Primer 7 trial software

A trial version of PRIMER 7 is freely available, which is downloadable from the PRIMER-e web site (www.primer-e.com), and can be run without an installation key. Whilst it is a full working implementation of all analysis routines and graphics, and permits a user’s own data to be input from Excel or text files and analysed, it is only intended to be trial software so there are a few key limitations – all printing, copying to the clipboard and saving of data and workspaces is disabled. In addition, plots are watermarked so presentation-standard output is unobtainable from screen grabs. The trial version has a 30+ day expiry date, with an additional grace period, but will then cease to operate – reinstallation of the trial version on the same machine is not possible.

A valid installation key can be purchased at any time from PRIMER-e and inputting that to the Install routine when on-line (see below) will remove all such printing and saving restrictions and watermarks, and any updates and download of the PDF files of the manuals will then take place. The trial software includes both PRIMER and PERMANOVA+ but, if only a key for PRIMER is purchased, PERMANOVA+ routines are not enabled and their menu will no longer appear. If a single-user PERMANOVA+ licence, for use with PRIMER 6, is registered to you then no further purchase of PERMANOVA+ is needed – it operates in essentially the same way with PRIMER 7 as it did with PRIMER 6, and you will be given a single installation key enabling both products.