CHROMA
What is CHROMA?
CHROMA is a
tool for generating annotated multiple sequence alignments in a
convenient format for publication What does CHROMA do?
CHROMA
takes your aligned multiple sequence data, annotates residues according
to a consensus and displays the alignment using different font formats
(text and background colours, bold and italic).
The formatted annotation can be sent
directly into Microsoft Word, or saved to a file or Windows Clipboard
in both HTML and "Rich Text" Formats.
The
output from CHROMA can be edited and ultimately printed out with high
fidelity in other programmes such as Microsoft Word See a sample of what CHROMA produces here
What does CHROMA
require? Hardware
- Intel Pentium processor
- 1.6MB
hard disk space
Operating
System - Windows 95/98/Me
- Windows
NT: service pack 6 recommended.
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
See System
Requirements for more details
How should
CHROMA be cited?
CHROMA:
consensus-based colouring of multiple alignments for publication.
Bioinformatics. 2001 Sep;17(9):845-6.
CHROMA is provided FREE
of charge. As
a matter of academic courtesy, it would only
be fair to cite
if you are using CHROMA in your research!
Can CHROMA
be used on
other platforms, e.g. UNIX/Linux/Solaris?
A console / command-line operated [i.e. no
GUI] version of CHROMA is being used as a CGI-filter to produce HTML
output automatically. The source code (requires GCC 3.0 or greater or
any standards conformant c++ compiler) is available here.
Installation
Problems:
If
the Installation
Problems section in the release notes does not solve your
problems, please contact us and your problems will be treated with the
greatest urgencies.
Bug Reports:
You can contact us on-line with "Bug Report" in
the subject header. Please read the Trouble
Shooting page
first.
Documentation:
A full help file is included with every
copy of CHROMA. You may also read the documentation on-line when it is
ready. First time users may wish to run through the
short tutorial which covers and explains briefly most of the major
features of CHROMA. Inside CHROMA, choose from the menu Help
| Run Tutorial. Licensing
Information
See the distribution
information page. | 
