Michael E Sparks (mespar1@iastate.edu)
25 September 2005

Following is a brief description of various one-off tools I've written which may be of use to others.

1. mutseqer.c

   • Program to read in a file of FASTA-formatted nucleotide sequences and introduce various numbers of indel and substitution errors for the purpose of simulating random sequencing errors.

2. block-scraper.pl

   • A tool to scrape out conserved nucleotide blocks in a T-COFFEE alignment according to CORE index / minimum block length thresholds.