Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!bionet!ccuam1.uam.es!JRAMON
From: JRAMON@ccuam1.uam.es
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank
Subject: RE: More I must have been out of the room
Message-ID: <9008071336.AA04768@genbank.bio.net>
Date: 6 Aug 90 17:20:00 GMT
Sender: daemon@genbank.BIO.NET
Lines: 35

Hi Dan,
        ... and all of you who also are interested.

        I am now writing a software package for protein analysis that must read
a protein sequence databank. I wrote a full set of routines in C for accessing
some 11 or so formats, including GenBank, EMBL, NBRF, etc...

        In view of the recent postings I fear that I must re-write some of
them. Since the package has been intended to be fully P. D. when finished, I
don't mind to send the new set, as well as 'ye old ones' to the net. I must
say that I'm writing in C. This has some advantages for portability and, YES!,
cleanness of the code. I will try also writing a set in Pascal at the same
time, but then, I won't assure they'll work on ANY Pascal compiler, though
I'll try to make them as general as possible.

        More news as soon as I have the new set. I've just got the description
of the new format from EMBL and am now working on them.

        By the way, I am also trying to get a ONE package able to be used by
different languages. I now this should be easy using *pascal* calling
convention under MS-DOS and Macs, and that I can build a CDD under VMS. Any
new ideas in this respect? I'll also make it publicly available as soon as
it is finished.

        Best wishes for all of you... And don't forget your holidays..


                J. R. Valverde
        Instituto Investigaciones Biomedicas
                  C. S. I. C.

                      and

        Dpt. Bioquimica. Facultad de Medicina
                U.A.M. - SPAIN