path: root/biology/act/pkg-descr

ACT (Artemis Comparison Tool) is a DNA sequence comparison viewer based on
Artemis. In common with Artemis, ACT is written in Java and runs on UNIX,
GNU/Linux, Macintosh and MS Windows systems. It can read complete EMBL
and GENBANK entries or sequence in FASTA or raw format. Extra sequence
features can be in EMBL, GENBANK or GFF format. ACT is distributed under the
same license as Artemis. 

The sequence comparison displayed by ACT is usually the result of a blastn or
tblastx search that has been processed by MSPcrunch. MSPcrunch must be run
with the -d flag for the output to be usable by ACT. 

WWW:  http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/ACT/manual