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Mase is still in use. It was written by the late Don Faulkner and Jerzy
Jurka, but is available from <http://hiv-web.lanl.gov/HTML/mase.html>.

Jerry Learn

Research Associate

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In article <xsg3ef3duur.fsf@swan.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu>, harley@bcm.tmc.edu wrote:

> >>>>> "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.
> --
> 'I'll be on optimist until the bitter end' - Allison R. Downey