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SeWeR: SEquence analysis using WEb Resources
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             (Version 2.5 Alpha)
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                 Malay K Basu
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
               Hyderabad 500007
                     India
             Phone: +91-40-7172241
              Fax: +91-40-7171195

            curiouser@ccmb.ap.nic.in
         curiouser@gene.ccmbindia.org
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What is new in version 2.5?
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SeWeR is completely customizable now. A completely new section of
"customization" has been added. The User can add any program/service to SeWeR
at will. 

The "program descriptions" are also dynamic.

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Release note from earlier version 

What is SeWeR?
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SeWeR is an acronym, stands for SEquence analysis using
WEb Resources. In addition to its common *dirty* use, the
word SeWeR also has two meanings- first, "a medieval
servant or household officer of high rank in charge of
serving dishes at the table and sometimes of seating and
tasting" and the second one, "one who sews". SeWeR fits
all of these definitions. First, it is *dirty* at the code level.
Second, it serves. It serves you a single door to all the
common web-based services for sequence analysis. And it
sews. It sews all these services together. For a refined mind,
SeWeR is an integrated *DHTML portal to common web-based
services in bioinformatics*. 

SeWeR is designed to be server independent and lightweight.
The whole package is just ~250K. It can even run from a
floppy!


System Requirement
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SeWeR is entirely written in JavaScript1.2. Requires JavaScript
enabled browser. SeWeR has been tested only for Netscape 4.x and 
Internet Explorer 4.0 and above. A Netscape 6 compatible version
is underway.


Installation instruction
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Unzip this archive and run "sewer.htm" in your browser.


Copyright information
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SeWeR is released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSING. For details
contact "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html".


******************* SeWeR is GIF Free ************************
All the images in SeWeR are PNGs. SeWeR is completely GIF free!
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For further details contact me- curiouser@ccmb.ap.nic.in or
curiouser@gene.ccmbindia.org.

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April 13, 2000
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Malay Kumar Basu
curiouser@ccmb.ap.nic.in
November 11, 2000