Useful Scripts

We have made available here some of the more useful scripts we have written, most in perl, for processing data, doing error checks, etcetera. Please use these, but if they don't "work" please don't expect a lot of help...

[ Software | Please see here for Blaxter Lab Databases | See here for the Ashworth Labs BioCluster pages ]

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what	why	read-mes and guides	downloads	who
random_image.pl	A cgi script written in perl for inserting random images into a web page (like this one -->)	read-me	script	Mark Blaxter
read_tax	A perl script that parses the ncbi taxonomy to generate a list of child taxids for a given taxid. Now with added support for custom nodes! (e.g. ecdysozoa)	read-me	script	Martin Jones
read_gbdump	A perl script that uses the output from read_tax to extract genbank records belonging to certain taxids. Now with groovy on-the-fly gzip-decompressing!	read-me	script	Martin Jones
Downloads	Page of software available for download
Links	Links to users of our bioinformatics software