In article <199405061423.KAA02925 at phelix.umd.edu>, briwig at GLUE.UMD.EDU (Brian Michael Wiegmann) writes...
>> I am using the November 1992 release of Staden and am having
>difficulty getting data from our ABI 373 automated sequencer into xbap.
>Our copy of staden is running under xwindows on a SPARCstation.
>the program is not recognizing the files in the ABI format. It is
>treating them as if they are regular sequence files (the contig editor
>shows the machine code of the ABI files as if it were sequence.
>>Anyone out there have experience with, or special knowledge of, using xbap
>with ABI 373 files (includes traces etc.)?? Please contact me if you can help.
>>thanks
>>Brian Wiegmann
>Department of Entomology
>and
>Center for Agricultural Biotechnology
>University of Maryland
Brian,
Besides the suggestion to upgrade to the latest version of xbap, one
thought is that you have transfered only the xxx.seq files and not the xxx
files to the SPARCstation. Note that the xxx files are those that are without
any extension and are binary files, while the xxx.seq files are plain ASCII
files containing the sequence from the ABI. Actually, all the xbap and ted
programs need is the xxx file as ted will generate and new xxx.seq file once
you manually edit the binary data with ted.
Cheers and hope this helps......bruce
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