Near Optimal Sequence Display - Problems
Unfortunately there are known problems with the near optimal sequence
alignment display.
- The software was developed on a Linux platform and is known to
work on various flavors thereof.
- The softare is also known to work on a variety of Windows platforms,
notably Win XP and Win 2000. However, it can be a challenge to set
everything up. See below for details.
- The software is known to work for Apple OS X, with a few caveats.
See below for details.
Java
The version of java your machine is running must be 1.3 or greater.
You can download the latest version here.
Windows
- Make sure you've downloaded and installed a recent version of the
Java JRE (Java runtime environment) from Sun. Its also ok if you prefer
SDK. You can download everything here.
The standard Microsoft Virtual Machine will not work.
- Once the JRE is installed, there should be checkbox on the "Advanced"
tab of the Internet Options dialog (found in the Tools menu) that asks
whether you want to use the Sun JRE for applets. Make sure this box
is checked.
- If you're still having problems, turn on the Jave Console option (also
on the "Advanced" tab of the Internet Options dialog), reboot, open the
applet web page, and select show Java Console from the View menu. The
Java Console should tell you what version of Java your browser is using
and display any error messages.
Apple MacOS 9.x Users
I have never seen this software work for MacOS 9.x (or earlier), nor
have I tried to get it to work for that OS. Sorry.
Apple OS X Users
You must be running OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and you must be must
upgrade to the most recent version of Java. If you are running 10.2
you should be able to use the software update facility to do this.
There are known problems in the versions of Java in OS X 10.1 and OS X 10.0
that I am not currently supporting. Large sums of money could change this.