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- From: RODRIGOL@BIOMED.UIO.NO (Rodrigo Lopez)
- Newsgroups: bionet.software
- Subject: Re: BLOCKS searches on VAX/VMS and Alpha/OpenVMS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.131943.28239@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 13:19:43 GMT
- References: <Fuchs-270193150431@rainer-mac.embl-heidelberg.de>
- Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News)
- Organization: NORWEGIAN EMBNET NODE
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- In-Reply-To: Fuchs@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE's message of 27 Jan 93 15:08:05 +0100
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- In <Fuchs-270193150431@rainer-mac.embl-heidelberg.de> Fuchs@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE writes:
-
- > A new program, BlockSearch, is available for the analysis of new protein
- > sequences using site-specific scoring matrices derived from Steven and
- > Jorja Henikoff's BLOCKS database. The program was developed primarily for
- > VMS/OpenVMS systems, but is written in ANSI C and should work on other
- > platforms as well. It reads sequences in a variety of formats, including
- > SWISS-PROT and GCG. A comparison of a typical-length protein sequence
- > against BLOCKS release 6 takes about 15-20 CPU secs.
- >
- > A copy can be obtained from ftp.embl-heidelberg.de
- > (/pub/software/vax/blksrch.uue) or by email from netserv@embl-heidelberg.de
- > (get vax_software:blksrch.uue).
- >
- >
- > Rainer Fuchs
- > EMBL Data Library
- > Fuchs@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
-
- I had a small problem with the frequency tables provided with the program
- source: Blocksearch complains about their format. Just edit the files
- and remove the blank line between the comments (lines beggining with '#')
- and the table itself.
-
- I wrote a small DCL script that perhaps helps using the program. It can be
- fetched by anonymous ftp from biomed.uio.no (129.240.2.38). Look in the
- root directory for a DCL file called RUN_BLOCKS.COM. Edit the file to
- customize it to your local setup. There is the command 'Fetch' which should
- be removed for sites that don't have GCG.
-
- R:)
-
-
- Rodrigo Lopez
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