NAME Bio Legato - A customizable GUI for running programs SYNOPSIS biolegato [options] [files] DESCRIPTION BioLegato is a customizable GUI for running programs. Its initial intent is to be a replacement for GDE; however with its large plugin API, it may be customized to run more than just CLI programs. With the versitility of BioLegato's plugin interface, it supports a wide range of file formats which may be added to at any time through addition of plugins. OPTIONS NOTE: All command line parameters are case insensitive and may optionally begin with -, --, or / help,h,? Displays usage information for BioLegato manpage,man Displays the manpage entry for BioLegato (this screen) optionlist Displays the list of options for using BioLegato version,v Displays the version information for BioLegato pipe,p,in Inserts input from standard input into the canvas debug Enables BioLegato's debug mode gde Enables GDE compatibility (if plugins are available) plugins Displays a list of loaded plugins properties Displays a list of BioLegato's properties EXAMPLES biolegato biolegato --gde biolegato /gde biolegato -gde biolegato --plugins --properties --debug biolegato --plugins --properties --debug insequence.gb SUPPORTED PLUGINS Currently BioLegato supports the following types of Plugins: Canvases extends the class: Plugins.DataCanvases Data storage extends the class: Plugins.DataContainer File formats extends the class: Plugins.DataFormat Menu types extends the class: Plugins.MenuType For more information about plugins, please consult the BioLegato API FILES biolegato Script to run BioLegato BioLegato.jar BioLegato's core java code Plugins/GDEMenu.class Plugins/GDEFile.class Plugins/GDEFlatFile.class FILE FORMATS All file formats in BioLegato are supported through plugins. Below is a list of file formats supported by a default installation of BioLegato (with all standard plugins): BioLegato flatfiles FastA files GDE flatfiles GDE format files GenBank files (2008 standard compliant) BUGS There are currently no known bugs in this version of BioLegato AUTHORS Dr. Brian Fristensky Department of Plant Science University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB Canada R3T 2N2 frist@cc.umanitoba.ca http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~frist Graham Alvare Department of Plant Science University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB Canada R3T 2N2 alvare@cc.umanitoba.ca http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~alvare