friard at area.ba.cnr.it (Olivier Friard) writes:
> I found on the new release of EMBL (53) at EBI a directory named GCG that
> contains 2 types of files (.SEQ and .REF). In the .SEQ file, they are 2
> types of sequences: the first one type is classic readable ASCII but
> the second one is 2BIT unreadable format. Does someone know how read this
> 2BIT format?
The fasta2 and fasta3 packages can read GCG's 2bit format. It is very
simple. Take a look at the source code from
ftp.virginia.edu/pub/fasta in the file nxgetaa.c - the function
gcg_getlib() has the code you need.
Bill Pearson