Monthly Archives: July 2016

Legacy icons in XFCE

Posted on 2016-07-17 by

I finally upgraded to Slackware64 14.2. I made a clean install and set up the system to be -multilib. I use XFCE and I wanted to use my favourite GNOME Colors icon theme. It is not available at SBo for … Continue reading →

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Heroes III in a Windows VM

Posted on 2016-07-09 by

Over a year ago, I wrote a post about playing Heroes III natively in Linux thanks to the VCMI project. Unfortunatelly, the VCMI engine is not yet stable enough for me to consider the game playable. It turned out to … Continue reading →

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Converting sequences by squizz

Posted on 2016-07-06 by

Sometimes I need to have a DNA or amino acid sequence (or an alignment) in several different formats. A neat little program that can convert between different sequence formats is squizz. Its primary function is to serve as a sequence … Continue reading →

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Geneconv: detect gene conversion

Posted on 2016-07-04 by

Geneconv is a program for detecting gene conversion between aligned DNA sequences. It can also search for gene conversion fragments from outside the alignment. The output results are ranked by P-values and presented in a spreadsheet manner. The data are … Continue reading →

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