NAME

       spin - DNA editing and analysis tool (part of staden package)

SYNOPSIS

       spin [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Spin is an interactive and graphical program for analysing and comparing sequences. It contains functions
       to  search  for restriction sites, consensus sequences/motifs and protein coding regions, can analyse the
       composition of the sequence and translate DNA  to  protein.  It  also  contains  functions  for  locating
       segments  of similarity within and between sequences, and for finding global and local alignments between
       pairs of sequences. To help assess the statistical significance of comparisons the program can  calculate
       tables  of  expected and observed score frequencies for each score level. Most analytical functions which
       operate on single sequences add their graphical results to a "SPIN Sequence Plot" that is associated with
       the sequence being analysed. (An exception is the  restriction  enzyme  search  which  produces  its  own
       separate  window.)  Most functions which compare pairs of sequences add their results to a "SPIN Sequence
       Comparison Plot". The SPIN Sequence Plot and the SPIN  Sequence  Comparison  Plot  each  have  associated
       sequence  display windows: the Sequence Display and the Sequence Comparison Display. These allow the text
       of the sequences to be viewed and use cursors to  show  the  corresponding  positions  in  the  graphical
       displays.   The  graphical  plots  can  be  zoomed,  and  cursors or crosshairs can be used to locate the
       positions of the individual results. Plots can be superimposed.

OPTIONS

       -colormap: Colormap for main window

       -display:
              Display to use

       -geometry: Initial geometry for window

       -name:
              Name to use for application

       -sync: Use synchronous mode for display server

       -visual:
              Visual for main window

       -use:  Id of window in which to embed application

       --:    Pass all remaining arguments through to script

SEE ALSO

       http://staden.sourceforge.net/manual/spin_unix_2.html

spin 2.0.0+b10                                     April 2014                                            SPIN(1)