SeqPup, version 0.4 development release, July 1995
SeqPup is a biological sequence editor and analysis program usable on
the common computer systems including Macintosh, MS-Windows and X-
Windows. It includes links to network services and external analysis
programs.
Features include
multiple sequence alignment editor
single sequence editor
read and write several sequence file formats
easy hand alignment features including colored bases and sliding
automatic multiple sequence alignment thru ClustalW app
automatic gel fragment alignment to contigs thru CAP app
consensus, reverse, complement, degap operations
restriction maps
translate dna to/from protein using various codon tables
find strings and ORFs
automatic preference saving
internet send mail
internet sequence analysis services by email
user-definable links to external analysis programs
NOTICE: This release is still unfinish, and has bugs. Please careful of
trusting important work to it. Yet it may be useful to some of you as
is.
SeqPup is being written by Don Gilbert using DCLAP, a free, portable C++
class application framework, and founded on the NCBI Toolkit, especially
it's Vibrant user-interface section written primarily by Jonathan Kans.
SeqApp/SeqPup was started in 1990 as sequence editor/analysis platform
on which analysis programs from other authors could be easily
incorporated into a useable interface.
You can obtain this release thru anonymous ftp, gopher or http to
iubio.bio.indiana.edu, in folder /molbio/seqpup. Versions are available
for Macintosh, MS Windows, and these Unix/XWindows systems: Sun, SGI, DEC.
The Internet locators to this software are
Source code for this software is at
.
Comments, bug reports and suggestions for new features are
very welcome and should be sent via e-mail to
.
July 95: Version 0.4 of SeqPup. This release includes most of the
features of its parent, SeqApp, as well as new features and corrections.
Alignment window: shift & slide sequences, copy/cut/paste/undo sequence
entries among windows; Restriction maps and pretty print output; useable
child apps for mac, mswin, and unix. It still contains bugs that cause
the application to fail.