bioinformatics

I am currently trying out several graphical front ends for the molecular software package EMBOSS and I have read good reviews of kaptain. However, because there are no rpm packages of kaptain for Suse Linux 9 available, I tried to compile it myself. First problem was that the configure script couldn't find the libraries and headers for qt3:

> checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!

Thus I executed ./configure with the option:

I want to store all sequence traces of a sequencing project (using Staden) in one file. You can do that if you simply tar all the *.ztr files: tar -cvf ./test.tar *.ztr Then you have to specify in gap4 Options -> Configure menus -> Expert And then you need to specify Options -> Trace file location -> TAR=./test.tar

I am trying to use EMBOSS for the assembly of vector sequences. Long time ago, I used the CGC seqed program for this purpose and at the moment I use the Gene Construction Kit. EMBOSS doesn't have a straight equivalent for seqed and one has to use a bunch of other tools to replace its functionality. Look at this comparison between CGC and EMBOSS.