gilbertd@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) (06/28/89)
Dotty Plotter for Apple Macintosh computers version 1.0 Dotty Plotter is a tool for drawing dot matrix comparisons of sequences in molecular biology. Dot plots are used to view all areas of homology between two nucleic acid or protein sequences. Dot plots are useful for determining if there are one or more segments of similarity between sequences. This first release of Dotty Plot contains a minimum of features. I hope to improve Dotty Plotter's sequence size and memory limits, and add features. Speed of Dotty Plotter. Times for 2000 x 2000 sequence comparison (Blue.Seq x BlueKsm.seq) with a 15:25 stringency:window, results in 2407 dots plotted. Mac SE/30 40.seconds Mac II 53.seconds Mac SE 230.seconds microVax II 229.seconds (GCG Compare program) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This program may be obtained from the net.bio.net archives by anonymous ftp. It is currently in the /receive directory as "dottyplot.hqx". You will need BinHex 4.0 software to convert the .hqx to the self-extracting archive. Alternately, you may ask me for a bitnet/internet mailing of dottyplot.hqx (180 kbytes), or snail-mail me a formatted 3.5" disk. Don Gilbert BioComputing Office Biology Dept., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 Bitnet: GilbertD @ IUBACS Internet: GilbertD @ Gold.Bacs.Indiana.Edu