From:	SMTP%"JMILLER@VXBIO.SPAN@STAR.STANFORD.EDU" 28-NOV-1990 15:03
To:	DON.GILBERT
Subj:	some more PLOTA info

Date: Wed 28 Nov 90 11:56:21-PST
From: JMILLER%VXBIO.SPAN@STAR.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: some more PLOTA info
To: "24986::""Don.Gilbert@Iubio.Bio.Indiana.Edu"""@VXBIO.SPAN

 Here's some additional info on PLOT/A

1. The programs are also available on BioTechNet.
2. The programs will probably also be on whatever public domain software
   DNASTAR is shipping with their mac versions. They requested my whole
   PD set a few months ago.
3. The co-author for these programs is Dr. Angela Luttke. She wrote the
   basic algorithms on an (!)512k mac, old ROMS. I rewrote the interface
   so that it would work on all macs, made the save/print functions work,
   made the code re-entrant, etc.,etc. She is busily churning out more
   programs at present, only some of which I intend to convert/compile.
   If someone actually wants the original MS Basic versions of the programs,
   I have those as well.
4. I have written a few PLOTA style programs myself. They work on sets of
   aligned sequences rather than single sequences. Any comments on how
   to weigh the contributions of each sequence in the alignment, etc
   would be welcome. 
-Peter Markiewicz