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"SnapGene provides the easiest and most secure way to plan, visualize, and document your everyday molecular biology procedures." - GSL Biotech

Snapgene

Website: https://www.snapgene.com/

Available for Windows, macOS & Linux.

Please note:

The current subscription will expire on 30 October 2024.

The cost of an annual subscription for the year 2023-24 is £110 per named activation.

If you are in the following departments or your computer is managed by their IT team, please contact the local IT team:

Department Contact
Centre for Medicines Discovery ithelp@cmd.ox.ac.uk
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology it-support@kennedy.ox.ac.uk
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine help@imm.ox.ac.uk
Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics (including STRUBI) ithelp@well.ox.ac.uk

For others, you can request new subscriptions for the year 2023-24 via this on-line form.

Please do not raise a PO until you have received a Service desk reference number after submitting a renewal request form above.

Please see our guide for identifying MSD IT as a supplier in R12

Activations are per computer, so you must purchase a separate activation for each computer you want to run it on. If more than one person uses a computer, each person will need to register to use SnapGene, but it will count as a single activation.

If you are a member of departmental IT Staff and would like to manage your own pool of activations and the registered computers, please email ithelp@medsci.ox.ac.uk for further information. 

Updating an existing subscription

If you have received a new license code and are getting a pop-up like this:

Text box of SnapGene license update

Click on the blue word 'here' to be able to enter the new registration code::

text box to fill in

Enter the Group Name and the new Registration code you have been sent, then click on the 'Register' button.

HELP

SnapGene provide on-line Help.