The database runs on Unix and has proprietary Mac and PC interfaces. Processing scripts on the server side are written in Perl. The sample tracking database currently undergoes complete redesign. Main Sequence Processing Traces are processed by the phred basecaller, and assembled with phrap . Assemblies are then edited by human in either consed or gap4 .
Some programs written here to help with some of the stages are available .
Many thanks to Phil Green, Rodger Staden and collaborators for their excellent software. Ted Jones Nancy Hansen Robotics Programming New robots are being built by the engineering group , and some commercial robots are programmed. The informatics group, the yeast group and the fly group are developing a functional genomic computational toolkit including a generic functional genomic database and server-side analysis applications.