Open source project: Readseq Replacement for BioEdit in 64-bit environment

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For users of the BioEdit software for PC by Tom Hall attempting to use a 64-bit version of Windows, I wrote a compatibility patch to BioEdit's call to readseq.exe to allow you to import sequences from clipboard or malformed files.

Tom Hall used the 16 bit version (version 1/non-Java) of ReadSeq, which cannot be called from Windows 8, 7, Vista or XP 64-bit. Particularly this was an issue if you were importing primer sequences from IDT or other sequences with the spacebar character.

My current implementation "simply" involves calling the java jar file version of ReadSeq (v2) which is compatible with both 64 and 32 bit Windows OSes.

http://code.google.com/p/readseq/

http://code.google.com/p/readseq/downloads/list

(Note: BioEdit is typically not used for NGS, but some of you are probably still doing some Sanger sequencing)

[pejon]

Hi, I'm using window 8 and cannot use Bioedit properly due to 64 bit version. Already downloaded readseq and installed it but i believe that there is something else that i need to do. bioedit still not properly work. help me please...