SimSim - the interpretator for biosequence analyses

Roytberg M.A., Semionenkov M.N.

Institute of the Mathematical Problems in Biology, Russian Academy of Science, 142292, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia, E-mail: roytberg@impb.serpukhov.su

SimSim is an interpretator of the statements describing various procedures of DNA and protein sequence analyses. A set of possible statements is described in a special file and can be expanded by user. Depending of the problem to be solve one can prepare a program consisting of SimSim statements, define macrostatements, etc.

The current version of SimSim supports about 40 statements including statements connecting with sequence alignment, gene prediction, statistics of sequences.