCK includes enhancements that will save researchers both time and money. A complete list of the updates can be viewed through Gene Construction Kit’s version history.

GCK 3.5 is compatible with Mac OS 10.4 and higher (Including Snow Leopard and the soon to be released Lion OS); and Windows 7, Windows Vista & Windows XP.

A free demo version of Gene Construction Kit 3.5 is available for download.

Contact Textco BioSoftware for more information.

Contact for Sales/Marketing:

Brant Hackett; 480-241-2191

Roberta Brucks Gross; 603-643-1471

About Textco BioSoftware
Textco BioSoftware (formerly Textco, Inc.), has been developing high quality productivity tools for molecular biologists for over 25 years. Our unwavering commitment to customer service, and our focus on quality has generated a loyal customer following. Since 1984, we have provided solutions to scientists who are breaking new ground in genetic engineering, basic biology research, drug development, and biotechnology – at academic, government, and corporate institutions in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Textco BioSoftware today announced the public beta testing for GCK version 3.5 for both Mac and Windows. The Mac version has been completely updated to Universal Binary to take full advantage of the processors inside the new Intel Macs. Both the Windows and Mac version of GCK 3.5 will have new font panel menus, increased speed for working with networked files, right-mouse button click support for edit operations, updated GenBank importer options and other enhancements to increase your efficiency.

We are beginning an open beta-test for GCK 3.5 and encourage you to participate by signing up here.

Also in our February 2011 Newsletter, we highlight the ‘Gel Window’ of GCK and how it can help confirm results and save you time and money.

To review this latest Newsletter in your browser, please click here.

If you have any suggestions for topics you would like to see covered, please email us with your thoughts!

Textco BioSoftware has published its November 2010 Newsletter – designed to offer helpful tips and time-saving tools for our customers.

This edition highlights how to save time and facilitate consistency by creating ‘Analysis Suites‘ within Gene Inspector®. Also highlighted is an often overlooked feature in Gene Construction Kit®. This feature can assist labs in the management of the physical DNA samples they have stored.

To review this latest Newsletter in your browser, please click here.

If you have any suggestions for topics you would like to see covered, please email us with your thoughts!

Contact for Sales/Marketing:
Brant Hackett; 480-241-2191
Roberta Brucks Gross; 603-643-1471

About Textco BioSoftware
Textco BioSoftware (formerly Textco, Inc.), has been developing high quality productivity tools for molecular biologists for over 25 years. Our unwavering commitment to customer service, and our focus on quality has generated a loyal customer following. Since 1984, we have provided solutions to scientists who are breaking new ground in genetic engineering, basic biology research, drug development, and biotechnology – at academic, government, and corporate institutions in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Textco BioSoftware has published the first in a series of Newsletters designed to offer helpful tips, tricks and other related information to their user community.

This first edition offers information on creating custom restriction enzyme files within Gene Construction Kit®, as well as some information for our Macintosh users migrating to new computers running Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6).

To view the newsletter in your browser, click here.

If you have any suggestions for items or topics you would like to see covered, please email us with your thoughts!

Contact for Sales/Marketing:

Brant Hackett; 480-241-2191

Roberta Brucks Gross; 603-643-1471

About Textco BioSoftware
Textco BioSoftware (formerly Textco, Inc.), has been developing high quality productivity tools for molecular biologists for over 25 years. Our unwavering commitment to customer service, and our focus on quality has generated a loyal customer following. Since 1984, we have provided solutions to scientists who are breaking new ground in genetic engineering, basic biology research, drug development, and biotechnology – at academic, government, and corporate institutions in more than 50 countries worldwide.

What kinds of mechanisms exist to allow for just enough change – while preserving necessary components and processes – to allow a species to survive, adapt and evolve?

Yesterday afternoon, Dr. Robert Gross posted a new entry in his Computational Biology Reflections blog discussing recent papers that focus on sorting out some of these issues.

Follow the discussions here!

Contact for Sales/Marketing:

Brant Hackett; 480-241-2191

Roberta Brucks Gross; 603-643-1471

About Textco BioSoftware
Textco BioSoftware (formerly Textco, Inc.), has been developing high quality productivity tools for molecular biologists for over 25 years. Our unwavering commitment to customer service, and our focus on quality has generated a loyal customer following. Since 1984, we have provided solutions to scientists who are breaking new ground in genetic engineering, basic biology research, drug development, and biotechnology – at academic, government, and corporate institutions in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Announcing Textco BioSoftware’s website (www.textco.com) redesign – combining new functionality with a more modern layout and eye-pleasing look.

One of the new features of the redesigned Web site, is a blog maintained by Dr. Robert Gross, founder and President of Textco BioSoftware, and Associate Professor of Biology at Dartmouth College. Through his “Computational Biology Reflections” (CBR) blog, Dr. Gross will be exploring topics of interest in the area of computational biology – his current area of research. The posts will be designed for the typical biologist and will avoid computational jargon. The idea is to present current papers or trends in computational biology that might be of interest to “wet” lab biologists who may not be aware of new tools or approaches which could be of use to them in their research. Also in the blog will be interesting observations that spring out of current computational research and analysis.

Visitors can follow the CBR blog here.

Dr. Gross hopes this forum will become a useful resource for the biological research community in general. Researchers are encouraged to leave comments, suggest topics and forward the posts on to colleagues. If you are interested in contributing a blog entry, please let us know your thoughts.

Visitors to Textco BioSoftware’s new website will find it to be more visually engaging and easier to navigate. The redesigned layout gives both new and returning customers easier access to the information they are seeking about our software.

New customers will be able to drill down to specific product functionality quickly, using the new Gene Construction Kit® and Gene Inspector® product pages.

Current customers will notice the new ‘support‘ page – which offers easy access to download our complimentary product updates, register an existing software license, or to find answers to some frequently asked questions (faq’s).

All product tutorials have been moved into a traditional blog type format. In this new format, posts are sortable through keyword tags and category classifications, and the tutorial section of the site offers a dedicated search box to help find posts related to a specific topic. Utilizing this blog post format also offers users the ability to leave comments and give feedback – important in driving the direction of future product development.

Textco BioSoftware expects the new functionality will enable us to stay better connected with our customers, as we continue to deliver software that biologists want to use everyday.

Contact for Sales/Marketing:

Brant Hackett; 480-241-2191

Roberta Brucks Gross; 603-643-1471

About Textco BioSoftware
Textco BioSoftware (formerly Textco, Inc.), has been developing high quality productivity tools for molecular biologists for over 25 years. Our unwavering commitment to customer service, and our focus on quality has generated a loyal customer following. Since 1984, we have provided solutions to scientists who are breaking new ground in genetic engineering, basic biology research, drug development, and biotechnology – at academic, government, and corporate institutions in more than 50 countries worldwide.

West Lebanon, NH 1|12|2010
Today, Textco BioSoftware made the first beta release of the new GenBank Converter application (GBC) available for testing and feedback. The utility is designed to give users a convenient way to automatically convert GenBank formatted text files into Gene Construction Kit® construct documents. Our GenBank Converter offers the flexibility of performing the import of 100’s or even 1000’s of files at one time.

This flexible GBC application also allows conversion of ‘modified’ GenBank files – such as those DNA documents generated by Vector NTi – and other similar analysis programs.

Using a customizable ‘Conversion Defaults’ panel, standard GenBank features identified in the text file are mapped to graphical representations in the resulting Gene Construction Kit® construct file. Textco BioSoftware expects to release a final version of the free utility in the first half of 2010.

Contact for Sales/Marketing:

Brant Hackett; 480-241-2191

Roberta Brucks Gross; 603-643-1471

About Textco BioSoftware
Textco BioSoftware (formerly Textco, Inc.), has been developing high quality productivity tools for molecular biologists for over 25 years. Our unwavering commitment to customer service, and our focus on quality has generated a loyal customer following. Since 1984, we have provided solutions to scientists who are breaking new ground in genetic engineering, basic biology research, drug development, and biotechnology – at academic, government, and corporate institutions in more than 50 countries worldwide.