Because this program searches for both filenames and database entry names, you must take care when you enter the character pattern that makes up your specification. This is because all the files in the Wisconsin Package are named using lowercase letters. The annotations contain the complete documentation for each entry in the sequence database, including journal and author names, sequence features, comments, etc. The annotations appear at the top of sequences copied from a GCG database with the Fetch program. The StringSearch program searches through either the definitions alone or the complete sequence annotations for text patterns that you specify.
Annotations take much longer to search than definitions.
The best segment of similarity along each diagonal can be viewed with the program Segments. TBR, website of the CCP11 project. Send email to James Froggatt .