Title

BIOFFORC: Tool development for biological file format conversion

Authors

Chinnaiah Swaminathan Vinobha¹, Maruthamuthu Rajadurai^2,* Ekambaram Rajasekaran³

Affiliation

¹P.G. & Research Department of Bioinformatics, PRIST University, Thanjavur;^{2, *}P.G. Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli; ³Department of Biotechnology, Periyar Maniammai University, Vallam, Thanjavur

Email

mr.rajadurai@gmail.com; * Corresponding author

Article Type

Web Server

Date

received July 23, 2008; revised September 02, 2008; accepted September 13, 2008; published October 25, 2008

Abstract

The use of bioinformatics tools require different sequence formats at various instances. Every tool uses specific set of formats for processing. Sequence in one format is often required in another format. Thus, there is a need for sequence format conversion. A number of such tools are available in the public domain. Here, we describe BIOFFORC as a file format converter. The tool is developed with a graphical user interface in PERL.

Keywords

bioinformatics; sequence; format; read; write; conversion; tools.

Citation

Vinobha et al., Bioinformation 3(1): 98-99 (2008)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

Copyright

Publisher

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License

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