CEDIT - A C-INTERFACE AND MACRO FACILITY FOR PROTEIN-SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT EDITING IN COLOR WITH MICROSOFT-WORD-5.0 FOR PCS

CEDIT, a C interface and macro facility that provides for the colour e diting of protein sequence alignments (up to 2000 sequences, 5000 resi dues each) using Microsoft Ward 5.0 for PCs is presented. CEDIT uses t he ability of MS-Word 5.0 to display letters with the desired colour t o easily identify conservative homologies across the sequences. A glos sary file with useful macros for the sequence editing is provided, alo ng with several utilities programs for error checking, estimating sequ ence similarities and homology significance. CEDIT has a menu interfac e and a context sensitive help.