However, this program also has a second use. If you are a university or school student, you can use this program to capture the amount of time you spend on revision and personal study. As a tutor of university students, my advice to all those I have tutored is keep a formal record of the number of hours you spend revising before your exams. This is important because it helps you to understand the amount of time you need to spend revising to obtain whatever mark you want to obtain for your degree or other study course.

This program automates the whole process. With one simple click the program will send the appropriate message to your company’s front desk, puts the date and time of the meeting with your visitor in your Outlook calendar and finally, sends the appropriate instruction email to your visitor saving you a great deal of hassle.

To help me work up various cloning strategies, I wrote a useful Word addin that allows you to open DNA sequence files and do basic molecular biology manipulations. The program even allows you to do a virtual cloning experiment including checking for the conservation of reading frame.