Software Tools :: The EMBOSS Package
Introduction
EMBOSS has its origins in the EGCG package developed by a group of
collaborators at EMBnet and elsewhere. This was a set of sequence analysis
applications that used GCG libraries to extend the functionality of the GCG
Package. The current EMBOSS package is independent of the GCG Package and is
designed to be a suite of freely available programs and libraries for sequence
analysis and for developing sequence analysis software. The applications
in EMBOSS all use the same underlying libraries (AJAX and NUCLEUS), which
handle "housekeeping" functions such as reading in sequences, accessing
databases, etc., allowing a programmer to concentrate on the application code.
EMBOSS is licensed under the
General Public License (GPL)
(so you can legally copy the software, give it away, modify it, or do
almost anything you want with it). It has been developed
principally by the developers of the now defunct EGCG package. It can be obtained
via FTP and runs on most flavors of the
UNIX operating system.
Several other programs, collectively referred to as EMBASSY, have been modified to run
within the EMBOSS environment. While these modified programs have the same
interface as the EMBOSS programs, they are distributed under their own
license. Among these programs are PHYLIP and MSE.
Getting Help
Accessing the Programs
You can access EMBOSS in two ways:
- from the Unix prompt under your CGB Research account: type "use emboss"
to initialize the system, then type the name of the program
- via the web interface here
This website will look much better in a browser that supports
web standards, but it has been designed so
that it is still usable and accessible to any browser or web-enabled device.
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