Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentjev Prospect 10, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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We report an object-oriented data handler and supplementary tools for the development of molecular genetics application software for various sequence analyses. It has a flexible and expandable format that supports the most common data types for molecular genetic software. New data types can be constructed in an object-oriented manner from the basic units. The data handler includes an object library, a format-converting program and a viewer that can visualise at a time the data contained in several files to make a general picture from separate data. This software has been implemented on an IBM PC compatible personal computer.