Dear Dr. Gilbert,
Just having glanced through the draft I noted the following things which I
think should be added or amended for completeness sake:
1. There are no examples commercial packages. But maybe this is intentional
from your side. It would be useful to mention a few just for the sake of
comparison and to make the reader aware that, quite often, free programs are
a reflection of lacks in commercial packages :-)
2. On the section on Internet Resources you mention the EBI and P. Rodrigues
Tome's
Biocatalog. Could you include the URL to it?
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biocat/biocat.html
3. Since you mention NCBI's Entrez, I think it is fair to mention SRS as
well :-)
4. The mention of Peter Rice's EMBOSS: Just talked to Peter Rice and he
tells me he will not do a VMS but possible other will be interested enough
to do it as well as Windows NT! :-)
5. You mention RasMol2 specifically. It is a great piece of software but
today one should consider, and many are Swiis-PDB Viewer which does quite a
bit more than Rasmol does:
http://www.expasy.ch/spdbv/mainpage.html
6. While a lot of development is going on in the multiple sequence alignment
front and general sequence analysis, there is.. the matter of database
searching, which will ultimately become a centralised service for many
database providers. This because of the size of the databanks and the
expense of large multiprocessor servers required to run these efficiently.
Links to:
NCBI - blast
EBI - blast2 : http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/blast2/
EMBL - blast2 : http://www.bork.embl-heidelberg.de/Blast2/
ISREC- blast2 : http://ulrec3.unil.ch/software/WUBLAST_form.html
EBI - Fasta3 : http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/fasta3/
EBI - scanps : http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/scanps/
EBI - ssearch3 : http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/ssearch3/
EBI - clustalw : http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/clustalw/
As I said earlier I just glanced through the draft very quickly and thought
I'd mention the above. I will go through it carefully and hopefully get back
to you next week.
Yours sincerely,
R:)
begin 666 Rodrigo Lopez.vcf
M0D5'24XZ5D-!4D0-"E9%4E-)3TXZ,BXQ#0I..DQO<&5Z.U)O9')I9V\[.SL-
M"D9..E)O9')I9V\@3&]P97H-"D]21SI%34),+45"23L-"E1)5$Q%. at T*4D56
>.C$Y.3 at P-C(V5#$V,S at T,UH-"D5.1#I60T%21 T*
`
end
