SEQSEE - A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM SUITE FOR PROTEIN-SEQUENCE ANALYSIS

SEQSEE (SEQuence SEEker) is a multi-purpose, menu-driven suite of prog rams designed to provide fully integrated, state-of-the-art package fo r the analysis and display of protein sequences and protein databases. It is currently configured to run on most UNIX-based machines includi ng Sun, SGI and NeXT workstations with conversion to other architectur es (e.g. Vax or Cray) being a relatively simple task. SEQSEE is capabl e of performing nearly all of the analytical and comparative tasks fou nd in most comprehensive commercially available software packages. The se include sequence/database searching, sequence retrieval, sequence e ntry and editing, statistical sequence analysis, multiple sequence ali gnment, flexible pattern matching, and secondary structure prediction. SEQSEE also integrates a number of unique databases which allow it to perform many additional functions such as structure-based sequence al ignments and homology-based secondary structure prediction. Additional enhancements to many previously published algorithms have substantial ly improved the performance of SEQSEE over that found for most other c ommercial products. The source code, the documentation and all of the required databases for SEQSEE are freely available and may be obtained by anonymous ftp.