DNA Chromatogram Explorer Lite
Exploring and trimming your chromatograms is not a problem anymore

Program description

With DNA Chromatogram Explorer, you can automatically view, trim and convert all chromatogram files (SCF, ABI, AB1, AB) in the current folder while you are navigating through your computer.

Details
Chromatogram Explorer is a very easy to use tool that will list all chromatogram files (SCF, ABI, AB1, AB) in the current folder. You can view the chromatograms while browsing through folders using its integrated Windows Explorer. Chromatogram Explorer can also trim low quality bases at the ends of your samples and convert the sequences from one format to another with a single push of a button!

Now you can process/sort/search chromatograms in seconds.

How to use it
Start Chromatogram Explorer, and locate the folder that contains your chromatogram files. All chromatogram files (ABI/SCF) will be shown in the right panel. Low quality ends are shown in dark gray color.

Press 'Save' and your file will be saved as SCF of FASTA (you can choose the output format), while the low quality bases at the ends will be automatically trimmed. Chromatogram Explorer is so small that you can put it on a floppy disk of Flash stick and taken it with you.

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Name	Chromatogram Explorer Lite
Version	2.3.5
Date	30 Sept 2008
Package size	about 4 MB
Download time	less than 15 seconds (for DSL)

Install process
The program is delivered in a very small package together with other free molecular biology tools. Just download the package and double click it. It will automatically self-extract.

Uninstall process
Because Chromatogram Explorer installs zero files in your computer, you don't need to uninstall it. To uninstall the Chromatogram Explorer, just delete it.

Portability
This program is very small so you can easily copy it on a USB flash stick or floppy disk and take it with you or send it to your colleagues via email.

Other similar programs included in the package:

Name	Icon	Description
DNA Baser Sequence Assembler		DNA Baser is a tool for DNA sequence assembly, DNA sequence analysis, contig editing, and mutation detection. It also offers a powerful chromatogram viewer/editor.
RNA Baser Sequence Assembler		DNA Baser is a tool for DNA sequence assembly, DNA sequence analysis, contig editing, mutation detection and automatic metadata integration.
FASTA to multi-FASTA converter		FASTA to multi-FASTA is a freeware converter will merge the content of all FASTA files in the specified folder, in a single multi-FASTA file.
multi-FASTA to FASTA converter		multi-FASTA to FASTA is a freeware converter program will split a multi-FASTA file in multiple standard FASTA files.
ABI to FASTA converter		ABI to FASTA Converter is a free tool will convert all (selected) ABI files to FASTA files. All you need to do is to locate your ABI chromatogram files and press the CONVERT button.
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GBK to FASTA converter		GenBank to FASTA is a freeware program will convert GenBank (gbk) file format to FASTA format.
DNA Counter		DNA Counter will show the proportions between nucleotides in a DNA sequence (GC to AT ratio).
Show Desktop		An enhanced replacement for the Show Desktop icon/command. It can also show the amount of free memory in your computer.