Free Sequence Assembly Software: The CodonCode Aligner License Grant Program
CodonCode Corporation offers free license grants to selected researchers who would like to use CodonCode Aligner in their research, but who do not have funds to purchase a license.
Requirements
To apply for a free license, you must meet the following requirements:
- You are employed at a university or non-profit research institution, with an email address at this institution.
- You must follow the application instructions below.
- You agree not to sell or otherwise transfer the license.
Please note that only a limited number of free licenses is available, and that not all qualifying applicants will receive a free license.
Application Instructions
To apply for a free license for CodonCode Aligner, please submit a detailed application by email to grants (at) codoncode.com.
Please include the following information:
- Your full name and email address
- Your current place of employment or study
- A summary of your education or a resume
- A description of your research
- An explanation how CodonCode Aligner can help you in your research (for example, what kind of sequence assembly and alignment needs you have as part of your research)
- Links to your lab website (if you have one)
- An explanation why you are applying for a free license
- A statement that you understand that the license, if granted, may not be sold or transfered to others, or used at for-profit institutions
Please make sure to include all the information requested above; applications that are incomplete or extremely short will be ignored.
Before submitting an application, you should of course download the trial version of CodonCode Aligner, and verify that it meets your needs.
License Grant Recipients
- Muhammad Ashfaq, Ph.D., National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Pakistan
Muhammad's research group works on barcoding economically important insect species of Pakistan, which is a collaborative project between Muhammad's lab at the National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIGBE) and the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO), Canada.
For more information about this project, look at Muhammad's user showcase. - Michael MacDonald, San José State University, California, USA
Michael studies population genetics and phylogeography of the Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus). He uses mitochondrial and nuclear markers to assess the genetic variation and gene flow in roadrunners.
Read about Michael's research in his user showcase. - Felippe Lourenço Claro, São Paulo University, Brazil
Felippe's PhD research looks at the dynamics, conservation, distribution and evolution of repetitive DNA elements in fish. He uses CodonCode Aligner to analyze many sequences of the electric knife fish to construct a genomic library of repetitive elements of six different Eigenmannia species.
Look at his user showcase for more details. - Logan Kistler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Logan researches the ancient precursors of American food plants at the Newsom Environmental Archaeology Lab and at the Shapiro Molecular Evolution/Ancient DNA Lab. His current projects include analyzing ancient DNA of the prehistoric eastern North American Chenopod (Chenopodium sp.) to determine its domestication, and studying the phylogeography of the bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) and its arrival in the New World.
Learn more about his research in Logan's user showcase. - David Grand, Cancéropôle Toulouse, France
David works in a clinical molecular diagnostics laboratory at the Hospital Purpan and is also involved in cancer research at Cancéropôle Toulouse. He develops techniques for molecular diagnostics, clonality, Kras, BRAF, JAK2 and microsatellite instability. In addition, David works on the genome database Ensembl and teaches students about DNA sequencing, and sequence manipulation on the computer. - Cobus Meyer Visagie, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Cobus studies the taxonomy of Penicillium spp from the Fynbos biome at the laboratory of Dr. Karin Jacobs. He analyzes multiple genes for his phylogenetic comparisons, and uses CodonCode Aligner to assemble the large amount of sequences he has, and edit the resulting contigs.
- Charles Budinoff, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Charles studies viruses that infect marine bacteria as part of his Ph. D. research. He plans to use CodonCode Aligner to assemble and align 16S, ITS, and 23S rDNA genes from several hundred marine bacteria isolates. - Alison McLean, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Alison's Ph. D. research examines the phylogeography of a wide-spread Australian bird. In addition to using CodonCode Aligner for sequence assembly and alignments, Alison uses Aligner's heterozygous indel analysis functions to analyze nuclear sequence data from multiple specimen and loci. - Fan Liu, Xiamen University, China
Fan Liu studies nematode parasitology in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Tang. Fan "fell in love" with CodonCode Aligner as a visiting scholar in Prof. Steven Nadler's lab at UC Davis. - Alex Compton, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Alex's research examines antiviral gene diversity in Old World Monkeys. In Prof. Dr. Michael Emerman's lab, he studies whether polymorphism in cytidine deaminases genes of African Green Monkeys results in differential antiviral function against HIV-1 replication and retrotranposition events.
