netgrail.plx 0.03 Alpha
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THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE!!!! IT IS NOT COMPLETE!!!! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!

Instructions on installation are in the INSTALL file.

netgrail.plx is a simple client used to create valid requests to the 
GRAIL server.  This is not a full featured client because there 
netgrail.plx provides no way to pass parameters to options which 
require such.  Also if you see "Error: Not a registered service" then 
your query was invalid.  Only certain combinations of features, organisms, 
options are allowed by the netgrail server.  To see a list of valid 
combinations see http://compbio.ornl.gov/Grail-1.3/help/

If you are doing simple human queries you should only need to run
    netgrail.plx sequence.FASTA  
and you will not be concerned about these options.

This has been tested on a variety of unix flavors as well as Windows.

DOCUMENTATION

POD style documentation is included in netgrail.plx.  You should be able to
use the 'perldoc' utility to extract documentation from the program directly.

CHANGES

1. netgrail.plx no longer requires Net::Telnet.  Instead, it uses the
   IO::Socket modules which come with Perl.
2. the default feature was changed from grail1exons to grail2exons.

AVAILABILITY

The latest version of netgrail.plx should always be available from:

    ftp://ftp.nhgri.nih.gov/pub/software/netgrail/

PREREQUISITES

    Perl Version 5.002 or later

    Windows 95/NT requires Perl beta version 5.003_07 or later

PUBLIC DOMAIN NOTICE

This software/database is "United States Government Work" under the
terms of the United States Copyright Act. It was written as part of
the authors' official duties for the United States Government and thus
cannot be copyrighted. This software/database is freely available to
the public for use without a copyright notice. Restrictions cannot
be placed on its present or future use.

Although all reasonable efforts have been taken to ensure the
accuracy and reliability of the software and data, the National
Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the U.S.  Government
does not and cannot warrant the performance or results that may be
obtained by using this software or data. NHGRI and the U.S.
Government disclaims all warranties as to performance,
merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose.

In any work or product derived from this material, proper
attribution of the author(s) as the source of the software or
data should be made, using http://genome.nhgri.nih.gov/
as the citation.

Enjoy!