OVERVIEW -------- Swissknife is a Perl module for creating and parsing Swiss-Prot files. AVAILABILITY ------------ The latest version of Swissknife is available from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/swissknife/files/latest/download ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/swissprot/Swissknife/ INSTALLATION ------------ Use the following commands: gunzip Swissknife.tar.gz tar xf Swissknife.tar cd SWISS perl Makefile.PL make install Alternatively, you may simply copy the lib/SWISS directory (the directory itself with all the files it contains) to a directory in your PERLLIB. REQUIREMENTS ------------ Swissknife has been tested with Perl version 5.00502 and higher. External modules used: Carp Data::Dumper Exporter All of these are part of the Perl distribution. BUGS ---- A segmentation fault occurs in very rare cases under some builds of perl 5.8. Run the test suite to check if this is the case on your platform. DOCUMENTATION ------------- The Swissknife modules are documented using the POD (plain old documentation format). When installed, the documentation is accessible by typing "perldoc SWISS::Entry" at the command prompt, and similarly for other modules. COPYRIGHT --------- Copyright (C) 1999-2022, the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. The SWISS modules are free software; you can redistribute and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. These modules are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. AUTHORS ------- Wolfgang Fleischmann, Henning Hermjakob, Paul Kersey, Alexandre Gattiker, Eric Jain, Edouard de Castro, edouard.decastro@sib.swiss ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ---------------- The Swissknife modules have been built on the example of the prEMBL modules by Matthew Pocock, mrp@sanger.ac.uk Thanks to Christian Iseli for help with the perl module setup.