AARHUS, Denmark–Today, CLC bio launched a campaign offering a substantial discount of 90% to academic researchers who wish to exchange their existing sequence analysis software for CLC Main Workbench. Academic researchers who want to upgrade their existing sequence analysis software for the time-limited discounted price of USD $99 for a permanent license – the normal price is $985 – for CLC Main Workbench, can access this special offer from today and throughout the remainder of 2011 via www.upgradetoclc.com

“Academic institutions all over the world are experiencing budget cuts and freezes due to the global economic crisis. As we owe a big part of our success to the support from the academic community, we have decided it’s time to give back to the academic community.” states Director of Communications at CLC bio, Lasse Görlitz, and continues, ”We’re doing this by launching a campaign with a substantial 90% discount for researchers who would like to upgrade their outdated or rudimentary sequence analysis software to CLC Main Workbench. And if you buy one of these licenses you’ll own it forever!”The functionalities of CLC Main Workbench are used by tens of thousands of researchers all over the world for DNA, RNA, and protein sequence data analysis, like gene expression analysis, primer design, molecular cloning, phylogenetic analyses, and sequence data management, amongst a wide variety of other features.

The campaign will run from November 10 until December 31, 2011, and is valid for all academic researchers who would like to upgrade from their existing sequence analysis software to CLC Main Workbench. Furthermore, existing CLC bio customers who would like additional copies of CLC Main Workbench, are also welcome to purchase more licenses via www.upgradetoclc.com