Acquiring and installing GPRO
Acquiring and Installing GPRO
Copyright and License
GPRO is the intellectual property of Biotech Vana SL (Biotechvana). The software is protected under copyright and intellectual property laws (including international copyright treaties, and other intellectual property treaties). Licensing of GPRO is subject to a commercial and private source agreement that should be accepted during installation of the tool in your PC. This agreement allows unrestricted use of the tool for academic and industrial research and services (online or to third parties) but does not permit the sale, rent, re-distribution, reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembly, or otherwise translation or analysis of any source code of the software, underlying ideas, algorithms or programming by any means without explicit authorization from Biotechvana.
System requirements
GPRO is a Java application that runs on personal computers (PCs) and workstations as standalone software. The program is distributed as an installer for Windows XP/Vista/7 (32 bit and 64 bit), a self-extracting disk image for Mac OS X 10.5 or later (64 bit), and a compressed tarball archive for Linux 2.6 kernel series or later (32 bit and 64 bit).
Microsoft Windows
- Windows XP/Vista/7/8
- Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz or Athlon XP 1500+ processor or higher
- 2 GB RAM minimum
Linux
- Linux distributions
- Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz or Athlon XP 1500+ processor or higher
- 2 GB RAM minimum
Apple Mac OS X
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- Intel Core Duo processor or higher
- 2 GB RAM minimum
All systems require Java 1.5 or later. The latest version can be downloaded from the following URL: http://java.com/download/index.jsp. Please note that for projects containing a large number of sequences, a minimum of 4 GB of RAM is recommended for optimum performance.
Installation
Microsoft Windows: GPRO for Microsoft Windows systems is distributed with an executable installer. To install it, double-click on the installer and follow the instructions on screen. This process automatically generates desktop and start menu shortcuts. To uninstall GPRO, it is recommended to use the “Add/Remove Program” option in the Windows Control Panel. A dialog box will display a list of programs. Choose GPRO and then click “Add/Remove”.
Apple MacOS X: The MacOS X version is installable via an Apple disk image (DMG) file. Double click the file to mount it and then drag GPRO to your Applications folder. To uninstall, as with any other Mac OS X application, drag it to the Trash.
Linux distributions: Installation on Linux systems is carried out by uncompressing a gzipped tarball (.tar.gz archive) in your home directory (or any directory for which you have write access). This will create a directory named “GPRO”. Inside you will find, among others, an executable file that you can run to open GPRO. To uninstall GPRO you need to delete the directory created by the installation process.
Warranty and technical support
GPRO has been satisfactorily tested in the various computing systems for which we support the installation. Should your license prove defective, warranty assistance is provided via the technical support service. You can access this service via the "suggestions and bugs" utility implemented within the "Help" tab of the main GPRO menu or by accessing this URL (Technical support).
Warranty is free of charge for two years after acquiring the license. However, Biotechvana does not provide any warranty or assume any liability or responsibility for the use of and results obtained using this tool, expressed or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall Biotechvana be liable for any damages including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential and loss of business profits including general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the program including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a failure of the program to operate with any other programs, even if Biotechvana has been advised of the possibility of such damages.