Flip 2.0
WHAT IS FLIP
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Flip is a Unix C program used to find/translate orfs. Flip translates
and reformats DNA sequences. The produced output files can be used by
other programs such as BBLAST (Pierre Rioux, 1994, a batch version of
BLAST (Altschul et al, J. Mol.Biol. 215, 403-410), FASTA (W. Pearson,
Methods enzymol. 183, 63-68), NIP (Queen & Korn, Nucl. Acids Res., 12,
581-599) for further analysis.
LATEST VERSION
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The most recent verison of flip is flip 2.0. Changes from version 1.9
include:
- Fixed memory allocation bug that made flip crash on empty
contigs
- Added command line switches:
-n: number each header in flip's output files to facilitate result
browsing
-F: modifies slightly the format of some of the output files of flip
HOW DO I GET IT ?
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The latest version of the flip package can always be obtained by ftp
at the address:
ftp://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/pub/flip/flip.tar.Z
Flip's complete documentation can be fetched by ftp from:
ftp://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/pub/flip/flip.doc
flip.doc is included in flip's distribution.
REQUIREMENTS
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- In order to compile the source code, you need a Unix C compiler
(either gcc or cc).
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Nicolas Brossard | brossard at bch.umontreal.ca
Universite de Montreal | Telephone: (514)-343-6111 (#5149)
Departement de biochimie | Fax: (514)-343-2210
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