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This page provides the terms of use and policies governing this site, as well as trademark and copyright information for the site and DNASTAR products, logos and services. In these terms and conditions, DNASTAR Inc. may be referred to as “DNASTAR”, “We”, “Us”, “Our”, “Lasergene”, “SeqBuilder Pro” or by the name of any other software owned by DNASTAR.

This legal statement covers the following subjects:

Acknowledgements and References
Request for Permission to Reprint and Acknowledgment
Terms of Use
Trademark Information
Disclaimer & Liability
License & Access
Your Account
Export Policy
Order Acceptance & Billing
Indemnification
Termination
General
Blog Content Submission
Information Submitted on a DNASTAR Site
Copyright Complaints
Financial Conflict of Interest Policy

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1. Acknowledgements and References

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3. Terms of Use

This website has been designed to provide general information about DNASTAR, Inc. and its affiliates. DNASTAR has attempted to provide accurate and current information on this website; however, DNASTAR makes no representations about the suitability of the information contained or published on this website for any purpose. All such information is provided “AS IS” without warranty of any kind. No warranty or representation is made, express or implied, that the information contained or referenced herein is accurate, current or complete. Furthermore, DNASTAR shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever for direct, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages resulting from the use of, or inability to use, this information or any information provided through linked websites.

DNASTAR websites may contain third party information. DNASTAR does not accept responsibility for the content of other sites that we might be linking to, directly or indirectly. Such information is, wherever reasonably possible, marked with the name of the source. Such third party information does not represent the views or opinions of DNASTAR and DNASTAR takes no responsibility whatsoever for such information.

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4. Trademark Information

This section contains the most current information on DNASTAR trademarks. The absence of a name or logo in this list does not constitute a waiver of any intellectual property rights that DNASTAR, Inc. has established in any of our product, feature, or service names or logos.

DNASTAR®, DNA*®, Lasergene®, Lasergene99™, GeneMan™, MapDraw™, the Method Curtain™, Seq-Easy™, StarBlast®, EditSeq™ (©1988-2018), SeqMan® (©1988-2024), Protean™ (©1992-2024), MegAlign™ (©1993-2024), PrimerSelect™ (©1993-2018), GeneQuest™ (©1998-2024), GenVision™ (©2000-2024), NGen® (©2001-2024), SeqBuilder™ (©2004-2024), ArrayStar® (©2005-2024), QSeq™ (©2005-2018), Navigator™ (©2010-2024), SeqNinja® (©2012-2024), NovaFold™ (©2013-2024), NovaFold Antibody™ (©2013-2024), NovaDock® (©2016-2024), DNASTAR Cloud™ (©2013-2020), DNASTAR Cloud Desktop™ (©2014-2018), DNASTAR Cloud Assemblies™ (©2014-2024), and DNASTAR Cloud Data Drive™ (©2014-2024) are registered trademarks or trademarks of DNASTAR, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Microsoft®, Windows®, Windows Vista®, and PowerPoint® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Intel® and Pentium® are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Macintosh®, Mac OS® and BootCamp® are registered trademarks of Apple Computers, Inc. Parallels Desktop® is a registered trademark of Parallels, Inc. Adobe® Illustrator® and Adobe® PostScript® are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. Linux® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Ubuntu® is a registered trademark of the Ubuntu Project . CentOS compliments of the Community Enterprise Operating System.

Affymetrix®, NetAffx™, Expression Console™, and Affymetrix GeneChip-compatible™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Affymetrix, Inc. NimbleGen™ is a trademark of Roche NimbleGen, Inc. Illumina® and BeadStudio™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Illumina, Inc. 454™ is a trademark of the Roche Diagnostics Corporation. Agilent® is a registered trademark of Agilent. PacBio and Pacific Biosciences are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. MacVector™ is a trademark of MacVector, Inc. Sequencher® is a registered trademark of Gene Codes Corporation. pGEM is a registered trademark of Promega Corporation. GenePix® is a registered trademark of MDS Analytical Technologies™. Gibson Assembly® is a registered trademark of Synthetic Genomics, Inc. In-Fusion® is a registered trademark of Takara Bio USA, Inc. Corporation. Hyperladder™ is a trademark of Bioline. GelPilot® is a registered trademark of the QIAGEN Group. Enduro™ is a trademark of Labnet International, Inc. Mini-Sub® and Sub-Cell® are registered trademarks of Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Axygen® is a registered trademark of Corning Incorporated. Carolina® is a registered trademark of Carolina Biological Supply Company. Mastermind® is a registered trademark of Genomenon®, Inc.

The pPSU1 and pPSU2 plasmids have been deposited in the Addgene repository to facilitate distribution, and are available without licensing restrictions to nonprofit academic users.

The following products are registered trademarks, trademarks or copyrighted materials of Thermo Fisher Scientific: ABI, AmpliSeq, Applied Biosystems, BioEase, BLOCK-iT, E-Gel, FastRuler, Fisherbrand, Gateway, GeneArt®, GeneBLAzer, GeneRuler, Invitrogen, Ion Torrent™, Lumio, MassRuler, O’RangeRuler, Owl, pcDNA, pDEST, pDONR, pENTR, SOLiD™, TOPO®, TrackIt, Xpress, Zeocin, ZipRuler. Use of Gateway and TOPO vectors and reagents to perform in vitro or in vivo experiments that are simulated using DNASTAR’s Lasergene software may require a license from Thermo Fisher Scientific. Permission for academic and government use of Gateway clones is outlined in the Gateway Open Architecture Policy.

PROSITE® is a registered trademark of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). The InterPro Consortium is authorized to redistribute PROSITE. DNASTAR incorporates PROSITE® data from InterPro into Lasergene. Access to other versions of PROSITE® requires a user license which can be obtained by contacting GeneBio. Copyright © 2001 The InterPro Consortium. This manual and the accompanying database may be copied and redistributed freely, without advance permission, provided that this Copyright statement is reproduced with each copy.

DNASTAR Cloud Assemblies uses 7-Zip which is licensed under the GNU LGPL license. The source code for 7-Zip can be found at www.7-zip.org.

DNASTAR genome template packages contain mutation data obtained from the Sanger Institute Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer web site, http://www.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic Bamford et al (2004) The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer) database and website. Br J Cancer, 91,355-358.

Apache Commons IO (© 2002-2011, The Apache Software Foundation; all rights reserved) and Guava (© 2009-2012, Google Inc. and contributing authors; all rights reserved) are licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.

BioJava (©2000-2012, BioJava and contributing authors; all rights reserved) is licensed under the LGPL Version 2.1. Java Native Access (JNA, © 2006-2011, Timothy Wall, Wayne Meissner and contributing authors; all rights reserved) is licensed under the LGPL Version 2.1. The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (© 1997-2012, the CDK Development Team, all rights reserved) is licensed under the LGPL Version 2.1. Java OpenGL (JOGL, © 2003-2007, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; all rights reserved) is licensed under the BSD license. KSDSSP courtesy of the University of California-San Francisco under an open source software license. Yale Morph Server courtesy of Mark Gerstein and Yale University. The Protein Data Bank courtesy of the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB).

Clustal 2.1 is released under the GNU Lesser GPL.

Electron is licensed under the MIT license.

Fugue Icons are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Larkin MA, Blackshields G, Brown NP, Chenna R, McGettigan PA, McWilliam H, Valentin F, Wallace IM, Wilm A, Lopez R, Thompson JD, Gibson TJ, Higgins DG (2007). “ClustalW and ClustalX version 2”. Bioinformatics. 23 (21): 2947–2948. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm404. PMID 17846036.

LIBSVM (© 2000-2012, Chih-Chung Chang and Chih-Jen Lin; all rights reserved), ANTLR (© 2010, Terence Parr; all rights reserved), and Prefuse (© 2004-2011, Regents of the University of California; all rights reserved) are licensed under the BSD license.

Property List Library (© 2011, Yørn de Jong; all rights reserved) and JTS Topology Suite (© 2002-2011, Vivid Solutions Inc.; all rights reserved) are licensed under the LGPL Version 2.1. Monte Media Library (© 2012, Werner Randelshofer; all rights reserved) is licensed under the LGPL Version 3.

Mauve is licensed under the GNU General Purpose License. To cite Mauve, use: Darling AE, Mau B, and Perna NT (2010). “progressiveMauve: Multiple Genome Alignment with Gene Gain, Loss, and Rearrangement.” PLoS One. 5(6):e11147.

Parasail is licensed under the Academic Free License 3.0.

Daily, Jeff. (2016). Parasail: SIMD C library for global, semi-global, and local pairwise sequence alignments. BMC Bioinformatics, 17(1), 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-016-0930-z

The license management portion of this Licensed Technology is based on SentinelLM®, (© 1989-2012, SafeNet, Inc.; all rights reserved). Sentinel® is a registered trademark of SafeNet, Inc. KeyServer®, KeyAccess®, and KeyVerify® are registered trademarks of Sassafras Software Inc. VMware® is a registered trademark of VMware, Inc. Some DNASTAR applications use the Eclipse platform, supplied by the Eclipse Foundation under an Eclipse Public License (EPL).

QSeq for Mac OS and Linux uses Mono runtime libraries which are licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.0 license. The source code for Mono can be found at www.mono-project.com/download.

RAxML (© 2006-2014, Alexandros Stamatakis; all rights reserved) is licensed under the GPL Version 3.0. Stamatakis A. (2014) “RAxML Version 8: A tool for Phylogenetic Analysis and Post-Analysis of Large Phylogenies.” Bioinformatics. 30 (9): 1312-1313.

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Bioconductor and the DESeq2 pipeline can be accessed via some RNA-Seq workflows in SeqMan NGen and ArrayStar. DESeq2 components should be cited as follows:

LFC shrinkage (‘apeglm’): Zhu, A., Ibrahim, J.G., Love, M.I. (2018) Heavy-tailed prior distributions for sequence count data: removing the noise and preserving large differences. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty895.

Enhanced volcano plots: Blighe, K, S Rana, and M Lewis. 2018. “EnhancedVolcano: Publication-ready volcano plots with enhanced colouring and labeling.” https://github.com/kevinblighe/EnhancedVolcano.

R: R Core Team (2023). “R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing.” R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. https://www.R-project.org/.

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pcaTools requires multiple citations:

Blighe, K, and A Lun. 2019. “PCAtools: everything Principal Components Analysis.” https://github.com/kevinblighe/PCAtools.

Buja, A, and N Eyuboglu. 1992. “Remarks on Parallel Analysis.”

Gabriel, KR. 1971. “The Biplot Graphic Display of Matrices with Application to Principal Component Analysis 1.” Biometrika 58 (3): 453–67. http://biomet.oxfordjournals.org/content/58/3/453.short.

Horn, JL. 1965. “A rationale and test for the number of factors in factor analysis.” Lun, A. 2019. “BiocSingular: Singular Value Decomposition for Bioconductor Packages.”

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NovaDock is a protein-protein interaction prediction software based on SwarmDock developed in Dr. Paul Bates’ laboratory at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, and ongoing at the Francis Crick Institute. It is provided under license from Cancer Research Technology Limited.

M. Torchala, I. H. Moal, R. A. G. Chaleil, J. Fernandez-Recio, P. A. Bates, ‘SwarmDock: a server for flexible protein-protein docking’, Bioinformatics 29, 807-809 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btt038

M. Torchala, I. H. Moal, R. A. G. Chaleil, R. Agius, P. A. Bates, ‘A Markov-chain model description of binding funnels to enhance the ranking of docked solutions’, Proteins 81, 2143-2149 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prot.24369

M. Torchala, P. A. Bates, ‘Predicting the Structure of Protein-Protein Complexes Using the SwarmDock Web Server’, in: Protein Structure Prediction 3rd Edition (Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 1137), Humana Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0366-5_13

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Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) is provided according to these License Terms for MSigDB released after April 2017:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License: These license terms apply to MSigDB versions v6.0 to v7.5.1, and v2022.1 and above. The contents of MSigDB are protected by copyright (c) 2004-2023 Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Regents of the University of California, subject to the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Some MSigDB gene sets are distributed with further restrictions. See below for details.

KEGG MEDICUS data in MSigDB – MSigDB gene sets derived from the freely available subset of KEGG MEDICUS are protected by copyright, (c) 2009- 2023 Kanehisa Laboratories, all rights reserved. They are provided for use in the MSigDB collection subject to the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License . The KEGG MEDICUS derived gene sets are in the MSigDB C2 collection, and can be recognized by the “KEGG_MEDICUS_” prefix in their name.

(Note: DNASTAR software does not include files with the KEGG prefix, but without “MEDICUS” in their names, including KEGG classic pathways.)

BioCarta data in MSigDB – MSigDB gene sets derived from BioCarta pathways are protected by copyright, (c) 2000-2017 BioCarta, all rights reserved. They are provided under license to the Broad Institute, Inc. with qualified permission to include in this release, subject to Biocarta’s “Disclaimer of Liability and of Warranties” (formerly found at www.biocarta.com). Inclusion of these gene sets is conditioned upon acknowledgment and retention of the aforementioned copyright, and agreement to such disclaimer. The BioCarta derived gene sets are in the MSigDB C2 and M2 collections, and can be recognized by the “BIOCARTA_” prefix in their name.

AAAS/STKE Cell Signaling Database data in MSigDB – These gene sets have been removed in MSigDB version v7.0 and above. MSigDB gene sets derived from the Database of Cell Signaling pathways are protected by copyright. They are provided for use in the MSigDB collection under license to the Broad Institute, Inc., with qualified permission to include in this release subject to the Terms of Service at http://stke.sciencemag.org/about/help/cm. Inclusion of these gene sets herein is conditioned upon acknowledgment and retention of the aforementioned copyright, and compliance with such policies. The Database of Cell Signaling derived gene sets are in the MSigDB C2 collection and can be recognized by the “ST_” prefix in their name.

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DNASTAR is licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; copyright © 2023 Megan Hastings Hagenauer) to provide the Mono class libraries utilized by QSeq, as well as brain-specific GMT files. The MIT License states:

“Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.”

Additional citations are as follows:

Brain GMT, which states: “This repository contains the public release of our curated brain-related functional gene set file (Brain.GMT) and associated code to accompany the publication: ‘Resource: A Curated Database of Brain-Related Functional Gene Sets (Brain.GMT)’ by Megan H. Hagenauer*, Yusra Sannah, Elaine K. Hebda-Bauer, Cosette Rhoads, Angela M. O’Connor, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., Huda Akil.”

clusterEX_cliques_Scerevisiae, which states: “The information presented here is based on the publication ‘Genome-wide analysis of yeast expression data based on a priori generated co-regulation cliques’ authored by Siyuan Sima, Lukas Schmauder and Klaus Richter in Microbial Cell (2019), Jan 22;6(3):160-176 as doi: 10.15698/mic2019.03.671.”

clusterEX_cliques_Celegans, which states: “The information presented here is based on the publication ‘hsp-90 and unc-45 depletion induce characteristic transcriptional signatures in coexpression cliques of C. elegans’ authored by Lukas Schmauder and Klaus Richter in Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 12852 (2021).”

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All other copyrights, trademarks, and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. DNASTAR, Inc. does not encourage the infringement of any patents owned by any other party.

5. Disclaimer & Liability

For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.

DNASTAR, Inc. makes no warranties, expressed or implied, including without limitation the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, regarding the software. DNASTAR does not warrant, guaranty, or make any representation regarding the use or the results of the use of the software in terms of correctness, accuracy, reliability, up-to-date status, or otherwise. The entire risk as to the results and performance of the software is assumed by you. The exclusion of implied warranties is not permitted by some states. The above exclusion may not apply to you.

In no event will DNASTAR, Inc. and their directors, officers, employees, or agents (collectively DNASTAR) be liable to the licensee of any DNASTAR software for any consequential, incidental or indirect damages (including damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information and the like) arising out of the use of, or the inability to use the software even if DNASTAR, Inc. has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Because some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitations may not apply to you.

DNASTAR, Inc. reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes to it from time to time without obligation of DNASTAR, Inc. to notify any person or organization of such revision or changes.

6. License & Access

Subject to your compliance with these Conditions of Use and your payment of any applicable fees, DNASTAR or its content providers grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and make personal and non-commercial use of the DNASTAR Services. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of any DNASTAR Service, or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of any DNASTAR Service or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. All rights not expressly granted to you in these Conditions of Use or any Service Terms are reserved and retained by DNASTAR or its licensors, suppliers, publishers, rightsholders, or other content providers. No DNASTAR Service, nor any part of any DNASTAR Service, may be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of DNASTAR. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of DNASTAR without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing DNASTAR’s name or trademarks without the express written consent of DNASTAR. You may not misuse the DNASTAR Services. You may use the DNASTAR Services only as permitted by law. The licenses granted by DNASTAR terminate if you do not comply with these Conditions of Use or any Service Terms.

7. Your Account

If you use any DNASTAR Service, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password.

8. Export Policy

You acknowledge that some goods licensed or sold on the DNASTAR Site are subject to the customs and export control laws and regulations of the United States of America and may also be subject to the customs and export laws and regulations of the country in which the products are manufactured and/or received and agree to comply with all applicable laws. By purchasing, downloading or using technology or software from the DNASTAR Site, you agree to abide by the applicable laws, rules and regulations and you agree, represent and warrant that no DNASTAR Materials will be accessed from, downloaded in, released in, carried to transferred to, transshipped through, exported to, or re-exported to any restricted territory (or national resident thereof), any person, entity or organization on the U.S. Treasury Department’s List of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Denied Persons List or Entity List, or otherwise in violation of law.

9. Order Acceptance and Billing

This section covers payments done through process of purchase orders and online payments that are processed through our e-commerce platform (SeqBuilderPro.com), over the phone, email, fax or post.

All sales are final. There are no refunds on any software licenses purchased from DNASTAR.

All billing information provided must be truthful and accurate. Providing any untruthful or inaccurate information constitutes a breach of this Agreement and may result in order cancellation. Prior to accepting an order we may also request additional information from you. We reserve the right to refuse or cancel an order for any reason including limitations on quantities available for purchase, inaccuracies, or errors in product or pricing information, or problems identified related to credit and fraud avoidance. We will contact you if all or any portion of your order is canceled or if additional information is required to accept your order. DNASTAR may request a pre-authorization for some orders placed online with a credit or debit card. This pre-authorization will not be billed to you; however, your card issuer may hold this amount for a short period. Your card issuer determines the length of time the pre-authorization is held. We do this to ensure that the card details are valid and that you have sufficient funds to complete the transaction.

To protect your privacy, we do not store your credit card information in our system after a transaction has been processed.

By confirming your purchase at the end of the checkout process, you agree to accept and pay for the item(s).

DNASTAR reserves the right to limit the quantity of items purchased per person, per organization or per order for any reason. These restrictions may apply to orders placed by the same account, the same credit card, and also to orders that use the same billing and/or shipping address. We will notify the customer should such limits be applied. DNASTAR also reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to prohibit sales to dealers or resellers. For purposes of this Agreement, reselling shall be defined as purchasing or intending to purchase any product(s) from DNASTAR for the purpose of engaging in a commercial sale of that same product(s) with a third party.

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You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless DNASTAR and its affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, costs, and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising from or related to your use of the DNASTAR websites or any breach by you of this Agreement.

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed under Wisconsin law without regard to conflicts of law provisions. Any action or proceeding arising out of or related to this Agreement or your use of the DNASTAR websites must be brought in the state or federal courts of Wisconsin and you consent to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of such courts.

We reserve the right to make changes to our websites, policies, Service Terms, and these Conditions of Use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining conditions.

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Use of the DNASTAR Software. You may use DNASTAR Software solely for purposes of enabling you to use and enjoy the DNASTAR Services as provided by DNASTAR, and as permitted by the Conditions of Use, these Software Terms and any Service Terms. You may not incorporate any portion of the DNASTAR Software into your own programs or compile any portion of it in combination with your own programs, transfer it for use with another service, or sell, rent, lease, lend, loan, distribute or sub-license the DNASTAR Software or otherwise assign any rights to the DNASTAR Software in whole or in part. You may not use the DNASTAR Software for any illegal purpose. We may cease providing any DNASTAR Software and we may terminate your right to use any DNASTAR Software at any time. Your rights to use the DNASTAR Software will automatically terminate without notice from us if you fail to comply with any of these Software Terms, the Conditions of Use or any other Service Terms. Additional third party terms contained within or distributed with certain DNASTAR Software that are specifically identified in related documentation may apply to that DNASTAR Software (or software incorporated with the DNASTAR Software) and will govern the use of such software in the event of a conflict with these Conditions of Use. All software used in any DNASTAR Service is the property of DNASTAR or its software suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws.

Perpetual Licenses. In the normal course of business, DNASTAR frequently grants the user of our software a perpetual license for the use of such software. A perpetual license is defined as the use of the license for the software version purchased, for an unlimited period of time on the computer on which it was originally installed. A perpetual license does not permit users to place DNASTAR’s software on more computers than were licensed for use in the initial purchase. DNASTAR is not under any obligation to provide users of the software with support or additional copies of the original version of software purchased for backup, upgrades to new computers, or for any other purpose. In addition, DNASTAR is under no obligation to update its software for new computer operating systems, hardware configurations or for any other reason after initial purchase of the license by the customer. Users may continue to use a particular software version after DNASTAR support has been discontinued as long as the use of such software is not in conflict with any more recent license agreement agreed upon by the customer and only on the number of computers originally covered in the purchase agreement with DNASTAR or one of its distributors or agents. The following services will not function without a current service plan: searches of NCBI BLAST and Entrez databases, EdgeR and DESeq2 normalization methods, the Genome Downloader, the Variant Annotation Database, and the Transcript Annotation Database.

Use of Third Party Services. When you use the DNASTAR Software, you may also be using the services of one or more third parties, such as a wireless carrier or a mobile platform provider. Your use of these third party services may be subject to the separate policies, terms of use, and fees of these third parties.

No Reverse Engineering. You may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble, or otherwise tamper with, the DNASTAR Software, whether in whole or in part, or create any derivative works from or of the DNASTAR Software.

Updates. In order to keep the DNASTAR Software up-to-date, we may offer automatic or manual updates at any time and without notice to you.

Government End Users. If you are a U.S. Government end user, we are licensing the DNASTAR Software to you as a “Commercial Item” as that term is defined in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (see 48 C.F.R. § 2.101), and the rights we grant you to the DNASTAR Software are the same as the rights we grant to all others under these Conditions of Use.

Commercial Services. If you use DNASTAR software as part of a service you or your organization provides to others for a fee, you are required to have a “Commercial Services” license provided by DNASTAR

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This Agreement is effective unless and until terminated by either you or DNASTAR. You may terminate this Agreement at any time, provided that you discontinue any further use of the DNASTAR Site. DNASTAR also may terminate this Agreement at any time and may do so immediately without notice, and accordingly deny you access to the DNASTAR Site, if in DNASTAR’s sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of this Agreement. Upon any termination of this Agreement by either you or DNASTAR, you must promptly destroy all materials downloaded or otherwise obtained from the DNASTAR Site, as well as all copies of such materials, whether made under this Agreement or otherwise.

12. General

This Agreement represents the complete agreement between the parties and supersedes all prior agreements and representations between them. Headings used in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and in no way define or limit the scope of the section. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable and the other terms of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. The failure of DNASTAR to act with respect to a breach of this Agreement by you or others does not constitute a waiver and shall not limit DNASTAR’s rights with respect to such breach or any subsequent breaches.

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By submitting Content, you warrant that (1) you are the sole author and owner of the Content; (2) you are at least 18 years old; and (3) use of any Content you supply will not violate any term of this Agreement and will not cause injury to any person or entity.

License Grant for Submitted Content

If you make any submission to a DNASTAR website, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such content has expressly granted DNASTAR, a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, unlimited, nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the communication or content material in any media or medium, or any form, format, or forum now known or hereafter developed. DNASTAR may sublicense its rights through multiple tiers of sublicenses. You should not submit any Content to us that you do not wish to license to us. DNASTAR is and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any Content in confidence; (2) to pay any compensation for any Content; or (3) to respond to any user Content. You grant DNASTAR the right to use the name that you submit in connection with any Content.

You represent and warrant that you will not submit the following Content:

Content that is false, inaccurate, or misleading;

Content that contains any confidential identifiable information of yourself or others;

Content that violates any local, state, federal, or international laws;

Content that infringes on the rights of others, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, publicity or privacy rights;

Content that is unlawful, obscene, derogatory, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity as determined by DNASTAR in its sole discretion;

Advertisements, solicitations or spam links to other web sites or individuals, without prior written permission from DNASTAR;

Chain letters or pyramid schemes;

Content that impersonates another business, person or entity, including DNASTAR, its related entities, employees and agents;

Content that contains viruses or other harmful computer code;

Content that victimizes, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age or disability;

Content for which you were compensated or granted any compensation by any third party unless otherwise authorized by DNASTAR in writing; or

Content that violates any policy posted on the DNASTAR Site, or interferes with the use of the DNASTAR Site by others.

Although DNASTAR cannot monitor all Content, you understand that DNASTAR shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the Content of the DNASTAR Site to determine compliance with this Agreement and any other operating rules that may be established by DNASTAR from time to time. DNASTAR shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to edit, move, delete, or refuse to post any Content submitted to or posted on a DNASTAR Site for any reason, including violation of this Agreement, whether for legal or other reasons. You are solely responsible for any Content you submit and you agree to indemnify DNASTAR and its affiliates for all claims resulting from any Content you submit.

14. Information Submitted on a DNASTAR Site

DNASTAR and our customers post a variety of material on the DNASTAR websites including without limitation, merchandise information, product descriptions, reviews, comments, and similar information (collectively, “Materials”). The Materials that appear on the DNASTAR websites are for educational and informational purposes only. Despite our efforts to provide useful and accurate information, errors may appear from time to time. Before you act on information you have found on the DNASTAR websites, you should confirm any facts that are important to your decision. DNASTAR and its information providers make no warranty as to the reliability, accuracy, timeliness, usefulness, or completeness of the information on the DNASTAR websites. DNASTAR is not responsible for, and cannot guarantee the performance of, goods and services provided by others to whose sites we link. Product information contained on the DNASTAR Site may be different from information contained on the product materials due to manufacturer changes.

DNASTAR, ITS AFFILIATES, AND AGENTS ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY CONSEQUENCE RELATING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO ANY ACTION OR INACTION YOU TAKE BASED ON THE MATERIALS LOCATED ON THE DNASTAR SITE.

15. Copyright Complaints

DNASTAR respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please contact DNASTAR to the attention of General Manager at our corporate address, 1202 Ann Street, Madison, WI 53713. DNASTAR is not responsible or liable for User generated content.

16. Financial Conflict of Interest Policy

DNASTAR promotes objectivity in research by establishing standards that provide a reasonable expectation that the design, conduct, and reporting of research funded under Public Health Service (PHS) grants or cooperative agreements will be free from bias resulting from Investigator financial conflicts of interest. Read our full Financial Conflict of Interest Policy.

Last updated on September 30, 2024.