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<CHAPTER ID="INTRODUCTION">
<TITLE>Introduction to &prog;</TITLE>
<SECT1 ID="WHATIS">
<TITLE>What is &prog;?</TITLE>
<PARA>
&prog; is a DNA sequence comparison viewer based on <ULINK
URL="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/"
type="external">Artemis</ULINK>. The name &prog; stands for Artemis
Comparison Tool. &prog; is written in Java, reads EMBL or GENBANK format
sequences and feature tables, and can work on sequences of any size.
</PARA>
<PARA>
&prog; understands several different comparison file formats. See <XREF
LINKEND="COMPARISON-RUN"> for details. Note that &prog; is a comparison
viewer only. The comparison information itself must be generated externally.
See <XREF LINKEND="COMPARISON-RUN"> for more details.
</PARA>
<PARA>
For other information see the <ULINK
URL="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/ACT/" TYPE="external">the &prog; web
pages</ULINK>, <ULINK URL="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/ACT/Examples/"
TYPE="external">the &prog; example pages</ULINK> or the <ULINK
URL="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/" TYPE="external">the &art; web
pages</ULINK>.
</PARA>
</SECT1>
&requirements;
<SECT1 ID="INSTALLATION">
<TITLE>Getting and Installing &prog;</TITLE>
<PARA>
The most up to date version of &prog; is always available from the <ULINK
URL="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/ACT/">&prog; web pages</ULINK>.
</PARA>
&gettingjava;
<SECT2 ID="UNIXINSTALLATION">
<TITLE>Installation Instructions for UNIX and GNU/Linux</TITLE>
<PARA>
Change directory to the directory you wish to install &prog; in. We will use
<LITERAL>~/</LITERAL> in this example and in the next chapter. Uncompress and
untar the <LITERAL>act_compiled.tar.gz</LITERAL> file. The command
is:
</PARA>
<PARA>
<COMMAND>
gzip -d < act_compiled.tar.gz | tar xf -
</COMMAND>
</PARA>
<PARA>
This will create a directory called <LITERAL>~/act</LITERAL> which will
contain all the files necessity for running &prog;.
</PARA>
<PARA>
For instructions on how to run &prog; on UNIX and GNU/Linux once the archive
is unpacked see <XREF LINKEND="RUNNINGUNIX">.
</PARA>
</SECT2>
<SECT2 ID="MACINSTALLATION">
<TITLE>Installation Instructions for Macintosh Systems</TITLE>
<PARA>
Macintosh users should download and run the <LITERAL>ACT.bin</LITERAL> file
from the <ULINK URL="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/ACT">&prog; web
pages</ULINK>, which will create a local copy of the the &art; application
(along with an icon).
</PARA>
</SECT2>
<SECT2 ID="DOSINSTALLATION">
<TITLE>Installation Instructions for Windows</TITLE>
<PARA>
On Windows systems with Java 1.2 (see <XREF LINKEND="INSTALLINGJAVA">),
installing &prog; is as simple as copying the
<ULINK URL="ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/pathogens/software/act/act.jar"
TYPE="external">act.jar file</ULINK> to an appropriate place (such as the
desktop or the Programs folder).
</PARA>
<PARA>
For instructions on how to run &prog; on Windows once it is unpacked see <XREF
LINKEND="RUNNINGPC"> .
</PARA>
</SECT2>
</SECT1>
&concepts;
<SECT1 ID="CONTRIBUTIONS">
<TITLE>Contributions and Suggestions</TITLE>
<PARA>
We welcome contributions to &prog; and to &art;, bug reports from users and
suggestions for new features. An email discussion list has been set up for
this purpose. To join, send a message to 'majordomo@sanger.ac.uk' with
'subscribe artemis-users' in the body (not the subject). Announcements will
also be sent to this list.
</PARA>
</SECT1>
&acknowledgments;
©right;
</CHAPTER>