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ORFer - Open Reading Frame Retrieval

Authors | Introduction | Publication | Screenshot | Installation | Quick Start | Manual | Source code | Future plans

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If you have Java Web Start installed, you can start ORFer here.

Authors

Konrad Büssow and Steve Hoffmann

Introduction

ORFer is a Java Application that can read the GenBank XML sequence format. Protein sequences can be requested by GI identifier or accession number. The open reading frame corresponding to the protein sequences is extracted from the XML and displayed. ORFer has a database interface that allows for storing the retrieved sequences in a local SQL database. Currently supported: MySQL, Oracle and Micosoft Access.

A peer-reviewed paper on ORFer was published in BMC Bioinformatics

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Installation

If you have Java Web Start installed, you can start ORFer here.

ORFer is a Java Web Start application. To run ORFer, you first have to install Java Web Start and restart your browser. The OpenJNLP project is an alternative to the Java Web Start software of Sun Microsystems. To test your Java Web Start Installation, try the Demos from Sun.

Quick Start

Manual

Open the ORFer manual.

Source code

Visit the ORFer download page at Sourceforge to download the source code, documentation and the ORFer binaries.

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ORFer is an open source program and people who want to participate are invited to do so.

Future Plans

The current version of ORFer has still some limitations to be addressed in future versions of the program. ORFer is an open source program and people who want to participate are invited to do so.