readseq

A sequence data converting tool:

Overview

Modifications

Download information

Overview

readseq is a widely used tool to convert various sequence data formats written by D.G. Gilbert at Indiana University, Bloomington. Besides the interconversion to make the sequences palatable for a specific application, readseq can be used to extract the raw sequence from any supported database format.

The CygWin version is based on the readseq version dated 1Feb93.

Modifications

The source code is ANSI C and compiles with gcc right out of the box. We just want a small change to reduce the executable size. To this end, add a -s to the CFLAGS variable in line 13 of the makefile.

System requirements

I used the following setup to build the software:

• Windows NT 4.0 SP3 Workstation
• CygWinB20.1
• gcc-2.95

With this setup, make gives a clean build.

To install the software, copy readseq.exe into a CygWin bin directory.

Download information

The original sources can be downloaded here.

The precompiled binary for CygwinB20 is shipped as cygwinb20-readseq.tar.gz (24 kb).