The individual information and walker software are provided as Sun Microsystems Sparc binaries for Solaris 2.6. Obtaining the Pascal source code is negotiable under the terms of a license agreement. To use them effectively, you will need to be familiar with the theory. To learn basic information theory, see the Primer on Information Theory . To learn the individual information theory, see the papers listed at the page on walkers .
Manual pages are now available online for each program .
The manual pages can be accessed by a web browser. The format follows that of the shell program . These scripts contain every step necessary to do the analysis, so by looking at them and copying and modifying them for your own purposes, you should be able to do the same analyses on your own sequences. The demonstrations start from GenBank flat files that are included in the package. This means that there are working examples to start from.