[EMBOSS] Dot Plot

[Guy Bottu]

Staffa, Nick (NIH/NIEHS) wrote:
> After a day of futzing around trying to create the point file that GCG's
> Compare makes, with an whole page of Perl, I attacked the figure file it
> makes. If one doesnt care about axes, then 2 or 3 commands set up the window
> and one adds his points in the original units  ­ a half page of perl.
> Figure is a great program. It's so old that surely they could open source
> it.

That has been discussed a lot these days. Since they have abandonned the idea of 
making cash from it, why could they not make the very useful SeqLab or even all 
their software OpenSource ? But anyway, there is the GCGfigure program that runs 
on old MacOS and has always been freeware.

	Guy