GeneView II

Interactive GenBank Entry Visualization

GeneView is a software tool that allows the visualization of genetic sequence data. The data to be visualized are taken from the GenBank of NIH (National Institute of Health), an annotated collection of publicly accessible DNA and RNA sequences.

For the purpose of retrieving relevant information rapidly, a dynamic graphical display is preferred to a text-based display. Therefore we implemented an easy to use Graphical User Interface providing a multi-colored overview panel with Zoom Functionality.

• Running as application
  1. Download the Java archive Geneview2.jar (158 kByte)
  2. Start the application with

     	      % java -jar Geneview2.jar
     	      

     The application needs a Java runtime enviroment version 1.2 or higher!

• Running as applet
  Note: This applet was developed using Java 2 SDK and needs the Java 1.2 PlugIn to be used. As the program reads GenBank Entry files from your harddisk, you need to take the following steps.
  1. Get a copy of our certificate and store it in a file named mykey.x509

  2. Import this certificate into your 1.2 keystore under the alias name "mykey". If you do not already have a keystore, this command will automatically generate one for you. You will be prompted to see if you want to import the certificate into your keystore. Your keystore is by default stored in a file named .keystore in your home directory, as determined by the "user.home" system property.

     	      % keytool -import -alias mykey -file mykey.x509
     	      

  3. Download the policy file that will grant code signed by us and downloaded from the BiBiServ website to read from your local filesystem.

     The policy file was generated automatically using policytool.

  4. Make sure your keystore and policy files are in the directory where the Plug-in expects them to be. Your keystore and policy files should be in the User home directory that was displayed as part of the output in the Java Console. Your keystore and policy are expected to be in files named .keystore and .java.policy, respectively. If your keystore and policy files do not already reside in that directory, copy them there (make sure you save any existing keystore or policy files in that directory!).

Start the applet