Databases must be formatted specially for use with the Wisconsin Package. The Wisconsin Package also allows you to create your own personal databases with the DataSet program. Data Files Files containing information essential for running Wisconsin Package programs. For example, the Map program requires the data file Enzyme. Dat, which contains information about recognition sites of restriction enzymes.
Data files can be either default or local.
Default data files are those files programs use unless you specify otherwise. That is, you are never required to supply a data file because a default data file is always available. Local data files are those data files you specify a program should use instead of the default. GCG provides the default data files in the public directory with the logical name genrundata. In addition, GCG provides a number of alternative data files you can specify a program use in the directory with the logical name genmoredata.