In article <14550 at gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> pburch at bcm.tmc.edu (Paula Burch) writes:
>>>Can anyone point me to a program for performing hydrophobic cluster
>analysis of protein sequences? I've read mentions of HCA plot, written
>in Fortran 77, and also HCABAND in BASIC.
>>The reference is C. Gaboriaud, V. Bissery, T. Benchetrit and J.P. Mornon's
>Hydrophobic cluster analysis: an efficient new way to compare and analyse
>amino acid sequences, FEBS Letters 224(1):149-155 (1987).
>>I have Dr. Mornon's address, but don't really want to wait as long as it
>would take for mail to reach him, and I'm afraid to try directory assistance
>in France to try to get his phone number. Could somebody possibly have an
>e-mail address for him?
His e-mail address is: MORNON at FRLMCP61.BITNET
>>All 23 of the papers I found in Medline that mentioned HCA were from
>various European labs--no sign that anyone has ever used it on this
>continent.
We are using it to compare several homologous genes. A paper is in preparation...
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>_________________________________________________________________________
>Paula E. Burch, Ph.D. Molecular Biology Computational Resource
>Baylor College of Medicine internet: pburch at bcm.tmc.edu>Houston, Texas 77030 phone: (713)798-6023
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