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. 1986 Jan 10;14(1):479–488. doi: 10.1093/nar/14.1.479

A convenient and adaptable microcomputer environment for DNA and protein sequence manipulation and analysis.

J Pustell, F C Kafatos
PMCID: PMC339432  PMID: 3753784

Abstract

We describe the further development of a widely used package of DNA and protein sequence analysis programs for microcomputers (1,2,3). The package now provides a screen oriented user interface, and an enhanced working environment with powerful formatting, disk access, and memory management tools. The new GenBank floppy disk database is supported transparently to the user and a similar version of the NBRF protein database is provided. The programs can use sequence file annotation to automatically annotate printouts and translate or extract specified regions from sequences by name. The sequence comparison programs can now perform a 5000 X 5000 bp analysis in 12 minutes on an IBM PC. A program to locate potential protein coding regions in nucleic acids, a digitizer interface, and other additions are also described.

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