Dotter

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Introduction

Dotter is a program to draw a dotplot or two given DNA or Protein sequences. 

Contents 1 Package details 2 Installation 2.1 Linux 3 Troubleshooting

Package details

• Format: Pre-compiled executable.
• Source Code: is part of the ACEDB package available at ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/acedb/.
• Version: Version 3.0, compiled Nov 24 1999
• Author: Erik L.L. Sonnhammer and Richard Durbin
• Website: http://www.cgb.ki.se/cgb/groups/sonnhammer/Dotter.html
• Download: ftp://ftp.cgb.ki.se/pub/esr/dotter/dotter.LIN

Installation

Linux

1. Download the dotter.LIN file from the above location.
2. Login as root
3. Copy the file dotter.LIN to /usr/local/bin
   

cp /data/dotter.LIN /usr/local/bin/dotter

4. Make it executable

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dotter

Running Dotter

Dotter can be launched from the command line like this

dotter firstseq.fasta secondseq.fasta

For detailed instructions, refer to the dotter website

Troubleshooting