poa for Debian -------------- POA needs a matrix file to operate. The matrices shipped in the sources of POA can be found in /usr/share/poa/. You can test POA with the following command: poa -read_fasta /usr/share/doc/poa/examples/multidom.seq -clustal /dev/stdout -v /usr/share/poa/blosum80.mat The original POA archive contains a perl script called "make_pscores.pl", which can be found in /usr/share/poa. To use it, you need the blastall program, provided by the Debian package "blast2". -- Charles Plessy , Tue, 28 September 2006