FEATURES Gene Composer™ Express Gene Composer™ Enterprise Gene Composer™ Lite ALIGNMENT GENERATION       ClustalW Multiple Sequence Alignments YES YES NO View Sequence Conservation YES YES NO PDB-File Compatible YES YES NO View Protein Secondary Structure YES YES NO View Water/Crystal/Ligand Contacts YES YES NO View Solvent Accessibility YES YES NO CONSTRUCT DESIGN       Construct Definition YES YES NO Mutation Generation YES YES NO Virtual Cloning YES YES NO DNA PROCESSING AND GENE ASSEMBLY       Codon Optimization for Multiple Systems YES YES YES Restricition Site Removal/Introduction YES YES YES mRNA Secondary Structure Optimization YES YES YES* Base repeat removal YES YES YES Full Control over all Optimization Steps YES YES NO Documentation of Optimization Steps YES YES YES Bulk-Processing of Multiple Sequences NO NO YES Generation of Oligos for Gene Assembly YES YES NO       * Only available on Windows® GENERAL FEATURES       Database Software YES YES NO Multiple-User Enterprise Software NO YES NO MS SQL Server Database Integration NO YES NO Included Access Database YES NO NO Instant Download FREE 30-DAY TRIAL PLEASE CALL FREE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS       Operating System Windows® 2000/XP with MDAC 2.5 Windows® 2000/XP compatible with JRE 1.4 or later Hardware Pentium® 4 or Athlon® at 1GHz with 1GB RAM. Pentium® 4 or Athlon® at 1GHz with 1GB RAM. Pentium® 4 or Athlon® or Macintosh G4 at 1GHz with 1GB RAM. Recommended Free Disk Space 50 GB 50 GB 5G Minimum Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 1024 x 768 1024 x 768 Recommended Screen Resolution 1280 x 1024 1280 x 1024 1280 x 1024 Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) Required? NO Microsoft SQL Server® 2000 or later. NO