The Sanger Institute is pleased to announce the availability of release 5 of Artemis.
Artemis is a free DNA sequence viewer and annotation tool which is capable of reading and writing complete EMBL and Genbank entries. The updated user manual and the release itself are available from the v5 web pages: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/v5/ There have been many bug fixes and improvements since the last release 2 years ago. The full list of changes is here: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/v5/#changes More information about Artemis is available from the main Artemis web page: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/ Artemis is written in Java, and is available for UNIX, GNU/Linux, Macintosh (MacOS version 9 or version 10) or MS Windows systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Description =========== Artemis is a free DNA sequence viewer and annotation tool that allows visualisation of sequence features and the results of analyses within the context of the sequence, and its six-frame translation. It can read complete EMBL and GENBANK database entries or sequence in FASTA or raw format. Extra sequence features can be in EMBL, GENBANK or GFF format. Artemis distribution ==================== Artemis is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, hence it is available for free for use by any one for any purpose. Further information =================== More information about Artemis is available at our web site: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/ It contains documentation, screenshots, download and installation instructions. Mailing list ============ We welcome contributions to Artemis and suggestions for new features. An email discussion list has been set up for this purpose. To join, send a message to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'subscribe artemis' in the body (not the subject). Announcements are also sent to this list. Acknowledgements ================ The development of Artemis is funded by the Wellcome Trust's Beowulf Genomics initiative, through its support of the Pathogen Sequencing Unit.
