Plant Genome I Conference
Town & Country Conference Center, San Diego, CA, November, 1992.
PG-I: EDITBASE: A "WORD PROCESSOR" FOR BIOSEQUENCES
EDITBASE: A "WORD PROCESSOR" FOR BIOSEQUENCES.
Philip Hess and Niels Nielsen, USDA Agricultural Research Service
and Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN
47907.
EditBase is a computer program developed for editing,
annotating, and analyzing nucleotide and amino acid sequences.
It is intended for use with the soybean genome database.
EditBase is implemented as an MS-DOS program which features a
Common User Access (CUA) user interface for program operation,
with pull-down menus, dialog boxes, mouse support, and
context-sensitive help. Supported keyboard personalities include
CUA, CUA with WordStar extensions, and Macintosh. Sequences are
edited in multiple, overlapping windows which can be scrolled,
moved, and resized. With nucleotide sequences, sequences are
displayed in groups of three or ten bases, and on-screen amino
acid translation using one- or three-letter abbreviations can be
turned on. Selected regions can be highlighted with color,
marked as non-coding, complemented, reversed, inverted, or cut,
copied and pasted between edit windows via the clipboard. Edit
undo and sequence confirmation are also provided. Annotation is
entered as comments, keywords, references, and so on. EditBase
provides analytic tools such as restriction site mapping and
cloning simulation. EditBase imports sequence files stored in
GenBank, EMBL and UWGCG format. EditBase requires an IBM PC or
compatible with at least 512K memory, a hard disk, and DOS 2.0 or
higher.
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