A GeneBank Parser

Author: Kemin Zhou
Copyright (C) Kemin Zhou 2004

The package here is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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If you have any questions please contact me by email.

This program converts GenBank records into ACEDB format. This program was written in C++ for it's object oriented feature so that we can easily model the complexity of biological objects, reference objects. Furthermore, C++ provides with speed, you can parse the whole GenBank in reasonalble time.

Download the program binary for Linux on Intel Pentium machines
Download the source

under your shell prompt, simply type gb2ace it will give you help info. Note: Most of the codes were written on weekends and at nights after work. I have not gotten enough time to polish the code. The main goal is to produce something that work for my particular task. The interfaces is still not complete; additional function may be added in the future, and function names may be changed. If you have any suggestion please let me know.