help with DNA sequence analysis software

[James B. Whitfield]

Frederick,
        You can get a lot of good stuff (Genetic Data Environment or GDE
from the Harvard Genome Library, SeqApp and ReadSeq from Don Gilbert at
Indiana, Clustal for sequence alignment), etc. via ftp from

ftp.bio.indiana.edu

You can also get CLUSTAL W (Thompson et al.) from the European Molecular
Biology Laboratory site - this one might be really useful for you;

ftp.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/software/   or
gopher.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/software/  or
http://stem.pi.embl-heidelberg.de/ENBL/index.html

An ever-increasing number of WWW sites also provide mechanisms for
downloading programs for alignment, sequence comparison and phylogenetic
analysis.  Most of them list programs other than their own and provide
links to many other sources.
Some really useful ones are:

The Tree of Life Project (Univ. Arizona- D. & W. Maddison)
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/programs/programs.html

The International Willi Hennig Society
http://www.vims.edu/~mes/hennig.html

PHYLIP (Joe Felsenstein- Univ. Washington)
http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.html

        I hope this helps.  If you can't access something specific I may be
able to send it to you as an attachment.  If you can, have fun!
                                                        Cheers, Jim Whitfield


>Soon I hope to have a number of legume DNA sequences that I would like to
>compare.  I am aware of a mainframe software package (from Wisconsin, I
>believe) that is designed to aline and compare sequences and produce
>concensus sequences, etc.
>
>I would like to obtain information on the availability of PC or MAC based
>software programs that will aline and compare nucleic acid sequences and
>produce concensus sequences.
>
>If you have information about any software that can do this I would be
>grateful if you would share this with me.
>
>Frederick J. Peabody
>Associate Professor of Botany
>University of South Dakota
>414 East Clark Street
>Vermillion, SD  57069
>
>P.S. It was -23 degrees F this morning in Vermillion :-(

J. B. Whitfield
Department of Entomology
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
(501)575-2482 FAX -2452
jwhitfie at comp.uark.edu