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	Our software was designed from the very beginning to function the way a molecular biologist thinks...
	Accordingly, our software often does things that other programs fail to do, or else might do things differently from the way other programs do.
	To get started and to get an overall feel for the programs, we strongly urge you to read through the tutorials to visualize what the software can do for you.
	Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for GCK for GI

Click on one of the product tabs (above) to access more detailed information about a particular product. You will be able to examine frequently asked questions (FAQs), download product demos, update to the latest version of the application, and send feedback and suggestions to us through one of these other pages.

Snow Leopard Users (Mac OS X 10.6)

GCK Macintosh customers who have upgraded or are planning to upgrade from an older operating system to Snow Leopard should download the most recent version of GCK3 to ensure compatibility.

Below are direct links to product tutorials, which will give you a good feeling for each product. If none of these resources help, please contact us by email or by phone.

Gene Construction Kit® Tutorials Textco's cloning management and display application for Macintosh and Windows.

Start» Here»	GCK Tutorials
1.	Working with Constructs
2.	Marking Sites
3.	Marking Open Reading Frames
4.	Viewing the Construct as a Sequence
5.	Modifying the Construct Appearance
6.	Cloning a DNA Segment and Silent Mutations
7.	Chronography – Tracking Cloning History
8.	Finding Comments and File Searching
9.	Running Gels and Orientation Analysis
10.	Making Illustrations
11.	Working With Generic Constructs
12.	Importing and Exporting Sequences and Other Information
13.	Importing GenBank Sequence Files Using Deluxe Importing
14.	Searching and Retrieving Sequence Files from GenBank
15.	Translating Across Introns
16.	PCR Analysis
17.	Shotgun Cloning
18.	Database Analysis

Gene Inspector® Tutorials Textco's sequence analysis and electronic notebook application for Macintosh and Windows.

Start» Here»	GI Tutorials
1.	Tour of a Gene Inspector Notebook
2.	Editing Sequences
3.	Using Analysis Setups
4.	Hotlinking Analysis Results
5.	Multiple Sequence Alignments
6.	Running Summary Analyses
7.	Aligning Analysis Objects
8.	Customizing Gene Inspector Menus
9.	Taking Notes & Using Background Text
10.	Creating and Using Style Sheets
11.	Adding More Analyses to a Setup
12.	Appendices - Hiding Large Amounts of Data
13.	Customizing and Saving Analysis Setup Suites
14.	Using Predefined Analysis Suites
15.	Restriction Enzyme Digests
16.	Displaying Formatted Sequence Information
17.	Testcode - An Interactive Analysis
18.	Dot Matrix Analysis - Another Interactive Analysis
19.	Using Bookmarks in the GI Notebook
20.	Creating Your Own Analysis Tables
21.	BLAST Searching