Gene Construction Kit

Gene Contruction Kit is a program made by Textco that is used by the lab for sequence and general cloning manipulations. It is glitchy and not perfect, but does the trick. It can be used on the common-use computers in the lab as there are limited site licenses.

It is standard practice after finishing a cloning project to enter the .gck file into the lab database after sequencing. It is typical to only sequence the insert. This is incredibly useful for streamlining the use and sharing of plasmids with others.