|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
HUM-MOLGEN -> mail archive | Search | register for news alert (free) | |||||||||||||||
Jurg Ott: COMP: request for software | ||||||||||||||||
[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Topic Index] |
||||||||||||||||
To: Multiple recipients of list HUM-MOLGEN <HUM-MOLGEN@NIC.SURFNET.NL> Subject: COMP: request for software From: Jurg Ott <ott@linkage.cpmc.columbia.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:49:52 -0500 From: Ian MacLachlan <ianmac@MMG2.IM.MED.UMICH.EDU> Regarding the topic of sequence analysis software: > From: Jeff Farrow(Www) <Fencerex@AOL.COM> > Let me put in a word for DNASTAR; it is a very good program and comes in Mac > and windows versions. I would have to disagree with the above statement. In my experience DNASTAR on the Mac is a clumsy package. It consists of several modules which run as separate programs, the modules do not really integrate very well. If you are working in one folder with the sequence editing module and open the mapping module the mapping module will open in a completely different folder requiring you to navigate back to the one you were working in. There are frequent updates in the software...if you are running on a network you had better have a patient sys-admin because he/she will be busy. In my experience some of the modules work poorly...the sequence contig module, for example, does not work at all on our systems at the moment. Notwithstanding the above statements DNASTAR is a huge improvement over GCG in terms of the user interface and overall friendly-ness. I would recommend Intelligenetics "Geneworks" package. This package is very stable, very complete and was written by people who have been in the business of writing this type of software for years. I have never had a problem with Geneworks. In my present workplace I am forced to use DNASTAR .... Oh how I long for the good old days..... All of the above statements are only my humble opinions of course. I hope that I have not offended anyone, in particular DNASTAR. Ian MacLachlan Ph.D.
|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
Mail converted by |