budi@GEN1.GENETIK.UNI-KOELN.DE (04/10/91)
Thanks for all the requests for my VAX-program for shading/coloring of multiple-aligned protein sequence display. I have now extended the program for use with CLUSTAL output and fixed some minor bugs. The program is now availabel from the fileserver at EMBL. Send a request containing the line GET VAX_SOFTWARE:BOXSHADE.UUE to netserv@embl-heidelberg.de Here is a short account on what the program does (and what is does not): -the program does no multiple alignment by itself, you have to use CLUSTAL or align manually by LINEUP. -the program takes CLUSTAL output files or LINEUP print files, written in PRETTY-format. -the program asks for some options on how to do shading, coloring, inverting, upcasing and so on -the program does a conversion into either SIXEL-format for printing with the DEC color-printer LJ250 or into UIS-metafile format. The UIS-format can be used by RENDER (part of VMS/VWS) for further conversion into a multitude of formats including POSTSCIPT. If you have further questions, contact me : Kay Hofmann Institut fuer Biochemie (med.Fak.) Universitaet Koeln Joseph Stelzmann Str. 52 D-5000 Koeln Internet: BUDI@gen1.genetik.uni-koeln.DE