INTRODUCTION

Artemis is a DNA sequence viewer and annotation tool that allows visualisation
of sequence features and the results of analyses within the context of the
sequence, and its six-frame translation.  Artemis is written in Java, reads
EMBL or GENBANK format sequences and feature tables, and can work on sequences
of any size.

ACT is a DNA sequence comparison viewer based on Artemis. The name ACT stands
for Artemis Comparison Tool. ACT is written in Java, reads EMBL or GENBANK 
format sequences and feature tables, and can work on sequences of any size.


DOCUMENTATION

The Artemis user manual is at:
  http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/manual

The ACT user manual is at:
  http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/ACT/manual

INSTALLATION

The installation instructions are included in the user manual.


DISTRIBUTION

Artemis may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License,
and should run on any system with a recent version of Java.  The development
of Artemis has been funded by the Wellcome Trust's Beowulf Genomics
initiative, through its support of the Pathogen Sequencing Unit at The Sanger
Centre.

For information on how to get Artemis see this web page:
  http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/
or go straight to the ftp directory at:
  ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/pathogens/software/artemis


COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002  Genome Research Limited

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.