Name: Anonymous 2013-09-21 4:46
I'm just a lawyer /b/tard, but my girlfriend is pretty smart. She's some kind of molecular biologist or something, but I mostly just like her for her tits.
She was telling me about how she has to run an old version of some program called "Genemapper", which only runs on windows XP. Even though they're shelling out $30,000 a year to keep the sequencer running, they won't update the software.
The problem is that it takes forever, is buggy, and can only accommodate a quarter of her data set (around 200 samples, over 20 microsat loci, and something like 10,000 sample files) at a time.
Obviously, the program is running up hard against the 3GB limit in XP; I think that an SSD for swap-space would probably provide a noticeable improvement, but that's out of the question since they're running it through boot-camp on iMacs.
Anyways, here's my question - maybe it should go on a different board, but I thought I'd ask you guys first. Is there any place I can get an illegal copy of a new version of the software? (I'm not worried about being sued.) Does anyone know of free software that can read the sequencer output and do similar analysis? The sequencer is an ABI 3730.
She was telling me about how she has to run an old version of some program called "Genemapper", which only runs on windows XP. Even though they're shelling out $30,000 a year to keep the sequencer running, they won't update the software.
The problem is that it takes forever, is buggy, and can only accommodate a quarter of her data set (around 200 samples, over 20 microsat loci, and something like 10,000 sample files) at a time.
Obviously, the program is running up hard against the 3GB limit in XP; I think that an SSD for swap-space would probably provide a noticeable improvement, but that's out of the question since they're running it through boot-camp on iMacs.
Anyways, here's my question - maybe it should go on a different board, but I thought I'd ask you guys first. Is there any place I can get an illegal copy of a new version of the software? (I'm not worried about being sued.) Does anyone know of free software that can read the sequencer output and do similar analysis? The sequencer is an ABI 3730.