Hi Bernd,
as mentioned earlier, it's a good idea to use
the 'vtrace' program to create PostScript-Files
from ABI traces in a batch.
It's the easiest way to convert ABI's format
to something more 'popular'.
Vtrace has been written by Phil Green and Brent
Ewing; it seems that this program has vanished
from the public www ... ;-)
>From PostScript to PDF is it just a short way; using
'ghostscript' seems to be the easiest way.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
Here we are : ABI->PS->PDF , on a Unix(Linux)platform.
I think 'trev' from the Staden Package is also capable
of producing PostScript-Output; let's have a look at
http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/pubseq/ftp/www_pages/staden_home.html
If you're familiar with programming e.g. in Perl it
might be interesting having a look at
http://search.cpan.org/author/MALAY/ABI-0.01/ABI.pm
and/or the bioperl project page (www.bioperl.org).
You could assemble your own "trace file" .. ;-)
HTH, Sven
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Sven Klages
Max-Planck-Institut f=FCr Molekulare Genetik
- Pro~Science - Ihnestr.63/73
14195 Berlin (Dahlem) ** Germany **
Bernd Weisshaar schrieb:
> Dear All,
>> does someone know a program (or script) that generates pdf's directly
> from trace files?
>> Ideally, the program would have a command-line interface (to be
> scriptable) and settings that allow to generate an output similar to
> the prints from Sequencing Analysis.
>> Best regards, Bernd
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