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-October 6, 2006
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-The FASTA programs for Windows32 environments (WindowsNT, 2000, XP)
-has undergone a major upgrade, so that now all the programs in the
-Unix/MacOSX distribution are available to Windows users. Moreover,
-Windows users with modern (SSE2 compatible) processors can run greatly
-accelerated versions of the Smith-Waterman ssearch program.
-
-Moreover, these programs work both with FASTA formatted files, and
-NCBI BLAST formatted files.
-
-The following programs are available:
-
- fasta34.exe protein-protein or DNA-DNA database searches
- fastf34.exe
- fastm34.exe
- fasts34.exe
- fastx34.exe compare DNA query to protein library with frameshifts
- fasty34.exe compare DNA query to protein library with frameshifts
- prfx34.exe
- prss34.exe evaluate statistical significance using shuffles
- prss34sse2.exe
- ssearch34.exe Smith-Waterman for prot-prot or DNA-DNA searches
- ssearch34sse2.exe Smith-Waterman, accelerated with SSE2 extensions
- tfastf34.exe
- tfastm34.exe
- tfasts34.exe
- tfastx34.exe compare protein to DNA library with frameshifts
- tfasty34.exe compare protein to DNA library with frameshifts
-
-Each of these programs also has a "threaded" version, which can run on
-multiple processors (or dual cores) if they are available. However,
-they are built using the Unix pthreads API, so to use these programs,
-you must download the pthreadVC2.dll from:
-
-ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest/lib/pthreadVC2.dll
-
-see also http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
-
- fasta34_t.exe
- fastf34_t.exe
- fastm34_t.exe
- fasts34_t.exe
- fastx34_t.exe
- fasty34_t.exe
- prfx34_t.exe
- prss34_t.exe
- prss34sse2_t.exe
- ssearch34_t.exe
- ssearch34sse2_t.exe
- tfastf34_t.exe
- tfasts34_t.exe
- tfastx34_t.exe
- tfasty34_t.exe
-
-Without that DLL, the threaded programs will not run at all. The
-current compilation supports two threads, and speeds up searches about
-2-fold on dual-core processors.
-
-The programs have been tested with protein and DNA databases in FASTA
-format, PIR/GCG-text format, and Genbank flatfile format. The program
-does not work properly with GCG binary format databases, but it seems
-unlikely that Windows users would need these.
-
-Be certain to use an program that can work with long file names when
-unpacking the program source files.
-
-Please report bugs to:
-
- wrp@virginia.edu