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>>>>> "Dean" == Dean Pentcheff <dean@tbone.biol.sc.edu> writes:

 Dean> Emacs would seem to be an ideal platform for writing
 Dean> a sequence editor.  Has this been done?

   Yes. 'Ale' [1] was written to do this, but has not been
maintained since the spring of 1995.  I had it laying about
for some time, but cant seem to find it now.  There was also
'MASE' [2] as well from about 1988. Which apparently used
emacs as a base.  Neither are under active development (or
use as far as I can tell).

In bionet.software:
[1] Message-Id: <56a0a7$b96@cantine.wu-wien.ac.at>
[2] Message-Id: <41g01o$am1@mark.ucdavis.edu> 

   I wrote a simple dna-mode for myself.  It is available from
http://kiwi.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu:8088/~harley/elisp/index.html
From the description:
;; Dna-mode will:
;;  * Fontify sequences 
;;  * Incrementally search dna over pads and numbers
;;  * Complement and reverse complement a region.
;;  * Move over bases and entire sequences.
;;  * Detect sequence files by content.

enjoy!,
harley.
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