Chapter 1. Introduction to Artemis

Table of Contents
What is Artemis?
System Requirements
Getting and Installing Artemis
Concepts
Contributions and Suggestions
Distribution Conditions and Acknowledgments
Copyright Notice

What is Artemis?

Artemis is a DNA sequence viewer and annotation tool that allows visualisation of sequence features and the results of analyses within the context of the sequence, and its six-frame translation. Artemis is written in Java, reads EMBL or GENBANK format sequences and feature tables, and can work on sequences of any size.

On Unix and GNU/Linux systems, given an EMBL accession number Artemis also can read an entry directly from the EBI using CORBA. This feature is still experimental, but copes well with straightforward entries (see the section called Read from EBI ... in Chapter 2).

For more information on go to the Artemis web pages.