On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Claudia Sutton wrote:
> In article <32142189.A7B at bbsrc.ac.uk>, Andy Phillips
> <andy.phillips at bbsrc.ac.uk> wrote:
>> > o.gallay at ic.ac.uk wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > > Does anyone out there know of a program that will draw a frame around
> > > homologous segments of sequence in alignments, ie. like "prettybox" but
> > > without the shading? I've often seen this sort of frame in
> publications, but
> > > everyone I know thinks this has to be done by hand.
> > > Please e-mail as well as post!
> > >
> >
> > Genedoc (available from http://www.cris.com/~ketchup/genedoc.shtml) will
> output a
> > lineup in PICT format, which can (theoretically) be imported into
> drawing packages. You
> > can then draw your own boxes around conserved regions. In practise,
> however, I found
> > that CorelDraw6 failed to align the characters properly, and Freelance
> crashed on
> > importing large lineups. <sigh>
> >
> > Andy
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Email : andy.phillips at bbsrc.ac.uk : University of Bristol
> > Home : andy at cycad.demon.co.uk : IACR Long Ashton Research Station
> > Phone : +44-1275-549257 : Long Ashton
> > Fax : +44-1275-394281 : Bristol, BS18 9AF, UK
> > WWW : http://www.lars.bbsrc.ac.uk/plantsci/molbiol/andy.html>>>> I have been using gcg pretty outputs that I import into MS word as a
> picture, then you can draw boxes, arrows, etc. That way seems fairly
> WSYWYG, unlike trying any of the other drawing programs. It is however,
> fairly crude. Good luck,
>> Claudia Sutton
> aka cas9 at cornell.edu> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Another way is to import the alignment into microsoft excell (you need to
add a recognizable character, such as a semicolon, between each base or
amino acid). then boxing is fairly easy, with or without shading. The
important point is to have each base in a cell, so that the alignment
will be independent of the font (proportional or not) used.
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