Developer(s) Life Technologies Website Vector NTI home | License Proprietary | |
Stable release Vector NTI Express v1.1.1 (Mac & Windows); Vector NTI Advance v11.5.2 (Windows & Mac w/PC Emulation) / September 20, 2012 (2012-09-20) Operating system Type Molecular biology Suite of Sequence Analysis & Design Software Tools (Curate, Discover, Design, Provision, Confirm) | ||
Vector NTI is a commercial bioinformatics software package used by many life scientists to work, among other things, with nucleic acids and proteins in silico [1][2]. It allows researchers to, for example, plan a DNA cloning experiment on the computer before actually performing it in the lab.
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It was originally created by InforMax Inc, North Bethesda, MD. Initially released for free, it was locked and turned into a commercial software after 2008 which created problems for locked in users who were forced to buy the software to continue accessing their data on newer computers [3]. It also caused many scientists to search for alternatives [4].
What was previously a single software package has been split into Vector NTI Express, Advanced, and Express Designer [5].