Plasmidomics is an open source program for easy drawing of plasmids and vector maps with high-quality graphics export.
Plasmidomics is based on Python (version 2), which is freely available for different platforms (Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac, etc. ).
Graphics export
- Built in: Encapsulated Postscript export (*.eps)
- Conversion to *.pdf eg. by epstopdf
- For other formats, use ImageMagick
Above image was created by Plasmidomics. The Postscript was converted to *.png by ImageMagick.
Click here to see the *pdf of this plasmid (1.8 kb for really good resolution!).
General installation
- Download (plasmidomics-0.2.zip or plasmidomics-0.2.tar.bz2) and extract it
- Run: >python plasmid or >plasmid
- Note: Make sure you have Python and tkinter installed
Screenshot of Plasmidomics 0.2
Installation on Debian/ Ubuntu/ derived linuxes
Plasmidomics is part of the official Debian/ Ubuntu based distributions (installation: 'apt install plasmidomics', run 'plasmid').
Windows/ Mac
There are no binaries for Windows or Mac (yet). You can run it as Python program! Or you can try to convince me (or another computer friend) to compile a binary ;-).
License (open source)
Contact
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