Biojava contains a class to parse abi trace files: http://www.biojava.org/docs/api14/org/biojava/bio/program/abi/ABITrace.html
So you might be interested to know that a new command line utility has been released http://abi2xml.sourceforge.net that converts abi trace files to xml files. This bioinformatics utility is written in C++ and released under the GPL license. A java programmer could first convert the abi files to xml files and then access the information over a DOM interface or over XPATH. Probably that java programmer has nothing to gain doing this compared to using the ABITrace class, but I thought it was worth mentioning the possibility. cheers, Erik Sjölund _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - Biojava-l@biojava.org http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l