Hi, the development version of ACT can now handle 3 or more sequences in parallel. Here is a screenshot of the new version: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/ACT/Examples/gfx/four_way.gif It shows the complete genome of Yersinia pestis (top) versus Esherichia coli versus Salmonella typhi versus Salmonella typhimurium (bottom). On UNIX and GNU/Linux the order of the command line arguments has changed to cope with multiple sequences. Examples: Loading two sequences and a comparison should now be done like this: act seq1 seq2_v_seq1_comparison seq2 Three sequences and two comparisons: act seq1 seq2_v_seq1_comparison seq2 seq3_v_seq2_comparison seq3 etc. As usual the development version is available for UNIX and GNU/Linux: ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/pathogens/software/act/builds/act_compiled_latest.tar.gz and for Windows: ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/pathogens/software/act/builds/act_compiled_latest.jar The user manual hasn't been updated (yet), the Mac version isn't available (yet) and although there is now a Run menu in the UNIX version of ACT, it doesn't actually work (yet). These are in progress. Kim.
