wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) (04/02/89)
In article <349@rob.UUCP> elliston@rob.UUCP ( Keith Elliston) writes:
]I have seen a lot of software for the PC and some for the Mac, but is there any
]archive of sequence analysis software (PD or similar) for Vaxen and Unix
]machines (SUN's)??? It seems to me that much of the sequence analysis done by
]molecular biology computing folks is done on machines a little more powerful
]than the Mac's and PC that seem to have all the software. I would really
]like to see someone start and archive of PD sequence analysis software for
]Vaxen and Unix.
]
Although there is little "public-domain" software, there is software
available for little or no cost. You can get the FASTA package of programs,
which includes programs for library searches, sequence alignment, etc.
by anonymous ftp from uvaarpa.virginia.EDU, or you can write me for a VAX/VMS
tape. The software available via anonymous ftp works on any unix machine,
as well as VAX/VMS machines, IBM-PC's, and Macintoshes.
For other sequence analysis tasks, (finding restriction sites, doing
translations, etc), we use the DM package from David Mount, Dept. of Molecular
and Cell Biology, U. of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ. Although he normally distributes
a compiled version of his program for PC's, I believe that source code for
Unix machines is available.
Bill Pearson
wrp@virginia.EDU, .BITNET, .UUCP