mekentosj.com | 4Peaks - For Peaks, Four Peaks.

Overview: 4Peaks is a program that helps molecular biologists to visualize and edit their DNA sequence files. At last there is a decent solution for analyzing trace files on the MacOSX platform, taking another step away from slow and non-native programs from the MacOS9 period. Also, 4Peaks supports most commonly used sequence file formats right out of the box, you no longer have to convert them first using AppleScripts or other painstaking methods. Analyzing your sequence was never so much fun! | Download >>

Key Features: Move mouse over buttons to learn more...; For Peaks - 4Peaks can read and write most common trace file formats, and allows direct access to both sequence and translation. It offers the ability to analyze, edit and correct your sequence data. 4Peaks leverages MacOSX strong foundation to bring you the best sequence trace viewer available. period.

New Features in 4Peaks 1.7: The latest version of 4Peaks is now fully compliant with MacOSX 10.4 Tiger. In addition, it now runs natively on Intel-based Macs. Finally, we continued fixing a number of reported bugs.
Our users: Since the release of the first version of 4Peaks it has become the default sequence viewer on the MacOSX platform for many and its use is advised by sequence facilities worldwide. | Visit the 4Peaks users page >>
: On June 29th 2004 4Peaks 1.6 won the Apple Design Award for 'Best Mac OS X Student Product' at the WWDC 2004 in San Francisco. | Read more >>

4Peaks appeared in a recent review in Nature Methods 2006 vol.3 pp.141-147.

How did they do that?

4Peaks would not have existed without a wonderful piece of software. The iolib library of the Staden package written by James Bonfield and coworkers allows reading and writing of most commonly used trace file formats.

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What about my format?

4Peaks supports the following trace file formats: