Hi Ryan The request is now logged which means that we'll certainly take a look at doing something for the next release. If your users have specific requirements or specification for such a program, if you forward them, they could be incorporated into any eventual design.
Cheers Jon > We met with a group of our users and and there are quite a few who use > MapPlot from GCG to draw plasmids with restriction sites. Migrating > from GCG to EMBOSS means we have to provide them with alternatives to > whatever tools they used in GCG. > > Someone else recommended TACG (http://tacg.sourceforge.net/). We'd like > our users to use the web front-end (EMBOSS-Explorer by Luke McCarthy), > which means any tools must be part of EMBOSS or MYEMBOSS to be used by > EMBOSS-Explorer. If modifying cirdna is not possible, what about > incorporating TACG as a MYEMBOSS application? > > Ryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 4:28 AM > To: emboss@emboss.open-bio.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [EMBOSS] cirdna > > > JOn Ison wrote: > >> So far as I'm aware there are no apps to generate a cirdna input file, > >> at least not directly. >> >> I don't think there are tools in EMBOSS to do that conversion for you >> at the moment. restrict can generate output as a report format >> but cirdna can't currently read a report format. That could change >> though. If you let us know exactly what you need we can do something >> for a future release. > > A word of caution ... I tried exactly this for cirdna and lindna a few > years ago (writing their input format as a new report format). > > Unfortunately, the font sizes and layout in cirdna and lindna did not > work in many cases - for large or small sequences there was no good > standard input format that produced readable output. Every case needed > to be edited. > > So, we have to also make major changes to cirdna and lindna to support > this. > > Still, if there is enough demands from our users we can do it .... > > regards, > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > EMBOSS mailing list > EMBOSS@emboss.open-bio.org > http://newportal.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss > _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list EMBOSS@emboss.open-bio.org http://newportal.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
