4Peaks is a program that help molecular biologists to visualize and edit their DNA sequence files. At last there is a decent solution for analyzing trace files on the MacOSX platform, taking another step away from slow and non-native programs from the MacOS9 period. Also, 4Peaks supports most commonly used sequence file formats right out of the box, you no longer have to convert them first using AppleScripts or other painstaking methods. Analyzing your sequence was never so much fun!
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Much nicer than ABIView for looking at and analyzing our sequence data. OSX native also makes the program very nice to use. Tons of features, recommended to my whole lab (those that use Macs, that is). And it's free!
Awesome
Andrew Orr
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />A superb, stable product. We'd like to see additional features, but it's a wonderful program, overall.
Speed greatly improved
JKT
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />version 1.1 improves the responsiveness and speed of the app greatly on my iMac 400MHz. Good job!
Excellent.
cantalamail_dotmac
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I have a feature request though: The text to speech capability is nice and really useful, but it is a bit crappy due to the TTS engine of MacOS X (compared to the AT&T engine, that is). And I couldn't get it to pronounce the four bases in Spanish (not even sounding like Spanish). So my request is simply that one could use four arbitrary sound files (recorded by the user if he/she wants to) representing A, C, G and T.