The Genefinding data tools package
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   To efficiently store position-wise information for genome-wide splice site
   predictions or other signals we came up with a binary file format.

   This package offers some query routines on these binary files. It wraps the
   underlying C interface and enables one to use a subset of the functionality
   from within python.


Installation
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   To install the package, type :

   make 

   then update your PYTHONPATH variable to point to the directory where the
   created Genefinding.so and Genefinding.py files are located


Note
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   Please note that the data format is architecture-dependent. This means that
   splice site score files can only be shared between Intel 64-bit architectures
   or compatible.


Contact
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   If you have questions or problems related to this package you can contact
   me:
   
   fabio@tuebingen.mpg.de

   please use a descriptive subject for your email. Including "Genefinding
   tool" for example.
