Trace2PS version 2.72
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This toolkit is developed to convert trace files of ABI or SCF format into PostScript.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

    Perl (version 5.8 or higher)


INSTALLATION

To install this toolkit follow the instructions.

First unpack the tarball by typing

    tar -xzf Trace-2.72.tar.gz

You will get a directory of the following structure

    Trace-2.72/bin
    Trace-2.72/share/data/
    Trace-2.72/share/exec/
    Trace-2.72/share/perl/

To install the module change to share/perl/ and type

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install



GETTING STARTED

Now, you have installed the module, you can try to convert one of the sample files under share/data/ to PostScript format. All you have to do is to invoke ./trace2ps.sh, which is located in the bin sub-directory, with one of the sample files as follows

    ./trace2ps.sh --infile ../share/data/sample.ab1 [options]

Run trace2ps without parameters to get an usage message describing how to invoke the help.
After successfully converting the file, two files will be generated: a PostScript file named sample.ab1.ps and a file named sample.ab1.seq including the sequence data. ( In case you have chosen the SCF file, you will get the files sample.scf.ps and sample.scf.seq as output.) You can find the respective sample output under share/data/sample_output.


COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is free for academic and non-commercial use. Commercial users please contact us at Bernd.Weisshaar@Uni-Bielefeld.DE. You are not allowed to redistribute this software. 

Please cite "Krawczyk et al., Two software toolkits for converting trace and fsa  files to PostScript format" if you use this tool. 

Copyright (C) 2009 Bernd Weisshaar