SeWeR:Home
Author: Malay, curiouser@ccmb.ap.nic.in

Size ~300K, when unzipped. Unzip the archive and start "sewer.htm" in your browser.
| · | IUBIO archive |
| · | The Open Lab |
| · | CMBI, dutch EMBnet node |
| · | CGAT |
| · | Erasmus University |
| · | IFOM, Italy |
| · | Universiti Putra, Malaysia |
| · | Ghent University Hospital, Belgium |
| · | Chinese version at Biosoft.net |
This is version 2.6
|  | What is SeWeR? SeWeR is an acronym, stands for SEquence analysis using WEb Resources. In addition to its common *dirty* use, the word SeWeR also has two meanings- first, "a medieval servant or household officer of high rank in charge of serving dishes at the table and sometimes of seating and tasting" and the second one, "one who sews". SeWeR fits all of these definitions. First, it is *dirty* at the code level. Second, it serves. It serves you a single door to all the common web-based services for sequence analysis. And it sews. It sews all these services together. For a refined mind, SeWeR is an integrated portal to common web-based services in bioinformatics. |
|  | Who can use SeWeR? SeWeR is cross-browser DHTML. It is written entirely in JavaScript1.2. Hence it will run only in Netscape 4.0 or higher and Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher. I have taken all the precautions so that it runs on all the platforms in these two browsers. But DHTML is still in its infancy and implementation by browser vendors are at its best rudimentary and are full of bugs. If you find one please let me know. Other browser users are on their own. |
|  | Why SeWeR? SeWeR is object-oriented. It is designed in such a manner that it can be updated and customized very easily. Sometimes, customizing a web-based service is as easy as saving a page. SeWeR is primarily designed to be hosted in Intranet and to run as a stand-alone application in your browser. It doesn't require any server to host itself. The goal of SeWeR is to turn your web-browser into a powerful sequence-analysis tool. |
|  | The future of SeWeR? I have lot of plans for it. But like everything the future of SeWeR is uncertain and like everything it depends on you... |
Publication Basu M K (2001) SeWeR: a customizable and integrated dynamic HTML interface to bioinformatics services. Bioinformatics. 17(6): 577-578. Downloading/Mirroring Information SeWeR is feather-light! The whole package is just around 300K. You can even run it from a floppy. Download the zip archive from IUBIO. Alternatively, you can download the archive from here. Unzip it and run "sewer.htm" in your browser. You have to use a program that maintains the directory-structure while unzipping. If you are planning to run SeWeR from a website then maintain the directory structure and use "sewer.htm" as start page which you can rename though, to any name of your choice. Present Mirrors The mirror list of SeWeR is getting so big that I had to make a separate page for it. You can find the mirror list here. Why SeWeR is not compatible with Netscape 6? Netscape 6 has a bug that causes data loss while submitting hidden form. The structure of SeWeR is based on handling hidden form and therefore SeWeR at present is not compatible at all with Netscape 6. There are ways to get around the problem but the code will so complex that it will be a nightmare for the maintainers. I'll withhold the DOM compatible version till Netscape fixes it's bugs. In the meantime, if you are interested to play around with the DOM compatible version of SeWeR write to me, I'll send you the code.
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SeWeR now generates graphics. Savvy is a plasmid drawing software that generates plasmid map in the revolutionary Scalable Vector Graphics format from W3C.
|  | What's New in SeWeR? |  |
| SeWeR is now version 2.6. Savvy a web based plasmid drawing software has been integrated in SeWeR. The mirror list has been moved to a new page. BLAST page has been fixed and made uptodate with NCBI server. GenMark has been updated. |
| Search BioNetbook at Institut Pasteur |
|  | A word about SeWeR |  |
| SeWeR can be downloaded and mirrored freely. If you have mirrored SeWeR, then let me know, so that I can put a link here. If you would like to have a service to be included in SeWeR, drop me a line. I'll try to include it in future version. And of course if you've liked SeWeR, or have disliked it, don't forget to talk about it. |

Sequence Retrieval
Restriction Analysis
Translation
Gene feature prediction
Sequence Retrieval
Primary Structure
Secondary Structure
Pattern Search
Entrez
PubMed
BLOCKS
Prosite
Design primers
Design oligos
Degenerate primers
Pairwise alignment
Multiple alignment
BLOCK maker
Sequence conversion
Sequence Assembly
For PubMed
For GenBank
Customize SeWeR