WebtoolsDownload ForConDownload ForCon 1.0 - Online manual Author: Jeroen Raes | Contact: Yves van de Peer General InformationForCon is a user-friendly software tool for the conversion of nucleic acid and amino acid sequence alignments. Many software packages for sequence alignment and the construction of evolutionary trees have implemented their own standard of saving and reading sequence alignments. To circumvent the labourious work of manually converting alignment formats with the use of a word processor, this program was written: it converts these formats automatically. ForCon is able to convert in both ways, i.e. reading and writing the following formats (or formats used by the following software packages):
A format for the publication of alignments can also be generated ("pretty"). Sequential and interleaved formats are both implemented in ForCon. A selection of sequences or sequence positions can be made. ForCon is also included in the software package TREECON. Version InfoThis is the very first version, so all sorts of things can ( and will, probably ) go wrong. If you have any problems ( regarding the ForCon program, of course ... I'm a biochemist, not a marriage consultant ), you can always mail me. Please check the on-line help first ! Known bugs :
* "This program has made an illegal operation and will be shut down" System RequirementsIBM compatible PC with
ForCon takes up about 1.5Mb of your hard disk space. The speed of the program depends on your computer, available RAM and the size of your sequence file. Cting ForCon for WindowsPlease use the following citation: Raes, J. and Van de Peer,Y. (1999) ForCon : a
software tool for the conversion of sequence alignments. EMBnet.news 6(1).
Distributed for free at: http://vulcan.rug.ac.be/~jerae/ForCon/index.html.
Reprints are highly appreciated ! address: Jeroen Raes
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