A few days ago, I posted a note describing a bug I had encountered
when running Sequence Analysis V3.3 (DNASEQ) on a new Mac G4 system.
Inna Letuchy of PE contacted me to figure out what's wrong, and
found a work-around that allows us to use the G4's until a patch is
developed.
Symptoms: Auto-Tracking a gel file proceeds normally to completion,
then the system locks up, requiring a full reboot.
Affected systems: This may only affect certain late-model G4 systems
with the "sawtooth" motherboard (450 MHz machines). It is not
clear whether other G4's are affected.
Cause: bug in the V3.3 Tracker (SAGelTracker). You can retrack it
manually, you can extract a tracked gel, and you can analyze the
chromatogram files with no problem. Just don't auto-track.
Temporary fix: remove the V3.3 tracker and replace it with the one
from the 3.2 version.
Permanent fix: hopefully forthcoming from Apple. :)
Thanks, Inna!
I just heard that the new V3.4 is out on PE's web site. I have not
tried it yet, and I don't know if it is similarly affected by the bug.
Happy New Year, all!
Bob Lyons
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Robert Lyons, Ph.D.
Director, DNA Sequencing Core
University of Michigan
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