Baylor College of Medicine Trace Viewer

by K. James Durbin

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Free for non-profit and academic use. Commercial licenses available.
Reads SCF 2.0 or SCF 3.0 files.
Reads quality values out of SCF 3.0 files, from separate file for SCF 2.0
Reads files uncompressed or gzipped.
Displays quality values as numbers or as a quality graph.
Quality values/graph can be colored to match bases or on a "temperature" scale.
Displays location of base calls
Can turn on/off individual traces
Can display trace as connected lines or individual points.
Can scale trace both horizontally and vertically.
Window is resizable (can take advantage of whatever resolution is available)
Written in Java so it's portable across a variety of operating systems and machines.
Runs as a stand alone application (with java interpreter)
Runs as an web page embeddable applet.
Reads .scf files for trace data.
Reads .exp (Xgap) files for quality (.qual support to be added).

README for TraceViewer.

For additional information contact James Durbin at kdurbin@bcm.tmc.edu