When you buy an annual or perpetual license for any of Mnova’s plugins, you are entitled to one year of minor and major updates as well as free technical support (throughout the one year period from date of purchase).

If you’re not sure when your annual or your perpetual license’s Update&Support package will expire, you can actually find this information within the application: simply run Mnova and go to ‘Help/License Manager’.

Let’s see an example of a perpetual license:

In this particular case, the Update&Support package for the NMR plugin has expired, meaning that I won’t be able to install any updates which have been released by up to 30 days ago (see the column ‘Update Days= -30′ in red). However I will be able to use the last version I updated to because my license is perpetual (never expires).

To find out all of Mnova’s release dates, please take a look at this link at the download page.

Alternatively, you can take a look at our summarized list of releases below (click here to see what features you are missing if you are running an old version of Mnova):

• Mnova 6.1.1 – Apr 13th, 2010
• Mnova 6.1.0 – Mar 22nd, 2010
• Mnova 6.0.4 – Jan 20th, 2010
• Mnova 6.0.3 – November 17th, 2009
• Mnova 6.0.2 – October 9th. 2009
• Mnova 6.0.1 – September 15th, 2009
• Mnova 6.0.0 – September 15th, 2009
• Mnova 5.3.3 – August 31st, 2009
• Mnova 5.3.2 – June 4th, 2009
• Mnova 5.3.1 – April 3rd,  2009
• Mnova 5.3.0 – December 23rd, 2008
• Mnova 5.2.5 – October 7th, 2008
• Mnova 5.2.4 – August 7th, 2008
• Mnova 5.2.3 – June 20th, 2008
• Mnova 5.2.2 – May 15th, 2008
• Mnova 5.2.1 – April 3rd, 2008
• Mnova 5.2.0 – February 29th, 2008
• Mnova 5.1.0 – November 10th, 2007
• Mnova 5.0.3 – July 27th, 2007

After the one year period from the original purchase, Update&Support packages can be purchased at 20% of the current cost of the equivalent licence. These will include all minor and major updates throughout the one year period after purchase and free technical support for one year. Please note that the prices quoted are net of all taxes. All taxes due in the country where the customer is based are the sole responsibility of the customer.

If you are interested in the renewal of your Update&Support package just visit our webstore or email us at sales@mestrelab.com

Of course, normally the Updates&Support package for an annual license will expire on the same day as the license, and the software will stop working unless you buy a new license.

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So, I have been threatening a blog about SMASH for a while, and it is time I finally deliver on that (I think it was Moliere, but don’t quote me as I am not sure, who wrote: ‘All men are equal in their promises, it is their deeds that make them different’).

SMASH (Small Molecules Are Still Hot – more on this conference here) was held for the second time (first time was 2007) at Chamonix, France, a fantastic location at the foot of Mont Blanc. I am going to focus on what we did there, so for more information about the conference, visit the SMASH web page or read Stan’s post about SMASH on his blog entry of 4th October.

Mestrelab and Modgraph shared a User Meeting and a stand during the conference, and we were strongly represented there, with 9 people in total. The User Meeting was well attended, with about 40 people making an appearance (although not all braved the whole program ;-). We took the opportunity, both there and during the conference at the stand, to present many of the new goodies in our software, as well as to discuss some of our plans for the immediate future. These were some of the topics which proved most attractive/interesting to attendees, both from industry and academia:

• Our newly released MS plugin for Mnova – many people bought into the idea of being able to handle both NMR and LC/GC/MS in the same platform. I will not expand, as I have written quite a bit on this already in previous posts.
• The new functionalities in Mnova NMR, particularly the Data Analysis module, with its applications for Reaction Monitoring (more on that another day), DOSY, relaxation, etc.; GSD, and its many applications for qNMR and spectral analysis; the new Line Fitting module; and many others. You can go here to find out more or read some of the articles in Carlos’s blog.
• Our plans for a spectral DataBase (more on that later)
• Our plans for an Automatic Structure Verification module (again, I will post on that later, it is still a bit premature, but watch this space, as they say!)
• The significant improvements in NMR prediction announced by Modgraph, which are incorporated in their NMRPredict and our NMRPredict Desktop products.

So, a big thank you goes to all those who spent time with us during the conference, either at the User Meeting or at the stand. We do appreciate the continuous support.

Chamonix, what a place!

Of course, if you did not, that is understandable, with all the attractions of such a fantastic location luring you away from the conference venue. How could we compete with Aiguille du Midi, Mer de Glace, etc.? If you have never been to Chamonix, make sure you make it there. Maybe for SMASH 2011?

The photographs in the article fail to show how spectacular this place is (not helped by some of them having Pablo or myself spoiling them!). What you can see behind Pablo is indeed the Mont Blanc (at 4,810m, the top of the traditional Europe – I am qualifying it because I don’t want to get into new geography discussions about whether the Caucasus is in Europe or not, it is already quite a while since I went to school and you cannot teach an old dog new tricks!) taken from Aiguille du Midi (3,842m easily reached by cable car, don’t think this kid climbed up there! – of course, I did climb on foot to where my photo was taken, in Chamonix town centre BTW, it is well worth it looking at the exhibition of how this place was built, wonder what the Health and Safety executive would have made about that). The landscape shows a view of the Alps from the Aiguille, with the highest in the photo being, I believe, Monte Rosa, the second highest peak in the Alps at 4,634 m. If you don’t know why it is called Monte Rosa, you should look at it from Milano on a winter morning!

Can I try the new functionality or find out more about your plans or get the User Meeting presentations?

Of course you can! Contact us with any questions you have, get the User Meeting presentations here, or download Mnova NMR and MS here.

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I know I still owe you a report on SMASH, and I am really late with that. I hope I can post it before the next edition of the Conference!

The Mestrelab 5-a-side football team

But, as sports lovers that we are, first things first! I already wrote about my running exploits on the post about the ACS Fall. Today, it is the turn of 5-a-side football (or indoor soccer I guess over The Pond) and the team sponsored by Mestrelab, who have started strongly in the provincial 2nd Division League (this sounds like a lowly league, but Spain is huge on 5-a-side, and there are actually 5 leagues below it, as well as 3 leagues above it, just in case you care). Anyway, this is of course not the level of sponsorship you may get from companies like Staples or Vodafone, but the team has started the season well, and they are 4th in the League with 7 points after 4 games (2 wins, a draw and a loss). So I figured this is a good time to post, just after an away win, in case form drops. I will update in a few weeks, unless things take a real turn for the worse. Go Mestrelab!

Win a T-shirt

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We are celebrating at Mestrelab these days, and not only because our 5th anniversary is approaching (more on that on a later post), but also because we have exceeded a milestone we are very proud of: we now have more than 50 academic institutions with perpetual campus licenses for Mnova NMR!

Amongst them, there are many very prestigious names, including, but not comprehensively, as I am only mentioning some of those who have given permission to be mentioned on our web communications:

• Yale University
• Caltech
• University of Rhode Island
• Princeton University
• The Scripps Research Institute
• ETH Zurich
• University of Ulm
• Munchen TU
• University of Munster
• Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT
• Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
• Simon Fraser University
  University of Colorado at Boulder
• University of Barcelona
• Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
• CSIC
• CNRS
• …

So why have these guys decided to go with a campus license of Mnova? I think there are several very obvious and very compelling reasons. I could expand on that and add more, but I want to keep this short and simple:

1. This allows them to give all their faculty, researchers and students access to the same platform to process, visualize and report NMR and LC/GC/MS data, independently of the NMR/MS equipment they are working with (with some exceptions in the case of MS, contact us to find out more)
2. They can accommodate Windows (including Windows 7 ), Mac OS and Linux users with one single software application (this is for the NMR and NMRPredict Desktop plugins at present)
3. The licensing is extremely flexible and allows users to work at remote locations even when not connected to the institution’s network (read more about licensing here), so this is great for processing and visualizing data whilst at conferences, working from home, writing up a PhD on a mountain retreat,…
4. Perpetual campus licenses are excellent value for money with a very low cost per head (you can find out more about pricing at our Store ). Just for example, for a University with 300 users, the PERPETUAL license for the NMR plugin works out at around €42 per user, and that is without considering the fact that new users in future will also be able to use the software, so in the long run the institution is looking at €10/€20 per user.

Of course, if any of you reading this are at an institution with a campus license, it would be great to see a comment about your main reasons to buy it, you know better than me!

Free 120 day Campus Trial

What do you do if your institution does not have a campus license yet? The good news is that you now have a great opportunity to try this out and see how it may work for you. We are giving away 120 day campus license installations for all Mnova plugins, to allow institutions to give ALL their users full access to our software for a limited time period and thus evaluate the level of interest in their community and the usefulness of the software in their working day. If you would like to take advantage of this opportunity, all you have to do is Contact Us mentioning BLOG-CAMPUS LICENSE in the subject. We will give you all the instructions and get your institution set up with its campus license in no time! Just imagine all those happy users processing

And just one more thing before I go for today: if you finally decide to get a campus (or other) license for your institution, do not forget that you can donate, at no cost, a similar license to an institution in less developed countries, within our NMR For All program.

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