Advanced Protein Sequence Converter: README
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Please read this file carefully before installing 
the program to your computer.


Contents
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Program information
Company information
Description
Installation
Registration
Copyright and license
Technical support


Program information
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Program Archive Name:
  Apsc.zip
Program Name:
  Advanced Protein Sequence Converter
Program Version:
  1.0
Program Release Date:
  May 08, 2004
Program Description:
  Converts protein sequence to different formats
Target OS:
  Windows 95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP 
Software type:
  Shareware $30

Company information
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Company Name:
  Protein Systems Ltd.
Contact E-mail Address:
  support@proteinsystems.org
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.proteinsystems.org/apsc.html


Description
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Program allows to convert protein sequence from different
formats (as Fasta, PDB, Swiss-protein, Swiss-DNA) to another
ones (as Fasta, Swiss-protein and Pure amino acid sequence).
You should not think about input format at all. You can 
simply select all input files and program can recognize 
automatically in one step each file that contains amino acid
sequence. Then you can export some or all loaded sequences 
to the requested format also in one step.



Installation.
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To install APSC on your computer simply unzip Apsc.zip file 
that you loaded from our site, run ApscInst.exe file 
and follow all steps of installation.


Registration
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See "order.txt" file.

Anyone may use this software 5 times freely. Following this 
tests, if you wish to continue to use APSC, you MUST register.


Copyright and license
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See "license.txt" file.


Technical support
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Before you contact us, please do the following:

- Be sure that you're doing everything right. We all make
  mistakes sometimes... Be attentive.
- Look at the readme.txt file: it may already contain an answer 
  to your question. A lot of people ask us something like "how
  do I:", though the complete information is there.

But if you still have a problem with Apsc and noting else helps,
please contact technical support at:

  support@proteinsystems.org

Please inform us about the following:

  - Advanced Protein Sequence Converter version (from title 
    window of the program)
  - where did you get Advanced Protein Sequence Converter (http 
    or ftp site).
  - Windows 95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP version (including service 
    packs and other fixes installed), US or international, OEM 
    or not.
  - computer information: CPU type and speed, installed memory.
  - description of your problem (as much information as possible
    to retrieve the problem).

Note: you may want to read the "How to Determine the Version of
Windows 95/98/Me in Use" article by Microsoft. Use the following 
URL:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q158/2/38.asp

In order to get the complete computer information (working under
Windows 95), open the Control Panel, click on "System" applet and
press "Print" on "Device Manager" tab.

If you have any comments or suggestions for the next releases,
please don't hesitate to post them to us.