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Tutorial: Running Gels and Orientation Analysis

Often in a cloning project there is a need to assay the success of each cloning step. Typically, this is done by gel electrophoresis. This tutorial will teach you how to run gels in GCK.
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Tutorial: Finding Comments and File Searching

You have seen in previous tutorials how you can enter comments in association with site markers, segments of DNA, chronographic generations, and regions of interest. Given that you may have many generations in a construct, it might sometimes be difficult not only to remember where in a construct you have stored information, but in which […]
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Tutorial: Chronography – Tracking Cloning History

One of the most useful features of GCK is called chronography . This feature allows you to keep track of construct history as well as to store different views of the same sequence in a single file. It is important to realize that although you will be seeing different graphics on screen, there is only […]
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Tutorial: Cloning a DNA Segment and Silent Mutations

Our goal in this tutorial will be to take the construct we have been working with in previous tutorials and use it to receive a new segment of DNA. In doing this you will learn about copying and pasting segments of DNA and how to keep track of the history of your construct.
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Tutorial: Modifying the Construct Appearance

Gene Construction Kit provides many different ways for you to annotate your construct’s appearance and mark important features.
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Tutorial: Viewing the Construct as a Sequence

Construct files can be viewed either graphically or as a sequence.
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Tutorial: Marking Open Reading Frames

One analytical tool included in GCK is to automatically find open reading frames.
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Tutorial: Marking Sites in Gene Construction Kit

Marking sites is a common task faced by our users that is made simple and intuitive by the Gene Construction Kit. Follow these simple steps to learn how you can tag sites with our software.
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Tutorial: Working with Contructs in Gene Construction Kit

Perhaps the most important window in GCK is the Construct Window . This is the place where you will do the majority of your cloning manipulations and can precisely define how your construct will look. In this tutorial you will learn how to modify the appearance of constructs. Tutorial 2: Marking Sites shows how to […]
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Final “25th Anniversary” Gift-Offer for 2009 Announced

Final “25th Anniversary” Gift-Offer for 2009 Announced Quality Molecular Biology software from Textco since 1984 West Lebanon, NH 10|01|09 For a full quarter century (since 1984), Textco has developed high quality software productivity tools for molecular biology researchers. In celebration of their 25 years of service to the molecular biology community, Textco BioSoftware is pleased […]
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