Abstract
The alignment of homologous sequences with each other and their display has proved a difficult task, despite a frequent requirement for this process. HOMED enables related sequences to be edited and listed in parallel with each other. The editor function uses a full screen editor which emulates the text editors KED and EDT (on PDP-11 and VAX-11 respectively) and which can be adapted to emulate other text editors. This emulation has been adopted to simplify user learning of editing functions. HOMED provides functions for listing the sequences in a variety of formats and for generating a consensus sequence as well as providing a series of tools for maintenance of the sequence database. HOMED has been implemented in Pascal in a modular fashion to enhance portability.
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Computer scienceSoftware portabilityPascal (unit)EmulationModular designSequence (biology)Task (project management)Listing (finance)Programming languageWorld Wide WebBiologyEngineeringGenetics
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Peter A. Stockwell,
George B. Petersen
(1987).
HOMED: a homologous sequence editor.
Computer applications in the biosciences
, 3
(1)
, 37-43.
https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/3.1.37
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- 10.1093/bioinformatics/3.1.37