XCED for Mac OS X - a multiple sequence alignment editor

XCED for Mac OS X

This is very experimental. Please also consider

Jalview, an alignment editor written in Java

mafft, an automatic alignment program

Download

xced-8a.3.93-darwin.pkg.sit (tested on MacOSX ver.10.2.3, Darwin Kernel ver.6.3, 2003/05/06)

This package consists of a main program (/usr/local/bin/xced) and some subprograms installed into /usr/local/share/xced. A modified version of the protml (Adachi and Hasegawa 1996) program is included.

It requires:

X11 for Mac OS X (Mac OS X Install Disc 1 -> Optional Installs -> Applications -> X11)

The following are not necessary but may be useful.

ESP Ghostscript 7.05.5 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/espgs/espgs-7.05.5-0.ppc.dmg
TreeView (Page 1996) http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/treeview.html
FASTA version 3.0 (Pearson and and Lipman 1988) ftp://ftp.virginia.edu/pub/fasta/fasta30t63.shar.Z

Installation

Install X11UserForMacOSX.dmg.bin and xced-8a.3.93-darwin.pkg.

Usage

Start X11 by opening a new Finder window, clicking the "Applications" icon, then doubleclicking the "X11" icon.

Open a terminal window (Finder/Applications/Utilities/Terminal or X11menu/Applications/Terminal).

Set the DISPLAY environment variable, if necessary.
% setenv DISPLAY :0.0

Start xced.
% /usr/local/bin/xced input_file

See the quick guide for more information.